Yeah. I have no evidence that this system invented those shortcuts, they may predate it by quite a bit

When we allow aparthied states to comnit genocidal acts without protest, we signal that other countries should not interfere should our own state turn to aparthied and genocide.

Its either ok for no one or its ok for everyone

Clicked expecting Noodle. It was Noodle.

In the Speedwriting shorthand system, developed in 1924 for use with typewriter, / Is used to denote omitted sylables, so ‘with’ becomes w/ and ‘without’ becomes w/o. Here is a pretty deep guide on the precepts of Speedwriting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Classic_Speedwriting/wiki/list108/

Its been the standard in Europe also. This has been changing, but only recently.

Yes, it is still a quartz watch. The oscillator is still a quartz oscillator. However the mechanism which advances the second hand is replaced with onethat does not need to tick.

The kind of quartz watch is no longer a ticking quartz watch, it is a non-ticking quartz watch.

As for the specific wording of the article, I would assume the authoris not fully versed in partsof quartz watches, and does not know that the oscillator which keeps time is different from the stepping motor which moves the hands.

This invention targets only replacing the stepping motor, not the oscillator.

Thats exactly the proposition. Eliminate tifking quartz watches in favor of non-ticking quartz watches.

Say goodbye to the quartz watches that do tick replace them with ones that do not tick

French innovator aims to consign ticking quartz watches to history

The ‘ticking’ is what is being consigned to history. The article is about an alternative to ‘ticking quartz watches’, a non-ticking quartz watch

Its the ‘ticking’ part of ticking quartz

I generally use ‘USican’, pronounced yoo-ess-ican. Every seemseto understand me.

Edit: this may be the most controversial thing i’ve said on lemmy.

Programing is a lot less important than people and team dynamics

10 microns is .4 thou, about the width of a cotton fiber. Its possible to machine those tolerances, but very time consuming as machine maintainance steps up. Its also small enough that the thermal expansion of the sheets will be larger than that

If a person thinks more people should see an unpopular opinion, they snould upvote it. Theres no karma here. The function of up and down vote is promotion or relegation.

An upvote means that the content should be shared, a downvote means it should not.

in computer science, we talk about a mathematical construct called a machine. Different kinds of machines can solve different problems, and the turing machine is the most powerful. It can solve any problem that can be solved by a machine.

Turing machines operate one step at a time, with each step taking the same amount of time. The total number of steps it takes to solve a problem is the time, of that machine.

Some problems have a fixed number of inputs, like “list all the states”. These machines have a fixed time. We call this constant time.

Others can have a variable number of inputs, like add up an arbitrary list of numbers. The longer the list is, the longer this takes.

An interesting, and important question is, how fast does the time of a machine go up as we add more inputs?

There are to major groups: the machines were the time goes up in a polynomial way (called P) and the ones were it goes up faster (called NP for non-polynomial). This means, for some machines, you can describe the time with an equation like time=inputs^n where n is any number.

A conjecture is that actually, all problems (that can be solved ) have a machine that can do in P time, thus all NP problems are actually P problems if we find the right machine.

This is important because much of our secret codes and other inportant things that we use today rely on those NP problems, which are really hard to solve. But if it turns out that they are P problems after all, there can be easy solutions.