4 ms·

Can’t imagine how many hundreds of thousands of hours of people’s lives have been wasted just sitting and waiting for it to load. Oof.

bluedino 6y ago
"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?" https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
- LukeShu 6y ago
  I was curious: (10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365) = 564.1 years If I add on "/(human lifetime)", Wolfram Alpha uses 72.6 years, which it attributes to a 2019 UN estimate. ((10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365))/(human lifetime) = 7.775 lifetimes
  - someperson 6y ago
    Life expectancy for the average Macintosh user in 1983 was shorter than it is in 2021. But 72 years about sounds right for US 1983 Mac users, who were already closer to middle aged.
    - m463 6y ago
      Correlation does not imply causation. But all bets are off with time traveling macintosh users.
- Xevi 6y ago
  Didn't they shave off a couple of minutes?
  - robbomacrae 6y ago
    This guy deserves a nobel peace prize
- vlasev 6y ago
  Reminds me of the bridge story in Margin Call [1]. Or if you'd rather read it, here's the script [2], just search for "Did you know I built a bridge once?". Or condensed: "It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and 12 feet above the Ohio River. 12,000 people used this thing a day. And it cut out 35 miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years." [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g [2]: https://imsdb.com/scripts/Margin-Call.html https://imsdb.com/scripts/Margin-Call.html

bluedino 6y ago

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?" https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

LukeShu 6y ago
I was curious: (10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365) = 564.1 years If I add on "/(human lifetime)", Wolfram Alpha uses 72.6 years, which it attributes to a 2019 UN estimate. ((10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365))/(human lifetime) = 7.775 lifetimes
- someperson 6y ago
  Life expectancy for the average Macintosh user in 1983 was shorter than it is in 2021. But 72 years about sounds right for US 1983 Mac users, who were already closer to middle aged.
  - m463 6y ago
    Correlation does not imply causation. But all bets are off with time traveling macintosh users.
Xevi 6y ago
Didn't they shave off a couple of minutes?
- robbomacrae 6y ago
  This guy deserves a nobel peace prize
vlasev 6y ago
Reminds me of the bridge story in Margin Call [1]. Or if you'd rather read it, here's the script [2], just search for "Did you know I built a bridge once?". Or condensed: "It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and 12 feet above the Ohio River. 12,000 people used this thing a day. And it cut out 35 miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years." [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g [2]: https://imsdb.com/scripts/Margin-Call.html https://imsdb.com/scripts/Margin-Call.html