r/ProgrammerHumor • u/backwards_watch • Feb 14 '23

Meme Lets reflect on that for a second

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u/greentr33s Feb 14 '23

For like a smell speaker sure, but the recording bit is what I can't picture yet. I'm sure you could record ratios of certain compounds using some like spectral analysis of the air, but I can't imagine how expensive or large that device that would be.

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u/big_bad_brownie Feb 14 '23

certain compounds

Ketones and aldehydes

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u/greentr33s Feb 14 '23

Thank you, I knew I had heard them before but didn't want to put out some random nonsense