Physics books are a classic

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still more accurate than “assume spherical cow”

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• gressen@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s already a step up from a spherical chicken in vacuum.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Spherical chicken isn’t an approximation tho

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hangry birds

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i mean yeah give or take

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• Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is more like a video game developer 😁

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like the time that one game didn’t want to implement a separate train system, so trains are implemented as a huge hat that a NPC wears while going underground on the rails.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      From what I’ve seen commented in the past, that was Fallout. I think New Vegas?

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean if you look from far enough (usually either the sun or the moon), you can also assume it is a point

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ok, consider it done.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dropped my cylinder off the side of a mountain may I have another

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As opposed to a non-circular cylinder?

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    elyptical cylinders exist

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Huh, I’d considered “prism” to be the general and “cylinder” to be specifically circular, but apparently cylinder is general. Go figure.

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