@pabloniusmonk@mastodon.socialThinking about giving up the smartwatch...
How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less 
An analog clock gives you just enough information to keep you tethered to the world without overwhelming you.
I haven't been thinking about it for decades, but I just got reminded of the existence of Swatch internet time, which was supposed to provide a unified way of reckoning time across the globe. In decimal time, no less. There were 1000 beats in a day, making a beat a beat about 87 seconds long.
I liked that idea, but it was always marred by being a company thing (introduced by watch manufacturer Swatch), making wide adoption unlikely from the start.
#stem #science #technology #engineering #time #internet #hero #Michigan
Here's the guy you can thank for having a clock on every Internet connected device that doesn't just blink 12:00 forever
Funny that this image can never be a real clock image no matter how you observe it.
Does not matter if upside down, or mirror image.
Does not matter if you are the clock observing the hands moving counter-clockwise.
It will never appear that way.
Says here that Alex Mayer, #Labour #MP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, has called for a “major overhaul of #time”. I'm not sure mere MP can do that...
#DoctorWho
https://news.stv.tv/world/why-do-the-clocks-go-forward-and-what-impact-does-it-have-on-your-health
Hacker News @ycombinator@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.comShow HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git
https://doocot.sh/blog/2025/03/28/time-tracking-with-git
#ycombinator #git #developer #time #tracking #agile #scrum
The Nazis were smart enough to keep their camps out of public view. These turds are proud of theirs.
#free #speech #jail #time #fascist #USA #PresidentMusk #Constitutional #Crisis #defy #federal #judge #oopsie #rubio #arrest #charge #incarcerate #OurPutin #impeach #remove #dictator #Nazi #TeslaTakedown #Swasticar #White #House #car #dealership #concentration #camps #photo #op #dog #killer #KristiNoem #fascism #ChristoFascism
A rare cosmic phenomenon called an #Einstein ring.
There are two galaxies, separated by a large distance. The foreground galaxy is at the center, while the background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring.
The light from the more distant object is bent about a massive intermediate object because #spacetime, the fabric of the #Universe itself, is bent by mass, and therefore light travelling through #space and #time is bent as well.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/03/Webb_spies_a_spiral_through_a_cosmic_lens
In the countryside, there are rituals that have endured for hundreds of years, unchanged.
This elderly woman, her body bent by time and hard work, walks each day to meet her chickens - who roam freely across a vast open space.
She gathers a few branches and leaves, then returns to fetch the food she’ll give them, to complement what they’ve already foraged in nature.
The chickens, friendly and orderly, follow her all the while.
And watching them, I’m reminded of people who are no longer here - people who were part of my life for a long time, who lived those same rituals, even if hundreds of kilometers away.
Even as everything around us changes, there are places that never do.
Good morning. 
24 March 2025
Nowadays, I often lose track of time. Oh, I know time has passed, but events often feel more recent than they actually are. In a way, they are relatively recent. For example, when I was 10, a year ago was 1/10th of my life; when I was 20, it was 1/20th, and so on. Now, a year represents only 1/72nd of my life. I recently built myself a new computer with all the bells and whistles, but I find myself thinking that I just put it together—whether it was a year, two years ago, or even three. What once felt like a long time ago now seems like it just happened. I think what I’m describing is called the proportional theory of time.
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"...what if we really did do the work to create a world where the sisters of Shakespeare and Mozart, or any woman, really, could thrive?"
On women's lack of uninterupted time for focus and creatieve work. For "flow".
This essay is so true it hurts.
This post typed with 4 interruptions.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/woman-greatest-enemy-lack-of-time-themselves
This Time story by photographer Philip Holsinger describes what the Venezuelans faced when arriving in El Salvador.
"Holding my camera, it was as if I watched them become ghosts."
Imagine that it is you or one of your family members.
Kidnapped from the street, no criminal record, no process, moved to a for-profit working prison in a foreign country.
For the rest of your life?
https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/
#Holsinger #Time #ElSalvador #Prison #Slavery #Deportation
@pustam_egr@mathstodon.xyzThe Fourier Transform is a mathematical operation that transforms a function of time (or space) into a function of frequency. It decomposes a complex signal into its constituent sinusoidal components, each with a specific frequency, amplitude, and phase. This is particularly useful in many fields, such as signal processing, physics, and engineering, because it allows for analysing the frequency characteristics of signals. The Fourier Transform provides a bridge between the time and frequency domains, enabling the analysis and manipulation of signals in more intuitive and computationally efficient ways. The result of applying a Fourier Transform is often represented as a spectrum, showing how much of each frequency is present in the original signal.
\[\Large\boxed{\boxed{\widehat{f}(\xi) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x)\ e^{-i 2\pi \xi x}\,\mathrm dx, \quad \forall\xi \in \mathbb{R}.}}\]
Inverse Fourier Transform:
\[\Large\boxed{\boxed{ f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \widehat f(\xi)\ e^{i 2 \pi \xi x}\,\mathrm d\xi,\quad \forall x \in \mathbb R.}}\]
The equation allows us to listen to mp3s today. Digital Music Couldn’t Exist Without the Fourier Transform: http://bit.ly/22kbNfi
Did you know that how we experience time is not obvious?
In 1962, explorer Michel Siffre descended 130m underground. He had no #time cues with him.
He repeated the exercise several times with other people.
He discovered that with the absence of light, humans adjust to a 48h (instead of 24h) time cycle.
He had been inspired by #space travel & #astronauts confirmed his findings.
His last expedition covered New Year's Eve 2000, but he overslept by 4 days.
@IGVazquez@vivaldi.netHow to Change Date, Time, and Timezone in Debian
https://linuxways.net/debian/how-to-change-date-time-and-timezone-in-debian-10/
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