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Great title. Good reminder to the occasional overconfident technologist (myself included) not to trust untested machines with critical responsibilities. When
by thedudeabides5 7y ago
Great title. Good reminder to the occasional overconfident technologist (myself included) not to trust untested machines with critical responsibilities.
When your gmail doesn't load for 30 seconds, that's not the end of the world. When an app breaks a process that's been working relatively smoothly for hundreds of years, it may be time to take a moment and reflect.
Also another example of why spreadsheets will never die. As long as the human can see the data, the inevitable machine breaks can only cause so much damage.
- jhbadger 7y agoAlthough even spreadsheets have gotten too "smart" for their own good and can corrupt data. Biologists have actually had to rename the septin-1 gene because spreadsheets containing its abbreviation "sept1" get automatically changed to 01-Sep in Excel.