Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@mavica to me it sounds a bit like telling a person living on the streets "at least you don't have to pay council tax"

@trashyfins@chomp.life wait, really?! Why did I not know about this?!

@trashyfins@chomp.life I was never issued one in the first place!

I remember when "square" meant conventional, old-fashioned, and boring

the squarespace ads don't work on me, bring on, like, hipspace or something

@mavica @Nine I want dice now too!

nice little set of random number generators

@mavica

@mavica slightly complicated by the lack of a proper mouth but *affectionately headbutts the robot*

I want a like, d95 or something with all the printable ASCII characters on it

@InspectorCaracal is that the new trendy acronym for BODMAS?

(the answer, of course, is not now it isn't)

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@mavica it you! you're the personal digital assistant!

@mavica *wraps you in a nice blanket*

@mavica *hug computer*

@InspectorCaracal honestly not much, it's an obscure topic even for me

there's this website I found which has a lot of info about wadokei (the mechanical clocks that were developed that use this system) https://wadokei.org/

the seiko museum also has a couple of articles https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_07/ https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/relation_16/

@noelle @artsyhonker @amphetamine@slime.global THAT'S WHO IT WAS

I remembered that the traditional japanese system used something like this 'cause I've seen some neat clocks that do it but I knew there was another example and couldn't remember who it was

@artsyhonker that sounds a lot like the traditional japanese time system, 6 daytime units from sunrise to sunset, 6 nighttime units from sunset to sunrise, length of the units changing to match how much/little sun there is

in the Edo period clockmakers had a lot of fun making clocks that worked all that out

@Jo I know it would have been solved in five seconds flat if someone came over the tannoy and said "those blokes with guns support millwall"