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No UI choice I have ever seen is as user-hostile as this interaction. https://t.co/ozANf6abt4
1) Why would you even ask me that if you are capable of calculating it, like freaking any computer is. Just derive it from the birthday if you can. 2) If you calculate it, by all that is holy, you had better actually get your math right.
I hate you so much right now, web application. https://t.co/RKhJrVNGwj
I realize this is petty Twitter sniping but we’re stochastically killing people this year through bad web UXes because decreasing marginal propensity for people to vaccinate through unnecessary errors causes them to forsake lifesaving medical treatment.
And nobody seems to want to confront the obvious implications of that. The contractor will say, accurately, it was to spec. The government will say, to protect patient privacy, that they collected no conversion data (and, privately, that that *was not a success metric*).
And then the usual suspects will, within a few months, go back to talking about “It’s a shame engineers don’t get ethics training* and instead choose to e.g. build social networks”, when this single form more important than every eng ethics thinkpiece published. *citation needed