Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock
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Building a Super-Compact Cistercian Numerals Clock
Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, which [BigCrimping] used for their most recent project in the form of a rather unique clock.
The Cistercian numeral system was developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the 13th century, forming a rather unique counterpoint to the Arabic numeral system. Although Arabic numerals are already significantly more compact than Roman numerals, Cistercian numerals up the ante by being capable of displaying any number between 1 and 9,999 with a single glyph.
Although for a simple 24-hour clock you don’t need to use more than a fraction of the possible glyphs, there is the complication of the Cistercian numerals not having a zero glyph, but that invites an even better take. For the version that [BigCrimping] made there are namely two glyphs that encode date and time, with the left glyph a counter for blocks of two hours and the right for seconds from 1 through 7200.
The clock is based around MAX6969 LED drivers and an ESP32 MCU on a custom PCB, with the design files including the 3D-printed enclosure available in the repository.
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Giuli spende trenta milioni nostri per un Caravaggio....meloni urla anche stavolta?
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I enjoyed and appreciated reading this post.
"I realized almost immediately that GNU/Linux and FreeBSD were so similar they were completely different."
This right here.
My initial impression with #FreeBSD in 2006 was quite similar. Of course, #Linux back then was a much different beast than what it has evolved (mutated?) into today.
Had I not pursued Linux system administration as a career, I *probably* would have stuck with FreeBSD.
We can make all the technical comparisons between the two OSes all day long but what drove my interest and enthusiasm are (1) the documentation and (2) the community.
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@peacelink ma non sono riuscite ad evitare di sbavare mentre lo dicevano
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@stefano Don’t bother filing a bug report. They will act stupid. Probably they are stupid about it. They think it is a bug. Actually the author probably wrote a program he knew was not a solution to the problem but which he could do on deadline and which was good enough for his job at HP.
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@stefano Here is something new for you to be upset about, though, which affects everyone, Linux, BSD, illumos alike. I have been upset about it for over 20 years.
Read ‘man 5 fonts-conf’ or whatever your equivalent is. Read it carefully under ‘FONT MATCHING’. What it says is that a font is not chosen as you wished, but instead RANDOMLY. You are only LUCKY if you get the font you wished.
And if you experiment long enough you will find this is true.
Fontconfig is unfixable and must be scrapped.
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L'Ucraina ha sviluppato nuovi missili balistici FP-7, analoghi all'ATACMS, ma due volte meno costosi
I test si stanno muovendo verso una nuova fase, i missili saranno testati direttamente in attacchi in Russia
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E in omaggio la concessione decennale per l'uso di un pezzo di bosco demaniale.
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@quinta non solo lo fa, ma se ne vanta pure.
