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Not sure if it counts as building something concrete (I have been programming commercially for ~20 years so I'm pretty sure there's something if I dig) but does Stack Overflow impact count? I have over 6,000 answers posted and a calculated reach/impact of over 50 million people. That sometimes makes me smile and feel that I have contributed something.
In high school I started a private torrent tracker with open source projects. At the time I was pretty new to programming and was gluing things together and slowly after years I started getting a lot of traffic. I was getting good at programming as well, forked the project multiple features addition, dedicated servers and just doing it all.
It used get a daily 1 million visits with 4-5k unique visits every day and slowly we breached the top 25 websites in our country and somewhere around under ~10k in Alexa ranking. But that's when things started getting a bit heated, I had to be more cautious about my footprint and what started something as hobby consuming a lot of my energy.
I really liked it but the fact that I couldn't talk or share about it to anyone was a bummer. I just had it, made a lot of money while I was in school blew it all up quickly but only a handful of irl people knew.
Probably the thing I feel best about is the museum I made with my son that educates people about how older versions of websites, operating systems, and apps used to look: https://www.versionmuseum.com/ I don't want people to forget our "technology heritage," if that makes sense.
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Just a guess, but it might have something to do with whether the brain is able to be saved vs. just the body.
yes but why wouldn't you try regardless of knowing? In the time you spend gathering temp data, you could already be reviving
> Various degrees of hypothermia may be deliberately induced in medicine for purposes of treatment of brain injury, or lowering metabolism so that total brain ischemia can be tolerated for a short time. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is a medical technique in which the brain is cooled as low as 10 °C, which allows the heart to be stopped and blood pressure to be lowered to zero, for the treatment of aneurysms and other circulatory problems that do not tolerate arterial pressure or blood flow. The time limit for this technique, as also for accidental arrest in ice water (which internal temperatures may drop to as low as 15 °C), is about one hour.[84]
Also you can't just warm the body back to 38 degrees, it should be carefully brought up AFAIK.
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Your experience needs to be documented for history. Seriously. The people, personalities, the development setups, the day to day creation - all that is of keen interest to millions.
I'll write it up.
For some people the most impactful thing they have done in life is create something that makes obscene amounts of money. I designed and built nanoshelters.com to help homeless people secure uninterrupted sleep. I should be worth more than most of you 'money is god' programmers but we live in a world that values how you much money you make rather than how you treat other humans.
sleep in ze pod, eat ze bugs
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But at the same time, my personal websites and videos have had a pretty big impact too, with a fair few of the latter reaching over a million views, and a few articles on the former getting covered by all kinds of news publications and getting a good number of views there too.
So it's hard to be sure.
I built and launched corona.help in January 2020. Almost nobody expected a pandemic, but somehow I thought it was possible and decided to centralize all Covid cases. Just 2 months later it had over 5 million users daily. Eventually Google and other huge companies started doing the same thing and users tanked.