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They’re just kicking the can down the road. What will people do on December 4, 292277026596, at 15:30:07 UTC?
by efitz 1y ago
They’re just kicking the can down the road. What will people do on December 4, 292277026596, at 15:30:07 UTC?
- Ekaros 1y agoHopefully by them we have moved to better calendar... Not that it will change the timestamp issue.
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoBy that time we will have technology to spin Earth to keep calendar intact.
- freehorse 1y agoAnd also modify earth's orbit to get rid of the annoying leap seconds.
- saalweachter 1y ago"To account for calendar drift, we will be firing the L4 thrusters for six hours Tuesday. Be sure not to look directly at the thrusters when firing, to avoid having your retinas melt." "... still better than leap seconds."
- zokier 1y agorotation, not orbit.
- b3lvedere 1y agoStar Trek stardates?
- mrlonglong 1y agoToday, right now it's -358519.48
- greenavocado 1y agoEverything on the surface of the Earth will vaporize within 5 billion years as the sun becomes a red giant
- mike-cardwell 1y agoNah. 5 billion years from now we'll have the technology to move the Earth to a survivable orbit.
- swayvil 1y agoOr modify the sun.
- speed_spread 1y agoOh please, we're just getting past this shared mutable thing.
- technothrasher 1y agoNot in my backyard. I paid a lot of money to live on this gated community planet, and I'm not letting those dirty Earthlings anywhere near here.
- EbNar 1y agoOrbit around... what, exactly?
- petesergeant 1y agoThe sun, just, from further away
- red-iron-pine 1y agoor we'll be so far away from earth we won't care. or we'll have failed to make it through the great filter and all be long extinct.
- juped 1y ago
- zaik 1y agoCelebrate 100 years since complete ipv6 adoption.
- IgorPartola 1y agoI think you are being too optimistic. Interplanetary Grade NAT works just fine and doesn’t have the complexity of using colons instead of periods in its addresses.
- klabb3 1y agoThe year is 292277026596. The IP TTL field of max 255 has been ignored for ages and would no longer be sufficient to ping even localhost. This has resulted in ghost packets stuck in circular routing loops, whose original source and destination have long been forgotten. It's estimated these ghost packets consume 25-30% of the energy from the Dyson sphere.
- pyinstallwoes 1y agoThat’s only 25-30% of the energy environmental disaster in sector 137 resulting from the Bitcoin cluster inevitably forming a black hole from the plank scale space-filling compute problem.
- bestouff 1y agoNot since the world opted for statistical TTL decrement : start at 255 and decrement by one if Rand(1024) == 0. Voilà, no more zombie packets, TCP retransmit takes care of the rest.
- MisterTea 1y agoSounds like a great sci-fi plot - hunting for treasure/information by scanning ancient forgotten packets still in-flight on a neglected automated galactic network.
- rootbear 1y agoVernor Vinge could absolutely have included that in some of his stories.
- tmtvl 1y agoMove to 128-bit time.
- HPsquared 1y agoBest to switch to 512 bits, that's enough to last until the heat death of the universe, with plenty of margin for time dilation.
- pulse7 1y agoBest to switch to Smalltalk integers which are unlimited...
- bayindirh 1y agoMaybe we can add a register to the processors for just keeping time. At the end of the day, it's a ticker, no? RTX[0-7] would do. For time dilation purposes, we can have another 512 bit set to adjust ticking direction and frequency. Or shall we go 1024 bits on both to increase resolution? I'd agree...
- bombcar 1y agoYou laugh but a big danger with “too big” but representations is the temptation to use the “unused” bits as flags for other things. We’ve seen it before with 32 bit processors limited to 20 or 24 bits addressable because the high order bits got repurposed because “nobody will need these”.
- sidewndr46 1y agoDoesn't the opposite happen with 64 bit pointers on x86_64? the lower bits have no use so they get used for tracking if a memory segment is in use or other stuff
- School-Cotton 1y agoGood article on the subject: https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-07-31-tagged-pointer-strings.html https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-07-31-tagged-point...
- WesolyKubeczek 1y agoIt would be a very nice problem to have.
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- layer8 1y agoUTC will stop being a thing long before the year 292277026596.
- omoikane 1y agoMaybe they will adopt RFC 2550 (Y10K and beyond): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550.txt * Published on 1999-04-01
- SergeAx 1y agoYou are absolutely right. We need to start thinking about 128 bit systems sometime halfway down the road.