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My washing machine (Indesit) just has a couple of dials and a few buttons - no touchscreen - but it still has a UI bug which means that its usually impossible to do a wash after a prior wash without cycling the power in-between. Its like there is a dead-end in the state diagram, somewhere.

And my microwave (Russell Hobbs) has a dial for selecting the cook-time, but you have to turn it anti-clockwise to 90 minutes before you can turn it clockwise to one minute or whatever. Its inexplicable to me.

Why did they do this? What happened to the testing? Why didn't they fix the code before they shipped the hardware?

So yeah, appliances and software estimation...



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