I'll just leave this here: https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
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Entertaining mess. Nine new borked clocks a minute. A couple readable.
I was assuming they saw the post here a couple of days ago and screenshotted or got the idea from there
I wonder if the issue is that AIs just have no idea how to draw a clock. Or, is it that they've been trained on papers where doctors talk about the various issues patients sometimes have when drawing clocks.
I suspect it's probably the first one. AIs seem to have a real problem with anything visually complicated. One of the easiest ways to spot AI slop is to look at the logos on t-shirts.
Ship it for beta testing
That might be a good thing for all the gen alphas who can't read a clock. There are a lot of them.
Ok boomer. No one uses sundials anymore either. /s.
Yeah but it's sad that you'll never appreciate the aesthetic of a good analog watch face. Every kid I see with a smartwatch uses a digital face.
i'm less concerned with the loss of an aesthetic and more concerned with a transformation around how time is perceived entirely. when we made the shift from sundials to 12 hour clocks, it was part of an industrial revolution that saw the workers go from taking life day by day with a greater degree of flexibility to highly regimented and dehumanizing subsegments of time. now we've gone from the largest unit of time we display being 12 hours to 1 hour. we feel a constant state of disconnection from the moments that got us to this moment and a lack of concern about the future moments as our environments are further degraded.
i'm less worried about millenials, gen z, and gen alpha not liking rolexes than i am about our constantly grinded down state of being. we percieve time differently than the generations that came before us and it makes us feel isolated and like everything is moving too fast. and much of the wisdom about how to transition from a colonial society to a post colonial society is to collectively slow down and i don't know how capable we are of that as we lose the slow sweeping hour hand displaying a fractional time rather than a number constantly climbing but always displaying an exact timestamp rather than a set of portions
These thoughts are way too deep for a silly meme thread, but I'm here for it! 🫡
There are computer science students who don’t know what a filesystem is.
It's the little kit that you use to curate your fingernails
or escape prison !
the iPad kids are entering college.
Only in the US 🤣
I've met some from asia and europe
When I see these generation-hating comments — specifically older generations hating on something the younger generations do — I can’t help but think about whose fault it is for whatever slight the older generation feels.
Who created digital clocks? Who created iPads and iPhones? Who created video games? Every single generation has their own slang that each previous generation fails to understand (not because it doesn’t make sense, but because the previous generations are too lazy and/or stubborn to learn).
/soapbox
I'm mostly talking about this entire comment thread and not just this comment, but what's with people on Lemmy and putting so much value on analogue clocks? I saw someone here a few weeks ago, who said that you couldn't be intelligent if you didn't know how to read a clock. I can read analogue clocks and I can understand why people like them, but digital clocks have their own advantages and I can absolutely understand people preferring them. It almost feels like a similar situation to 12 hour vs. 24 hour time, where people who use one system don't understand why they would want to use the other one.
I don't really 'see' analog or digital anymore, I've transcended that clock racism and now all I see is the format-agnostic bitstream.
Probably because they’re dead simple.
It’s not even about preference but about versatility and adaptability.
You don’t have to be prefer to use them, but being able to deal with the unexpected and figure out the unfamiliar is generally a sign of intelligence.
Plenty of people older than Gen Alpha very much prefer digital clocks too. I can read analog clocks but it takes me several seconds to convert it to digital time (which is how my brain thinks). As far as I'm concerned, analog clocks are a relic of the past and it's a good thing to abolish as many of them as possible.
but is it good that we think differently than prior generations thanks to the advent of the affordable digital clock in the 1970s? i think we lose something in that conversion that we might not be fully appraised of until the last analog clock is gone. a policy of elimination seems concerning to me because it presumes that a single perception is the superior perception rather than a different perception
What does that even mean...? If you know of something specific that is superior about analog compared to digital clocks, I'd like to hear it.
The main positives of an analog clock revolve around how it visualizes time time relative to other parts of the day.
When the hour hand is on 9, you can see at a glance it is two hours from 11 and three hours from 12 without needing to do the calculation in your head. When the hour hand is in the upper right, you know is it shortly after noon or midnight depending on how bright it is outside. When looking at the minute hand, if you see something started at 2:10 you don't need to remember the exact time, just where the minute hand was when you started and estimating being half or a third done until 3:10 is pretty easy. 15 minutes is easy to figure out because it is a quarter of the circle.
It conveys this at a glance without needing to focus so much on the exact hour or minute. Visualizing our time results in thinking about how we are using our time.
Like anything else, that doesn't make it superior in every situation and they suffered from constantly being out of sync with each other by a few minutes or seconds.
Let's set up a quick 2hr stand up zoom meeting with the department heads and their staff to SWOT this out. How's Dec 24th about 3pm work for everyone?
When the hour hand is on 9, you can see at a glance it is two hours from 11 and three hours from 12 without needing to do the calculation in your head.
I don't think most people need to do a mental calculation to know that 9 am is 3 hours from 12. That's just a fact that's easy to remember since you're exposed to it so often.
When the hour hand is in the upper right, you know is it shortly after noon or midnight depending on how bright it is outside
And when the digital clock says "1" or "2" you know it's either afternoon or the middle of the night. Even better, if you're using 24 hour time you know precisely if it's afternoon or early in the morning even if you're in an underground bunker.
When looking at the minute hand, if you see something started at 2:10
Yes... you can just remember the "minutes" part of the time on a digital clock was too.
15 minutes is easy to figure out because it is a quarter of the circle.
15 minutes is easy to figure out on a digital clock too because it's ultra simple math to just add or subtract 15 from a number below 60.
I'm imaging you dismissing the idea of a pie chart because obviously 8 is twice as large as 4 and knowing 8 is 2/3 of 12 is just a fact people know because they are exposed to it so often.
They tell you which way is clockwise.
i don't think one or the other is strictly superior. there's been a lot of scientific research (paywalled, thanks, academia, or i'd link it) about how this changes our perceptions of time. there is yet to be any study into how this change in perception changes anything or everything else. that is what i am worried about. jettisoning something potentially useful and turning it into a lost technology, on purpose, before we even know what the consequeces are
link to a summary popular science article to get anyone interested started
I've never liked them. It's a design that's like "give me a rough approximation of the time" vs. a digital clock that gives you the precise time. And, if all you want is a rough approximation of the time, a digital clock is still probably better because you just read the first few digits.
No there's not
QA passed boss. All KPIs are green lights. The customer will be thrilled boss.
(Manager hasn't been here long enough to recognize the sarcasm through the calm voice and dead eyes of the QA lead)
"Why do all these test runs say "skipping .."
"Oh, the tests are just excited to have the day off"
at first I thought PM was the pm in AM/PM
Agile Manager / Project Manager
Agile Meridian / Post Manager
I thought Prime Minister
Seconds hand does not show seconds.
Polling the API every second, are you crazy?!
When an API request fails, the seconds clock handle becomes red, and the time health management microservice sends an alert SMS to your phone once per second (scaled with the number of clients)
I keep trying, but the clock only displays 4:29.
What do?
Task for the next story. For now, just file a ticket and shove it up your manager's ass.
How will the system know when to poll the API if it doesn't know seconds?
It can just sleep(1);
What about showing birthdays? We need a birthday experience. We need to hire a birthday guy to build it fast.