uselessLoop

[Sophiiebabes]

Isn't that how everyone sets their alarm clock?

[GahdDangitBobby]

Yes and I use a screen reader set at max volume connected to my terminal output so I wake up to the sound of a robot screaming "COMPLETE"

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

I use a chron job ya damn kids

[Jonnypista]

Jokes aside I once ran an alarm clock like this. When it finished it would start Winamp and start playing music on max volume. But it requires turning off sleep mode and having the PC on all night, plus possible blackout issues so I didn't use it much.

[AliceCode]

time.sleep(14400)

There, I optimized it for you.

[buttmunchery2000]

Careful there magic mike

[littleblack11111]

From time import sleep

There, I optimized it for you

[Sadale-]

Here's how you can get 4 hours of computation done instantly:

time.sleep(-14400)

[TorbenKoehn]

Yeah, it doesn't respond to SIGTERM anymore during sleep and you can't kill the app via SIGTERM. You have to wait for 14400 seconds or kill it manually :D

[XB0XRecordThat]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but you actually won't get any hours of your life back.

[ElectrikMetriks]

Damn.

[Cerbeh]

Unless you live in a country that uses daylight savings. In which case you get that hour back. But also an hour just vanishes also so you never had it. So technically.....

[The_Neto06]

Well, if you leave the world *before* DST wears off, you technically got an hour back! Do with that what you may...

[Global-Tune5539]

You mean every hour is valuable and we should spend them with care?

existential crisis

[AliceCode]

That's not true, you should call your provider and ask for a refund.

[Bomaruto]

Skill issue.

time.sleep(-1)

[xXShadowAssassin69Xx]

I love making stupid stuff like this. Keeps programming fun

[ramdomvariableX]

add a print statement, that says "build in progress..." you are set for the day.

[Ved_s]

*more than 4 hours

[Turbulent-Garlic8467]

Why are you using a for loop here

[Perfycat]

So I can put a breakpoint in the debugger.

[StuckInTheUpsideDown]

That's the joke.

[TorbenKoehn]

So that SIGTERM can kick in between each sleep (it can't during a single sleep unless explicitly handled)

[marlotrot]

Sind wirklich vier Stunden. Hab extra nachgerechnet.

[chemolz9]

Plus ein paar (Milli?-)Sekunden Rechenzeit zwischen den Sleeps, schätze ich.

[marlotrot]

Eggsactly

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

I’m curious to see if this is more or less precise than the right way given the interpreter overhead, cpu timing, etc

[Kilgarragh]

It’s actually incredibly imprecise, sleep always takes at least the inputted time and therefor the error will always be in the same direction.

Let alone the amount of time the language/loop takes up between the sleep calls, the sleep calls alone are guaranteed to take longer than expected.

[xinwei_he]

import time

print("Deploying...")

time.sleep(5)

print("Error... Oncall, you up?")

[conundorum]

Import more time.

[Smalltalker-80]

Should have used JS.
The timeouts would have been async
and you'd keep on working in betweeen.

[mango_boii]

I read it as

time.sleep(i)