It would be interesting to see the correlation in families with a history of diabetes, and to correlate it to T2 diabetes or "metabolic syndrome". I have anecdata about this, but I wonder if any studies are being done in family-groups, such as identical twins etc.
I faced a similar issue with Netflix when I tried to update the credit-card on my account.
Got a PHL Call Center that insisted the card txn was being declined. I tried to explain that there had been no api call for an authorisation attempt happening, as the failure was immediate, so there simply hadn't been any time for a backend round trip or stripe api call.
After some typical call center stonewalling I finally got through to a manager who looked at the logs and admitted the problem was an unexplained Netflix error and that in fact my card authorisation attempt wasn’t even happening despite the six times I retried based on the advice of the original CSR.
Then he told me they didn't know what was happening as it hadn't ever happened this way before and so presumably wasn't in their scripts, and nor could they kick it up to engineering! It was a one way callcenter outsourcing with no opportunity to inform upstream of any problems.
Their proposed solution was to delete my account with all the accumulated history back to the late 2000s … so, in effect, anyone who calls the Netflix help Center is being “unhelped” and encouraged to stop being a customer!
That's quite an unintended consequence of what was presumably intended as a cost-cutting measure, not a customer-cutting measure!
Non-local customer support is just terribly broken. I would wish for all support to be of the Joel Spolsky / Paul Graham type where competent developers can actually debug and fix problems, and problems are surfaced, not deliberately deep-sixed.
Well it disappeared over a decade ago. Very interesting demo. Time is a flat circle I guess. Nothing actually comes to mind from the present that is quite like this, hmm.
Ran IRIX back in the day and the thing I most remember is display postscript with zoomable everything. Today a resto-modded [1] ThinkPad is probably a better choice, featuring repairability, 64GB max RAM, three storage drives, docks, usb-C, a choice of modern hi-res display screens, openboot etc.
Irix! When I got my MFA in '88 we had Mac IIs, Amigas, and a SGI workstation. There was a huge difference: the macs/amigas sat quietly on the work desks in their sleek beige boxes, the workstation was about 3'x2'x3' box with roaring fans that whirred menacingly from beneath the desk, and took up all legroom.
The curation tools are limited especially with playlists and worst of all watch later SILENTLY fails after 5000 videos are added to the watch later playlist.
Yesterday a watching now playlist glitched and kept looping in the middle. I had to manually click on the next video as the next button and shift N didn’t advance the playlist but looped instead.
Perhaps a riff on French immersion schools like we have in British Columbia which are supposed to impart a higher level of education due to their much-vaunted academic standards.
A pity about F-Script for sure, if only it had targeted app builders. Smalltalk history seems to be littered with abandoned projects. Amber ST in the browser and F-Script on OSX come foremost to mind.
