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gitowiec•14 minutes ago

So what is it for? To know how life periods span and change one into another? I like it but I am struggling to find a use case

unixhero•about 2 hours ago

Yeah no I don't want to use lifetime trackers on myself. It is a trigger for depression

lynndotpy•about 2 hours ago

I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.

staticshock•about 1 hour ago

Are you saying that a better way to measure perceived time is something like "1 year, 2 more years, 4 more years, 8 more years," starting from birth, and maybe call each of those increments a "log year"? I like it.

I guess the "natural" base to use to get the "right" number of increments is a pointless exercise, since it ultimately bottoms out in the question of "why is a regular year as long as it is?", but if we assume a base of 2, I'm currently in my 6th log year, and hope to die comfortably into my 7th. Actuarial odds are >80% in my favor.

lynndotpy•about 1 hour ago

Yes! But I do agree, six or seven units are not enough.

Extending the music analogy, we could call those powers of two "octaves", and divide it into twelve exponentially-spaced steps (i.e. 2^(years/12)).

The break even is about 75 steps (i.e. six octaves and three steps), which is about 76 years, since 2^(75/12) = 76.1.

chuckleplant•about 2 hours ago

Hi, I made this! I don't know how it got to this page. Thanks for the support :)

staticshock•about 2 hours ago

Love it!

Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods.

Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.

chuckleplant•about 1 hour ago

What platform / browser? Note that if you opened through a shared link you may be in view only mode. If that's the case I'll try making it more obvious

chuckleplant•about 1 hour ago

nevermind, got a repro. thanks

chuckleplant•about 1 hour ago

Bug is fixed, request backlogged :)

cagz•about 1 hour ago

I like how far mature adulthood goes :) One never gets old.

russellbeattie•23 minutes ago

As a 54 year old, viewing the grid with the Weber-Fechner "psychophysics" grid is depressing as hell. Thanks.

aiscoming•about 2 hours ago

the design is so beautiful

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