[PATCH 2/2] Add initial rudimentary no-fly time calculation

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Feb 8 02:35:00 PST 2013


"Robert C. Helling" <helling at lmu.de> writes:
>> The window says in all bold
>>
>> THIS IS JUST A SIMULATION, DO NOT USE FOR DIVING
>
> Really?!? Before I wrote my mail I checked and did not see the disclaimer.
>
> Now I rechecked. There is no disclaimer. So why is he saying, there is a 
> disclaimer? Check again. Oh, it's in the title bar of the window, not in 
> the window! I never read title bars unless the windows is minimized. Am I 
> the only one?
>
> The other thing is: It's not the point that it is a simulation. Simulation 
> is what everybody does, you cannot do better. The point is that we have 
> just implemented this and have only checked it maybe against a dozen dives 
> with other programs. It's more testing that would make me more confident, 
> not the fact that we are simulating a complex system with a simple 
> algorithm.

Well, it is the algorithm that (most) everyone else is using, just a
fresh impleentation of that algorithm.

But as much as it pains me to add another string (the translators will
love you for it), this is one place where I AM willing to make an
exception.

So we should add the same warning / disclaimer to both this window and
to the actual plan that we print in the notes (that way it's only one
string).

How about

"DISCLAIMER / WARNING: THIS IS A NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BÜHLMANN
ALGORITHM AND A DIVE PLANNER IMPLEMENTION BASED ON THAT WHICH HAS
RECEIVED ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TESTING. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT TO
PLAN DIVES SIMPLY BASED ON THE RESULTS GIVEN HERE."

I'm open for other ideas / other wordings.

With apologies to all the translators who are working very hard on
getting us great localizations in a dozen languages...

/D


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