Comment on Clock logic

Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sundials also didn’t work very well at midnight for some reason, what’s ya point?

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re just not holding the flashlight properly.

    If you hold the flashlight right they work 100% of the time.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear, I think my fleshlight is broken…

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      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dial it back a bit son

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s why for a long time, and even longer in the Royal Navy, the new day started at noon and not midnight.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sundials also didn’t work very well at midnight for some reason, what’s ya point?

    Noon is the center of the dial. Midnight is just the opposite of noon.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. This is peak Poe’s Law.

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• naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Precluded” means “prevented” or to “make impossible” ❤️

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• exothermic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well… This post sent me down a rabbit hole -> Unequal Hours if anyone else is curious.

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s all the Babylonians fault

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those fuckers could count to 60 on their fingers. Witchcraft!

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Using binary, we could count to 1023 with 10 fingers but only 511 with 9 fingers

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      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Boys could count to 2047.

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• hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  precluded

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