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40 points by secretdark 2 days ago | 24 comments
franze 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Super Cool, Love it.

I love new clock designs, here is my try https://triclock.franzai.com/

vintagedave 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is really cool, even better than the post, IMO (sorry OP!)

One question: when the second hand resets from 60->0, it visually jerks as the triangle moves. After the smooth movement, gradients, the cool multicolour fill, it feels very odd. Any way of smoothing that one out? Animating the flip back to zero? I do understand it's a one-way line not a circle...

Thundernerd 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love the look of that! Really cool

seanhunter 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I love your clock btw.

secretdark 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.

setnone 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical

seanhunter 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is spectacular. Nice work.

testudovictoria 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.

jesse23 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wonder which language's number words produce the most scrambled day. Welsh might win — "un ar bymtheg" (16) is going to cause chaos.

verstandhandel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:

The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.

– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321

Flockster 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Great idea! I'd like to make a german version, since the two digit numbers are sorted differently. E.g. 34 is sorted vier(4)_und_dreißig(30).

addandsubtract 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.

comchangs 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.

zephyrwhimsy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have seen teams spend months fine-tuning retrieval algorithms when the real issue was that their ingestion pipeline was feeding HTML boilerplate into the vector store. Fix the input first.

perilunar 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically"

Why limit yourself? — make a 24-hour version and you have 86,400 possible times!

2020science 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)

maxeda 2 days ago | parent [-]

That reminded me of the existance of this page! https://clocks.brianmoore.com/

imrozim 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the combined mode sorting all 43,200 possible times alphabetically is the real commitment.eight comes before eleven so 8am hits before 11am alphabetically the day is completely scrambled genuinely useless and genuinely delightful.

addandsubtract 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).

asystemoffields 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Useless and delightful

JaredCampbell a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HATE :-)

aditmag 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Need this irl

iconicBark 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cool stuff!

as1as 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The clock is moving very dizzy, lol