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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by Aeolun on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:17PM (#25145463)
They can pay a human to update their web stack instead? Seems more efficient.
Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by shermanmccoy on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:29PM (#25155634)
Precisely! So picture some, however oversimplified, code which searches a customer's orders, determines which is a phone product id, remembering they sell other stuff which we would not want to update in flight order details on, then updates the embedded customer address on the order.

I would like to hear some original thoughts on why this is so difficult that a human is doing this work instead.

Obviously maintaining a different behaviour for a class of product ids is painful and not beautiful code to look at, but it is the real world.