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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by frandroid on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#15752132)
The dishwasher is missing the thinking part... It only ever does the exact thing ordered to it.
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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by eru on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#15757575)
Bashing one's head against the wall in a day long debugging session for some hard bug usually cures people of the opinion that "computers only ever do what we tell them to do" is a serious limitation on their range of behaviours in practice.
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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by frandroid on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:35PM (#15760363)
The combinations on my dishwasher can fit in a 12 line lookup table.
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