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Absolutely. I helped with a physical inventory count project using smartphones as the "terminals". The barcode app we didn't allow us to selectively turn off sy
by EvanAnderson 2y ago
Absolutely. I helped with a physical inventory count project using smartphones as the "terminals". The barcode app we didn't allow us to selectively turn off symbologies. We ended up with a ton of links to recipes, websites, etc in the data.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoReminds me of the Jurassic Park novel where they ask the computer to find 10 velociraptors on the island and it finds 10. And they actually have 20.
- af3d 2y agoCan you really blame the computer tho? That sounds more like a case a PEBCAC, if you ask me...
- wongarsu 2y agoMore like bad requirements. The system knew how many dinosaurs of each species had been released into the park, and the inventory system was only supposed to figure out if any were missing. No sense in looking further than that, after all where should the additional dinosaurs come from. That was the main theme of the book. Everything was well designed with failsafes, but too many of the design assumptions turned out to be wrong. Expecting only the expected lead to many small mistakes that were harmless individually but together snowball into a disaster.
- lazide 2y agoCrichton novels are excellent at that kind of technical dystopian/disaster. (Well, not obviously dystopian, more ‘oh shit, that is how we’d be fucked isn’t it). Alien and Aliens also had a similar feel in their writing, except in real life there is rarely a Ripley there when you need one.
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- bluedino 2y agoThey can run the whole park with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap?
- lazide 2y agoIt is when you outsource to one Nedry and his coke habit!
- ipdashc 2y agoThe Jurassic Park novel had some of the best depictions of technical failures like that, IMO. The scene where they realize they've been running on backup power and everything goes down is another good one. I won't call them realistic per se, but they just felt right. Andromeda Strain, another Crichton work, was also pretty good at this.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoThe Andromeda Strain is the most underrated of Chrichton's books, to my mind. The movie adaptation is very good, too.