Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@envgen GIANT LEPUS!

(it's a big hare)

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology it does get surprisingly complicated

the theory is very well understood but taking that and applying it with other considerations like "keep it under Xmm thick" or "also we want a complication here" is a damn tricky job

a lot of brands take an off the shelf movement and just case it to keep costs down but at this level everything that can be developed in house is developed in house

@syrup the phrase "haha vibrator go brrrr" just popped into my head

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology this one's a new limited edition of one of their production models so the cost for them is probably amortised quite a bit

not to mention that they already have their archives of how to make something like this

but doing it from scratch? that'd be damn expensive

@suetanvil@mastodon.technology that's an incredibly hard question to answer

obviously they're... rather tight lipped about all that sort of thing

I know that for design you're looking at multiple millions of dollars for developing the movement (an often touted figure is at least a million for a simple time-only movement from scratch, this is vastly more complicated)

Actually making the thing you'll be paying high rates to people capable of doing that level of hand finishing and it'll be a lot of hours

@bonzoesc I'm gonna say vastly less

I mean, they're gonna be regulating the hell out of that movement but the F-91W is less than one second a day

Ooh, shiny

Yep, those are onyx globes, the right one with indices so you can see what time it is in half the world, the left one the constellations currently above you

And that is indeed a tourbillon down there at the bottom

Aaaand... it costs about a quarter million euros

I'm not buying one because the 47mm case is a bit too big for me, yeah, that's the reason, just a little too big, no other reason

@mavica I'd be inclined towards more capacity personally

games be big these days

@evie tiktok brought to you by... walmart?

yeah, screw it, it's 2020

@cassolotl I just chucked Meeus' work into spreadsheet form really

If you find a copy of his Astronomical Algorithms (by say, following this link http://www.agopax.it/Libri_astronomia/pdf/Astronomical%20Algorithms.pdf ) there's a whole bunch of techniques for calculating lots of stuff like this, don't know which ones would be helpful for paganism but it's worth a look through

@cassolotl there's a lot of magic numbers in there and Meeus don't explain shit but it works

@cassolotl I know you didn't mean to but this nerd sniped me hard

Here's a spreadsheet that works out which day the solstice/equinox falls on for a given year, feel free to nick it wholesale

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p7_mpGG0A4V8Srnn_6LloW0OeyMfIuQlNvwh2qKqBpk/edit?usp=sharing

It's using an algorithm from Meeus' Astronomical Algorithms, it'll be accurate for the next thousand years, accurate enough for a few centuries past then

In Ireland, a man called "Prawo Jazdy" racked up over 50 driving offences

Nobody could work out how he was getting away with this until the Irish police made a startling discovery

That "Prawo Jazdy" was Polish for "Driving License" and a load of Irish cops were reading IDs wrong

Polish and Irish driving licenses both have the exact same format

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go camping and pitch their tent under the stars. During the night, Holmes wakes his companion and says: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

Watson says: I see millions of stars, and even if a few of those have planets it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.

Holmes replies: Watson, you idiot. Somebody stole our tent.

I hope they are anyway

there's only so much bronze and forest green you can look at

I think bold colours might be very in this year

4 new versions of the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi TravelTec in blue, green, yellow, and orange that have just been announced

These look kinda interesting, the Breitling Endurance Pro

Thermocompensated SuperQuartz movements, COSC rated, case made out of something called Breitlight (your guess is as good as mine), compass bezels, and a pulsometer scale

Comes in 5 different colours, you know I'm a sucker for orange

@InspectorCaracal @Waces I mean yeah, that as well, but some of the phrasing gives me the vibe that they're not only doing that

@Waces I wonder if it's a translation thing?

I've not been able to find anything going chinese-english (because I can't speak chinese) but I've found advice for going english-chinese that when naming your products it can be easier to do feature-based translation rather than try to translate the brand name

so in the example I found "Abbott Healthcare’s glucose test strips, FreeStyle Precision Xtra" is translated to something along the lines of "help care well better model glucose machine"