What hope fly by wire?
My suspicions about added active ingredients in our coffee have not been quashed by the ‘Select Dosage’ screen which appears just before the machines vend in our clients’ office. I think it is referring to milk, but the choice of vocabulary is unfortunate… I have long suspected that in addition to the caffeine there is a shot or two of code enhancing amphetamines.
I’d love to see the pseudo code for these machines. It seems the main algorithm goes something like:
1) Take money
2) Crunch cup
3) Squirt on foot
One of the main reasons I don’t particularly enjoy flying is the inability of humans to design a vending machine which can reliably serve packets of crisps. If we can’t get that right, what hope fly by wire?
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