[quote=@Meta]
<Snipped quote by Codify>

If you can teach a machine how to do these things then you can teach [i]me.[/i]
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It's more an issue of memory and functionality. It's harder for you to take an accurate temperature, as a really basic example, than it is for a machine to. And trying to remember everything is going to potentially cause more mistakes than using a machine that remembers everything for you, is all. If you want to do everything by hand, I can get you started down that road, at least.