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Death Clock
- jvilalta 5y agoNot sure about the stoic piece, as time you have left falls into the category of can't control and therefore not something you should worry about. Worry about what you can control in the "whatever time" you have left
- moonbug 5y agoI welcome the undexpexted Life extension, but this thing can't calculate percentages for shit.
- vasilakisfil 5y agoThis is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..
- radekk 5y agoStill plenty of time. Live the life!
- kordlessagain 5y agoJust remember, you make it depressing by feeling sad about a future event. It's just a clock, which is probably wrong. All manner of things could happen tomorrow to the person with 10% left, like dropping dead from (whatever). Or, you could find yourself in a much better place in a year, and the time you spend doing that better is worth more in a year than the last 5 years where it was not better. All that we can be certain of is this very moment and not much else. Live it up!
- emerged 5y agoMine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some. I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.
- falcolas 5y agoExactly. I hit 40 a few years back, and I’m statistically likely to live at least that long again. A lot happened in 40 years, and I was not in control of my life for just shy of half of that. The next 40 is going to be interesting.
- ejb999 5y ago>>The next 40 is going to be interesting. The next 20-25 will be interesting for you - after that you will just be telling people to get off your lawn, and making doctors appointments. ;>)
- falcolas 5y agoThere is that risk, for sure. That said, i had to tell a kid (with his 4 wheeler) to get off my lawn just yesterday.
- throwawayboise 5y agoThe next 40 will feel like about 10 years, maybe less, from the perception of your 20 year old self.
- dilap 5y agoI'm about to turn 40, and I feel like perceptually life gets faster and faster, which seems to be a common experience. So in that sense you may not do all the living you've done all over again and then some. For example, I'd say my 30s felt half as a long as my 20s, which themselves seemed to pass much faster than than 10-20, which felt very long indeed. And childhood, 0-10, seemed like an eternity! This is true even at a micro level. E.g. a 3 hour car ride now does not feel like a big deal to me, but it seemed almost unbearably long to me as a child. Another way in which you won't do as much living as you've already done is that in your early years you went through profound development -- both physically and mentally. That doesn't happen again; we mature, we refine, and (sadly, hopefully not too much), we decline, but it's nothing near as profound as we get to experience early in life.
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- falcolas 5y agoThey’re rough averages, and I can’t tell (it gave me NAN) if they’re taking your current age into account. You could die tomorrow, but you also have a roughly equal chance to live into your 100’s. Every year you survive, you have a longer estimated lifespan. FWIW, as someone in their early 30’s, the chances of you dying this year are somewhere in the 1% range. But your life expectancy has also gone up to 78/83 (male/female), from 76/81 where you were at birth.
- tux3 5y agoI get the same numbers, but the length is more than enough for me. With only 10%, I'd still find the time to get bored and kill time! More interesting is the quality of life, not how long you have =)
- hasbot 5y agoMy 83 year old mother is probably negative. She's healthy and happy though she's saddened that most of her friends are dead or sick.
- kingcharles 5y agoI have 45% left, but how much of that is useful, healthy time? I just spent 8 years in jail simply because I was broke. What a waste of some of the best years of my life.
- bwb 5y agoLove it, i always wanted to buy a watch that did this and not time :)
- chrischapman 5y agoExcellent idea. If they tied it to a fitness calculator it would show your life extending when you exercise and shrinking when you don't. Spend more time on the couch and watch your life get shorter. Go for a long walk and watch it grow longer. Seems like a pretty good motivator. Don't show me how many steps I've taken. Just show me how much life I have left. I would buy one!
- bwb 5y agoYa! That would be pretty sweet as well, I figure someone has an app like this for the apple watch maybe? I'd love one that is e-ink or something super low energy if it is just doing a countdown to death. I love watches that don't tell time.
- gscho 5y agoI have NaN time remaining?
- plandis 5y agoI have “ Application error: a client-side exception has occurred” time. Perhaps I’m actually a robot and this is it :(
- fart32 5y agoOn the flip side, remaining lifetime is now much less relevant issue to you.
- germinalphrase 5y agoI receive that error as well. Specifically, after clicking the settings button at top of screen. Viewing on iPhone.
- falcolas 5y agoSame. I don’t trust sites in general, so I gave a Jan 1 of my actual birth year. It didn’t like it.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoSeems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).
- emerged 5y agoHey don’t question it, just go enjoy your remaining 60% of life! Congrats!
- wheybags 5y agoI was born in 1992, so all my testing passed - ship it!
