Hey, bathroom scales are something (I think) I am qualified to talk about, at least from the POV of a user ;-)
On Thursday, March 04, 2021 10:05:29 AM Joe wrote: > On a rather smaller scale, my electronic bathroom scale has a feature > whereby if a person gets back onto the scale within thirty seconds of > the display blanking, *exactly* the same weight is reported. Mine seems a little different -- it seems even if I weigh myself the next week and my weight is within a few (for some value of few) tenths of the previous weight, my previous weight is reported. To get a valid weight, I have to do something like hold something heavy (a few pounds) so my weight is significantly different, wait until that weight is "registered", then set the weight down and re-weigh myself. > If more > than thirty seconds elapse, then a slightly different weight will often > result, as expected. I would assume that if the weight of the repeat > user was more than a certain amount different from the first user, a > second genuine weight would be shown. As described above, this part works on my scale. > I *know* this a deliberate > feature of the software used, I don't have to see the code, and I don't > have to be told whether it is a bug accidentally introduced. But even > the manufacturing company's MD/CEO may not know about it. I agree <not that anyone needs my agreement> ;-)
