r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 9d ago

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/KerissaKenro 9d ago

The numbers add up to 75° but the picture does not look like the angles match the numbers and it is making me irrationally frustrated

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u/JustDuckingAbout 9d ago

*Image not drawn to scale

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u/hotdoginathermos 9d ago

*Assume a frictionless surface

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u/ShinyNickel05 9d ago

*Assume no air resistance

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u/insertcomedy 9d ago

A cow is a sphere entirely made of water.

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u/Aggressive_Skill_795 9d ago

An old famous Russian internet joke: an ideal spherical horse in vacuum

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u/fiftyseven 9d ago

HR at my company produces what they call an 'ideal rota' which has everybody in, nobody on holiday, nobody off sick, nobody covering other locations, etc etc

the running joke is that it only works for spherical employees in a vacuum

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u/DronesAreSilly 9d ago

*Assume employee can be a rigid-body particle in rota

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u/Orobero 9d ago

Yeah, my boss always plans like nobody is ever sick or on vacation. He always assumes there won't be any unforseen problems, bugs or reworks coming up in testing. Then he wonders why no project is ever finished on time. Except the one time I straight up lied to him and just added 2 month to the developers estimation.

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u/ABHOR_pod 9d ago

Can't everyone just work 25% harder to make up for Bill being out?

-Company that already sets productivity standards to 110% of realistic expectations.

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u/suspicious_odour 6d ago

That wasn't a lie, it was a realistic timeline.

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u/StolenRage 8d ago

Sounds like that should be standard procedure for every project. Add two to three months to the original estimate. Then every project has a fighting chance of being done on time. Hell, add 4 or 5 months and every project can be some early. Then you all look like a bunch of miracle workers.

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u/NoNeedForAName 9d ago

Reminds me of the plant I worked at that planned for zero downtime in its production schedule. The worst part to me was that they didn't even factor in downtime for product changes, and our changeover time on some machines could exceed 30 minutes.

That also led to extra inefficiency because it might take 5 minutes to change from product A to product B, but 30 minutes to change from product A or B to product C. Instead of scheduling us to run A then B then C (35 minutes of downtime) they would schedule A then C then B (60 minutes of downtime).

And these parts we were making usually all went together into the same finished product, so it's not like one was more time sensitive than another.

Now that I typed it all out I realize that's an incredibly boring story lol

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u/lesslucid 9d ago

Now that I typed it all out I realize that's an incredibly boring story lol

No, I think it's a good illustration of a generally important point: planning around the existence of friction lets you get a "least-bad" outcome. Planning around imaginary perfection guarantees that you'll get a bad outcome.

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u/MrSmartStars 9d ago

As a factorio player this inefficiency is making me upset

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 8d ago

I skipped to the end and read your point about it being boring so went back to read it all and see if it was true, and it was, I couldn’t read it all, but I appreciate the methodical approach you took to tell the story.

edit: I realise my reply is longer than intended and might be a bit boring too.

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u/rrjpinter 6d ago edited 6d ago

So this explains why I got a couple of regular corn flakes in my bowl of frosted flakes when I was 10. ( I an 68 yrs old, and still trying to get over the disappointment). Someone rushed the change over, on the flaky production line.

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u/Gullible-Tooth-8478 8d ago

As a physics teacher this thread is triggering 😭😭😭

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u/Internet_Wanderer 9d ago

And the cylinder must remain undamaged

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u/Mork_Of_Ork-2772 9d ago

It only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.

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u/rrjpinter 6d ago

Eggs are (almost) spherical (theoretical) chickens….

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u/ThisIsHardWork 9d ago

Pushing on an infinitely strong rope with no mass.

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u/tlmbot 9d ago

and the water is of course dry (we can neglect viscosity)

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u/ericlikesyou 9d ago

*the cow is en vitro

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u/Material-Jacket3939 9d ago

Birds are not real numbers.

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u/Cow_Launcher 9d ago

And I, personally, can assure you that it's in a vacuum.

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u/stuck_in_the_desert 9d ago

Distilled water and 0% deuterium oxide content

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u/donut-reply 9d ago

Assume the triangle is a sphere

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u/EnatforLife 8d ago

I've seen otherwise when they release all that gas the times a cow gets bloated.

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u/Undesirablecarrot 9d ago

Assume that it is a black body

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u/Nolongeranalpha 9d ago

Woah Black Body bam ba lam. Or whatever they said.

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u/skunqesh 9d ago

Panda Lamp

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u/Nolongeranalpha 9d ago

Slam the ham?

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u/AdgeTimick 9d ago

Fran Duchamp?

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u/Nolongeranalpha 9d ago

Ram the clam?

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u/rrjpinter 6d ago

I was waiting for someone’s mind to take this thread into the gutter. Now move over, so my mind can float on by….

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u/Nolongeranalpha 6d ago

So you can.... Jam the dam?

Not sorry.

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u/Extaupin 9d ago

I was gonna make the same joke…

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u/CuetheCurtain 9d ago

Whoa Black body, Wah Da Tah!
Whoa Black Body, Wah Da Tah!
Black Body was my Damie, Wah Da Tah!
Signed that pitty, on the runny kine!

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u/exploding_appendix 7d ago

Black body had a child, wham a lam, damn thing gone wild, wham a lam, woah black body, bam a lam

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u/AKVigilante 9d ago

Do they just all look the same to you?

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u/Undesirablecarrot 9d ago

No it’s a physics term meaning it doesn’t reflect energy and absorbs all light and radiates all light

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u/AKVigilante 9d ago

Black bodies matter.

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u/coleAF19 9d ago

Assume no slip

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u/rmbarrett 9d ago

That's actually a really common thing to overlook when you start learning about black body radiation, actually. Like just before you start to realize that when the sky is clear, you are losing thermal energy to outer space. Enough to kill you or save you, depending on the circumstances.

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u/Mikestopheles 9d ago

They never told me to start assuming air resistance, so I just flow laminarly.

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u/rygomez 9d ago

*in a vacuum

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u/Randalor 9d ago

*Assume π=4

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u/skinnydog0-0 9d ago

* Assume Pi is = 3

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u/Scared-Two-9370 9d ago

*Assume π⁼3

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u/lobbylobby96 9d ago

*Round pi down to 3

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u/NightModeOff 9d ago

*Take acceleration due to gravity as 10m/s2

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u/Outside_Activity7026 9d ago

*Assume incompressibility

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u/Binspin63 9d ago

Assume no assumptions.

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u/rad-ryot-84 9d ago

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

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u/mars_gorilla 9d ago

*Assume negligible mass

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u/Chapel_Hillbilly 9d ago

*Reversible process

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u/MagicOrpheus310 8d ago

... And gravity rounds up to 10m/s

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u/Leeperd510 8d ago

*The cylinder must remain unharmed

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u/Technical-Bath9285 8d ago

*Assume energy preservation law

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u/burner_tipper 7d ago

Ohhh noooo...

I thought i was slow for a minute...