- jstx1 5y agoAt first I didn't even notice that you can give it year of birth and I was wondering how it knows when I was born.
- bagels 5y agoYou hav to select a specific date, even if you've selected the month and year. It also uses expectancy at birth, not at current age. Pretty useless.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoYou're absolutely right, I missed entering the day of the month. Year + Month was not enough. Easy bug to fix? LASt the very least I expect it to pick some arbitrary day of the month I enter. I should tell my dad though that he is has about 13 weeks left to live. (Or should?)
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoOnly entering the month+year isn't the issue. The website is near random. I entered my DOB perfectly and was suggested i was an age decades off (with corresponding % being that wrong). Clearing cookies, meticulously entering and checking DOB again and i get decades off the other side of my age. The website is seriously malfunctioning. I guess it's just giving results of a different user.
- throwhauser 5y agoI think there's a bug, if you put in a birth date in the 1930s for the USA, it says you have negative time remaining.
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- coldtea 5y agoIt's the countdown
- erikerikson 5y agoMakes sense to me. Consider that at 91-92 years you will have exceeded the expected number of years for your cohort.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Makes sense to me. That a person alive now is expected to die in the past? > Consider that at 91-92 years you will have exceeded the expected number of years for your cohort. The correct method for estimating remaining life is using life expectancy at current age not life expectancy at birth, since you want to know how long one is expected to live given that they have not, in fact, died already. At 92, life expectancy is 3.54 years for a man, 4.2 for a woman, not some negative value. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
- erikerikson 5y ago> That a person alive now is expected to die in the past? This seems an uncharitable interpretation. Instead, I expect that the value shown is the "expected age of death" - "current age", which if your current age is beyond the average results in a negative number. FWIW and as you note, this isn't the most useful result since alive people can't die in the past unless we accept some sci-fi premises. > The correct method While we're on the topic... More correct? Many factors that would improve the prediction weren't collected and used but a better prediction would take those into account. So... Yes, your suggested method seems more useful and accurate yet I wasn't going for that goal so much as noting that it made sense to be that a lazy/naive/PoC/first implementation might get a negative result using exactly the formula above.
- webwielder2 5y agoFeeling bad that you’re not using your time to the max is one of the worst ways to use your time.
- xwdv 5y agoSo many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.
- dahart 5y agoAbout 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick to travel. My wife now reminds me weekly that we need to get our travel and adventure in now before we retire, and not wait. Actively working on it…
- xwdv 5y agoThe early part of life is the best time to spend money on travel and experiences. In the late part of life, one should spend money on the material things that provide passive satisfaction and don’t require too much physical effort. People often get these backwards.
- throwawayboise 5y agoThe problem is if you spend all your money when you are young, you won't have any to spend on "material things that provide passive satisfaction" when you are old. Time value of money and compounding gains is a powerful thing. On the other hand, if you are old and wealthy, you may be too frail to do anything. It's a tricky balance, with no guarantees.
- whalesalad 5y agoI have NAN% life remaining :(
- t212 5y agoYep me too.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoHa, that sounds like a bug. Unless you're a ghost? I built this in a couple of days, so definitely still have a few bugs!
- weregiraffe 5y agoWell, your life is not a number.
- jcims 5y agoMost folks have on the order of ~500,000 hours of consciousness during their life.
- cfjedimaster 5y agoI built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the final number right). The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.
- hackingthelema 5y agoI remember that site and it was actually what I was expecting to see when I clicked on the OP! I feel like the version I remember stumbling across had smoking but no BMI but I can't corroborate it on archive.org It hasn't changed much in 20 years, eh. https://web.archive.org/web/20000520091843/http://www.deathclock.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000520091843/http://www.deathc... Really cool to see it's still up.
- cfjedimaster 5y agoSmoking and BMI and other stuff came after I sold it. I used to have hardware models too - I forget who I partnered with. It never did earn any real $$.
- karaterobot 5y ago> The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow. What were the emails like?
- parhamn 5y ago> The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow. I've never been more curious. What sorts?
- peterpost2 5y agoThis is amazing. This is going to sound stupid but your website is one of my first memories I have of the internet. I was shown it by a school friend (we were about ~8 years old) and I remember being scared about the result, none of could read English well so pretty sure we filled out nonsense for the weight input :)
- candlemas 5y agoChris Crawford keeps two jars of marbles as a constant reminder of this. http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/sixty.html http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/sixty.html
- sidcool 5y agoThat's exactly the kind of existential crisis I was looking for on a Saturday night.
