

The amount of spontaneous wittiness and organisational discipline that would have required is unfortunately way beyond my capabilities.
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The amount of spontaneous wittiness and organisational discipline that would have required is unfortunately way beyond my capabilities.
Pretty sure there’s a lesson to be learned through that, too.
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Ich hoffe die Pointe funktioniert auch zwei mal ;).
If you ask what is 257 time 389 I can give you an answer in a split second. 4809!!
So awesome! Would you like some billion dollars venture capital?
64 bits please. We don’t want a year 2038 problem.
I hope they included that information on the cover of the Voyager golden record in case aliens want to understand our numbers.
My thought as well, but alas, this is what my dad’s looks like 🤷. Illustrates the point even better though, kind of.
Man könnte fast meinen, dass der praktische Nutzen nicht das allerwichtigste Kriterium beim Design von den Dingern war.
imho, the “seconds” bits are neat because you can see things change… Like, you see that it does stuff. Like the “seconds” hand on an analogue clock, it’s mostly practical to see that it’s working as expected.
Yeah, what kind of idiot needs repeating patterns in the time format for repeating times during a day? Just display the unix timestamp on the clock tower and be done with it.
Actually, having 64 bits arranged vertically on a tower seems neat.
If that obfuscated something, it wasn’t on purpose… it’s just literally the clock in my dad’s kitchen.
… and those who know at base n, “10” can represent literally any number.
If those are still attached to a human it is usually beyond a drone’s payload though, so that’s harder to… pull off.