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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Even if absolutely everything is documented there is still the loss of familiarity and comfort working with a given system.

Having perfectly documented processes still might mean that a new engineer could take multiple hours following instructions to do what the person who originally built the system managed off the top of their head in fifteen minutes.