▲ 703 ▼ It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com) submitted 1 year ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago (5 children) That's just called Access permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago (4 children) Is that creepy thing still alive? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago I did not want to read this, today … or ever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PokerChips@programming.dev 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago (4 children) Is that creepy thing still alive? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago I did not want to read this, today … or ever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PokerChips@programming.dev 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago I did not want to read this, today … or ever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PokerChips@programming.dev 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] crapton_america@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago I did not want to read this, today … or ever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now). permalink fedilink source parent