Spyke
lemmy.world

I watched the new episode of "The Last of Us" yesterday, and they were praising one of the characters for being so smart and triangulating locations supposedly. She said she could do it faster if she had a protractor and all I could think was why wouldn't she just make one if she actually needed it. She's sitting there with paper and a pen.

Not sure why that bothered me at the time, but it bothers me that I let things like that bother me in movies/shows lol

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jlai.lu

How could she place precise angle marks on her DIY protractor if she doesn't have a protractor in the first place?

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That would be one way. Depends on how accurate you need. Could also wrap a piece of paper around your bean can, cut it to that length. Now you can mark 360 equal distant marks down the side, and rewrap around your bean can and trace it onto whatever object you want to make your protractor. But f that, 360 marks is to many, so fold the paper in 4, ignore the 3 sides and just do one, making just 90 degrees and you can duplicate it if you need after by rotating the can.. then say f that and realize 5 degree marks are more than enough, so make 18 marks, or 9 marks if 10 degrees is accurate enough for your estimates.

There are a number of ways to do it, but being that beans are in the meme, bean can method is what I'd run with for fun

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lemmy.world

Use a better search next time, like Bing or DuckDuckgo. googol sucks and was never any good.

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Tryin to move away from google. But ducksuckgo/bing search just kinda sucks too. Less relevent results. Though google quality is dropping like a ton of lead so we'll see how that ratio pans out in a few months.

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Alfredolinreply
sopuli.xyz

A search engine which, by default, shows me first two sponsored and therefore biased/straight wrong results, is very much shit. I hope for sure it is not "the best". But how would I know. I did not use googol in a while...

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Reminds me of a Simpsons joke:

Lisa: I'm studying for the math fair. If I win, I'll bring home a brand new protractor.

Homer: Too bad we don't live on a farm.

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Semicircle?

(We call it "semicírculo" in Spanish, had no idea how it was called in English)

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