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[–] callyral@kbin.social 139 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's weirder is that the bottom two are 6 feef apart

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 132 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Americans will use anything but metric

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The correct answer is 2.58 metres.

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We use decimal inches in machine shops, that's a metric system.

SI though, that's what gets people mad.

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except for some reason you didn't come up with your own units for:

  • electric potential difference
  • electric charge
  • electric current
  • resistance
  • capacitance
  • inductance
  • magnetic flux
  • amount of substance
  • radioactivity
  • ...
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[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Or analytical geometry, for that matter.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What dimensional space are the people arranging themselves in?

But seriously, this reminds me of a time at my former (FAANG) employer where HR sent out a 40-minute video about not being an asshole and avoiding lawsuits.

12 minutes or so in, they say "as the number of people in a group increases, the number of potential 1:1 interactions increases exponentially." I thought "actually n(n-1)/2 but whatever", and finished the video intending to get on with my life.

My inbox was FULL of engineers who were irate. "HR have proven themselves to be fools!" "I expect the company to never ask me to waste my time on their bullshit again." "Once again non-technical people talking out their asses."

HR sent a global apology for the error, asked everybody to not watch the video while they fixed it, and released a patched version the next day.

[–] chimasterflex@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HR should have replied with a "this was a test on how not to be an asshole and you've all failed. You must take the whole training again"

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

It's a feature not a bug

Sounds like an HR thing to do frfr

[–] randint@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, cool HR. Why did the engineers send their complaints to your inbox though?

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

"Reply all" button should only be available if you have completed the training on not using it for every email, and you have to renew it twice a year

[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In any discussion around Reply All I always think of https://redd.it/420oan

and also the podcast

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But did they use reply all to apologize to all the recipients about their email?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Please remove me from this mailing list

[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It bugs me that people will call anything with a positive second derivative "exponentially increasing". I can do one better: it increases busy-beaver-y! Is that fast enough for people??

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm a little sad nobody has done the correct math and it's been too long for me to do it off the top of my head lol.

A^2+B^2=C^2? What distance are the diagonals if the sides are 6' apart?

6x6 + 6x6 = sqrt72 = 8.49' !

I did it bois. Ty calculator for sqrt72...

[–] Kongpiler@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now do the conversion factor from feef to feet!

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

The diagonal is 6ft. The side is 6 ft. So 6² + 6feef² = 6²

1 feef = 0ft

[–] exu@feditown.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now, what's the length of the sides if the diagonals are 6ft?

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thats easy.
6 * 6 = 36
36 = a² + b²
Lets assume a = b
So a² = 18 = b²
a = b = 4,2426406871

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.

[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

*got on his feef

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

And out of his grave

[–] dyen49k@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's a tetrahedron, duh

[–] HumbertTetere@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

The blokes are obviously at different heights, that's all.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

How many dimensions is that picture though?

[–] yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's do the math. Let's name the points A B C D, where A and D are separated by 6 feef, and all other point pairs by 6 feet. There fore, ABC and BCD are equilateral triangles of side length 6 feet. This leaves two possibilities for the distance between A and D: either they are the same point, or their distance is twice the height of an equilateral triangle with 6 feet side. Since A and D are clearly distinct, we'll go with the latter. That makes the distance AD to be equal to 6 feet times the square root of three, giving a value of sqrt(3) feet for one feef.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, ChatGPT

1 feef is 12 finches

[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago

Kid named tetrahedron

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Why? The diagram is from above and they're shifted in 3 dimensions. Now draw that. I'm not asking. DRAW IT!

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the 6 feet is from head to head, couldn't you flip two people upside down?

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[–] CaptionAdam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did the math the diagonal distance is ~8.5Ft

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[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Oh! come on! How hard is it to social distance in a tetrahedron?

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