People always say that about speed of light stuff, but I don’t get it. Do you have any more examples of counterintuitive math?
Because what you’re describing is basically the equivalent to compound interest in finance. (e.g. investing $100 at 10% interest over 10 years results in $260)
- [pic](https://home.davidgoffredo.com/hackernews/proper-time-one-li...)
- [plot](https://home.davidgoffredo.com/hackernews/proper-time-one-li...)
I'm not saying that I couldn't fire up Cloudflare Warp, but I think it's a legit issue for average users [0]?
Or I could go back to IPv4 with dynamic DNS, but that would mean changing domain registrars.
david@carbon12:~ $ dig +short AAAA home.davidgoffredo.com
2603:7000:5101:de1c::cafe:babe
1,000 seconds = ~0.01 days (~17 min)
1,000,000 seconds = ~11.57 days (~12 days)
1,000,000,000 seconds = ~11,574.07 days (~32 years)
1,000,000,000,000 seconds = ~11,574,074.07 days (~32k years)
Maybe it's just our human calendar/time unit rollercoaster (60*60*24*30*12) that's playing tricks on us here.
But it isn't intuitive, you're not used to numbers that big or that grow that fast.
Few things go from a million to a billion, especially when related to time.
I find it frustrating that people seem to think that someone going from 1M to 1B is somehow different to other numerical operations. It's not. It's 1000 times bigger, it's not a huge deal.
Somehow people are interpreting this as some kind of math trick.
It's not a trick, our brains are not wire to deal with numbers growing quickly, but we do understand the math.