[HN Gopher] Death Clock
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Death Clock
Author : thepaulmcbride
Score : 98 points
Date : 2022-01-08 15:09 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (thedeathclock.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (thedeathclock.co)
| unyttigfjelltol wrote:
| I have a more optimistic wall-mounted version of this timer.[1]
|
| [1] https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/lifespan-calendar-
| po...
| jcims wrote:
| Most folks have on the order of ~500,000 hours of consciousness
| during their life.
| cfjedimaster wrote:
| I 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.
| mysterydip wrote:
| I thought I remembered seeing this before. Ah, ColdFusion,
| those were the days. What version?
| baxtr wrote:
| What was so great about the emails? Fill us in!
| sebow wrote:
| karaterobot wrote:
| > The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.
|
| What were the emails like?
| parhamn wrote:
| > The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.
|
| I've never been more curious. What sorts?
| hackingthelema wrote:
| I 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.deathc...
| Really cool to see it's still up.
| cfjedimaster wrote:
| Smoking 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 $$.
| peterpost2 wrote:
| This 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 :)
| jdmoreira wrote:
| I have the almost exact same story as parent. Was around 10
| years myself and remember using your website and being really
| scared of what the outcome would be
| agumonkey wrote:
| Time 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 wrote:
| How 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 wrote:
| Reminds 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
| rladd wrote:
| Hmmm
|
| YOU HAVE
|
| NAN%
|
| OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN
|
| REMAINING
| RotaryTelephone wrote:
| Same. Not sure if should get my finances in order or am an
| Eternal.
| candlemas wrote:
| Chris Crawford keeps two jars of marbles as a constant reminder
| of this. http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/sixty.html
| lleb97a wrote:
| Are you people getting NAN going to fight for the ultimate prize?
| There can be only one...
| spacemadness wrote:
| Yes and it's giving me Logan's Run vibes. I will be at the
| Carousel if anybody needs me.
| soneca wrote:
| _" YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING"_
|
| I think I transcended life.
| pkstn wrote:
| Here's some more similar joy for saturday night:
| https://codepen.io/pakastin/full/gvppqr
| throw0101a wrote:
| See also "Your Life in Weeks":
|
| * https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html
|
| * https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
| hungryforcodes wrote:
| I 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.
| moonbug wrote:
| I welcome the undexpexted Life extension, but this thing can't
| calculate percentages for shit.
| grouphugs wrote:
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| Don'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.
| sidcool wrote:
| That's exactly the kind of existential crisis I was looking for
| on a Saturday night.
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| I know, right? Apparently I'm at 54% completion of my life...
| lowmagnet wrote:
| Do anything for Dethklok.
| oneepic wrote:
| Gotta get those priorities straight before "hamburger time"
| comes.
| ivan_ah wrote:
| There 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-cl...
|
| Friendly reminder not to waste some time, but work on important
| things instead...
| wombatmobile wrote:
| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
|
| -- Anais Nin
| vasilakisfil wrote:
| This 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..
| emerged wrote:
| Mine 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.
| beardyw wrote:
| Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go
| by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me
| pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all
| just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Yep. 55 now, and the same. A year can pass and feel like
| nothing. Especially the last two COVID years. Just feels
| like a long nap sometimes. I think it's because as we get
| older, our lives are not changing much. 0-10 years each
| year brings big changes in our physical growth,
| intellectual understanding of the world, literally every
| day brings something new. 10-20 is similar, but the pace
| starts to slow down. By the time you're 50, one year is
| pretty much the same as the another. Kids are grown or
| close to it, you're probably not job-hopping, you're
| settled in your home. Everything is routine.
| falcolas wrote:
| Exactly. 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.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| The next 40 will feel like about 10 years, maybe less, from
| the perception of your 20 year old self.
| ejb999 wrote:
| >>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. ;>)
| dilap wrote:
| I'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.
| falcolas wrote:
| They'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 wrote:
| I 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
| =)
| radekk wrote:
| Still plenty of time. Live the life!
| kordlessagain wrote:
| Just 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!
