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Maybe he's prepping for the year 10,000 problem: [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs#Year_10,000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w

• lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  > The year 292,277,026,596 problem (about 2.9×1011 years in the future) will occur when the 64-bit Unix time overflows after UTC 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December, AD 292,277,026,596. I wish I could somehow exist a few years prior to this time with the knowledge I have now, while somehow most computer systems are still a) using 64-bit systems and b) using the start of 1970 on the Earth-based -- keep in mind that the Sun is dead by this point after having expanded beyond Earth’s orbit, destroying the planet -- Gregorian calendar as The Beginning Of Time. Good to know how much time we have to fix that problem, though.
  • kragen 3y ago
    we can totally stabilize the sun as a white dwarf in only a few hundred million years if that's what we want