So 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.
How did you get the weather for that day?
Arduino Death Clock
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It won't, but it will still be displayed when rendering the readme, just like if it were hosted on any other webserver. Of course only as long as the webserver is around, but still better than adding several MB to your repo just for a few screenshots.
If it's only a few MB, I'd value the ability to backup the image together with the rest of the repo more than shaving a few MB off the repo. (Also, hi Kilian. Long time no see.)
Depends on the "worth" of the image I'd say :P
And hi!
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#43That is nice and everything, but why 5 (five!) digits for the years?
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#44So 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.
It will definitely be either a sunny day or a hurricane this deep into climate change.
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#45Split 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.
You can slow it down. Move to new place. Have a kid. You will see that you can only remember what came before as if years passed, when it was less than three months ago.
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#46Read Michael Ende's 'MOMO' to realize that one can not 'waste time'! I should do so again as well. One tends to forget while being in the rat race.
Thanks a lot. Never heard that one mentioned before. It will certainly go in my Amazon basket.
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#47Cool - 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? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
A little preachy (and on the nose as far as the haves/have-nots narrative) but overall not a bad movie.
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#48I’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.
I recall reading about this technique as used by Chris Crawford, a veteran video game developer with a lofty goal. (Intriguing article if you have the time.) https://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-f...
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#49ATmega's EEPROM has a lifetime of 100k write/erase cycles. The program stores current time every 10 minutes, giving it ~2 years of lifetime. It looks like the clock will die long before you.
Why does the thing store the current time every 10 minutes? Seems like it needs your DOB, and whatever the current clock time is - and even a few minutes of drift isn't going to be a problem for an application like this. If it's ever connected to the tubes, it can adjust its clock from a time server.
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#50Read Michael Ende's 'MOMO' to realize that one can not 'waste time'! I should do so again as well. One tends to forget while being in the rat race.
Increasing the amount of money and social status is not only possible direction in life. For example, one of your directions could be building better connections with people around you. This way playing games or watching movies instead of moving towards your goals is still a waste of time.