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The Swiss and German railway clocks actually work the same way and stop for (half a?) second while the minute handle progresses.

https://youtu.be/wejbVtj4YR0


Station clocks in Switzerland receive a signal from a master clock each minute that advances the minute hand, the seconds hand moves completely independent from the minute hand. This allows them to sync to the minute.

> The station clocks in Switzerland are synchronised by receiving an electrical impulse from a central master clock at each full minute, advancing the minute hand by one minute. The second hand is driven by an electrical motor independent of the master clock. It takes only about 58.5 seconds to circle the face; then the hand pauses briefly at the top of the clock. It starts a new rotation as soon as it receives the next minute impulse from the master clock.[3] This movement is emulated in some of the licensed timepieces made by Mondaine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock


The video shows closer to 2 seconds for it to finally throw itself over in what could only be described as a "Thunk". I figured it would be a little more smooth.


Doesn't look like it:

> PlutoBook depends on the following external libraries:

> Required: cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fontconfig, expat, icu

> Optional: curl, turbojpeg, webp (enable additional features)


He doesn't either, does he? But he's great in outlining how to get to the point of having enough idea to go through with his project.


Correcting the number/date formatting will probably be the more challenging, yet still boring, Job, I guess.


Don't know much about corporate traffic usage, but at some cheap VPS place like Hetzner you get 20TB traffic per month included für less than 4€.

Seems like a lot of traffic to me, probably is next to nothing or would cost more.


I switched to doing most of the automation in power automate

This of course only works with exchange afaik, but why else would I use outlook.


The author of the software called it like that. Maybe quotes would still make sense.


It’s actually compressed. It uses https://github.com/nodeca/pako and then applies base64. Try entering hundreds of "a" and you’ll see that the base64 doesn’t really get much longer.


And if you live with a toddler, even those have to exist and are necessary for becoming a healthy being. At least if they are met with understanding by the parents.



Thanks! Couldn't find it in the sites metadata.


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