• 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