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This is clearly because 1970 is the Unix epoch when this version of the simulation began. It took about a year for things to get sufficiently out of whack so th
by ohyes 6y ago
This is clearly because 1970 is the Unix epoch when this version of the simulation began. It took about a year for things to get sufficiently out of whack so that stuff started to diverge in a noticeable way. I hope our implementors are proud of me for making reference to the simulation that we're all in.
- qsort 6y agounironically still a better theory than the op.
- ehnto 6y agoThe simulation the implementers are in doesn't allow for nested references.
- 0-_-0 6y agoHey, don't crash the simulation! I haven't had dinner yet.
- davidkuhta 6y agoThat would be the revised simulation history, the original did actually diverge in 1971. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11573024/when-was-unix-epoch-time-revised-from-1971-to-current-1970-value https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11573024/when-was-unix-e...
- ohyes 6y agothat is a really interesting tidbit of unix lore.
- RhysU 6y agoA coworker and I were recently indulging in dark humor about pandemics being due to load shedding required on account of unexpected simulator platform downtime.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoIf we start defining irrational values ad infinitum (supposing that they're generated by the simulation on the fly as opposed to set, infinite constants), will that kernel panic their machines as their RAM and swap partitions overflow?
- firethief 6y agoApparently it was no longer enough to frequency-scale the lower-utilization human brains.
- Nition 6y agoThis explains why US GDP at the end of 1969 was right on 1 trillion. It's a default starting value.