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[–] 140 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 133 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Americans will use anything but metric

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

    SI though, that's what gets people mad.

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    [–] 108 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 89 points 3 years 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"

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 32 points 3 years 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...

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    It's a tetrahedron, duh

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    How many dimensions is that picture though?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

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

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    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Kid named tetrahedron

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hexagons are the Bestagons!

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Simple: they live in doom

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I did the math the diagonal distance is ~8.5Ft

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [+] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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