Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/806/

It does make sense though (once you know where it comes from):

Before the ubiquity of watches, time was announced using church clocks and bell strikes. There's a big bell for hours (low pitch) and a smaller one for announcing quarters (higher pitch).

Signalling zero is not possible using "zero bell strikes", so 00:00 is signalled by 4 strikes of the quarters bell and 12 strikes of the hour bell.

Thus, the sequences go like:

11:15 1x quarter bell

11:30 2x quarter bell

11:45 3x quarter bell

12:00 4x quarter bell + 1x hour bell

Basically it makes sense then as all the quarters belong to the same hour.

I have used those time expressions for over 55 years. Never thought about the explanation.

Yes. The other explanation is that time is nothing special, it gets just counted like everything else. You wouldn't say it's a quarter to a full cake either.

If we follow your argument, the number 3.25 would be read "point two five to four" istead of "three point two five". Which is to say, the fact that the quarters are mentioned in connection to the next hour, not the previous one, is indeed unusual.

Quarters are named by the hour they are in, neither the one previous or after. The hour number four of the day starts at 3:01 (or 3:00:01 with precision in seconds) and is complete by 4:00, it's the same mistake that people make with centuries.

'dreiviertel Vier' is short for 'dreiviertel der vierten Stunde des Tages'.

That and the professional gear is optimized for operational speed (e.g. a glassware dishwasher that has a 10min cycle for a bar. Guess how much water/electricity it needs).

Aard2 for Android exists since at least 2015:

https://f-droid.org/packages/itkach.aard2

I have many current and old dumps and can switch between a few years. Very nice in case of deleted articles or to check old time stamped versions. It also supports more than just Wikipedia like wikiquote or wikivoyage or cooking wiki. You can compile own mediawikis too

Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?

That's not how bamboo works though. It is hollow and needs to be processed into larger blocks

Src please

Is there more information on this?

I dont think one could reason that. Maybe some insight: The author is an engineer and had worked at Google and published the Goomics strip internally. It is also available at https://goomics.net/62

PS: Later he worked at Twitter and commented that also: https://twittoons.com/

There's another thing not mentioned. From the payload it looks like one may be able to spoof other customers' sensors by altering the serial (maybe it's a contiguous number) and replay the request. Heck, it is just one "curl -X PUT -d ..." command away, the info is all in the article

The S in IoT stands for security.