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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 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…