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Cake day: November 7th, 2023

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  • That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.

    I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.

    Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.




  • This has existed long before the AI hype. Dialog systems were around in the 80s, operating off of tapes. The concept itself is even older.

    I ran an Asterisk server with speech recognition 20 years ago. Sure, TTS didn’t nearly have the recognition rates it has today, but it was enough to figure out the caller’s intent from the email message that was delivered after the fact.

    I still run a very similar setup today, except I no longer self host and pretty much ever component has improved. Honestly, its a godsend to be able to deal with people or businesses that still rely on phone conversations, something I will never tolerate. I simply don’t do phone calls.