• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    Their article: https://writetobrain.com/olfactory

    In the end, our headset got a bit hacky: It ended up having a knife taped to the probe for mechanical support. At the time, all of our headsets had a knife taped to the probe, as untaping the knife lead to software errors.

    I’m sorry what

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      the hardware equivalent of “I have no idea what this section of the code does but if you remove it, it breaks the app”

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      It’s the endgame to “load bearing line of code that’s supposed to do nothing”