which corporate newspeak did y'all hear lately in justification of RTO ? I really do find them amusing

We are between two mandatory vaccination programs pushed by the pharma lobby and now is the time to really get back to the office.

I think we should get back the control of our lives from corporations. At this stage it is about profit and control maximalization above all else.

What do you think corporations were founded to do in the 1800s? The term "robber baron" didn't come about because executives were all socially-minded back then.

I would give stract.org a shot tho

bc is my calculator for pretty much everything for decades now. lol

who does not use bc? people who aren't old unix people ;-) I use bc

I consider myself an old unix person, but I use dc. Possibly to make it more confusing to anyone who looks at what I'm doing.

It also gives the math result here of course.

  % dc
  9999999999999999.0 9999999999999998.0 - p
  1.0
  %

I guess old unix persons do use bc. But even older unix persons, like you and me, use dc. Oh, and I still have my trusty old HP48GX calculator that I bought nearly thirty years ago. Algebraic notation is fine for paper, bur RPN is best for calculating. I am glad I can even have an RPN calculator (PCalc) on my phone now.

rpn for for the win I guess ;-). I actually didn't get to try my first linux stuff until grad school in the 80s. I wish I had saved off all my init files from then to see what they look like now.

Back in the day (Unix Seventh Edition) bc was just a front end that compiled the expression and piped it to dc. My take it is most people didn't find rpn a win, and bc was the fix.

I used bc's compiled output ("bc -c") to learn how to make dc jump through hoops.

https://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/1/bc