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0 pointsFeistySkink3y ago0 comments

How does that work? What are these watches optimized for then?

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daveloyall3y ago· 1 in thread

I think the commenter means that mechanical watches don't keep time as well as digital watches. So, I guess they are optimized for mechanical beauty instead of timekeeping.

FeistySkinkOP3y ago

That you never see? So a piece of software might be amazingly-engineered but doesn't do the main function well - is that the analogy?

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