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		paledot on Jan 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day How far we have come. Back in my day, a program could only crash a few thousand times a second.

dotancohen on Jan 15, 2024 [–]

To err is human. To really screw things up we had to invent microcontrollers.

checkyoursudo on Jan 15, 2024 | [–]

It is amazing how far we have come. On my own, I can only really screw up a few times per day, unless I am really trying. On a really, really bad day, maybe a few dozen times? How inefficient.

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