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[-] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 2 years ago

Have to reboot every 136 years, literally unusable.

[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Gosh, if I ever get into the business of writing software for spacecraft with long duration missions, I have to test for such cases.

[-] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I imagine in that line of work, SW must consist of like 99% safeguards and checks of various kinds. Like rather double-check the thing the compiler already proved at runtime than discovering a rare compiler bug in 10 years during a complex oribital descent maneuver...

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago
[-] bappity@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

um ACKSHULLY the year would be 1884 136 years ago from now

[-] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago

Use u64 and it'll be like 585 billion years, think of the uptime!

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Time to call a doctor 😳

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