- pelagicAustral 5y agoI know, right? Apparently I'm at 54% completion of my life...
- jay_kyburz 5y agoHaha, some of us have a lot less. :)
- wombatmobile 5y ago“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin
- baal80spam 5y agoHm, I think it should at least ask for gender since it's quite an important variable with regard to average lifespan.
- bambax 5y agoThis conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.
- kqr 5y agoOne of my favourite simple plots: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-by-age-in-the-UK-1700-to-2013.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
- luckman212 5y agoWhat's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
- mmcwilliams 5y agoI would expect WWI had something to do with that. Spanish Flu as well.
- HPsquared 5y agoI wonder if there will be a similar dip in 2020-21.
- kqr 5y agoNot visibly, no. Several reasons, where the most obvious is that our medical care and availability of information has massively improved. Another is that the 1918 pandemic hit young and healthy people disproportionately.
- eCa 5y agoA dip, but nothing like the 1910’s. I’ve heard a rediction of up to two years. Covid mostly killed older people, while WW1 for obvious reasons mostly killed young people, therefore having a greater effect on life expectancy.
- _ttg 5y agoI can't put my finger on it but I always find this modern(Americanized?) peddling of stoicism too pretentious and vapid as to be not only useless but actively off-putting to me. The fact that life is short is already central to most adults and I don't see what purpose any of these reminders serve except to seem high-minded (and annoying). The faux precision of this "clock" also bothers me but that's a different story.
- ngngngng 5y agoI’ve found some use for it. For example, I’m a significantly better parent when I take time in the morning to remind myself that I might die today. Similarly useful is reminding yourself that your family members might die today.
- mherdeg 5y agoI don't know if the calculator at seeyourfolks.com has guided any of my decisions differently but it guides some thinking.
- AutumnCurtain 5y agoTo me, it rings false because the people who propagate it so rarely face "real" adversity. I would be more interested in the stoicism of a broke guy scrapping just to exist than the stoicism of rich white tech bros. Yes, everyone faces adversity of some kind, but these lectures ring so false when the lecturer sits firmly in the top 1% of global and historic wealth.
- watwut 5y agoStoicism of broke guy will be framed as passivity, laziness and cause of his brokenness in the first place. That guy is supposed to hustle.
- trgn 5y agoLet me take a try why you feel that way. (I might be wrong). Stoicism is very easily repurposed, because it is divorced from a religious praxis, and therefore easily assimilated. It is pithy and vague enough too, its maxims can fit on a bumper sticker. "Life is short!", honk if you agree. The appeal for stoicism today is because it is aspirational; we no longer recognize the stoic hero in ourselves and our neighbors. Yet, we would wish we could marshal the inner strength we imagine the stoics of the past possessed. When people broadcast stoic wisdom over twitter, or memes, or ted-talks, or through any other channels that exemplify the trite and vain nature of contemporary consumer media, it seems to scream despair, rather than confidence. A toddler trying to convince themselves they are not scared in the basement, if only they say it a loud enough. Mu hunch is that is why you find a website like this annoying. Packaged for the internet, bland, vague, fast food for the brain. I would agree. Up to a point. Life is short indeed, gam gam has it on a plaque above her fireplace, she bought it in a trinket shop in Gatlinburg. What is equally important, but unsaid, is what comes after. Both the stoic and hedonist will accept the premise, but will activate it very differently. Will you dedicate yourself to the future, or will you dedicate the present to yourself. I don't think that website makes any recommendation on the matter.
- textcortex 5y agoI love this! It fits perfectly with the stoic approach to life. Memento Mori..
- vincentmarle 5y agoI’d say lower your expectations even further to reach true happiness: always expect to die tomorrow and adjust your lifestyle and the way you treat your loved ones accordingly. Or in Montaigne’s words: to philosophize is to learn to die http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%20Philosophize%20is%20to%20Learn%20to%20Die%20(Michel%20de%20Montaigne)%20-%20The%20Mantle.pdf http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%2...
- DarylZero 5y agoMontaigne said that he didn't understand why someone who was writing a book would care whether they died before finishing it.
- quadrangle 5y agoThe real trick: expect to die in a minute. No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really present. When we consider that these few breaths or bites or moments might be our last, we can release all the clinging and aversion because it's too late to do anything but be profoundly aware of being alive in this moment. And given that we usually don't just die, we get to experience that sense of life-flashing-before-your-eyes and immediate sense of love and compassion, and still an aspiration to make the very most of each moment (including planning for the future since that might be a thing). This might be the final sentence you read. So, there's no reason to live each day as your last. It's okay to live each moment in whatever way it shows up. It's all we have, and there's nothing to do but to be aware of it. And, remarkably enough, once we stop striving and just let go, we magically find ourselves more attuned to our deepest values of love and compassion. This writing might be the last action I ever do. Love to everyone and everything
- hasbot 5y agoHuh. If this is my last minute, I'm definitely not doing the dishes.