| activitypea wrote:
| I got NaN% of life remaining and I'm not sure if it's a bug or a
| feature
| baal80spam wrote:
| Hm, I think it should at least ask for gender since it's quite an
| important variable with regard to average lifespan.
| bambax wrote:
| This 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.
| kurthr wrote:
| LOL!
|
| You have -3.8% of your expected lifespan remaining
|
| I assumed they would get this right, how sad.
| watwut wrote:
| > most healthy adults lived past 70
|
| Citation needed. Or, qualification of what you mean by "healthy
| adult".
| dahart wrote:
| Here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity
|
| Human Longevity has been around 70-80 years for thousands of
| years we know about, and possibly forever. It's one of the
| common misunderstandings we get by learning about life
| expectancy.. I misunderstood it for a long time until my
| brother, an anthropologist, explained that there are
| historical records of people living to be 80 years old from a
| thousand and even 10,000 years ago. Life expectancy averages
| in a bunch of causes of early death, so it skews the average
| down. Longevity is what you're left with when you factor out
| all the causes of early death. Life expectancy is going up
| because we're eliminating the causes of early death mostly
| via basic medicine, clean water, washing hands, anti-
| bacterials. Not having wars helps. Vaccines help. Safer
| houses & jobs help. Etc. Longevity appears to have been
| increasing a little in the last century, possibly because
| life expectancy and longevity aren't cleanly separable
| (nobody dies of old age, they eventually die of a disease or
| injury).
| watwut wrote:
| "Most adults" fall under "life expectancy after reaching
| adulthood" rather then "longevity".
|
| Adult young people and middle aged people died a lot more
| then today. Whether due to incidents that were more common
| and harder to treat or sicknesses.
|
| If you limit the stats to "adults never never got seriously
| sick and never got injured" then the comparison is
| completely meaningless. Yeah, people did evolved to live
| longer, but we do expect more treatment and health.
| dahart wrote:
| Sure, all adults fall under life expectancy from their
| current age. It's always a Bayesian statistic. The
| comment you replied to might be off by ~10 or even ~20
| years -- depending heavily on what year and location
| we're talking about -- but it's still a valid point and
| it has always been true that surviving childhood to be 20
| years old gave you a dramatically higher probability of
| leading a long life. The plot @kqr posted demonstrates
| this over the last 300 years.
| kqr wrote:
| One of my favourite simple plots:
| https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
| luckman212 wrote:
| What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between
| 1910-1920?
| owlninja wrote:
| Influenza epidemic of 1918 possibly?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
| mmcwilliams wrote:
| I would expect WWI had something to do with that. Spanish
| Flu as well.
| DaveExeter wrote:
| World War I?
| HPsquared wrote:
| I wonder if there will be a similar dip in 2020-21.
| eCa wrote:
| A 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.
| kqr wrote:
| Not 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.
| mbg721 wrote:
| I think the tables that actuaries use are publicly available
| and account for that. The thing to watch for would be that
| you're not using something with a lot of built-in conservatism
| meant for life insurance statutory compliance.
| everybodyknows wrote:
| > life insurance statutory compliance.
|
| Interesting -- can you elaborate on whatever unrealities are
| forced upon life insurers by government?
| mbg721 wrote:
| It's not unrealities, it's just that you want some cushion
| before your life insurer goes bankrupt. That's why
| statutory and GAAP are different accounting standards.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| "YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN
| REMAINING"
|
| Fair enough
| baxtr wrote:
| Reminds me of the "And all I got was a NaN!" T-Shirts.
| henriquez wrote:
| The author must have taken inspiration from Death Note.
| toss1 wrote:
| Nice 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...
| bwb wrote:
| Love it, i always wanted to buy a watch that did this and not
| time :)
| chrischapman wrote:
| Excellent 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 wrote:
| Ya! 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.
| _ttg wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| I'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 wrote:
| I don't know if the calculator at seeyourfolks.com has guided
| any of my decisions differently but it guides some thinking.
| trgn wrote:
| Let 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.
