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Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666
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- protomyth 4y agoWell, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes. I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it neighbor of the beast (US streets have odd on one side and even house numbers on the other).
- hobo_mark 4y ago...as in Europe (but I am certain there are exceptions and am looking forward to the replies pointing out where that is not the case)
- ajay-d 4y agorelated maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime
- kuschku 4y agohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockwise.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockw...
- contravariant 4y agoI don't know of any country that uses an entirely different system, but I'm willing to bet each country has a couple of exceptions somewhere.
- etamponi 4y agoIIRC, Japan uses (or used?) to number buildings in chronological order.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoObligatory: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
- stardenburden 4y agoBerlin uses a different system in the older parts of the city https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-house-numbers-map.html?m=1 https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-hous...
- bloak 4y agoWikipedia describes two systems in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom According to both those systems, if you look down the street from the end where number 1 is (which is always the open end of a cul-de-sac), then number 1 is the first house on your left. I'd be interested to hear about any exceptional cases in which number one is on your right.
- 867-5309 4y ago"Triablo"
- MisterTea 4y ago> Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes. Our machines have been possessed by daemons for years so I'm not at all worried.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThat is not a strict rule. I grew up in a neighborhood where houses were numbered by the order the lots sold. They were effectively random.
- protomyth 4y agoI know. I grew up on a road with no name that numbered the houses with an odd cadence. But, well mannered neighborhoods have stuck with the scheme such that most people recognize the reference.
- yewenjie 4y agoHappy Halloween.
- xeromal 4y agoHappy All Hallows Eve!
- gerikson 4y agoIn about 13 hours at time of writing, so today in most US timezones.
- nixcraft 4y agoHere is how to get the date from the Unix timestamp (GNU/Linux coreutils): date -d @1666666666 macOS/bsd coreutils: date -r 1666666666
- proxysna 4y agoGot a bit curious. date -d @6666666666 Wed 04 Apr 2181 01:51:06 PM CEST
- dillon 4y agoI also got curious → date -d '@2222222222' Fri Jun 1 08:57:02 PM PDT 2040
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou're implying there's time past 2038-01-19T03:14:07? That's ridiculous.
- hbarka 4y agoIn PostgreSQL: SELECT to_timestamp(1666666666);
- out-of-ideas 4y agoi like your style; but im still trying to quit vi
- Akronymus 4y agoThis key sequence should work no matter which mode you are currently in. <esc> :qa! <enter> It discards all changes in all buffers though.
- dylan604 4y agoGuess what else will happen, Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,667, then 1,666,666,668, etc. That actually looks like the rent on the old office facility at a company I worked for, only a few decimal places to the left: $16,666.66/month <shudder>
- abruzzi 4y agowe humans tend to enjoy numerology for some reason. I remember turning 55,555.5 miles on my motorcycle and stopping to take a photo. It turns out I was on a small back road with a 55mph speed limit, and I was close to a "Speed Limit 55", unfortunately I could get that into the photo as well.
- r2_pilot 4y agoThat's definitely some Law of 5's probability field distortion there.
- DavidSharff 4y agoIt would have been a beautiful "footprints in the sand" moment if you had turned off the ignition and carried the motorcycle those last hundred feet for the photo.
- dylan604 4y agoSeems like walking the bike to a better position to get that photo might have been worth it
- whalesalad 4y agoat ~10:57EST i'll be toasting this event with some kind of intoxicant
- macintux 4y agoEDT. It would be a shame if you missed it by an hour.
- whalesalad 4y agoI use them interchangeably which is a bad habit I need to work on.
- lucb1e 4y agoWell, I missed it
- tingletech 4y agoI went to a party (I think EFF sponsored it) at golden gate park when we hit 1,000,000,000
- ariedro 4y agoTwo days before 9/11 happens, talk about creepy numerology.
- tiagod 4y agoI went and checked 2000000000. It will happen on 2033-05-18T03:33:20.000Z (edited)
- mzzter 4y agoAssuming 2000000000 is unix seconds, epochconverter.com converts it to Wednesday, May 18, 2033 3:33:20 AM GMT.
- tiagod 4y agoMy bad, thank you for the correction. I had converted it properly to 2033 but decided I wanted to switch to the format with ms. Ended up adding a zero in the process without checking the output (other than the .000 being there). Edited
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- jtylr 4y agoI think you've added an extra 0 in there. $ date -r 2000000000 Wed 18 May 2033 04:33:20 BST $ date -r 20000000000 Tue 11 Oct 2603 12:33:20 BST
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- dis-sys 4y agorealizing that I would be long gone by 2603, your reply made me really sad. then I realized that your calculation is obviously wrong. can I sue you for such such emotional distress?
- groffee 4y agoIt's kind of funny people are so obsessed with 666 when it's a mistranslation, the actual number was 616.
- colejohnson66 4y agoCitation?
- reitanqild 4y agoseriously? If so, what is then meant with the statement about it being "the number of a man"?