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- rootusrootus 5y agoGetting all the way back to the 70s took a couple minutes of patient tapping on my phone, only to get told I have NAN left. What a let down.
- jimmaswell 5y agoYou can tap the year to select a year
- umbauk 5y agoYou can just click on the year to scroll back quickly
- falcolas 5y agoA shame there’s no affordance to indicate that this is available.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoYeah, fair point. I'll try to improve that. Any idea on how you'd want to see it done?
- rootusrootus 5y agoI'd separate the year and month and make the year controls visible. But all of my UI design work is targeted at internal tools where looking good is way down the list below ease of use, so take my opinion with a grain of salt for anything customer facing.
- thedragonline 5y agoEx: A down arrow button attached directly to the right side of the year input field. Make it a deeper blue and then wrap a 1 or 2 pixel wide rectangle around the field itself of that same color.
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- ngngngng 5y agoDo we have enough data to make this much more precise based on personal information? Seems like much of the useful data would be locked behind medical privacy laws but I would love to see one that took into account current health conditions, maybe even hereditary circumstances.
- a0-prw 5y agoI have negative time left. I beat the clock ;)
- jokoon 5y agoThis belongs to an edgy subreddit
- samwillis 5y agoAs an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably stop upvoting (currently 18)… I probably shouldn’t have posted it even.
- reidjs 5y agoUnfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.
- samwillis 5y agoDon’t really want to continue an off topic discussion but it is widely supported and you can conditionally load a fall back easily. https://caniuse.com/input-datetime https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
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- wyclif 5y agoWhen I saw that I immediately said, "There is no way I'm going to click that many times like a rat in a lab experiment" and closed the tab.
- cirrus3 5y agoI almost gave up using it due to the year picker. If I can see the year I should be able to click it, but on this one you actually have to scroll down until it is no longer faded at all.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoI’ve fixed it now
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- kmbfjr 5y agoI’d like to play, but this UI design is awful. Talk about encouraging someone to view their remaining time as precious, someone born Jan 1, 1970 can expect to tap or click 240 time to get past the first question. Edit: found you can click the year, but why not just enter my full birthdate?
- unyttigfjelltol 5y agoI have a more optimistic wall-mounted version of this timer.[1] [1] https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/lifespan-calendar-poster https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/lifespan-calendar-po...
- agumonkey 5y agoTime is also function of your surroundings Good job, good social network => life is just long enough. Toxic job: life is a sluggish torture. No job: life is going too fast and you have no time to choose which direction is best.
- thyrox 5y agoHow many of you are waiting for X to happen before you can do Y? Maybe we can share that so other people can give us their insights. For me, I naively quit my job last year joining the indie hacker movement of creating my own online business. And now I'm just obsessed with finishing it and getting it to the same mrr as my last job's salary before I can do anything else. I used to travel all the time but now all I can think of is my daughter's future. Pretty hard to go live your life when your financial situation becomes a mess :/
- vmception 5y agoReminds me of the meme “I quit my 9-5 and now I work 24/7” If you have debt or obligations that you arent willing to sacrifice or accept the consequences of sacrificing then don’t bother playing But to answer your question, I started living for experiences more after big financial losses. I noticed that I was saving for something indeterminate and that after a loss I would have just been better off going to that festival or taking that vacation or something else consumptive Eventually I got the inspiration and success to support my obligations and experiences. Probably not related, many paths possible, but I do think I meet more interesting people traveling to events than I did in an office setting
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- dukeofdoom 5y agoDon't forget to plan it a little. Make to do lists and create repeatable habits. A tip from a 60%: Life's better with a kayak and a fishing pole.
- toss1 5y agoNice as a generic reminder, but I'd really want to see it use a bit more empirical data for a semi-realistic projection of biological age/lifespan, e.g., taking into account health conditions & habits. Heck, just taking in smoking, obesity, & exercise data would make a huge difference. Edit: Also, just he focus on what one has lost (or in this case, spent), seems a tad counterproductive to extending one's healthspan...
