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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Engineer: 2, but 3 to be safe.

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

The budget is for 1.5, make it work.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Oh, hi Boeing Manager.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was going to say: 2ish

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't they just look up the answer in a table?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nah not anymore, now you spend a day or so building some convoluted excel calculator once so that you never need to do the calcs again.

Then, 3 years later when you go to add or change something in that calculator, you have absolutely no idea how it works and decide the change wasn't that important anyway.