| _ttg wrote:
| Exactly right. Essentially the consumerist, "fast food for
| the brain" idea is what I was struggling to point out. Having
| read a little of this thread though, I'm more open to the
| idea that even what seems to me as fluff is pretty useful as
| a regular centering mechanism so I'm just moderately
| indifferent instead of annoyed now.
| recuter wrote:
| All the old ideas, everything good, is always rediscovered
| and repackaged over and over again. Don't let others yuck
| your yum.
| AutumnCurtain wrote:
| To 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 wrote:
| Stoicism of broke guy will be framed as passivity, laziness
| and cause of his brokenness in the first place. That guy is
| supposed to hustle.
| gscho wrote:
| I have NaN time remaining?
| plandis wrote:
| I have " Application error: a client-side exception has
| occurred" time. Perhaps I'm actually a robot and this is it :(
| fart32 wrote:
| On the flip side, remaining lifetime is now much less
| relevant issue to you.
| germinalphrase wrote:
| I receive that error as well. Specifically, after clicking
| the settings button at top of screen. Viewing on iPhone.
| falcolas wrote:
| Same. I don't trust sites in general, so I gave a Jan 1 of my
| actual birth year. It didn't like it.
| ig0r0 wrote:
| not impressed:
|
| YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING
| nnoitra wrote:
| Why do we have to die?
| abletonlive wrote:
| jokes on you I'm on rapamycin and I'm going to live forever
| tobyjsullivan wrote:
| accidents happen and nobody's luck lasts forever ;)
| thepaulmcbride wrote:
| Well 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
| rex-mundi wrote:
| One 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 wrote:
| Oh good call!
| textcortex wrote:
| I love this! It fits perfectly with the stoic approach to life.
| Memento Mori..
| vincentmarle wrote:
| I'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%2...
| DarylZero wrote:
| Montaigne said that he didn't understand why someone who was
| writing a book would care whether they died before finishing
| it.
| quadrangle wrote:
| The 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
| u2077 wrote:
| Time is the most valuable thing you have. Use it wisely.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| considering the UX of this site I will be doing so by not using
| it.
| thepaulmcbride wrote:
| Alright, it's open source, I built it in a few hours. Pull
| requests are welcome.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Seems 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).
| gshubert17 wrote:
| Seems broken to me too. I put in 1926 for my 96-year-old dad
| and it says 61% remaining. Which would be great, but I don't
| expect him to live to 246 (of which 39% lived so far would
| equal 96).
|
| A calculator which is much easier for me to use and gives more
| reasonable results is
| https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/population/longevity.html Its inputs
| are gender and date of birth. Gender has a big effect on life
| expectancy. This one shows 2.7 years left and a total estimated
| lifespan of 98.7 years. By this calculation he has about 3% of
| his life remaining.
| bagels wrote:
| You 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 wrote:
| You'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?)
| emerged wrote:
| Hey don't question it, just go enjoy your remaining 60% of
| life! Congrats!
| wheybags wrote:
| I was born in 1992, so all my testing passed - ship it!
| jstx1 wrote:
| At 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.
| unemphysbro wrote:
| You're doing something right ;)
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Getting 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 wrote:
| You can tap the year to select a year
| umbauk wrote:
| You can just click on the year to scroll back quickly
| falcolas wrote:
| A shame there's no affordance to indicate that this is
| available.
| thepaulmcbride wrote:
| Yeah, fair point. I'll try to improve that. Any idea on how
| you'd want to see it done?
| rootusrootus wrote:
| I'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 wrote:
| Ex: 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.
| buildsjets wrote:
| Well, the web 1.0 way to indicate that text was clickable
| was to make it blue and underlined. What was so wrong
| with that convention?
| flubflub wrote:
| I 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.
| throwhauser wrote:
| I 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.
| [deleted]
| coldtea wrote:
| It's the countdown
| joering2 wrote:
| this 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....
| johnny313 wrote:
| This reminds me of momento mori, a philosophical / artistic
| practice of remembering your own death [0].
