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2038 is going to be a fun year.
I know the OpenFirmware in my old SunServer 600MP had the issue. Unfortunately I don’t have to worry about that.
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I opened this on an iPhone which has fewer adblock options. Desktop is better locked down. Regardless I can still complain about how intrusive the ads are.
Don't accept devices that limit your ad blocker options.
These types of comments are always very unhelpful.
About a year ago I was looking at Crash Bandicoot timer systems and I found that Crash 3 has a constantly incrementing int32. It only resets if you die. Left for 2.26 years, it will overflow. When it does finally overflow, we get "minus" time and the game breaks in funny ways. I did a video about it: https://youtu.be/f7ZzoyVLu58
Is it common to default to a signed integer for tracking a timer? I realize being unsigned it would still overflow but at least you'd get twice the time, no?
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I think many games were that way. SotN definitely has a global timer. On a native 32-bit system it makes sense, especially when the life of a game was a few months to a few years on the retail shelf. No player is going to leave their system running for 2.27 years so what’s the point of even tesing it? Who knew at the time they were creating games that would be disassembled, deconstructed, reverse engineered. Do any o…
Let's say youre pedantic with code. Ive been trying to be lately - clippy has an ovefflow lint for rust i try to use. Error: game running for two years, rebooting so you cant cheese a timer. Does this make the bug any better handled? Bugs like this annoy me because they arent easily answered.
Does that hardware traps overflows or something? I had read an article about how DOOMs engine works and noticed how a variable for tracking the demo kept being incremented even after the next demo started. This variable was compared with a second one storing its previous value Doesn't sound like something that would crash, I wonder what was the actual crash
Signed overflow is undefined behavior in C, so pretty much anything could happen. Though this crash seems to be deterministic between platforms and compilers, so probably not about that. TFA says the variable is being compared to its previous value, and that comparison presumably assumes new < old cannot happen. And when it does, it could easily lead to eg. stack corruption. C after all happily goes to UB land if, fo…
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> Microsoft pretty much owns most of PC gaming. So valve next?
They missed that window when Sierra was still the publisher for Half-Life. Besides, Valve is not a publicly traded company and Gabe Newell as former manager at Microsoft has no interest in getting back together. Valve is betting everything on Linux right now to be more independent from Microsoft.
They've been working on Linux support since at least around the time that Microsoft introduced the Windows Store... so for the last twelve years or so.
And, man, a couple of months ago I figured out how to run Steam as a separate user on my Xorg system. Not-at-all-coincidentally, I haven't booted into Windows in a couple of months. Not every game runs [0], but nearly every game in my library does.
I'm really gladdened by the effort put in to making this work.
[0] Aside from the obvious ones with worryingly-intrusive kernel-level anticheat, sometimes there are weird failures like Highfleet just detonating on startup.
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Are there not industrial ones meant to last longer? Maybe you can buy a used but good condition one of those.
There are, and if you really have the workload that you need to cook stuff 24/7 (what in gods name is OP cooking btw?) then you should definitely get one of those. Maybe not even secondhand but just a new one. The cheap consumer grade ones are meant for people who use them once or twice a year. This is a fine example of what I meant about people complaining when they use products beyond their design parameters.
I'm on a mostly carnivore, mostly ruminant meat diet and for costs tend to do a lot of ground beef... I sous vide a bunch of burgers in 1/2lb ring molds, refrigerate and sear off when hungry. This lets me have safer burgers that aren't overcooked. I do 133F for 2.5+ hours.
I also do steaks about once or twice a week. I have to say it's probably the best kitchen investment I could have made in terms of impact on the output quality.
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That doesn't make sense. If new < old cant happen there is no need to make a comparison. Stack corruption? Nah, its a counter not an index or pointer or it would fail sooner. But then what is the failure? IDK
Um, there are the cases new == old and new > old. And all the more specific cases new == old + n. I haven’t seen the code so this is just speculation, but there are plenty of ways how an unexpected, "can never happen" comparison result causes immediate UB because there’s no execution path to handle it, causing garbage to be returned from a function (and if that garbage was supposed to be a pointer, well…) or even exe…
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I run sous vide cookers 24*7, and they uniformly break within 90 days or less. But they don't like to admit their smaller duty cycle, so they don't, and keep sending me warranty replacements instead. I keep buying different brands looking for one with a longer life. I'll bet most people do that when their gadgets die, and purposely making products that die as soon as sold isn't often a successful business model.
Are there not industrial ones meant to last longer? Maybe you can buy a used but good condition one of those.