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Don't give up on tomatoes! You say that they do need maintenance, but you plant them, water them, give them sun - I bet you can automate a lot these steps - watering and nutrition, for example. You can give them extra boost with some artificial light and heat. You can do it!

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I am not sure the goal was to swap gardening with engineering gardening automation ;)

For every problem, there is an engineering solution.

The inverse is not necessarily true :)

Don't tell SharePoint developers that.

The statement itself isn't true, either. And our industry suffers through it time and again, thinking that a social problem can be solved with engineering.

It never can, but you can sure burn a lot of money trying.

I used the term 'solution' loosely and somewhat ironically, because it's usually put forward by people who think it is a solution, but in fact it just makes the problem worse :)

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