Comment on A good deal of IT work, too
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OK? That’s not the point.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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?