Part 39: Story: Custom Specifications
Custom Specifications
This is cool! I'm now able to make my own specifications (assignments, basically).
(No screenshot of ConceptSPEC in action, alas. It's old enough that the tablet's screenshot function bugs out.)
This is pretty cool, but the question is - what do I do with it? I can't think of any obvious applications... right now. Useful to have, though!
Ibblebibble posted:
I will say, as an Asian guy from Asia and in Asia ATM I would indeed rather die than give up cheese.
Oh right! I allllllllmost forgot to mention - here's Carl's favorite sandwich.
inflatablefish posted:
I can't believe Joe still has a job after that.
I can confirm he has a job, but, well, I haven't seen him in the office much lately...
Deathwind posted:
Ghost shifts have almost always been a thing, where did you think all of the extremely good counterfeits come from? There's enough of them to fill entire shopping centers.
If they were made in the factory that makes the real thing, using the same materials and techniques, what makes them counterfeit? Philosophical question.
Carbon dioxide posted:
You can even connect them to chip ports from under them without them having to go around.
I'm going to take note of this. Maybe try it out in my next job!
Ashsaber posted:
Okay, kinda worried here. Joe's ideas aren't always good, but the last couple times Lili has given you an assignment its been something related to combat or security, if she's trying to get the company to focus on something that builds a future for the company, you may have more contracts like that coming your way in the future.
I'll have to trust her, I guess.
I mean, if things get truly untenable, I could always quit. It'd be a big step, though, as it would almost certainly mean leaving China and a comfortable livelihood.
Anyone know of any sort of, like... other people who might want engineers?
Dareon posted:
Could you hook that ghost chip up to a radio transmitter and have haunted Cool Dad vapes?
Hang on, you can prototype basically anything, right? It might be kinda cool to see a ghost chip hooked to an LED for a random color cycler. Take out the vape middleman.
Haunted vapes... now THERE's an idea.
And yeah, here's what it looks like:
mercenarynuker posted:
There an actual recording of the haunted babies, or does the simulator just track "ok, on, and now off"?
The simulator checks that the correct sound samples are output at the correct time.
I got to see the thing working on the archive of the livestream Joe mentioned, and the audio was... actually kind of terrible. Very fuzzy.
Ibblebibble posted:
I don't think China is much of a traditional cocktail country. Think it's more straight rice wine at 80% alcohol content or something stupidly high. Feel free to prove me wrong though.
You're probably right. If I remember my old history classes, fancy cocktails really got going in the US in part as a way to mask the taste of dubiously-processed alcohol during Prohibition. There's no Chinese equivalent.
Mind you, if a traditional Chinese cocktail does exist, David'll find it.