| ▲ | bombcar 10 hours ago | |
Any 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 | ||
| ▲ | unkl_ 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Posted on HN in 2126: 100 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2126 | ||
| ▲ | dlcarrier 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
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. | ||
| ▲ | tacostakohashi 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
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? | ||
| ▲ | fny 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Who here remembers the fud of Y2K? | ||