> Honorable mention: Compiling someone else's C code. Come on; C compiles to a binary; don't make the user compile.

Unless you’re on a different architecture, then having the source code is much more useful.

> Cars are so flexible.

They’re also a joke when it comes to moving large numbers of people. I can’t imagine the chaos if everyone leaving a concert at Wembley Stadium decided to leave by car.

Yes, but when you compare treatments A vs B for trial 1, and then B vs C for trial 2, and then C, vs D for trail 3, you might not get the same results as comparing A vs D, especially when there may have been other changes in between the three trials (different ages, lifestyles etc).

This is a real problem when the Minister wants to know if it’s worth spending money on treatments, because all you have is a disjointed set of trials, none of which are necessarily representative of the population at large, or the population wide incidence of the disease (assuming there is even data on that (notifiable illnesses are the exception).

> notably randomized controlled trials that compare mortality.

Putting people into a control group so you can observe the effects of not treating them might not make it past the ethics committee.

This is a tech company and it’s adjacent to their core competency. Most companies wouldn’t know MicroK8s from a brand of cereal, they’d only create a mess if they tried this themselves.