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by dr_zoidberg 1466 days ago
> Having 1 million users each wait a single second is already 11 days.

This will sound like a nitpick, but it's actually worse. 1 million users waiting a single second is 11,000,000 seconds, right? A day has 86,400 seconds. 11 million divided by 86k is 127.31.

That means million users combined just spent 127 days and 8 hours because of the "just one second" delay.

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Ah that's what happens when I don't have my cup of coffee in the morning. I went from 1 to 11 million in a typo and didn't even reason. So yeah, it was 12,7 days, not 127. Guess I'll double check having my coffee next time I'm doing back-of-the-napkin math /facepalm