“A short time?” Jeffreyssai said incredulously. “How many minutes in thirty days? Hiriwa?”
“28800, sensei,” she answered. “If you assume sixteen-hour waking periods and daily sleep, then 19200 minutes.”I would have expected the answers to be 43200 (30d 24h/d 60/h) and 28800 (30d 16h/d 60/h), respectively. Do these people use another system for specifying time? It works out correctly if their hours have 40 minutes each.
Aside from that, this is an extremely insightful and quote-worthy post.
I have^W^W My idiotic past-selves had a bad tendency to cognitively slow down in the absence of interesting and time-critical problems to solve. Accordingly, I find the hints about how to debug those tendencies very interesting.
I find it rather quaint that those people still spend a significant part of their time sleeping, however.
“28800, sensei,” she answered. “If you assume sixteen-hour waking periods and daily sleep, then 19200 minutes.”I would have expected the answers to be 43200 (30d 24h/d 60/h) and 28800 (30d 16h/d 60/h), respectively. Do these people use another system for specifying time? It works out correctly if their hours have 40 minutes each.
Aside from that, this is an extremely insightful and quote-worthy post. I have^W^W My idiotic past-selves had a bad tendency to cognitively slow down in the absence of interesting and time-critical problems to solve. Accordingly, I find the hints about how to debug those tendencies very interesting. I find it rather quaint that those people still spend a significant part of their time sleeping, however.