In the year 2050
In the year 2050
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I'm sorry, bud. But our expiration date is 2039.
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What happens in 2039?
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The first universe simulator will be built, and it'll crash our current simulation due to recursion.
/s
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It will just run real slow ,just like a vm in a vm
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How are we running in a simulation if the first simulator hasn't been built?
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It has been built, out in the real world, just not within this simulation.
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Maddie, please fix.
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Do you have any 32 bit computers anymore? Any running important stuff that needs good dates?
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Lots of embedded systems and infrastructure. But yeah, nothing important like your porn watching device.
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And as long as they get updated, it'll be fine. Probably cheaper than Y2K. Note that medical and industrial control stuff generally doesn't care about the date
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As long as they can be updated.
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It's not about having accurate dates, it's about how unix time is used in programming. For some systems that reference unix time for essential calculations, that value rolling over and overflowing would cause catastrophic problems
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Sure but that means a workaround for machines affected, but not needing correct dates could be to set their clocks to midnight Jan 1 1970 and have another 65 years to sort it out
Anyway, the biggest problem will be embedded systems, including many household and business smart devices. Several I have are definitely 32 bit machines and might use 32 bit time precise to the second. Some I don't know. I have no idea what processor my TV uses
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The year after epoch overflows?
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On 32 bit computers
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