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[–] Thranduil@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well its day 0 now since you technically used them in this meme even if it was only the words

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[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah you are. You can’t use electricity without it.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TIL I'm an HTML developer because I'm surfing on the internet

[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

The meme said they didn’t use it not that they didn’t apply it.

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[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Nah, I hired an electrician to handle all that for me. Now if I want electricity all I have to do is stick a plug in a socket, or flip a switch. It's way more convenient.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

tan I go to bed

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[–] words_number@programming.dev 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Basic trigonometry is super useful and not that hard to understand or memorize.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago

Trig is honestly the math I've used the most since finishing school. But to be fair, that is mostly because it's useful as hell when doing game development as a hobby.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The only function is sine, the rest are just remixes and ratios

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[–] Spoonbit@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You may have used them indirectly in the compression of your image

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, but did they use it? I always felt like focusing on statistics instead of random trig stuff for non stem people people would be more useful

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago

if you were a more interesting person you could make up a use for them

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like math :) Its mysterious and fascinating and constantly surprising, like seeing the source code of the universe. Closest shit we have to actual magic.

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Do I like math? Yes

Do I understand a tiny bit of it? Absolutely not

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Me, whose going to start studying EE: 😭

[–] Ozy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

HAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK! I'm in my final year of my EE study and I cannot wait to escape this mental asylum

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Electrical Engineers are the psychos for using j instead of i. Absolutely bonkers.

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

There is hope for you after the asylum. My daughter has an EE degree. While in school, she would call me every October and tell me how terrible it was and that she wanted to drop out. I would talk her off the ledge, and she got through.

Now she's working, making more money than I do in her early twenties, and she loves loves loves her job.

Keep going!

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[–] RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One day, while working on a website, I was wondering how to calculate a specific point in a graph. After googling, the answer was by using sine and cosine. Mind blew away, I had always thought I'd never use them.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And guess what? You found it out without having to memorize the process until you knew it by heart.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Apparently, they didn't know it by heart. If they had, they wouldn't have had to spend all that time searching.

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[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I use it all the time. I'm an engineer though so it doesn't really counteract what you're saying.

[–] SleepingLesson@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] replicat@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Me working on graphics and audio programming all day.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

[TRIGONOMETRY WARNING]

[–] dasgoat@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Oh I am sinning like a motherfucker

[–] DrPop@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trigonometry is extremely useful when constructing things. Need to know the length of wood needed to go from corner to corner. That's trig my friend.

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[–] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I see you have never built a chicken coop.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

When you're in school you think calculus is the fucking shit, but in the real world you actually use trig way more often.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Weird, I use them almost every day doing procedural animation and modeling.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

That is just cause you are unemployed.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, pretty much every object in the room that had to be manufactured with any precision uses trig.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I use trig every few years when buying a tv. Tv specs always list diagonal but rarely horizontal and vertical which is needed for knowing how a TV will fit in a space.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm trying to figure out how you need trig for that. Just the Pythagorean theorem and ratios seem sufficient to me.

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[–] supimacat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

did you know 1209 is a prime number? or maybe not, I'm just a cat :3

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL cats are really bad at math.

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[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

1209 is 3 times 13 times 31, and cats are better at typing than they are at math.

In base 10, the sum of the digits of any number that is divisible by 3 is also divisible by 3, so 1+2+0+9=12, implies 1209 is divisible by 3.

Likewise, 1001 is divisible by 13, so if you split a number in base 10 every 3 digits, and subtract/add alternating sets of numbers, if the result is divisible by 13, the original number is, too. 209-1 is 208, which is obviously divisible by 13, so 1209 is, too.

Divisibility by 31 in base 10 is harder to check, but 999998 is divisible by 31, as is 999999999999999, so you can just split the number every 15 digits, and add those together, and if the sum is divisible by 31... I'm talking about math to a cat.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Your phone relies on trigonometry.

[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

SOH-CAH-TOA , mothafucka'!

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

No such luck as a physics prof :/

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