Y292B Bug
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Y292B Bug
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#3I can't really tell if this is a sort of satire or joke?
It seems to implement BigInts as BCD where each decimal digit gets it's own int32, implements division, then suggests kernel upstreaming. All as a solution for arbitrary spans of time.
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#4Maybe the universe is 64bit? It just starts all over again... and again... and again...
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#5I can't really tell if this is a sort of satire or joke? It seems to implement BigInts as BCD where each decimal digit gets it's own int32, implements division, then suggests kernel upstreaming. All as a solution for arbitrary spans of time.
> The number overflows and the date will jump back 278 billion years before the Big Bang? Needles to say, this needs to be fixed. Luckily, we have 33 life times of our Sun to solve this problem but we could propose some solutions even today.
Based on this, it has to be a joke, or at least a tongue-in-cheek exercise that is "solving" an imaginary problem.
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#6You will have worse problems in 292B years.
In 4.5 billion years we would live in the result of the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda, which will increase our chances of encountering either alien life, or alien artificial entities.
And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant and evaporated all oceans on Earth, will become a white dwarf.
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#7I can't really tell if this is a sort of satire or joke? It seems to implement BigInts as BCD where each decimal digit gets it's own int32, implements division, then suggests kernel upstreaming. All as a solution for arbitrary spans of time.
> The number overflows and the date will jump back 278 billion years before the Big Bang? Needles to say, this needs to be fixed. Luckily, we have 33 life times of our Sun to solve this problem but we could propose some solutions even today. Based on this, it has to be a joke, or at least a tongue-in-cheek exercise that is "solving" an imaginary problem.
hello,
truly, the code can use an optimization, that's why I presented it as an proposition or rather idea. E.g. the digits could be byte. However, the idea is no joke at all. Point was to offer complete software solution, dependable only on hardware.
But I am open to any feedback.
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#8You will have worse problems in 292B years. In 4.5 billion years we would live in the result of the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda, which will increase our chances of encountering either alien life, or alien artificial entities. And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant and evaporated all oceans on Earth, will become a white dwarf.
> And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant
Technically speaking, that would be the end of our problems unless
> the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda
won't finish us first or... some stray asteroid of sufficiently lethal size and speed bumps into our green/blue golf ball
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#9The Linux kernel keeps time as a 64-bit integer, but it's in nanoseconds, not seconds. It's a Y2262 problem.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The number overflows and the date will jump back 278 billion years before the Big Bang? Needles to say, this needs to be fixed. Luckily, we have 33 life times of our Sun to solve this problem but we could propose some solutions even today. Based on this, it has to be a joke, or at least a tongue-in-cheek exercise that is "solving" an imaginary problem.
hello, truly, the code can use an optimization, that's why I presented it as an proposition or rather idea. E.g. the digits could be byte. However, the idea is no joke at all. Point was to offer complete software solution, dependable only on hardware. But I am open to any feedback.
>the idea is no joke
It's not? But it's predicated on the idea that human life hundreds of billions of years from now will be more or less the same as it is now, to the extent that they'll even still be using the same APIs and OSs. It's difficult to believe someone would posit that as anything other than a joke.