This article is everything I want the Internet to be: high quality contents and high interactivity so that the matter is more "palpable".
This is peak Internet, huge congrats to the author(s).
Mechanical Watch
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#282This may not be the most valuable comment, but my goodness, the quality of this writeup and it's interactive descriptions of complex mechanical components AND their interactions is radically impressive. The treatment of complex topics in deeply visual and partially interactive ways, for me at least, is a remarkably helpful way to learn.
True multimedia is a lost art. We had it back in the 90s when software came on discs and it was a high-density, polished product that combined text, audio, video, and interactive elements on the same page. The internet taking over turned everything back into text, and then as bandwidth grew the only thing we thought to use it on was higher and higher bitrate video. When I was a kid I thought the future was going to b…
>True multimedia is a lost art. We had it back in the 90s when software came on discs and it was a high-density, polished product that combined text, audio, video, and interactive elements on the same page.
This reminds me of Microsoft Encarta.
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#283There's something magical about mechanical watches. Maybe it's just knowing that you have this perpetually winding machine on your hand (in the case of "automatic" mechanical watches). Also knowing that the thing will last forever, take care of it and it will probably outlive you. Can't say that about an Apple Watch. If you want a good mechanical watch that won't break the bank I suggest picking up a Seiko SKX (thoug…
I've been using the same mechanical watch, more or less every day, for a little over 12yrs now. Miyota movement, stainless body, Sapphire window, about $300. In years of machine shop work the movement survived fine, and has one scratch on window from some tungsten carbide. Has kept brilliant time, maybe a minute a month, and taught me that my watch being accurate to the second was something that, for me, just didn't…
> I started working around pulsed high voltage last year (100kV+) and now it loses a couple minutes a week.
There are antimagnetic watches. Or you can use a cheap watch demagnetizer.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
People trying to make money is actually what drives rather a lot of the innovation that you enjoy every day. The “capitalism bad” trope is a tired one indeed.
nah, people trying to make enough money don't create Facebook. people trying to have enough to live comfortably don't create Amazon. monsters create those companies, and monsters grow them. growing larger and more profitable at any cost is called metastasis, and that's what's happening. lives get worse for most while the cancers grow and grow, almost unabated.
I'll add that if you work at a place like this, you are part of the problem. your votes do not absolve you.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy living crap. I was all with it up until I saw the actual full HTML example. That is an incredulous amount of overhead for what is essentially one of the most basic and fundamental operations in *GL. Comparing this to Canvas is almost like comparing assembly to C. I'm honestly very surprised.
Yup. This is why my crappy little 3D game engine still uses canvas and not WebGL. I can’t feel good about myself and deal with all that.
Neat, you do the math yourself and then render the tris/quads in canvas? I did something like that recently (in C/SDL, later RayLib). I found it amusing that to get performant 2D rendering you have to use a 3D API, so my "software rendered" 3D engine which just uses the gfx api for 2D draw calls ends up using 3D for the 2D under the hood...
There's at least one (great) game written like that though, Need for Madness with a custom 3D engine and just using java's 2D gfx api for rendering.
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#286Since everyone is appreciating the. writeup for details, comprehensive and animation done by author, I was thinking if there is any library/platform to build such tools/animations so that masses of teachers, who can write good content, can write and animate like this. This would really make learning experience impressive.
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#287Who had invented mechanical watches?
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be 100% honest I found it very intimidating to even begin reading it. It's such a time sink (no pun intended) and a huge wall of text (with figures and interactivity nonetheless).
I usually get about half way through his posts, see how much is left and just give up. Nonetheless I get a lot out of them.
The end was the best bit. I have seen good explanations of the escapement and timing gears before, but not of the crown adjuster mechanisms.
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A mechanical watch needs regular service which is usually just cleaning, lubricating, replacing seals and springs. Eventually it will need replacement parts and that is probably the end of life for the watch. There are a some brands that will service every watch they've ever made, fabricating new parts as needed. Few of us can afford one of those.
I have seiko automatic which kept great time when I first bought it, but not long after, it slipped off my wrist and fell on the tile floor. Since then it has been losing time but no so much as to be a huge problem. Would service easily fix this or is it just something to live with?
Seiko makes a huge range of watches so: it depends. If it's a cheaper one, just buy a new one. If it's a mid-range one, you can just buy a new movement for under $100 and toss it in with a few tools. Lots of tutorials on YouTube.
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#290This article is everything I want the Internet to be: high quality contents and high interactivity so that the matter is more "palpable". This is peak Internet, huge congrats to the author(s).
I have favorited just a handful of things on this site. TFA and another one on the same blog about internal combustion engines. Prepare to be wowed.