https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-145/ this week in sentences: tallest ghost, reification, merely, whaler, this level, WHO CARES, nostrils, live frogs, rice of the future, distinct, soybean, enchanting, the nothing they have, flesh, trash stratum, acceptable recuperation, surveymonkey
@scruss yeah it seems like the rationales for adopting it in that era were basically "just in time production is the hot new thing, gotta surveill labor even if the tools for doing it kind of suck"
@ingrid For my employer it was a personal geek-out from the managing director to prove that our constructors had put a wind turbine in the wrong place in one of the UK's first wind farms. He did spend some time writing down numbers are keying them into the computer, but once he had the code working, that was someone else's job (either me or someone even more junior)
@ingrid Selective Availability-era GPS was annoying. My boss at the time wrote a Fortran program to average the noise added to the signal by SA. Took about 10 minutes to survey a point and many sets of batteries. Blecch.