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They're not worth it! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] callyral@kbin.social 140 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 133 points 1 year ago

Americans will use anything but metric

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

What's metric? Is that some kind of myth the Europeans invented? No thanks, Monarchists, I love my feets and freedoms.

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

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 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like an HR thing to do frfr

[-] randint@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago

Reply all

[-] 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

Ah I see.

[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Roughly 4.24?

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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.

[-] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 16 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

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

How many dimensions is that picture though?

[-] dewritoninja@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago

Kid named tetrahedron

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

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

[-] yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

how much is a "feef"

[-] jxk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

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.