3 ms·
> physical things last a long time There's a lot of survivor bias here. I have had plenty of dumb physical things fail in what seems like unreasonably short ti
by brookst 4y ago
> physical things last a long time
There's a lot of survivor bias here. I have had plenty of dumb physical things fail in what seems like unreasonably short times.
But I do have done physical dumb devices that are 100+ years old. I do not interpret that to mean that everything from that era / factory / manufacturer lasts 100 years, just that all of the surviving items did.
- clnq 4y agoReliability of anything can be described by the same generic bathtub curve — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve. We used to have a lot of technology that would wear out very slowly, but early failure was more common. Now most technology doesn't last more than a year or two, but generally doesn't fail upfront.
- notjoemama 4y ago> But I do have done physical dumb devices Can you rephrase this? I don't understand the point you're making. Two verbs against the same subject but with different temporal context, perhaps you stuggle with communicating sometimes?
- uoaei 4y agoObviously a typo -- done -> some This is a weirdly confrontational comment.
- titzer 4y ago> physical dumb devices Physical dumb devices that are 100+ years old are usually made out of pretty durable, but individually replaceable parts. Thus they get fixed if they do break. The mechanisms are usually pretty easy to figure out, so you can spot if a spring is broken, a bolt is loose, a thing stopped turning, etc.