Crazy how nature be like that

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not mysterious that they meet somewhere. These are linear functions so they can’t help but meet at exactly one point (or zero if they were parallel)

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  • Hexagon@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they were parallel they wouldn’t meet. See °C and K

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I meant “meet at zero points” so they don’t meet. Maybe my wording wasn’t perfectly clear

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    • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      even parallel lines will meet at a point if you’re working in projective space

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    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or °F and °R. Not that anyone really uses R.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They could have met below absolute zero!

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      zero!

      !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

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  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude I hope that what you said does not have sense at all.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Elaborate

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• MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I once applied for a job at a plasma donation center. They keep their sample freezers at -40°. During the interview process the hiring manager was going over basic info for the job and when they went over the freezer they said “And we keep the freezer at -40°C. I don’t know what it is in F though.” I then explained that they’re the same at -40° and that’s why their job posting doesn’t list the unit. They then acted like I was incredibly stupid and told me that “no, there’s a formula to figure it out. I don’t remember the formula but theyre definitely not the same” I didn’t feel the need to argue the point further so I just dropped it and moved on.

  I never got a call back from them. I’m 90% sure that’s why I didn’t get the job since Before that point they were telling me how they thought I’d be great manager material.

  I still get mad every time I think about it. Jokes on them though. I since learned they were a terrible employer. I got a way better job than that place like a week later.

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• JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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  • huginn@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but two non-parallel linear functions only intersect once.

    … Which is less often than a clock.

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    • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what your reality is capable of perceive

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Farenheit is better because 69 is a nice temperature

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can someone explain the joke?

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    -40°C = -40°F

    They intersect at that point for mysterious nature reasons

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    • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linear scale reasons.

      They measure the same thing. But they scale it differently, so they must meet somewhere. One, for some crazy reason, has decided the freezing and boiling point of water aught to be exactly 100 units apart. Where the other, sensibly, uses a really cold day in Danzig Germany because the AIR feels cold at that temperature, and what the natural resting point of the human body temperature is, separated by 96 units so as to make the scale easier to make in a lab.

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    • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aaah, thanks!

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this nature’s fault, though? Isn’t it us humans measring stuff? 😸

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• undercrust@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both water and humans agree, -40° is very cold

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• nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s time to unify ethnics to win the battle of the glaciar end of the world.

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