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> "If the toaster had a shade selector, a built in camera and was factory color calibrated, then no matter what I stuck in the toaster it would come out that co
by ThrowawayR2 7y ago
> "If the toaster had a shade selector, a built in camera and was factory color calibrated, then no matter what I stuck in the toaster it would come out that color (or hit some global MAX_TOASTING_TIME) ."
...which would fail on dark breads like pumpernickel or be confused by marbled or cinnamon swirl breads.
- jvanderbot 7y agoseems to me radiated heat should indicate internal done-ness. Maybe a heat feedback somehow.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoI think that's only true if the thickness and heat transfer rate of all things inserted into the toaster is uniform, which may not be the case.
- jvanderbot 7y agothings should absorb heat until they reach equilibrium, regardless, no?
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoHow do you determine whether the object being toasted has reached equilibrium from radiated heat measurements which are from the surface of the object?
- maerF0x0 7y ago+1 Well done. (Pun intended) Edit: I think this points out the challenges of "Just make me a simple X" that business and product folks always initiate with, hoping to get the cheapest solution. Then they wonder why it fails in every way except the ones they explicitly said during design/coding and why there is a long tail of updates that often exceed the MVP...