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[–] merde 135 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I found myself down a YouTube rabbit hole once of people one-upping each other by making segmented displays with fewer and fewer segments and seeing who could use the least and still have it be decipherable for all numbers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minimum is 4 for ten digits

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a smaller subset that challenged themselves with 3 segment displays for 0-6

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got a link to anything about that? I'd love to check it out but am having trouble finding anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's one I had in my YouTube history
I like the top comment here

at this point it's honestly easier to read a row of leds displaying the number in binary

I found another one but I feel like it's cheating since one of the segments is divided into two parts that light together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! They're terrible, but it gets the juices flowing ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only with a rectangular 8. Doesn’t work for a ‘real’ 8. This solves that issue.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Except you have to turn the thing on its head for some numbers which I consider a worse tradeoff.

[–] merde 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

watch the video linked in another comment. There are circle based 7 segment displays, if you realy need those curves.

i can see from how you did 'real' that 8, that i don't need to remind you that there are no real 🖐️✌️🖕 :)

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[–] pastermil 2 points 1 year ago

This. Wake up, people!

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a 7 segments display?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I thought about that too

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I argue that when presented with 9 normal looking numbers, the o is not an acceptable alternative to 0

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So many fonts just do whatever to be different and stand out from the crowd, but all it does is making it easier to avoid them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just looks like a lowercase 0. Lowercase digits often look better anyway.

[–] norawibb 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look up lowercase digits in your typography manual and be enlightened. And also start making nicer documents.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't give New Years party glasses manufacturers any more ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They won't do it because they can only sell them once

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can make every digit 0-9 with a boxy 8. Look at any 7 segment display.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/RTB5XhjbgZA

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip for if you need to scratch out sensitive penned down text: don't scratch it out, it'll still be readable. Instead write other similar numbers and letters over it. Have a 9? Write a p over it, then use the circle for the bottom of an 8, then write a B over the p.. it'll be impossible to discern what the original letter or number was. Do this for all letters and you're good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL dban exists for physical media.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle 2 points 1 year ago

I find setting fire to said sensitive text is usually pretty effective.

If that's not enough, separating the ashes and sending them to different continents works pretty well too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Straight up this is exactly what came to .ind for me as well

It's a great watch for those that haven't BTW, I'd recommend it if you're curious

[–] merde 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a great watch for those that haven't BTW, I'd recommend it if you're curious

thanks for the link. it's a pleasure to watch "if you're curious"

it's a very interesting channel

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want a clock that illuminates like this, but I guess it'd need to be able to flip to really do it with just a 4 and 8.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It wouldn't need to flip if you just make a symmetrical upsidedown 4 on the topside of the 8.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never write 4 that way, though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me neither. I also cross my 7's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Funny, I do box top 4's but don't cross my 7's

My 9's also have a tail pointing straight down though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Its 11 1234567890s