Literally noone I know in real life has any problem whatsoever reading analog clocks, no matter the "brain capacity", neuro-typicality, state of drunkenness,... It is an extremely simple "skill".
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Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description
Because it's not! Glad to help you clear that up.
Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it's 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it's going to be to the full hour / to quarter past / ... ). Not saying you can't get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physicality of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition to this, I feel.
I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
Actually.. Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.
But hey, at least the acknowledge that there's the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.
Holy shit YES!
That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching
Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!
Oh wow, awesome!
Thank you for your sacrifice :D
While I don't like it, it's not hidden either:
https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html
There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it's just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined... Eh...
(Stirling also has something similar)
Prisoner Of War:
FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all...)