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoWell this kinda popped off more that I expected it to! A bit of background about this and how it was built: I started back to work this week after some time off over Christmas. This year the company I worked for decided to hold a creative week to help get us back into work. I ended up being just 3 days as we presented them all to each other on Friday. I know this is definitely still rough around the edges, it was just something I slapped together in a few days. Conflating life expectance to where you are born is obviously not perfect, but again, only had a few days. If anyone is interested in how it work, or wants to fix the things that annoy them about it, pull requests are welcome! https://github.com/ThePaulMcBride/the-death-clock https://github.com/ThePaulMcBride/the-death-clock
- rex-mundi 5y agoOne small improvement might be to make it so that it creates a url which the user can go back to without entering the data again. That way they can bookmark it / share if they want.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoOh good call!
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoI’ve made this improvement now
- rex-mundi 5y agoNice one, bookmarked! :)
- lleb97a 5y agoAre you people getting NAN going to fight for the ultimate prize? There can be only one...
- spacemadness 5y agoYes and it’s giving me Logan’s Run vibes. I will be at the Carousel if anybody needs me.
- hungryforcodes 5y agoI like the concept -- but in my family the women live for a really long time. My great grandmother was 99 when I met her as a six year old. Most of my family (both genders) goes well into their 90s. It would be much more accurate if the clock started when one of your parents or grand parents died and or could use that information to create a more accurate final day.
- lowmagnet 5y agoDo anything for Dethklok.
- oneepic 5y agoGotta get those priorities straight before "hamburger time" comes.
- ig0r0 5y agonot impressed: YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING
- yololol 5y agoFor those who don't know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoThis is my coffee mug: https://imgur.com/a/fOtuu7u https://imgur.com/a/fOtuu7u
- soneca 5y ago” YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING” I think I transcended life.
- nnoitra 5y agoWhy do we have to die?
- flubflub 5y agoI don't think you are obligated to live your life or even enjoy it. It is a very nice bonus if you enjoy your life and feel that you are living your life. There isn't a duty to make the most of whatever period you are in. You don't have to die without regrets as you get to choose how you live for a large part. If you die with regrets it means that there was a glimmer of vibrancy, maybe a sense of dreaming as you die albeit negative.
- rladd 5y agoHmmm YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING
- RotaryTelephone 5y agoSame. Not sure if should get my finances in order or am an Eternal.
- ivansavz 5y agoThere is a similar chrome extension you can setup to show up every time you open a new tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-death-clock-new/eeedcpdcehnikgkhbobmkjcipjhlbmpn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-death-cl... Friendly reminder not to waste some time, but work on important things instead...
- activitypea 5y agoI got NaN% of life remaining and I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature
- johnny313 5y agoThis reminds me of momento mori, a philosophical / artistic practice of remembering your own death [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
- rpastuszak 5y ago“YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING” Fair enough
- henriquez 5y agoThe author must have taken inspiration from Death Note.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoA similar website, http://www.deathclock.com/ http://www.deathclock.com/, has been around for a very long time. Since at least before the Death Note manga came out.
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- kingcharles 5y agoThe author of that one is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852950
- baxtr 5y agoReminds me of the “And all I got was a NaN!” T-Shirts.
- abletonlive 5y agojokes on you I'm on rapamycin and I'm going to live forever
- tobyjsullivan 5y agoaccidents happen and nobody's luck lasts forever ;)
- u2077 5y agoTime is the most valuable thing you have. Use it wisely.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoconsidering the UX of this site I will be doing so by not using it.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoAlright, it’s open source, I built it in a few hours. Pull requests are welcome.
- crate_barre 5y agoThis thing should really ask when your oldest relatives on both your mother’s and father’s side died or what their age is currently, along with basic health conditions like weight, diabetes, hypertension, etc, and what your job/family situation is (kids, no kids, divorced, high stress industry, low stress industry, etc), and debt to income ratio.
- pkstn 5y agoHere's some more similar joy for saturday night: https://codepen.io/pakastin/full/gvppqr https://codepen.io/pakastin/full/gvppqr
- joering2 5y agothis is so silly obviously... we need similar website when you assume it really know so it asks you 50 questions including whether you smoke, etc, etc and at the end it shows you this: "nobody knows when you die, but assume you may be dead tomorrow morning. So do you: [checklist] - have a last will? - made sure you told your family how much you love them? - made sure your life insurance is up to date? - made sure you give banking credentials to your spouse or parent so that they don't have to wait months before government and courts do their job. etc etc" That would be somewhat more useful....
