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    11 months 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.

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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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      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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    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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      11 months ago

      Ha. I’ve always imagined it as six horizontal feet. Assume the heads are on the ground orientation agnostic

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    Social distancing needs to be a minimum of 12 feet. I can spit farther than 6 feet without even meaning to.

    Edit! I meant to type 6 feet, not 26 feet

    The reason it’s as low as 6 is because business owners wanted it to be that close because they wouldn’t be able to have as many people as they would’ve liked in their businesses if it was set to an appropriate number

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      Dang you must be part llama. I don’t disagree though. I actually enjoyed not being very close to people bc they be nasty. Even before COVID haha