Why can't an app be a certified medical device? I'm actually working on one and close to getting certification as a medical device, which will then be rolled out by hospitals etc.

Feedback from user testing has been great, patients loved it generally.

Are you asking why it can't or why it shouldn't? Because it can be classified as such, as you're experiencing first-hand.

In one of my businesses, hotel booking, i also sell gift cards and market them agressively in festive seasons.1 year validity. 45% goes unclaimed, its now 20% of total profit (all legal here, expiry date in a large font)

That seems deeply unethical and, at least in California, illegal. Not something I’d brag about in any case.

Is it really illegal that for a discounted fee you get access to a hotel room during the next year? If that's the agreement you make? If I could pay $100 now to get my whole family into Disney land any weekday in 2024, I'd pay for that.

That's not the same as putting $100 on a hotel gift card which you can use anywhere anytime at the hotels many properties, maybe to cover a pet fee or cleaning fee or parking, or to reduce the cost of a room during a peak cost period like 4th of july.

I’m not really clear on what you’re saying, but it seems like you may have misunderstood the original post. In any case, the illegal part, at least in CA, is having an expiry date on most types of gift certificates/gift cards.

My point is you are not buying a gift card. You are buying a hotel room stay during the next year.

I can see that leading to resentment among your clientele over time.

There's almost always a consequence for not providing value, and if 45% is unclaimed, that's not valuable to anyone but you.

I'd also wonder why so little goes claimed. I'd be worried about my product or service if people didn't want it, even if it was gifted to them.

Sleazy, unethical, and probably illegal. As an example: Kansas for instance, among other states, has unclaimed property law and these things must be turned over to the state.

That seems...sleazy.

Serious question: what should a business owner do? Track down every gift card buyer and refund their money?

In many states that is the explicit requirement yes. They are considered unclaimed property and must be handed over to the state to return to the individual.

i made a company. no personal liability whatsoever, all profits go to me personally (heavy taz but its ok) so they can sue all they want

The trend nowadays is that you just need a bed and a toilet to be comfortable, so cheaper rent. Same happening here in europe, even on new homes, area is decreasing by the year.

Yes and every 3 months a 5 day cleansing. Does wonders to my ibd (uc)

Most of my customers already asking for it. They pay me i do it. Talk about job replacement, i'm raising rates by the day

My schneider 286@12Mhz from 1990 with 40MB huge hdd still running fine, all original components.

How much of that time has it been running?

I would wager that it's not been running powered on for 33 years without any repairs. If it has, probably long past due for a re-cap job, and you probably don't want to put a scope on the voltage rails to see what the ripple is.

For a broad handwave, "sitting powered off" isn't too bad for solid state equipment (it does bad things for hard drives, see "stiction"), but operating (and operating at temperature) is where the wear occurs from a range of effects. I've reworked [0] a Core 2 Duo board that stopped booting after a decade or so, because the capacitors filtering power for the IDE controller got so bad it wouldn't boot reliably (it would load the kernel off the drive, and then insist the drive wasn't present later).

[0]: https://www.sevarg.net/2018/04/15/on-art-of-repair-re-capaci...

Yes it ran 24/7 when i was a kid for about 4 years, nowadays i rarely turn it on.

Older hardware tends to be more resilient due to wider traces, which means lower susceptibility to ESD and electromigration. But eventually the last atom will get eroded out of a critical trace and the thing will fail. Nothing lasts forever, especially when made to be as cheap as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration

Well, all of the components are less sensitive, not just traces. Also, a lot of the old machines weren’t designed to be cheap.

I must be doing something really wrong, i'm 41 run 50km a week (for 10+yrs) and my <Z2 is 8:52min/mile.

Best i can do is 5km @ 7:15 and i'll be dead running 190bpm+ for the whole duration (and sometimes 200)

must be the genetics.

I have UC my doctor told me it just slightly increases the chance whereas some years ago they thought it increased a lot. Is she lying to me or what

Relative vs absolute risk, relative risk increases sharply but colorectal cancer is (was?) not that common.

I already have people in slack asking hows it going or is it done yet the whole time. incentive enough

so especially for you he emphasizes throughout this is for his personal projects, even if it's fiction

And standups