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The microcontroller obsession is real. As is the desire to do everything via software and not mechanically - see touchscreens in cars. I'm pretty sure it's beca
by hlandau 3y ago
The microcontroller obsession is real. As is the desire to do everything via software and not mechanically - see touchscreens in cars. I'm pretty sure it's because as developers, we're addicted to the notion of making everything software-defined so you can change everything later if needed. As a developer it's a thought process I understand well, but seems to increasingly lead to detrimental outcomes, like the extreme touchscreenisation of cars - awful from a safety perspective.
I am told that "superloos" (those automated self-cleaning toilets installed on the pavement) do have some kind of time limit and will play some kind of audial warning a few minutes before opening.
More concerning about those toilets are stories where people somehow managed to be inside the toilet when the self-cleaning process started (which involved the entire chamber being filled with liquid). Supposedly this would happen when someone used the toilet, but held the door open as they left so someone else could use it without paying. The toilet, then thinking it was empty, proceeds to unwittingly try and drown the "undeclared" occupant.
- wkjagt 3y agoI can’t imagine there not being some kind of “hey I’m still in here” button or slider or whatever. Preferably not electronic.
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- hoc 3y agoAre there really toilets that are filled with liquid?
- astura 3y agoNo, that would be extremely wasteful, impractical, and ineffective.
- morsch 3y agoYou're saying the entire indoor volume of the "superloo" gets flooded with water, like a sinking submarine? Don't be absurd. That'd be a monumental waste of water and it wouldn't even clean that well.
- hlandau 3y agoIt sounds odd to me. I'm merely recollecting a news report from probably about 20 years ago, which is probably going to be hard to dig up. If it's another case of the press getting something totally wrong, that wouldn't be surprising.
- mst 3y agoI would imagine getting suddenly sprayed with cleaning solution from multiple directions is probably sufficiently unpleasant that it will get exaggerated as it's re-told. And "the entire chamber being -sprayed- with liquid" plus "I felt like I was drowning" could easily get misquoted as well (or misremembered, 20 years ago is certainly more than long enough for me to screw up details). So my guess is that what actually happened is something of that ilk.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoIn some you'd get doused. In others you'd get crushed[0] 0: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64430454 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64430454
- novemp 3y ago[dead]
- phero_cnstrcts 3y agoIt’s not because developers want to work with toilets or other mundane things. Is because the system we all live in has become obsessed with taking everything we do.
- dennis_jeeves2 3y ago>>we're addicted to the notion of making everything software-defined so you can change everything later if needed. Man, hammer, nail, etc
- dylan604 3y agowhale?
- lxgr 3y ago> which involved the entire chamber being filled with liquid It doesn’t. That would use way too much water and not even be a good way to clean surfaces. There’s jets of pressurized water spraying and sometimes (I believe) air to dry everything afterwards, so the worst that would happen is that the person inside would get an unexpected shower: https://youtube.com/shorts/4o6pzvn_tkc?si=xvw1X0HwwTY8jifw https://youtube.com/shorts/4o6pzvn_tkc?si=xvw1X0HwwTY8jifw
- dylan604 3y agooh gawd, is this the trend of videos now? i knew we had gotten bad, but this is just wow. is this one of those situations where if you give speed to an adhd person, things become calmer for them? so if you have adhd, this seems normal?
- aidanhasaknife 3y agodigitally-mediated autism is a form of environmental autism !