Arduino Death Clock
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Arduino Death Clock
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#2Cool project. I first saw Aubrey de Grey's TED Talk "A Roadmap to End Aging" [1] when it was first released online and it really impacted the way I think about mortality in a similar way.
[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_a...
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#3"The Lindy Effect is real (up to the biological limits of the human body)."
The Lindy Effect is explicitely for non biological systems: i.e. the car, the chair not your mother.
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#4Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve, and glare meaningfully at it when people start droning on about nothing in a meeting or whatever.
Although, it'd also be some embarrassing morbid irony if you run into an accident somewhere.
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#5So clearly defined...
#define FINAL_EPOCH_TIME_SECONDS 2895868800 // this is the expected epoch time of your life expectancy
Which is October 7, 2061, a rainy Friday.
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#6Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve, and glare meaningfully at it when people start droning on about nothing in a meeting or whatever. Although, it'd also be some embarrassing morbid irony if you run into an accident somewhere.
People who sleep live longer. I recently baught a pair of sunglasses to use at work.
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#7A simple improvement would be to use the average life expectancy given a certain age. This can be calculated with the age specific death rates for a population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table
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#8I actually designed one of these with the opposite mindset for a longevity researcher friend of mine. It was her 30th birthday and I was unable to attend, so I told her I would make sure to attend her 130th birthday instead and I gifted her a clock counting down until then.
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#9Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve, and glare meaningfully at it when people start droning on about nothing in a meeting or whatever. Although, it'd also be some embarrassing morbid irony if you run into an accident somewhere.
> Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve...
... with your time remaining written in big green digits?
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#10Countdown the the busiest day of a procrastinator's life.