TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up11.29Karrow-down141
arrow-up11.25Karrow-down1imageA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldTheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square156fedilink
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.
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.