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It's a great idea to include Bluetooth in a child's toy, so as to better prepare them for the crushing frustration and disappointment of adult life.
by ubermonkey 5y ago
It's a great idea to include Bluetooth in a child's toy, so as to better prepare them for the crushing frustration and disappointment of adult life.
- chrisfinazzo 5y ago"...and the hits just keep on coming." https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2017/fisher-price-soul-crushing-meeting-toy/ https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2017/fisher-price-soul-cr...
- mixmastamyk 5y agoLove the jacket and tie.
- lapetitejort 5y agoI'm holding out for the inevitable Apple Child's Phone. It should make the pairing process with the Macbook Preschool simpler.
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- bachmeier 5y agoI'm waiting for the iChild. You can have a child that's exactly the way Apple wants it to be.
- scarby2 5y agoit just works?
- euroderf 5y agoFor Foxconn ?
- sudosysgen 5y agoYes, it's very adept at making clothes and iPhones.
- duxup 5y agoTo be honest I have kids, I’m kind of ready for that….
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- MisterTea 5y agoJust wait until you have to write a bluetooth stack. Summoning cthulhu is easier and less likely to drive you insane by comparison.
- ryandrake 5y agoI once heard the Bluetooth stack referred to as a "layer cake of sorrow" and I think that's a pretty fitting description.
- Quarrel 5y agoFWIW, I didn't find writing a TCP stack any fun.. Standards are more a guidance. (or were, back then)
- jjoonathan 5y agoOh, standards were a guidance back then? You had it good! I'm only half kidding. The bluetooth standard is very heavy on the architecture astronaut factor and light on the specification. It isn't so much a "standard" as an anthology of visions for wireless connectivity, each of which delegates all of the important decisions to the layer above. Which means that all of the decisions wind right back up in the implementer's lap, and the implementer has to sort out the compatibility matrix the old fashioned way, one compatible partner stack at a time. But everything still has to be built out of the lego pieces the architecture astronauts came up with, of course. Ugh. It's like if someone asked for a standard to send mail, and instead of SMTP they came up with "The English Language." All the necessary degrees of freedom are there, but it doesn't constrain the problem space, so it's almost completely useless as a standard. EDIT: No, that's too simple, a lot of people already speak The English Language. Klingon, then. All the necessary degrees of freedom are there...
- MisterTea 5y agoIt's a maddening web of profiles which maps to a tree of protocols which seems to be the result of design by committee. Such a bloated system for something that just needs to send friggin bytes.
- duxup 5y agoMy car’s intermittent Bluetooth connectivity problems could crush the soul of any man.
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