TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldimagemessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up11.32Karrow-down144
arrow-up11.27Karrow-down1imageA good deal of IT work, toolemmy.worldTheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareRodeocakelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months 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-squareRodeocakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months 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-27 months 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-squareRodeocakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months 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-down1·7 months 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.