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If they wanted me to follow some rules that I'm apparently expected to know to make everyone comfortable, maybe they should've taught me that in school instead of trigonometry -_-
Did you intentionally mention everyone back to the OP, or is that just how your instance works?
They might be on mastodon.
Oh, yep, looks like it. Didn't know Mastodon works with Lemmy. That's neat.
ActivityPub sure is great
IKR? My next vanity project will be updating the blog software I wrote to use ActivityPub for the comment section. I don't know if it'll work, but I'm sure I'll learn something trying!
Shame they don't grade you on how cool your backwards hat is.
Whoa, trig doesn't deserve to be catching strays like that
Oh I didn't mean disrespect against it, it is just the first school-soundy thing that came to mind.
With that said I I will admit I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what trigonometry actually is.
It's the study of the geometry of triangles (trigon - three-sided polygon + metry - roughly measurement of, with an extra o to join them together). You can use the basic principles of some parts of it to make life easier.
For example, the "3-4-5 rule", based on the Pythagorean Theorem. If you need to make sure that something is roughly a 90° angle measure 3 units up one side and mark it, 4 units up the other and mark it, then measure the distance between the marks. If it is 5 units, then you have a 90° angle. The super cool thing is that you can use any unit used to measure linear distance; inches, angstroms, furlongs, kilometers, beard-seconds, whatever.
ooooh ok! interesting, good to know thanks
You're welcome! It's a super cool trick that an electrician taught me years ago.
must've been a shock
A bit but I quickly understood its potential.
Trig...gered
No, that would be your parents‘ task.
I used to think like this but let's be honest, it's not a fair shake. Social services should be somewhat capable of making up for poor, abusive, or absent parenting. School being the one social service children are practically guaranteed to interact with, it seems like a fair approach.
What if your parents are autistic as well? Mine were.
Maybe additionally, trigonometry is actually pretty useful. Learning capacity isn't that limited, it's motivation and attention that's constantly out of stock.
Certainly can teach both. Math is not the problem school systems have and yet are always the target of abuse.
Even if they taught you that in school, you still wouldn't listen.
huh what sorry I spaced out for a sec what did you say