• @captainlezbian
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    261 year ago

    Reasons you tell the it department you need the best cpu available and more ram than their servers: complex simulation software and autocad

    Actual reason you need it: thousands of calculation cells in a single spreadsheet that references other spreadsheets

    • @chiliedogg
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      31 year ago

      I manage to crash my work computer more often with my excel bullshit than with GIS or CAD.

    • FuglyDuck
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      21 year ago

      Lies.

      It’s so we can load our model into x plane or doom or something. You know. To check the real world physics.

      It’s either that or we build a scale model and blow it up…