alt Hacker NewsAny time constant will be exceeded someday.
An impossibly short period of time after the heat death of the universe on a system that shouldn’t even exist: ERROR TIME_TEST FAILURE
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tclancy • today at 1:27 AM
This is why I always use the year 2525. Not my problem, assuming man is still alive.
dlcarrier • yesterday at 8:46 PM
Most updates to avoid the 2038 problem really just delay it until 10889. Maybe in eight in a half millennia, they will have figured out something that lasts longer.
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tacostakohashi • yesterday at 5:23 PM
Yep - that's why I always choose my time constants to be during years when I will be retired, or possibly dead.
If you're going to kick the can down the road, why not kick it pretty far?
Posted on HN in 2126: 100 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2126