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Kids' chores 2000: Take out the trash, 2 minutes. Kid's chores 2020: Up until 3AM programming the robot to take out the trash. Purchased the robot two weeks ag

by gexla 6y ago

Kids' chores 2000: Take out the trash, 2 minutes. Kid's chores 2020: Up until 3AM programming the robot to take out the trash. Purchased the robot two weeks ago. Kid only moves to go to sleep. Trash is building up. No other chores are getting done. Chores dashboard is flashing red. Take out trash sprint way overdue.

whymauri 6y ago
Chores and trash sprint tasks moved to Jira backlog. The toast your robot put in the microwave for 4.nannannan minutes is now on fire. In the distance: sirens.
- Apofis 6y ago
  Ah, the future.
koheripbal 6y ago
This is funny. The main chore I want a robot to do is laundry. I'd pay good money if a robot could simply put the clothes of the hamper in the laundry machine, transfer to the dryer, and then put them away.
- kwhitefoot 6y ago
  Just buy a washer drier. Don't have a hamper just put the laundry in the machine until it is full then switch it on. Go out to work, come home to clothes washed and dried. Granted, you do have to take them out and put them away.
  - 0xffff2 6y ago
    >Just buy a washer drier. I live in an apartment with shared laundry >Granted, you do have to take them out and put them away. Which is by far the most time consuming part of doing laundry
NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Calvin and Hobbes already did this plotline https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/09/01 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/09/01
- piinbinary 6y ago
  "It's only work if someone makes you do it" how true
- colmvp 6y ago
  Haha brilliant! Haven't read C&H in decades and I forgot about how he inadvertently accomplished his goal.
snowwrestler 6y ago
The programmer's credo: "We do these things not because they are hard, but because we did not realize they were going to be hard." Originally seen from HN user idlewords; not sure if he coined it, though. Edit: I have it backward: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864 https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864

by gexla 6y ago

whymauri 6y ago

Chores and trash sprint tasks moved to Jira backlog. The toast your robot put in the microwave for 4.nannannan minutes is now on fire. In the distance: sirens.

Apofis 6y ago
Ah, the future.

koheripbal 6y ago

This is funny. The main chore I want a robot to do is laundry. I'd pay good money if a robot could simply put the clothes of the hamper in the laundry machine, transfer to the dryer, and then put them away.

kwhitefoot 6y ago
Just buy a washer drier. Don't have a hamper just put the laundry in the machine until it is full then switch it on. Go out to work, come home to clothes washed and dried. Granted, you do have to take them out and put them away.
- 0xffff2 6y ago
  >Just buy a washer drier. I live in an apartment with shared laundry >Granted, you do have to take them out and put them away. Which is by far the most time consuming part of doing laundry

NikolaeVarius 6y ago

Calvin and Hobbes already did this plotline https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/09/01 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/09/01

piinbinary 6y ago
"It's only work if someone makes you do it" how true
colmvp 6y ago
Haha brilliant! Haven't read C&H in decades and I forgot about how he inadvertently accomplished his goal.

snowwrestler 6y ago

The programmer's credo: "We do these things not because they are hard, but because we did not realize they were going to be hard." Originally seen from HN user idlewords; not sure if he coined it, though. Edit: I have it backward: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864 https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864