this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
150 points (98.7% liked)

Programming

17344 readers
150 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev



founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Droggl@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have to reboot every 136 years, literally unusable.

[–] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bappity@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Time to call a doctor 😳