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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

I like to laugh at dumb people as much as the next one. But on a more serious note:

Brains forget shit. And my unsubstantiated opinion is that that is what makes humans so great. We can learn easily, but on the flipside, anything that isn’t practiced regularly goes down the drain. Calculating things in your head is one of those things you just don’t practice regularly (and why would you?) So draw out your calculator for things like the square root of 1337 and keep your precious cerebral resources for shit that matters, like making furry porn.

[-] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Disregard arithmetic, acquire uwu.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I won't deny I forget shit, as you say, but 99% (hang on, let me check that on my calculator) of why I look stuff up is to double check.

Most (but definitely not all) of why I use private browsing, for example, is because I'm looking up a tech question to which I know the answer, but about which I want to be certain before I make a git commit.

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