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Different Clocks
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#42I like the combined blob clock a lot! I plan to make a codepen of it, with just hours, minutes and seconds, to see what that's like.
Right? There's something oddly satisfying about watching The Time Blob.
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77 is the average life expectancy for all people. If one enters the website at 40 their life expectancy is much higher, since they are already 40
It is higher, but not that much higher. It's not like 90 or 100. For the U.S. you have https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html for this.
Yeah someone who is 40, comes out at roughly 82 which I thought was close enough. Also it is funny to enter famous old people's birthdays and see "110% complete".
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.
Is the idea that it never moves, or that the cement will degrade by the time it does?
I think the artist put it as "and then the last gear turns so slowly it doesn't really matter, so I cast it in concrete."
Assuming we're talking about Arthur Gansons "Machine with concrete"[0] of course. I quite like how a lot of his work seems to have a punchline to it.
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#46You're missing the Towers of Hanoi, my personal favorite clock. https://saej.in/post/hanoi/
The Hanoi clock represents time by mapping disk positions to binary bits - each legal tower state uniquely encodes one moment, with the smallest disk moving every minute creating the beautiful recursive pattern where larger disks move exponentially less frequently.
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