Have to reboot every 136 years, literally unusable.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Gosh, if I ever get into the business of writing software for spacecraft with long duration missions, I have to test for such cases.
I imagine in that line of work, SW must consist of like 99% safeguards and checks of various kinds. Like rather double-check the thing the compiler already proved at runtime than discovering a rare compiler bug in 10 years during a complex oribital descent maneuver...
Literally 1984
um ACKSHULLY the year would be 1884 136 years ago from now
Use u64 and it'll be like 585 billion years, think of the uptime!
Time to call a doctor 😳