Tangent: I see example.jpg added to the main repo, just for the readme. If you don't want to store binary blobs, there's an alternative: open a new issue, then copy-paste the image into the issue. It'll give you a link that you can use in a readme permanently.
Arduino Death Clock
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#12I’ve seen a similar low-tech version of this clock (sorry I can’t find a link). You setup two jars. Fill one with 365 * (years of life left). In the morning you move a single bead from the full jar to the empty one. It’s supposed to help you visualize “spending” your days, and encourages you to live them more deliberately.
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#13If the tinkering isn't an end unto itself, an easier alternative is to buy a simple countdown clock on Amazon for ~$15. I got this one for $12 to countdown until the end of my postdoc.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TSC1X8/
Just pull of the retirement sticker.
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#14Cool - 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.
Ooh, I got an even better idea - have it cut a few extra seconds whenever you eat a bunch of unhealthy food, and add a few when you take the stairs instead of the elevator or whatever.
Hook it up to a blood pressure/heart rate/glucose monitor to automate a lot of that...ha, talk about a product that nobody would buy!
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#15Split format (ymd/hms) doesn’t feel as fatal to me as e.g. 1 167 607 224 seconds remaining, where each week eats 0,05% and each year is ~ 31 557 000. It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
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#16Tangent: I see example.jpg added to the main repo, just for the readme. If you don't want to store binary blobs, there's an alternative: open a new issue, then copy-paste the image into the issue. It'll give you a link that you can use in a readme permanently.
Or host it somewhere else like imgur.
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#17Split format (ymd/hms) doesn’t feel as fatal to me as e.g. 1 167 607 224 seconds remaining, where each week eats 0,05% and each year is ~ 31 557 000. It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
> It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
I find this effect kind of terrifying. I'm in my early 30s and would estimate my perception of time is at least 3x as fast as it was before age 16 or so, maybe 4x. It's definitely getting worse. Even assuming some leveling off, I'm guessing a year at age 70 will feel about as short as a kid's month.
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#18Tangent: I see example.jpg added to the main repo, just for the readme. If you don't want to store binary blobs, there's an alternative: open a new issue, then copy-paste the image into the issue. It'll give you a link that you can use in a readme permanently.
I wish GitHub would add support for that in README files directly.
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#19A variation on this that I love is Tim Urban's "Your life in weeks" visualization.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it super helpful in keeping perspective on the value of my time.
I do not mean to detract from OP's work (which is cool), I just thought others reading the comment might enjoy this other article too.
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#20Split format (ymd/hms) doesn’t feel as fatal to me as e.g. 1 167 607 224 seconds remaining, where each week eats 0,05% and each year is ~ 31 557 000. It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
> It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL. I find this effect kind of terrifying. I'm in my early 30s and would estimate my perception of time is at least 3x as fast as it was before age 16 or so, maybe 4x. It's definitely getting worse. Even assuming some leveling off, I'm guessing a year at age 70 will feel about as short as a kid's month.
I’m 30+ too. When I discussed with my 70+ grandma on this topic, she laughed and said it will be decades, not just years passing by in a click, starting with 40-50+. We actually crossed our subjective time equator pretty long time ago, dude, no matter how healthy we are.