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoThe popular theory is that it referred to Emperor Nero. The author was basically telling you, "I'm making an allegory right now. Wink wink, nudge nudge."
- whatshisface 4y agoThat theory has never made a lot of sense to me because the persecution of Christians wasn't a big secret.
- lupire 4y agoIt's generally dangerous to talk about things everyone knows, when the thing everyone knows is how evil the local power structure is.
- w00d3nsp4c3m4n 4y agoWhat is the exact unix time for "a cold day in hell"?
- stvnbn 4y agowhy is this relevant?
- sweetbitter 4y agoPresumably channers seeking to claim the glory of a 1666666666 GET.
- timwaagh 4y agoAnd Lucifer shall walk the earth
- jl6 4y agoClosing in on the Y2K38 problem.
- onion2k 4y agoNooooo! The Y2K38 problem is already here. It is not a problem that will happen in 2038. It is a problem with storing and processing dates past 2038. For example, if you work in a bank and you have a system to store mortgage information that includes the epoch timestamp that someone's 25 year mortgage will end that means you need to store a date that is in 2047. If you do that using an epoch timestamp on a system that's using a 32 bit timestamp it'll overflow and return a date before the epoch instead. Do not imagine that Y2K38 is something to put off until nearer the time. You need to be thinking about it right now.
- lupire 4y agoWhat's wrong with dates before the epoch? Subtraction of rolled over unsigned ints works.
- lucb1e 4y agoSo long as you know it was before 1970, and after 1970-(2038-1970)=1902, you can recover the original date, yes.
- coderintherye 4y agoI'm kind of both horrified and impressed that this very solution is likely in place in some codebases.
- onion2k 4y agoThe fix itself doesn't need to be complicated for it to be hard to actually implement. A lot of apps that are affected probably haven't been deployed in years. Some won't have any source code available. Others won't have any docs, or tests, or even developers who know the right language. Fixing simple issues in old apps is hard.
- bloopernova 4y agoTo pretty print the Unix timestamp in your ZSH prompt, you can use something like this: function prompt_epoch() { printf -v COMMA_EPOCH "%'d" ${EPOCHSECONDS} p10k segment -f 66 -t ${COMMA_EPOCH} } It relies on zmodload zsh/datetime to get EPOCHSECONDS. In the example above I'm using it with the powerlevel10k prompt.
- fimdomeio 4y agoThis should be a comemoration of the things that are easy for computers to read and look like a representation of hell for humans. We can't in any way find meaning in what 1,666,666,666 seconds are, we can only atribute some magical evil meaning to a number. We would start the party with google deep dream, move to algorithms hiring and firing people, crime prediction, some guy ranting that his life was ruined when youtube close his account and the impossibility of talking to a human, and then would end with a bang reaching 1,666,666,666. I am a fun party planner.
- user8501 4y agoI think it is often an incorrect assumption that the people who flaunt numbers like this are being tongue in cheek. 77
- Reason077 4y agoTime flies. Seems like just yesterday the clock hit 1,000,000,000 (Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001)
- altares 4y agoPraise the sun!
- Ruq 4y agoWhy did I just get "Dawn of the Final Day" vibes?
- 9front 4y agoApple I was priced at $666.66. Look at what Apple became, a beast!
- cygx 4y agoAt that time, a total of 1,666,666,693 seconds will have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT as Unix time pretends leap seconds don't exist...
- lucb1e 4y agoHmmm, am I wrong in understanding that, by pretending leap seconds don't exist, the unix time actually represents how many seconds passed rather than what time time is now? (Where a second is as long as every other second, not smearing out the leap second across the whole year. I.e. by the cesium standard definition.) user@debian:~$ qalc "$(date -d 2022-01-01T00:00:00+0000 +%s)"/3600/24/365.25 ((1640995200 / 3600) / 24) / 365.25 = 52 Precisely 52 years' worth of seconds, which I guess also tells me that there have been an integer number of leap years since then. Either way, at 1666666666, 1666666666 seconds will have passed rather than ...693 no? The extra 27 seconds are either for keeping the sun at its zenith when the clock strikes noon (not that that is even close to true where I live, it's off by more than an hour) or for keeping winter in December. I can never remember which, although we already have leap days for keeping December in winter (in this hemisphere) so I think it must be the 24-hour variable rotation speed thing. If you want to define 1666666666 as having +27 seconds passed since 1970 started, you would have to redefine the length of the second every time a leap second is announced, I think. I find this all tough to wrap my head around, though, so it can very well be that I'm wrong here.
- cygx 4y agoHmmm, am I wrong in understanding that, by pretending leap seconds don't exist, the unix time actually represents how many seconds passed rather than what time time is now? It's the other way around: Unix time pretends every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and consequently, you can calculate the current time of day by taking the respective modulus. However, this comes at the cost that the difference between two unix timestamps does not yield a duration in seconds in general.
- joshspankit 4y agoThe choice to go along with leap seconds was one of the bigger crimes against precision...
