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Weasel

@futzle
Couldn't they manufacture them to blink at a time based on the bottom bits of their latitude/longitude? So that lights on the same building would blink nearly simultaneously, but lights on different buildings would blink at discernibly different times?

24 Aug 2023 at 4:11 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Deborah Pickett

@weaselx86 Thank goodness buildings are built on a grid 131072 to the degree! 🙃

But seriously, they are already made with customizable blink timing patterns, but the fact that you see entire cities blinking like one giant Christmas tree tells you how much this feature is being used.

24 Aug 2023 at 4:16 | Open on old.mermaid.town
Weasel

@futzle
Right, the lack of use of the customization is why I was looking for a manufacturing default that might accomplish the desired purpose.

Saying "bottom bits" was cavalier of the details; but the GPS has the location, and I'm confident it's possible to develop a location-based algorithm that could distinguish buildings reasonably well without requiring they be build on a grid. It seems like the manufacturers could improve the situation without cooperation from the field.

24 Aug 2023 at 4:35 | Open on mastodon.social
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