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NewsGrokking big unfamiliar codebases Pin
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NewsSmart household devices considered harmful Pin
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My oven isn't connected to internet (unless it has a secret connection - I doubt that it has). Yet it isn't completely dumb. E.g. it insist knowing the baking time before starting. After the time has run out and the alarm has sounded, it turns off the heat. If I have fallen asleep, not hearing the alarm, I might wake up to a dark brown and rather crispy pizza, but not a coal black one, and my house has not been set on fire. That smartness I welcome.

Usually, I heat the oven before baking. I don't need any remote control for that: If I turn on the 'Fast preheat' option, it reaches its maximum temperature (300°C/572°F) in about nine minutes. It usually takes me more time to prepare what I put into the oven. (Besides, I rarely need it that hot!). I don't need it any faster.

I was working for a company making Bluetooth SoC chips that went into the craziest products. We had an exhibit of some of them in our reception hall; among them a rice cooker. We never found out how a rice cooker could make use of a Bluetooth chip. The internet ads from the company making them said something about internet access to recipes, but we never learned how the rice cooker would interpret the recipes it could retrieve.

Another product in the exhibit, we did find out how works: A Bluetooth-equipped fork. It comes with a knife, at USD 99.95 for the pair, but the knife has no BT. The fork has an accelerometer, and if the application in the chip registers that you lift the fork up to your mouth with shorter intervals than considered healthy, a report is sent (here is where Bluetooth comes in) to you smartphone, sounding a buzzer to warn you to eat more slowly.

I can manage without that kind of smartness. In fact, the great majority of the chips we sold went into things that could hardly be said to improve the world. Or save it. Unless you consider a buzzer in your pocket telling you to eat more slowly to be contribution to save the world.
NewsDOJ says it disrupted a major global ransomware group Pin
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NewsA robot was scheduled to argue in court, then came the jail threats Pin
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NewsC# lowering Pin
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NewsHumanity may reach singularity within just 7 years, trend shows Pin
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NewsSteve Sanderson wows web-devs with peek at 'Blazor United' for .NET 8 Pin
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NewsEU’s proposed CE mark for software could have dire impact on open source Pin
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