Clock
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Give it a minute or so to see what happens...
[0] https://hackaday.com/2022/10/09/flip-segment-digital-clock-i...
https://github.com/JohannesNE/literature-clock/tree/master/d...
Here's another excerpt, this time from the novel "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway, that mentions the time 07:30:
"I woke up late in the morning. The sun was hot on my face, and I had a headache. I had been drunk the night before, but I remembered everything that had happened. I lay in bed for a while and listened to the sounds outside. There were birds singing in the trees and the sound of people walking on the street. I looked at my watch. It was 7:30. I got up and went to the window. The sky was blue and cloudless. It was going to be a hot day."
Prompt: Using literary references. State a quote that mentions the current time 9:54pm.
Answer: One literary reference that mentions the current time of 9:54 pm is from the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In Chapter 3, Nick Carraway, the narrator, says, "I looked at my watch and it was four o'clock. Gatsby's house was still empty when I left - the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine own and the air was thick with the sounds of the summer. By 9:54 pm, when the guests began to arrive, the air was alive with chatter and laughter, and the lights from Gatsby's mansion spilled out onto the lawn, illuminating the darkness with a warm glow."
That quote doesn't exist in this version https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-great-gatsby.pdf or this https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Do... (I just googled great gatsby pdfs).
Am I missing it? Or is the quote made up?
The second sentence is lifted from the beginning of one of the most famous last pages in all of literature.
I like the idea of this project, we need more semi-useless toys in our lives. I almost wish that every piece of software I use were customisable and themeable like Winamp. (or certain every-day objects ranging from fashion to gadgets to human skin via tattoos)
The handler triggering full screen (el.requestFullscreen) needs to be in the same call stack as a user interaction event. Same with triggering audio playback programmatically.
I'm actually using audio as a fallback to prevent the device from falling asleep (via nosleep.js, modern APIs do exist, but I don't trust Apple with PWAs).
I feel like it gives me more control over my time. I can get back to reality at my own pace.
Why I built it and how I use it: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/
Just... how.
[1]: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/111932
[2]: https://copy.sh/life/?gist=f3413564b1fa9c69f2bad4b0400b8090&...
It is a fun experience. You go in there with no instructions and no idea what is going on. You quickly figure out how you can interact with it and what is going on within that little world and try and make sense of it. Then you notice the title and try and piece that in with that model you've just created. And then you get to wonder if you are reading too much into it and it is just a fun little toy someone built or if there is some artistic story.
This is probably over-analysis, but it's interesting that so many people have the same reaction to this page.
If it were just names floating by using the same animation, it would have the same effect, I think.
Reminds me not to spend to much time on computers and be more present. I love it. Like a wake up alarm for life.
What if the time emerged from the depths of the scene already assembled, only to crumble to dust as its moment passes?
If you zone out a bit and watch, you can see each tick form the time and quickly collapse, drawing a parallel to the nervous ephemeral nature of life. Being able to get that feeling from a clock is pretty neat.
I feel as if there could be some profound metaphor there...
I apologize for being rude with my joke but their stuff (https://oimo.io/works) is so mind-blowing that I just want to let them do their thing and fully embrace their vision without external interference.
But I can understand the anxiety a lot of people seem to be feeling at this: I had (and have) a similar response to WaitButWhy's [Your Life in Weeks](https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html) post.
The English way is based on movement: we are moving forward into the future and our past is what we are leaving behind.
The Mandarin way is about knowledge: we can see the past (hence it is in front of our eyes) while we cannot know the future (as it is behind us.)
Language does affect thought, but apparently, in this case, speaking of not being able to see the future apparently doesn't preclude actively shaping it.
https://github.com/saharan/works/blob/main/clock/src/phys/Wo...
And by the looks of it, there is a description here: https://blog.oimo.io/2022/02/11/clock-core/
I'm not passionate enough to try and (machine-)translate it, even though I would've really liked to understand how you make collision handling work backwards (especially since the simulation clearly seems to have energy dissipation)...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566924
jfc, this one is absolutely fucking insane, reminds me of DMT:
"Ah, neat, but what am I missing?" I said before I figured out you could zoom.
Edit: Oh shit you can zoom out too.
Also, not sure if this is intentional or some ios specific bug/unintended feature, but you can do a quick 2-finger “zoom” motion, lift up your fingers, and it’ll keep zooming in at a constant speed. Then you can “steer” with one finger. It is mesmerizing.
https://oimo.io/works/water3d/
Cloth is very cool too.
Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart.
Nowadays, while still impressive, the technical mystery has faded somewhat. What's even more impressive to me though is the discipline, time and motivation management to deliver something of this caliber. Hats off!
Back when VRML was trying to be a thing, I suggested "they" stop wasting their time on uber nerdy games with arcane controller patterns, and just produce a 3D window manager with really nice transitions to use for ordinary desktop things.
Same but then I found the reload button. I think my daughter is going to enjoy that "jelly" a lot!
I assume there's a strong smash on hour and perhaps even day changes, but haven't had the time to observe it :)
* Really neat
* Makes me anxious; perhaps an option for one without seconds?Felt quite different as I stumbled upon this when it was 00:00:01.
I'd suggest a version that has shortish explosions every 30s or 1m, with the slow sliding forward thing, in-between explosions.
Works fine for me in Firefox for Android.
Expectable from the author of the recursive Life Universe https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/
I remember browsing Flash demos like this with all sorts of really neat effects, UI tidbits, etc.
Creating a little physics engine in AS3 was super fun. I never really got over how fun it was to write code like "this.parent.rm(this)"
Not sure if it's the same making demos like this, but it feels like it!
I especially love the jump animation every 10 seconds and the minutely(?) super jump.
Even after so many years, harmony is my favorite.
To be "extremely descriptive" it would need to describe it in enough detail to consider extreme (what kind of clock, what does it look like, how is it made, etc).
The current title is like calling a Rembrandt painting "Picture"; completely accurate, but hardly capturing its essence (nor "extremely descriptive").
I think the problem is that a lot of titles are neither accurate nor descriptive, and in that comparison “Clock” beats a lot of them as well as covering the essence of 75% of what you are going to be looking at.
If this had been described as “Time” that would’ve left you wondering.
This one is difficult because the page has no text and the mods usually don't want to make a title from thin air. "3D animated clock" may be good, but it may be hard to convince the mods to change it.
The guidelines ask to use the original title. The tag line or the subtitle is many times a good alternative. If the title is too bad, sometimes a representative sentence is OK, but not cherry picking too much.
The Astral thing is different: it's about announcing a commercial company, and not having spent time on crafting a good description that would appear in link aggregators like HN is their loss of opportunity and outreach. Good thing that posting and discussing it here uncovered the issue.
The reason that we have traffic jams at rush hour is that it is in each person's self interest to enter the highway, but as a collective it creates a greater negative for all than the benefit to the one (see economic negative externality). When you merge into a crowded highway, 1000 people behind you move back one car length; if you had the choice of waiting 1000 cars to enter (and for each of all the people in front of you and behind you) would you do it?
on HN people are endlessly interested in daylight savings, processor clock speeds, UTC, the year 2038 problem, etc. A whimsical clock could be considered a waste... of time, and would it really spoil the whimsy all that much for the whimsical minority?
In 2023 though there is more to a click than a simple HTML request, and while I do, not everyone has cheap and fast internet, or fast devices.