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
| ngngngng wrote:
| Do 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.
| yololol wrote:
| For those who don't know:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| This is my coffee mug: https://imgur.com/a/fOtuu7u
| a0-prw wrote:
| I have negative time left. I beat the clock ;)
| jokoon wrote:
| This belongs to an edgy subreddit
| webwielder2 wrote:
| Feeling bad that you're not using your time to the max is one of
| the worst ways to use your time.
| tluyben2 wrote:
| You can spend a minute to think about it though; I know too
| many people who were going to really enjoy themselves after
| getting their pension only to find out they actually hate not
| working or that they in fact hate their hobbies (fishing might
| be nice 1 hour a month when you are relaxing from work, but
| suddenly having 16 hours 7 days a week to fish drives many
| insane) (and so wasting 10+ years being angry, depressed and
| searching) or dying too quickly after. It is strange how people
| who never 'had a little house in Spain (or whatever) in that
| pitoresk village' plan their entire life to that that point
| thinking it is nirvana while they could have done that all
| along.
|
| I know millionaire managers/directors of my age (around 50) say
| this for the past 20+ years and when I ask why they do not do
| it now because a) you might not like it b) you might not make
| it, they seem to find many excuses, some of which are even
| money related (and they have millions _now_ ).
| xwdv wrote:
| So 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 wrote:
| About 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...
| DougN7 wrote:
| I appreciate the idea, but what about preparing for the
| future? Money spent now doesn't compound for later. I'm
| concerned about not being a burden later or leaving my wife
| without enough. There is surely a balance but without a
| crystal ball I wonder how to find it.
| DarylZero wrote:
| There's life insurance.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Travel is the last thing I would want to do, especially if
| I'm old, but that's just me.
|
| The rest of it is pretty accurate. My dad lived about 3
| years after he retired, half of that he was too sick to do
| very much. My mom lived another 6 years after that but the
| last couple of years were not what anyone would really call
| living.
|
| Don't assume you'll be a vital, active, world traveler at
| age 80. It might work out that way, it might not.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Watch a couple of YouTubers that live in the road in their
| RV. Same story: woman had worked in a hospital and saw an
| old couple who had just begun living their lives in their
| "golden years" but the wife ended up dying -- the husband
| was floored at this turn of events in their plans.
|
| he YouTubers hit the road while they still could. Are
| enjoying themselves in a way many of us (still) only dream
| about.
|
| Life is short, kids.
| xwdv wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| The 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.
| xwdv wrote:
| People are so afraid of being an old frail man too poor
| to live that they hoard every dollar they have, not
| realizing they'll be dead soon anyway.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| Yes, and the last part is why I'm more interested in
| passing an inheritance to my kids than I am with doing
| anything with the money myself. The money my parents left
| me largely paid for my kids' college education. I haven't
| really spent it on anything else; I have everything I
| really need, and feel like "paying forward" is the best
| thing I can do with it.
| jimhefferon wrote:
| Also unfruitful is clicking backwards to 1958.
| ejb999 wrote:
| Quick tip: clicking on the year gets you to pick the year at
| least - no way I was going to click all the way back one
| month at a time.
| samwillis wrote:
| As 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.
| dang wrote:
| " _Please don 't complain about tangential annoyances--things
| like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-
| button breakage. They're too common to be interesting._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| Zababa wrote:
| The website is made to show you how much time you have left,
| to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you
| have to enter your date through a date picker. This date
| picker is cumbersome, and makes you waste time. I think this
| is not a tangential annoyance, but a central one. Those two
| things are in opposition, and this detracts a lot from the
| message of this website. If time is so precious, why is my
| time wasted by an unknown file picker with a foreign
| interface?
| samwillis wrote:
| Apologies dang, I regret the post. Quite right pushing it to
| the bottom where it rightly should be.
| wyclif wrote:
| When 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 wrote:
| I 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.
| reidjs wrote:
| Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile
| browsers.
| samwillis wrote:
| Don'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
| [deleted]
| whalesalad wrote:
| I have NAN% life remaining :(
| weregiraffe wrote:
| Well, your life is not a number.
| t212 wrote:
| Yep me too.
| thepaulmcbride wrote:
| Ha, 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!
| crate_barre wrote:
| This 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.
| jvilalta wrote:
| Not 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
| kmbfjr wrote:
| I'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?
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