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anakaineyesterday at 9:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Doomsday Clock has been set so consistently high as to be completely meaningless as a benchmark.


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ksherlockyesterday at 9:33 PM

Too true. They need to do an emacs^1 and switch from a 24-hour clock to a 2 minute egg timer.

1. emacs version 30.2 is actually 1.30.2 but the 1. will never change so it was dropped 40 years ago.

unethical_banyesterday at 10:38 PM

According to Iron Maiden, it used to be at two minutes, now it's at 85 seconds.