but WHY!?!?! I say this as someone who knows a thing or two about software engineering, what purpose does this hold other than "muh novelty!?!", there's a chip shortage in the world that can be better served in hospitals or bringing internet access to rural communities and we waste it on pointless garbage like this?!?
I'm usually good on figuring out how data is valuable but fucking dishwasher data? The only thing I could figure out is like, household size or times of activity and you could do that shit with a power reading and nobody would have a clue. What's the goal here. Or is it just sort of "someone out there will buy it"?
I'm gonna do an effortpost some day about how people try to mash together "thing I think is cool" with "entirely different problem" and the brainworms of that.
I can't tell you how many projects I've seen where everybody was fully onboard digitally archiving miles of files and then once it's done everyone is like "uhh so now what" because they didn't think farther than to do the cool tech thing and now they're stuck with 10 terrabytes of digital files that should've been thrown out in the 80s
If you, the director of toasters at an appliance company, convince the higher ups that there's a market for smart toasters, then you get to hire an entire new team of software engineers to make the smart toasters happen, which inflates your headcount and budget, which makes you more important, which makes you more likely to be promoted, which is exactly the kind of thing that motivates you, because if that wasn't what made you tick, you wouldn't have become the director of toasters at an appliance company in the first place.
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but WHY!?!?! I say this as someone who knows a thing or two about software engineering, what purpose does this hold other than "muh novelty!?!", there's a chip shortage in the world that can be better served in hospitals or bringing internet access to rural communities and we waste it on pointless garbage like this?!?
The internet stuff is probably so they can sell your usage data for advertising analytics.
I'm usually good on figuring out how data is valuable but fucking dishwasher data? The only thing I could figure out is like, household size or times of activity and you could do that shit with a power reading and nobody would have a clue. What's the goal here. Or is it just sort of "someone out there will buy it"?
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I'm gonna do an effortpost some day about how people try to mash together "thing I think is cool" with "entirely different problem" and the brainworms of that.
I can't tell you how many projects I've seen where everybody was fully onboard digitally archiving miles of files and then once it's done everyone is like "uhh so now what" because they didn't think farther than to do the cool tech thing and now they're stuck with 10 terrabytes of digital files that should've been thrown out in the 80s
It's all there to justify the non-essential and easily-breakable parts that totally impede the function of the washer if they're not in working order.
If you, the director of toasters at an appliance company, convince the higher ups that there's a market for smart toasters, then you get to hire an entire new team of software engineers to make the smart toasters happen, which inflates your headcount and budget, which makes you more important, which makes you more likely to be promoted, which is exactly the kind of thing that motivates you, because if that wasn't what made you tick, you wouldn't have become the director of toasters at an appliance company in the first place.
https://youtu.be/G2PMzSo1Bss