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Negative Steps (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by mac@programming.dev to c/software_gore@programming.dev
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[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Did you walk more than 2,147,483,647 steps so it overflowed and went around into the negatives?

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

No 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 steps

[-] astraeus@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would walk 4,611,686,018,427,387 miles and I would walk 4,611,686,018,427,387 more just to be the man who walks 9,223,372,036,854,774 miles to fall down at your door

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My dude moonwalks everywhere.

[-] Vendul@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Walking backwards makes you unfit

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Are you left handed or walking against the spin of the earth?

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Can someone guess how this happens?

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Random possible explanation:

  • Steps are not recorded as a single number, but instead as a list of timestamped+GPS'd events (probably in small batches rather than per-step). This is the data they'd want to collect about you if their goal was to monetise your habits.
  • "Number of steps" on the UI parses this list of step batches to work out how many steps you have taken, but also subtracts a previous number from it (eg global number of steps at start of day) to get just the steps for today.
  • Timetravel caused by timezone change or daylight savings. The global number of steps at start of day ends up bigger than the sum of steps batches. Perhaps the sum of steps batches only gets processed up until "now" and "now" has moved backwards.
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