The #1 thing I learned from 12 years of working in engineering and engineering management was: "keep it simple, stupid". Somewhat related: this week when going through a 30-year old dusty/mildewy storage locker, I found an old cassette player that works like new. Kind of like how those hold Nintendo systems can basically survive a nuclear apocalypse and keep working.
lol I was inspired to make this while having a “keep it simple stupid” moment earlier this morning 😂 nostr:note1fjara3ltsqnd485srpdqf86tguuacnyr92zscd92u45pt24xq4fsj2wz5t
The modern automobile industry could use this meme.
But only if you blow on the cartridge first.
Will the same be said of bitcoin signing devices we use today in 30 years?
I would agree. 1. Keep the solutions simple and thus reduce the potential failure modes. 2. In certain contexts, introduce redundancy. You increase potential failure modes but provides continuous operation in case of a single failure. 3. Design those redundancy solutions dissimilar as to not fail from common failure modes.
Me too - I keep coming back to KISS and YAGNI https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
Simple + stupid = joke formula.
Cool you could use it as e.g. a door stopper.
it's not about simplicity but using right materials for how long you want something to last in a given environment. jumbo jets have a design life of 15-30 years and that's with CONSTANT USE, racking up tens of millions of miles. by contrast most consumer products are DESIGNED TO BREAK ( planned obsolescence ) as well as to be non-repairable. under capitalism you will always be sold the worst quality product that you're stupid enough to buy. apparently airlines are smarter than the average Tesla buyer.
MY experience in Engineering taught me that 90% of energy Engineers expend goes towards making products WORSE on purpose so they break right after either load is exceeded or warranty ends. We wouldn't even need engineers if we simply made things that last. The job of engineers in a consumer capitalist society is to cut corners. It's honestly sickening.
I wonder if the moisture helped keep the belts from drying out, or if they were made from better rubber back then. I need to get a new belt for my cassette recorder, and it's only in the order of 15-20 years old. Just a regular crappy Tanashin mechanism, or maybe even a copy, but it works well enough for my use case for it.
The KISS principal was beat into us who served as nukes on subs. Also GCE.
Wish the old cassette players I came across did...
My engineering experience is: "make it automatic and repeatable"
The rubber pinchwheel degrades and can stick to your tape and wrap it all around. give the rubber a wipe with acetone or a methylated spirits using a qtip, before reliving the 80's again.