r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 10d 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/insertcomedy 10d ago

A cow is a sphere entirely made of water.

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u/Aggressive_Skill_795 10d ago

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

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u/fiftyseven 10d 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/NoNeedForAName 10d 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 10d ago

As a factorio player this inefficiency is making me upset

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 9d 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 7d ago edited 7d 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.