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> perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away In traditional engineering, the
by ndriscoll 4y ago
> perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away
In traditional engineering, there's at least a BOM and manufacturing processes that create pressure to keep things simpler. If physical items were engineered like software, you'd have people bolting a keyboard onto the monitor chassis they're designing because they needed an 'on' button, and keyboards have buttons. Obviously they'd then also have to add in an always-on raspberry pi to plug the USB keyboard into and emit a GPIO signal when the button is pressed. You'd get a lot more complexity, but for most of it, "impressive" would be the wrong word.
- m4rtink 4y agoThe IBM S390 HMC (Hardware Management Console) is basically a thinkpad bolted on the massive S390 case.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThat's a pretty insightful analogy! Bolting an entire keyboard on to a monitor to add a single extra button... Thankfully the cost of adding physical atoms prevents such outrageously dumb ideas.