Re:Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms...
by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:36AM
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> Have a QR code printed on the bin that simply leads to a website
This comment is the perfect specimen of why our industry is a fucking joke. It should be illegal for us to call ourselves engineers.
This is how a vending machine that takes coins gets replaced by a vending machine that requires internet, a smartphone, two apps and three passwords to buy a water bottle.
This is how you get critical infrastructure like elevators where display showing floor number lags (!), it needs wifi and the elevator goes down for software updates.
This comment is the perfect specimen of why our industry is a fucking joke. It should be illegal for us to call ourselves engineers.
This is how a vending machine that takes coins gets replaced by a vending machine that requires internet, a smartphone, two apps and three passwords to buy a water bottle.
This is how you get critical infrastructure like elevators where display showing floor number lags (!), it needs wifi and the elevator goes down for software updates.