I’d never noticed that in this order, it’s almost π!
Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.
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rumba@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Now do 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038!
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
the actual last 32 bit micro happens in 3:14:07 but that’s the wrong way :)
davidgro@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Easy. Just be 64-bit. (Or unsigned, but that’s not as good.)
psud@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I think we’re mostly using 64 bit machines now. Even loads of embedded stuff is running on 64 bit processors now.
There will still be a lot of old software and hardware that needs updating before the 32 bit Unix time overflow
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Hopefully it’s another Y2K nothing burger. (Which was largely because a lot of people prepared for it)
psud@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future
Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed “19”.year
So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Agreed, most of the actual problems seemed to be in reporting. I saw some cobol stuff that went to 1900. There were a few things where 00 wasn’t an option, But mostly it was just really heinously written stuff that wasn’t expected to be in service even in the '90s.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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HereIAm@lemmy.world 4 days ago
“What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machine…”