An astrolabe's tympan (from Latin for "drum") marks lines of constant altitude and bearing, given an observer's latitude. To change latitude, historical astronomers had to carry around multiple tympans, each corresponding to a different latitude.
Microcontrollers make things less cumbersome:
![A photocopy of an old Japanese newspaper. The image in the newspaper is of two Imperial Japanese Army officers, both holding swords. Below the photo is the caption:
The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun's news coverage of the contest on 13 December 1937. Mukai (left) and Noda (right). The bold headline reads, "'Incredible Record' [in the Contest to] Behead 100 People—Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wyc2gb4jb557bsrvgwbuu6ab/bafkreif2l2h4hxtj6yqyyz37acxasyw5voh7ejyfywlg6qzl4su2ciyrii)
![The unnamed soldiers who spoke to Haaretz said that the orders to kill anyone who enters the area applies to civilians, including children, and that soldiers compete to see who can shoot and kill the most number of Palestinians.
“We’re killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists,” one recently discharged officer from Division 252 told Haaretz.
“The [Israeli army’s] spokesperson’s announcements about casualty numbers have turned this into a competition between units,” he said. “If Division 99 kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wyc2gb4jb557bsrvgwbuu6ab/bafkreig4knpa7xaqd7pxa22r4vps4bhsj4g5p4mg5bw27rxqqs4ot3lk64)
![Tweet from @DropSiteNews:
Nancy Pelosi on Democrats & Arab-Americans:
“Joe Biden has been a friend of Israel, that’s for sure, but he has also been a friend of the Palestinian[s]. So the fact that [Harris] would pay a price for policies that were very pro-Palestinian is really sad.
But, death is sad.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wyc2gb4jb557bsrvgwbuu6ab/bafkreiflo2bpbxnmqhinvdf76smbcic66wazz44o43i3wrmjk3thln24dy)