- throw0101a 5y agoSee also "Your Life in Weeks": * https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html * https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
- 29athrowaway 5y agoPerception of time is not linear, though. So even if you have plenty of years left, you will see those years go faster and faster.
- pmarreck 5y agoIf only it didn't take me 10 minutes to scroll the calendar back to april 1972 lol EDIT: You can click the month and year directly. Meh, I don't like "invisible UI". And the result seems wrong, I doubt I have 61% of my life remaining at this point, alas... And the small dots stop at about 28... and the big dots stop at 70... no unit shown... Is this years? It's unclear. Guessing each dot represents a week? Maybe? 28 years is certainly wrong, as I'm 49. And at least on Firefox, the dot that the 20 lines up with and the dot that the 30 lines up with are actually 11 units apart, not 10... This is why I prefer backend dev, we have to be strict, while frontend can just... "does it look good? no test coverage? only a dozen JS errors that only other developers who actually care about JS errors will see? fuck it, wing it and post it to HN!!" lol
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoI don't even think you clicked the wrong thing. You can test the website multiple times with the same DOB. It gets it wrong! My age went from 20->60 and a few results in between with the same DOB. There's something screwy with this site when it's under high load. I think i'm getting someone elses input.
- eulenteufel 5y agoAbout 2/3 to go, whew, that's still a lot of work to do.
- cheshire137 5y agoOn mobile, it tells me I have NaN% of my life left.
- moffkalast 5y ago> You have 69.06606187% of life remaining Nice.
- akomtu 5y agoWith enough biometrics it could estimate the remaining lifetime pretty well. From time to time, it could ask naive users to answer a couple more questions, like whether their dad had asthma, and improve the estimate, but the business model would be to sell personal profiles to whoever pays, including criminals.
- hasbot 5y agoI'm very conscious of this. Every few months I divide the value of my portfolio by a guesstimate of how many months I have left to pace my spending. Currently if I keep my monthly expenses below $5k I should be good.
- zestyping 5y agoThe date selector has an odd bug in leap years. My birthday is in February in a leap year. If I click Feb 9, it highlights Feb 9. But if I click Feb 10, it highlights Feb 9; if I click Feb 11, it highlights Feb 10, and so on. For all dates between Feb 10 and Feb 29, it highlights the preceding day instead of the day I clicked. I would guess this is due to a disagreement between some part of the code that thinks there are 28 days in every February and another part that is aware that there are 29 days in a leap year. But it's odd that the bug shows up one-third of the way through February, instead of halfway through February, as I would expect if it were rounding to the nearest day. Quite a strange bug; it suggests that date calculations must have been done ad-hoc instead of using a well-tested date library.
- zestyping 5y agoThis calculates my age incorrectly. The diagram shows the number of years I've lived as about 3 years less than my true age. It's kinda disappointing when the site literally has one job — to calculate my age — and it doesn't get it right.
- umvi 5y agoIt calculated mine correctly. Is it reproducible? If so, give a sample date of birth.
- smoyer 5y agoApril 91 shows between 28 and 29.
- pohl 5y agoMy experience was so much worse. I was born in 1967. My son was born in 2009. We both have 61.53737504% of our expected lifespan remaining. We used different browsers, but the same machine.
- stevespang 5y ago
- zestyping 5y agoWhy is the date picker filled with possible birth years in the future — all the way up to 2072, all greyed out and unclickable? That makes the UI more cumbersome for no good reason.
- atleta 5y agoIf you don't select the day on the calendar widget (which is somehow easy to look over) then it seems to calculate your age as if you were 30 (from 1992). No error message, not using the year and month you set and either 1 or the current date for day, not disabling the start button. This is a nice example of when you won't find a bug in your own app because you know how to use it :)
- tartoran 5y agoIm getting a “Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).” Since im on my phone im not gonna bother.
- fernly 5y agoI am not making this comment, because, per thedeathclock.co, I have -1.6% of my time left; and per www.deathclock.com, I died in 2016. So obvs. I am not typing this.
- andrew_ 5y agoWell. That's a bummer.
- IAmGraydon 5y agoI’m kind of impressed that such a simple site manages to have this many bugs. It can’t even calculate age correctly.
- thepaulmcbride 5y agoUpdate: I have switched to a native html date input and made the URL shareable. For example, mine looks like this https://thedeathclock.co/results?life_expectancy=81&dob=1991-12-24 https://thedeathclock.co/results?life_expectancy=81&dob=1991...
- dookahku 5y agoOn Android there's no easy way to input the date. I get a date picker that I can only increment the month. I can't change anything else :-(