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To: numberonepal

Human machine interfaces? It’s just a matter of degree. always advancing and forever improving. It got started in 1956 when General Motors used a skilled painter’s arm to paint the first car and let the machine remember how to do it. Peeple powered car painters been the rule ever since. Then there’s my own machine room with four big CNC machines that have “teach mode” built in. I just drive the machine to make wot I need and the spooky things remember it forever. And the oldest machine has been doing that since 1998. Lots of machine shops can’t even do that yet but they’re learning.
Funny aspect of that is one needs techs/machinists who can visualize what they actually need. I’ve seen some mental pillow fights that were entertaining to watch.


4,017 posted on 09/17/2025 2:34:50 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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“Funny aspect of that is one needs techs/machinists who can visualize what they actually need.”

If you’ve ever been NEAR that land of needing to visualize how to accomplish/fix something and then fabricated or cobbled together the solution, the profoundness of that statement really hits.


4,053 posted on 09/17/2025 5:54:17 PM PDT by Axenolith (Don’t bother holding my beer, I’ll finish it first…)
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