• invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Kinda wild how so much of engineering is still just using lookup tables that were hand calculated like 150 years ago

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      a sliding ruler can give you just about every answer a computer can, sometimes faster

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      yeah, it's also kinda wild how WW2 artillery equipment has been made relevant again because they started using drones as spotters

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    rereading Calvin & Hobbes as an adult is wild. His parents are such interesting characters, and you just don't notice it if you're reading it as a kid.

    Like, in the original strip, you can see Calvin seems to get his penchant for wild fantasies from his dad

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