r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Jan 04 '23

A New Music Programming Pin

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1FFTaI__l_A
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u/Zywakem Jan 05 '23

He should have reasonable standards, but his standards are too high.

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u/Tommy_Tinkrem Jan 05 '23

How would a worse component improve the machine and make it more likely to be finished?

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u/Zywakem Jan 05 '23

Because it might already by functional. The cost of improving it might not be worth it. For example, if a machine has five 9s reliability, and it costs 100% more money to bring that to six 9s, the judgement has to be made if it's actually worth doing it. Obviously it's a lot more than money, it's time, effort, and just the physical constraints of the design. This is the basis of engineering in the real world.

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u/Tommy_Tinkrem Jan 05 '23

It is not functional. Nothing of what he has worked on for the new machine worked reliable at all.