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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. (lemm.ee)
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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe on my 32-bit ARM server with ancient kernel it will. Any 64-bit machine is immune.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...unless it's running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.

The point about the "millennium bug" was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn't matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn't where the value is.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

...timestamp is signed? Why?

Edit: Oh damn, I never noticed that the timestamp is indeed signed. For anyone curious, it is mostly historical as early C didn't really have a concept of unsigned

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

It also allows users to store dates back to ~1902.