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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)
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Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And a nightmare for an application developer told to make some app with a spreadsheet for a database scale

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's just called Access

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is that creepy thing still alive?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It can't be ... but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I remember making fun of Access on StackOverflow circa 2008 and running afoul of some dude there who was like the last living Access consultant on Earth. I've never encountered defensive rage like that before or since.

    Fun Access fact, the Diebold-manufactured voting machines that featured prominently in the 2000 presidential election cycle used an Access database as their underlying data storage mechanism. Access DBs did incorporate an audit table - which was manually-editable.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That explains why they didn't want anyone investigating the machines. Did proper authorities finally get access (no pun intended lol) to investigate? Or was that already known?

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