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Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

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    Really? I never knew any of them were synchronized, that's cool if so. I seem to remember us pulling them off the wall at our schools and changing them twice a year or replacing the batteries. Having them wired with synchronization may be overboard, but it is kind of cool

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    Yep. The schools I went to had synchronized analog clocks. They would all β€œadjust” together if they were off at all. Some kind of clockwork solenoid.

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      At what point is it not just a digital clock with an analog interface if it has the ability to receive information digitally and perform tasks off of it. (I assume increase/decrease voltage to the motor).

      Unless maybe that's how they do it, put all the clocks on an individual power source, then manipulate the current to increase/decrease the speed of the motors so they all move synchronized... Idk, cool concept though. Not sure how you would overcome the loss in varying distance of the clocks though.. it's possible but a lot of planning

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      Its the Hertz of ac current that comteols timing. But that's just how it counts the seconds not how it would tell if it is noon. But its uses analog electricity to keep time and maybe a digital comand to set time. Does make it digital or analog?

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        u

        *you

        analog

        *analogue

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        Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don't have an argument anymore lol

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        • sommerset@thelemmy.clubS [email protected]

          Analog clocks are just annoying, I support this change. Also let's change format to 24hr format

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          AND PLEASE STOP CHANGING IT EVERY SIX MONTHS!!!!!

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          • L [email protected]

            If I'm honest with myself my handwriting was always shit. If I was writing you a letter you'd be able to read it, but taking notes in college was all but useless for me. The speed at which you would have to write left me unable to find any of it legible so I was able to take in more information by just sitting down and listening/watching instead of scrambling to figure out what they were talking about now after I wrote down whatever I thought was important prior to that. Professors write fast because they do it all the time, and the amount of time it would take me to read then write what they wrote would overlap the time they spent over the next 15 seconds telling you why it was important. If I wrote down why it's important I'm behind on the next bit of information and scrambling. When a professor posted their notes online so I could review it that way it was so much easier for me. (Makes note taking way easier)

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            What's interesting about this is that we are not taught how to take notes. People used to have classes that taught what is actually a complicated skill. I have gone through enough schooling that my note taking just happens without much thought, but it took me real effort to get there.

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              It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.

              Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).

              But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.

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                Maybe it's because everyone has a clock in their pocket? One that is accurate and doesn't need batteries changed or altered twice a year

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                • remembertheapollo_@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                  Yep. The schools I went to had synchronized analog clocks. They would all β€œadjust” together if they were off at all. Some kind of clockwork solenoid.

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                  Yes I remember sometimes they would remotely adjust our clocks and you could see the hands moving quickly until they stopped in their intended position. Pretty genius for the old days.

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                  • juliebean@lemmy.zipJ [email protected]

                    Its also cool to just be able to build a physical mechanism which digital clocks have no real feasible option to do

                    i am delighted to be able to introduce you to flip clocks.

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                    I would rather learn how to build an analog clock. In the olden days clock makers were highly respected & incredibly intelligent, it's quite an intellectual & mechanical art & science & craft to build an analog clock.

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                      Why are you so adamant that reading is required at all? You could just watch ticktock instead after all.

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                      πŸ™‚

                      Edit: you didn't answer my question, by the way

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                      • L [email protected]

                        Really? I never knew any of them were synchronized, that's cool if so. I seem to remember us pulling them off the wall at our schools and changing them twice a year or replacing the batteries. Having them wired with synchronization may be overboard, but it is kind of cool

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                        All my schools had them. Sometimes you'd catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn't rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.

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                          What's interesting about this is that we are not taught how to take notes. People used to have classes that taught what is actually a complicated skill. I have gone through enough schooling that my note taking just happens without much thought, but it took me real effort to get there.

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                          I had a couple teachers try to spend a single class about note taking but I think note taking is different for everyone, much like learning styles. Telling someone to skip a,b, and ,c and just write d because they view it as the important information only works for people who think exactly how they think. So I would try something like that and would end up with.

                          1974 - congress - didn't pass till 1980.

                          That means nothing to someone unless they know more context, which the context clues in my experience are tied to someone's individual thought processes. In this case it would be mentions of maybe reconciliation process, simple majority, and budget. But for others it could be other things.

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                          • joel_feila@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                            Its the Hertz of ac current that comteols timing. But that's just how it counts the seconds not how it would tell if it is noon. But its uses analog electricity to keep time and maybe a digital comand to set time. Does make it digital or analog?

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                            I was thinking if you had a set voltage and resistance you could hold a certain rpm for the motor going to the gears. Then if you needed to adjust it you could stop the current by dialing down the voltage or possibly increase the analog dial to increase the voltage and make the clocks motors all spin faster until you reached the desired time and dial it back to standard voltage. But you would have loss over distance in the wire unless you made them all the max length needed, and coiled them to make them all the "same length" from dial to clock.

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                              Are you from the US? I'm completely amazed that there are counties we you are almost never exposed to analog clocks. I'm from Europe and analog clocks are everywhere. Every train station, public buildings, churches, clock towers, homes, wrist watches. Heck we even have tons of (but more because of esthetics instead of serious time keeping) sun dials on walls (which the analog clock and the clock wise direction is based on - for the north hemisphere).
                              Many appliances/devices have digital clocks but that's not because the are more modern/better but because they are way cheaper to produce and have less moving parts.

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                              I'm from the US, but I'm currently a teacher in South America. Kids here are even worse at reading analog clocks than my students in the US were.

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                                Teacher here.

                                I'm pretty certain that the only place where my students ever encounter an analog clock is at school.

                                What the actual fuck? Are you not using wrist watches at all at whatever US hole you are a teacher at? Because most of these are analogue.

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                                Not currently teaching in a "US hole." I've been teaching in South America for 5 years and I have never noticed an analog clock in a public place here.

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                                • bananaisaberry@lemmy.zipB [email protected]

                                  That might actually be a perfect example of mental gymnastics. What a strange justification of just liking something.

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                                  I mean, not really. He knows analog clocks well enough that the hand position just inherently means something to him. Afternoon, and the little hand is almost halfway? Work day done! Just by position.

                                  Somewhat analagous: I know how far a meter and a kilometer are, in principle, but when I consider distances I more intuitively understand them in feet and miles. It's what I'm used to.

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                                    It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.

                                    Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).

                                    But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.

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                                    I'm old af and I still have to think about it

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                                    • W [email protected]

                                      24h analog clocks exist but they are pretty useless because you lose angular resolution. So unless you are a vampire that's up 24/7 a 12 hour wall clock has better angular resolution than a clock with 33% wasted area you'll never use/see because you are asleep

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                                      what's angular resolution now πŸ˜­πŸ˜­πŸ˜­πŸ’”πŸ’”

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                                        What was scribbled out of this screenshot with black lines, and why was it scribbled out?

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                                        • joel_feila@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                                          I remember getting a compliment more then once jn school. I was good t talong what i learned in once class and applying it to another

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                                          wait analog is outdated?? what do you mean?? What else do people wear on their wrist?? some dystopian world your living in

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