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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Why can't he just be normal?

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Desire Pathagoras
- I don't like that I like this
- Invented a whole math thing to justify his desire paths.

!desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/743608

This is why some places like Michigan State University and Ohio State University use "desire path planning". That's where they observe where people walk and then install (or move) the sidewalks to match those footpaths.
- Not necessarily good though since it further seals the ground. There's nothing wrong with leaving desire paths untouched.
  
  The problem is they would either have to police people from using them, or let grassy areas become bisected by muddy ditches
- https://maps.app.goo.gl/wYXv4G4k8t6MXNNf9
  Prime example at Ohio State

Such an hypoteneusance
- I wish I was high on the potenuse
  
  Haha, I wish I was high on the potenuse!

So irrational this guy sometimes...
- He's a free spirit
  
  So am I but I still follow the rules!

Considering his life and how he died, normal was never on the table.

relevant xkcd
- Ugh, there goes that xkcd guy.

Shouldn't that be Caucht and Schwarz walking together? Since they were actually the ones to generally prove that the absolute value of the sum of two vectors are smaller or equal to the sum of absolute values of each of those vectors separately.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%E2%80%93Schwarz_inequality
Why, yes, I am fun at parties!
- Yes, but you could just name him the "triangle inequality guy" that's note readable :D

Where’s Euclides?

They're just a bunch of squares

I vaguely remember seeing this exact joke in my geometry book in gradeschool. Probably different illustrator, but still.
Damn, I feel old now.

Wow, earlier today I read it as "Why can't this be normal" as in why are people regimented to stay on sidewalks instead of strolling across the grass? It reminded me of a guy I worked with in one of my first jobs, who was told by another coworker that you shouldn't walk on the grass, and he replied, "Yeah you should, because if you weren't supposed to it wouldn't feel so soft and cushy and good on your feet." I liked that guy's attitude.
- If I remember right, there's a school that took the worn paths in the grass and just turned those into official walkways.
  
  Yes, that's a fairly common practice.

He's only 45 degrees from being normal whereas they're 90 so...

I hate when people do that. Just stay on the sidewalk, you're going to wear a path down in the grass.
- Should've been a path there to begin with, clearly. Bad design
- Those are desire paths. I love them.
  
  I hate them. It's not a real walkway, it's just people making their own and ruining the grass.
- You'll hate !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
  
  I hate it so much.

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