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See when you are likely to die (median death based only on gender and age)

Grakel 6y ago
What could be the point of this except to set up an expectation that won't be met?
- danboarder 6y ago
  I like this! It helps frame the urgency of getting things done while you can, our time here is limited...
  - yetanothermonk 6y ago
    Makes me glad.
- yetanothermonk 6y ago
  Yeah, I think that's a good question. Everybody is different; some may get different things out of it. It's obviously going to be wrong in terms of exactness, but likely will be roughly right in terms of framing. That is, if you have 50 years, 3 days, and 2 seconds left, it might actually be 48 or 55 years, but the exact timing doesn't matter so much to me. It's more the quantification of the information that's implicit in our lives but for some reason we don't normally think about unless it's a particularly harrowing experience. For myself, I spent some time in the ER last year. I honestly didn't know whether I'd live or not. It made me think really hard about what I was doing with what I was given. This serves as a reminder for me to do things that matter. To not optimize for the hour or the day, but the decades. Plus it was fun to build. Happy Thanksgiving, Long
  - ksaj 6y ago
    > Plus it was fun to build. That is a pretty reasonable justification. Bonus if it is fun for others to use.
azhenley 6y ago
If I delete the default date, it crashes instantly and says “An unexpected error has occurred.” Guess I have to type in each piece without deleting the others?
- yetanothermonk 6y ago
  I just replicated the error. That sucks, I'm really sorry about that. Will try to fix.
  - yetanothermonk 6y ago
    While I look into this you can just click into and backspace the parts of the date that you want changed (instead of select all & backspace which I used to replicate)
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
Looks like the HN hug of death got the server. Maybe someone should build such an app for servers...
- yetanothermonk 6y ago
  Interesting. Still up for me and checked with downtime detectors
  - AnimalMuppet 6y ago
    Ah, my bad. What I get is secure connection failed because of no cypher overlap (I'm on an ancient browser). I just saw the failure and assumed it was dead server, without actually reading. As I said, my bad...
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simonblack 6y ago
1 year and two months to go.
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What could be the point of this except to set up an expectation that won't be met?

danboarder 6y ago
I like this! It helps frame the urgency of getting things done while you can, our time here is limited...
- yetanothermonk 6y ago
  Makes me glad.
yetanothermonk 6y ago
Yeah, I think that's a good question. Everybody is different; some may get different things out of it. It's obviously going to be wrong in terms of exactness, but likely will be roughly right in terms of framing. That is, if you have 50 years, 3 days, and 2 seconds left, it might actually be 48 or 55 years, but the exact timing doesn't matter so much to me. It's more the quantification of the information that's implicit in our lives but for some reason we don't normally think about unless it's a particularly harrowing experience. For myself, I spent some time in the ER last year. I honestly didn't know whether I'd live or not. It made me think really hard about what I was doing with what I was given. This serves as a reminder for me to do things that matter. To not optimize for the hour or the day, but the decades. Plus it was fun to build. Happy Thanksgiving, Long
- ksaj 6y ago
  > Plus it was fun to build. That is a pretty reasonable justification. Bonus if it is fun for others to use.

If I delete the default date, it crashes instantly and says “An unexpected error has occurred.” Guess I have to type in each piece without deleting the others?

yetanothermonk 6y ago
I just replicated the error. That sucks, I'm really sorry about that. Will try to fix.
- yetanothermonk 6y ago
  While I look into this you can just click into and backspace the parts of the date that you want changed (instead of select all & backspace which I used to replicate)

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

Looks like the HN hug of death got the server. Maybe someone should build such an app for servers...

yetanothermonk 6y ago
Interesting. Still up for me and checked with downtime detectors
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  Ah, my bad. What I get is secure connection failed because of no cypher overlap (I'm on an ancient browser). I just saw the failure and assumed it was dead server, without actually reading. As I said, my bad...

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simonblack 6y ago

1 year and two months to go.

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