Comment Regulated profession? (Score 1) 60
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How hard is it to publish a the previous version again?
I've used an i7+ since late 2019. I've had to call their Customer Support a few times. The front line support staff try so hard to be helpful and they really do their best, but I get the impression that, behind the scenes, this is a company that loves its creative Computer Science people but is not so much in love with I.T. production best practices to provide a reliable tool for their customers. I don't think they take an engineering approach to their software. I doubt their software designers are actually using the tool in their own homes, with chairs that aren't in the same spot every day, with doors that are sometimes closed and sometimes open, with Amazon boxes sometimes piled in a corner, with a big dog that doesn't move until it's been bumped into a few times and then suddenly isn't in the same spot any more, etc. I expect if they tried a software rollback their "clever" toddler-level AI would throw a tantrum. I doubt they architected their solution end-to-end to take that into account; I suspect their "architecture" has become a Frankenstein's monster over time. I have no inside knowledge of the company, but from my (customer) point of view this looks like a company that is trying to be too clever for its own good and is not prioritizing making a tool that is dependable and reliable from a homeowner's point of view.
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When the Sun goes Supernova in about 5 billion years....
At the risk of being pedantic, the sun is too small to go supernova. The best it can do is go nova, iirc.
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MgO is nontoxic. It is used in some antacid tablets.
Great! I'll have a Taj Mahal in my back yard, and when I get heartburn I'll just go out and chew off a cornice.
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Well, it's true that if people stopped eating turkey, there'd be no need to breed them and the whole species would disappear...
Not quite. Wild turkeys are the same species (meleagris gallopavo) and will only disappear if/when they go extinct.
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And no one died due to lack of youtube for 30 min.
Why are you so confident about that assertion?
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they have a legal responsibility to do anything remotely legal to put the financial interests of the share holders above all.
No, they don't. MBAs are taught to do that in their Business Ethics courses, but it's not the law. It is the result of executive pay structures that reward rising share prices above all, not legal fiat.
Plus one other thing: Shareholders can try to sue if they think the company is not adhering to their fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value. IANAL so I might not have the words exactly right.
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Really, if people are going to use CSVs they need to master the Import Wizard so they can define the data type of each column.
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Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"