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My preferred 'program' for my refrigerator is "get cold and stay that way". Turns out I can write that with a ten cent analog knob the day I buy it! I can ima

My preferred 'program' for my refrigerator is "get cold and stay that way". Turns out I can write that with a ten cent analog knob the day I buy it! I can imagine a world where it's worth programming my refrigerator, but the only possible justification would be that it integrates easily with a fitness band, to-do list, and preferably something else I care about. Ideally, I'd give them all some basic rules from a safe and convenient UI on my computer. I've seen arguments for networking a kettle - usually "hot when you get home" - but I've never believed any of them. The thing takes 30 seconds to boil already, and I have no need to integrate it into my health or planning regimens.

brudgers 10y ago
When I imagine the world were I integrate my refrigerator with my shopping list it winds up not containing me. I mean I'd rather integrate my shopping list directly with my grocery store because integrating with my fridge smells like two integrations: there's also the fridge to the grocery store. Adding a fitness band is an n+1 operation in an O(n^2) integration process. And if I consider integrating at the feature level rather than the device level (which is where integration matters) the combinatorials are at the point where the responses can't be canned and the training sets don't exist to tune the integrations to my goals automatically.