How a quartz watch works - its heart beats 32,768 times a second
8.9M views · May 23, 2019 · Science & Technology
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@SteveMould · 7 years ago · pinned
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@adenintriphosphat520 · 7 years ago
You don't have to explain what a flip flop is, I'm a redstone engineer
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@HolyManta · 6 years ago
He actually chained flipflops together for that joke, what a hero
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@Sparkette · 5 years ago
"I've actually got a redundant flip-flop here. You don't need 15; you need 14. That was my mistake; that's called an off-by-one error."<br>- Steve, as he holds the leftmost flip-flop in a chain of 16
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@marc-andreservant201 · 3 years ago
A quartz watch is often significantly more accurate than a second per day. But the clock in your car is also a quartz clock, and you've likely noticed that they must be adjusted often. The reason is that you're wearing the crystal on your wrist which has a constant temperature. Your car gets hot and cold depending on the weather, and the crystal's thermal expansion changes its vibration frequency.
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@0xZ0F · 7 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2By2ane2I4&t=833">13:53</a> You do need 15 flip flops and you had 16 hung up. You buy flip flops in pairs :)
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@Zli-x4y · 6 years ago
"I am not going to explain what a flip flop is", proceed to provide the best explanation I have every heard.
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@FiddyBee · 7 years ago
He actually made a flip flop chain. Here good sir, have my like.
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@johnviera3884 · 11 months ago (edited)
fifteen flip-flops was the name of my college band. Eight members one guy was missing a foot
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@aaronschocke5463 · 5 years ago (edited)
"That's called an 'off by one' error. Happens a lot in programming."<br><br><b>throws headphones</b><br><b>screams in C#</b>
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@NoOne-fe3gc · 7 years ago
Steve: "That's called an off by one error, happens a lot in programming"<br>Me, a programmer: <b>vietnam flashbacks</b>
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@boggybolt6782 · 7 years ago
Minecraft redstone taught me what a "flip-flop" circuit is.
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