TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up11.29Karrow-down141
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoPretty sure the teacher wasn’t assuming that every single child in class was going to be a machinist. In fact, most people aren’t machinists.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAnd yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you’d be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don’t, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoUh what, that’s literally the point lol. The “you won’t have a calculator” has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoBro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years You’re talking as if everybody was carrying around pocket calculators the day they were invented
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoNo actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn’t you go out and buy one?
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoOf course. But, again, that’s not everyone. Not everyone went out and bought pocket calculators and carried them around everywhere.
Pretty sure the teacher wasn’t assuming that every single child in class was going to be a machinist.
In fact, most people aren’t machinists.
And yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you’d be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don’t, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.
OK? That’s not the point.
Uh what, that’s literally the point lol. The “you won’t have a calculator” has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.
Bro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years
You’re talking as if everybody was carrying around pocket calculators the day they were invented
No actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao
If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn’t you go out and buy one?
Of course. But, again, that’s not everyone. Not everyone went out and bought pocket calculators and carried them around everywhere.