• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    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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      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??

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

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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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    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.

    A2+B2=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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    No one is mentioning that the math doesn’t work out if the staight line distances are constraints then the diagonals are not correct, and vice versa.

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        Exactly what I was pointing out. seems when I added comment the post looked empty to me, but now it looks like I commented late

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            As I replied to others, Lemmy glitch on my client end. Post had no comments when I posted and I was surprised nobody was making comments

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                Again, glitch in Jerboa app/ Lemmy on my end. Only upper portion of image was showing and it said No comments yet, so I was curious how it sat so long with nothing. Its working OK now, other than I don’t always get notifications of comment replies and have to go click the original comment to see replies. it’s a bit quirky. i thought about deleting comment after I realized what happened, but meh.

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        Ah, maybe lemmy glitch, post was empty for me when I made the comment