- polotics 4y agoIf anybody's interested, there is a best-guess on why the heck 666 was declared to be the "number of the beast" in ancient scriptures: It's a statement that each one of us is our own worst enemy, as this is the number you can easily make an image of with your left hand. The fact that this was inadvertently recycled into the WP gesture is abysmally hilarious.
- adamrezich 4y agoI would've thought that by 2022 everyone would have finally realized that the "OK hand sign emoji = white supremacist secret hand sign" thing was literally a 4chan troll job. people still don't actually think white supremacists make the "OK" sign with their fingers as some kind of secret signal to each other, do they?
- jaywalk 4y ago> people still don't actually think white supremacists make the "OK" sign with their fingers as some kind of secret signal to each other, do they? The only people who ever thought that, though it because the news told them so. Since the news hasn't told them it's not true, they still think it is.
- bena 4y agoThis is one of those things where fiction becomes truth. While it may have initially started as such, unless you can also prove that every single white supremacist also knew it was a joke, it kind of became a white supremacist hand sign. It's an issue with satire in general. Eventually there will be someone too stupid to see it as satire. And then you get into Schrodinger's racist territory. Being an asshole ironically is still being an asshole.
- adamrezich 4y ago> unless you can also prove that every single white supremacist also knew it was a joke, it kind of became a white supremacist hand sign. 4chan is an anonymous imageboard, anyone can post anything, anyone can "meme" anything into being a "hate symbol". it doesn't seem like a very good idea to allow 4chan trolls to literally dictate societal norms, especially the creation of "hate symbols". at some point one must realize that such "hate symbols" literally only have as much power as you're willing to grant them—so why grant them any?
- sieste 4y agoI won't upvote because it currently has 166 points.
- westurner 4y agoApproximations of Pi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_π https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_π > In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes proved the sharp inequalities 223⁄71 < π < 22⁄7, by means of regular 96-gons (accuracies of 2·10−4 and 4·10−4, respectively). 223/71 = 3.1408450704225 666/212 = 3.1415094339622 π = 3.14159265359 22/7 = 3.1428571428571 Is π a good radix for what types of math in addition to Trigonometry? And then what about e for natural systems; the natural log. "Why do colliding blocks compute pi?" https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/clacks-solution https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/clacks-solution https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/r29vm5/rational_approximations_of_pi/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/r29vm5/rationa... ... Geogebra: https://www.geogebra.org/m/BhxyBJUZ https://www.geogebra.org/m/BhxyBJUZ : > The applet shows the old method used to approximate the value of π. Archimedes used a 96-sided polygons to find that the value of π is 223/71 < π < 22/7 (3.1408 < π < 3.1429). In 1630, an Austrian astronomer Christoph Grienberger found a 38-digit approximation by using 10^40-sided polygons. This is the most accurate approximation achieved by this method.
- sbf501 4y agoFun fact: Unix timestamp will eventually be every integer number from 1 to 4294967295
- zokier 4y agoExcept if we have a negative leap second at some point
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- eska 4y agoImplying it hasn’t already been every integer number from 1 to 4294967295..
- fanf2 4y agoThe 1970 epoch was set in 1973 so time_t (as currently specified) never had values less than 100,000,000 https://dotat.at/@/2014-11-22-nerdy-trivia-about-unix-time-t.html https://dotat.at/@/2014-11-22-nerdy-trivia-about-unix-time-t...
- sbf501 4y agoThat's funny! I never really thought about WHEN it was adopted. I guess I just assumed every nerd sat around on Dec 31, 1969 and pressed a button 1 sec after 11:59 GMT. (Clearly I'm joking, please don't correct me, folks!)
- tragomaskhalos 4y agoThe number of the beast is pretty explicitly the exact number six hundred and sixty six, not 'six six six', so any other concatenation of the digits should really be meh even to the apocalyptically inclined.
- greenbit 4y agoYou know, "2 out of 3 ain't bad"
- joshspankit 4y agoIn this case, one out of three is bad
- shashurup 4y agoSomething like 30 years ago I came across a magazine in which there was a calendar with set of events for each day so that you can have a pretext to drink everyday. After a while the idea of a similar service came to mind - a program which would figure the nearest "round" number of seconds, minutes, days in hex, oct, bin etc. So it is more than 20 years already and I'm still thinking it would be great to implement it finally.
- greenbit 4y agoWhy didn't 1,618,033,998 get this much buzz?? Is there a rational explanation for this?
- nimih 4y agoYeah, I can't figure out what the hell the significance of 1,666,666,666 is. I'm usually able to suss these things out, but I'm having a devil of a time on this one.
- extragood 4y agoOne of my favorite questions from my take home interview is: > I just turned 1 billion seconds old. What day was I born? > Show your work. Bonus points for precise second. Most people would do it the hard way - determine the number of days in 1 billion seconds, and then work backwards to get the date. The approach that I look for (and surprisingly few people thought to do) was to get the current unix timestamp, remove the leading 1 (billions) and get the datetime for that timestamp.
- greenbit 4y agoI know it's irrational but now I'm looking forward to 1732050808