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[-] callyral@kbin.social 138 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 131 points 2 years ago

Americans will use anything but metric

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The correct answer is 2.58 metres.

[-] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Or analytical geometry, for that matter.

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 108 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

It's a feature not a bug

[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Sounds like an HR thing to do frfr

[-] randint@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

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

[-] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 35 points 2 years ago
[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

and also the podcast

[-] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Please remove me from this mailing list

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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

Now do the conversion factor from feef to feet!

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

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

1 feef = 0ft

[-] exu@feditown.com 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.

[-] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

*got on his feef

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

And out of his grave

[-] dyen49k@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

It's a tetrahedron, duh

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

How many dimensions is that picture though?

[-] yjr4df0708@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago
[-] jxk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years 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.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you, ChatGPT

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

1 feef is 12 finches

[-] dewritoninja@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago

Kid named tetrahedron

[-] HumbertTetere@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

Hexagons are the Bestagons!

Join us, the order of enlightenment! (not a cult btw 😉)

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[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Simple: they live in doom

[-] CaptionAdam@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I did the math the diagonal distance is ~8.5Ft

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[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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

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