Re:Tinyland
by moomin on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:14AM
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Ok, so back in the 90s I knew someone who was working in a research department. They had a big project that reminds me of this known informally as “desktop computing” (you’ll appreciate this is cutting edge early 90s tech, not a patch on what we have now).
Lots of work on dynamic image capture, lots of work on interpolating what’s going on due to the low (by our standards) capabilities of the camera. Except...
...the camera was, to say the least, badly documented. A research student going through the documentation (looking for something else) finally noticed the thing had been misconfigured the entire time. In fact, the camera was significantly more capable.
The camera got reconfigured, people continued to produce research papers and no-one died. It was, however, extremely funny.
Lots of work on dynamic image capture, lots of work on interpolating what’s going on due to the low (by our standards) capabilities of the camera. Except...
...the camera was, to say the least, badly documented. A research student going through the documentation (looking for something else) finally noticed the thing had been misconfigured the entire time. In fact, the camera was significantly more capable.
The camera got reconfigured, people continued to produce research papers and no-one died. It was, however, extremely funny.