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Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life

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When I read the page I though "yeah right, dead honest but no slot for wanking!" :) But it's there, 852 hours for watching porn. If the guy started at age 14 that turns out to about 12.5 minutes per day.

Does it strike anybody else as incredibly low, especially accounting for teenage years? Or do I have a problem ... On the poop front though that seems incredibly high to me. That's 15 minutes a day assuming you do it every day.

I have at least 3~4x that. Hyper-sexuality started when I was nine. :(

If its not every day then it averages downward very quickly

I cannot spend less than 15 minutes on the toilet when I’m pooping. It’s a universal law.

The question is how does one quantify a poop. Some will quantify just the act but we all know there's more to the ritual and usually involves at least 10 minutes on here or Reddit.

Part of the solution to this puzzle is daydreaming porn to wank, which is not on the chart.

Who starts at 14? That's too late.

As the comment below mentions, it starts much higher, then slows down.

IDK. I'm over 50 and still do it most days.

Math checks out on a gut level, based my experience doing a few hundred whole-life scale calendar models over the past year. There is a lot missing in the small stuff, but in general it seems right-ish. There is probably a curve of diminishing returns when you try to get it too accurate, because the meta analysis starts to show up as a function.

OP if you want to move your numbers to a piece of software to map it out in higher res, would be super fun to iterate it forward to more definition.

(https://sundialcalendar.com/ is the software)

There is no software to speak of on this website. It’s more like what I’d expect from a cult recruitment site.

The page keeps reloading for me on Brave on iOS. And sadly text is not very legible on Mobile, but I see a big chunk of time labeled Hacker News, which seems realistic to me.

Yeah, it's not designed for mobile (if you can call "let's build a treemap of life" a design). Even on large 4k screen some entries won't fit text.

The reloading is a hack not to have to learn d3 chart reflowing. And a dirty one at that.

Hacker News: 3.7%

School (10 grades): 3.82%

Sounds right to me.

Porn:sex ratio of only 4 sounds amazing

Considering those are guesstimates, you are probably right. Probably porn estimate is off by up ~2x. Most of it is high school and early uni, and how much time exactly it took back then is hard to remember by 30.

> Probably porn estimate is off by up ~2x. Most of it is high school and early uni

Lol, I bet for many it's actually the opposite...

...trying to understand how CSS grid works - 99.99% ))

CSS is the f*cking reason I stay as far away as possible from web frontend.

The whole page took maybe a few hours to make, but I gave up horizontally aligning text on the cells after 30 or so minutes wasted on it.

  justify-content: center;

It does not work on wrapped lines!

Try doing justify-content: center; and text-align: center;

CSS definitely sucks if you're not used to it, but seeing what pros can do in a few lines of CSS is incredible to me.

I love CSS, it was tricky to learn but worth the time!

I've been running ManicTime ( https://www.manictime.com/ ) for, geez, more than a decade now (Wikipedia says its first release was in 2008), and on my "Do Someday" list is an analysis of those hours. It would also tell me when I was at my desk since it logs presence/away hours as well when the computer got started/shut down. I guess the percentage of waking hours spent in front of the computer will be tragic.

Also tragic will be the many hours of reddit on there, as well as more recently HN.

I wonder if this takes into account multitasking. If I poop for 1 hour while reading HN, I can't just add the two percentages separately or the total will exceed 100%, so I have to count the 1 hour twice to normalize. If I do this every day, I get that I spent 1/25 of my time reading HN; however, it's really 1/24 of my time (since pooping is essentially automated away). Same for washing dishes etc.

Could be interesting to add a field for simultaneity and then removing the "boring parts done while doing fun parts" bits to gain another point of view.

Good lord who poops for an hour? It takes me about 60 seconds including clean-up.

Not taken from real life, just a nice whole number to simplify computations :)

You should consider becoming a stool donor: https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/FMT

Oh...man...DOTA w3 and DOTA2. When ever I hear people talking about "having to deal with toxic community of X game" my mind immediately thinks "you probably haven't played DOTA".

Some MOBA history! An early derivative of DOTA, Heroes of Newerth (HoN), came out a bit before DOTA 2 and was at one time competing with LOL for the top DOTA clone. HoN had chosen a much closer to DOTA approach and was for its first 2 years almost an exact clone with a new snappy engine. All the DOTA purists went here and as a result, it was the most toxic video game community I've ever experienced. Great game but it had a very clear impact on one's mental health and attitude.

For me DOTA2 flame war experience has gotten much better over the years and is 10 times better than how it was in DOTA1. Perhaps it is the ease of setting up or it's the younger generation who is more chill or it's perhaps Valves banning system... I don't know to be honest. Occasionally DOTA2 still can be used as Russian language (involuntary) learning platform on EU servers. In general, long gone are the days where 10 minutes into the game I would get a comment from a player describing what he is doing or is going to do with/to my mother.

Dota 2 is the game where I had the most fun with strangers. I never played ranked games though, so that's probably why I have so many good memories.

Making one of these myself showed me exactly how many hours I was wasting on social media that I could have been spending on something I actually enjoyed.

Why is "being under 3 years old" not a "required bit"?

There are a few like that, that would be double purpose: this, and HN, Habr, reading books, and Coding 4 Fun being 50/50 chilling/education.

Also as another comment mentions most of pooping after 6yo coincided with some sort of reading, but they still have separate entries.

How was this measured? Or is it only approximation/assumption?

Many of it is of the same kind as "how many ping pongs can fit into a school bus" assisted by known total time spent and yanking values to feel right relative to each other. I think it worked well.

getting to school 1k hours

work commute 2k hours

higher edu studying 2k hours

porn 800h

wc 4k hours

hmm, pretty interesting.

Hacker News 10k hours… I shudder to think. If this is tracked, please leave me in my blissful ignorance!

10,000 hours is how much time you need to master something apparently, so he should be really good at HN now.

Unlike Habr, which is hosting original IT content, HN just does links, so this number is a small lie. Small because as we get more experienced, it makes more sense to read comments only, as articles themselves often contain not enough new information to spend time on.

Same applies to r/MachineLearning: I read comments, then optionally read PDF on arxiv, later being included into the corresponding cell.

I wish this had more informations on data collection, data presentation and a friendlier mobile interface.

Well done

More time coding for fun than playing dota or internet flaming combined?

Suspicious troll face picture here :)

Dota only exists for so long.

We have the same hours clocked on DOTA & DOTA 2; It became a big part of growing up.

I am still playing it on a weekly basis.

well... now i know about C&C2 Yuri and habr... so there goes the rest of the quarter...this is dangerous in the wrong hands

Only 140 hours in Factorio? Doubt.

It is incredibly easy to beat passively if you leave the factory to run overnight a few times.

No kids yet. No convalescing yet.

homm3 & habr -> russian? :)

There's Dota so yes, probably Russian

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