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Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure. (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by intelati@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (2^6) and was caught by a 2^7s check (127s)

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[โ€“] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what do we say to the god of software bugs ruining our space exploration? not today!

one of these days, we will finally say it, but not today ๐Ÿ˜†

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs#Space

[โ€“] wahming@monyet.cc 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not today, because the date overflowed a counter somewhere.

[โ€“] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Days since last timezone incident: -1