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Post #Ax89zyeEzo8l1xn0To by [email protected] |
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Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather… |
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Post #Ax89zykyalWnMqwNyi by [email protected] |
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@ayke the universe is only 14 b yo :blob_grinning_sweat: |
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Post #Ax8OttPJ4DkaLqMQZk by [email protected] |
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@ayke Little things like that are why I <3 NetBSD :)#NetBSD #runbsd |
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Post #Ax8VLIKv5WyzDBl5Ci by [email protected] |
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@ayke It's not a bug, it's a feature. |
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Post #Ax8VMKVmUDhMFPKf1E by [email protected] |
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@ayke Thank God they provided the workaround! |
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Post #Ax8VMKdE2XeYcUobce by [email protected] |
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@chesheer @ayke Well, God might have filed the bug report (surely her workload … |
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Post #Ax8VMKjxdV2axNxz7Y by [email protected] |
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@jandi That explains it all!Suck it, Richard Dawkins! |
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Post #Ax8VNETaPZDVoojhNA by [email protected] |
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@tfed lol, that's relevant context yes. |
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Post #Ax8VNonLNaPaSWFzAO by [email protected] |
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@ayke BSD man pages have always listed interesting bugs. On FreeBSD, man tunefs… |
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Post #Ax8VOBBY8GqVtxkcwy by [email protected] |
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@ayke they probably got one too many CVEs about an integer overflow there |
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Post #Ax8VOgAuuflA0yh3lg by [email protected] |
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@ayke At least they are pretty confident about system stability and uptimes. |
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Post #Ax8VOziwEPGMdzkzw0 by [email protected] |
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@ayke if any current OS will still exist that far into the future, and will sti… |
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Post #Ax8VSXaMn57uX7RG7M by [email protected] |
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@ayke luckily there is a work around! |
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Post #Ax8Wy31459xUwdVw3c by [email protected] |
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@ayke This has a Cthulhu vibe to it.. |
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Post #Ax8bJZUwuSeXaG0kZE by [email protected] |
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@tfed @ayke Yes, it's much longer at the other end ... π |
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Post #Ax8bR8TPGt5g5HtdmC by [email protected] |
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@ayke nice easter egg |
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Post #Ax8bSjTrAHH59Lrtiq by [email protected] |
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@Ea5iyl @ayke No computer made by mortal hands is capable of sleeping for 250 b… |
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Post #Ax8bsai8OQAbTpsR1s by [email protected] |
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@ayke @neil A rather interesting NetBSD bug π |
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Post #Ax9kRA0keC1RbDXWjo by [email protected] |
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@aykeBetter safe than sorry!That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with str… |
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Post #Ax9kRgCuwUlfSDTh8y by [email protected] |
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@ayke Necrons: [furiously taking notes] |
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Post #Ax9kUMmnbg6W5ZXh7Q by [email protected] |
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@tfed @ayke What about the multiverse? |
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Post #Ax9kXYtj23ICWOJ1P6 by [email protected] |
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@ayke Imagine how embarrassing it would be if they fixed this bug the year afte… |
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Post #Ax9kXiu5pXWpYQYSMi by [email protected] |
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@ayke creepy |
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Post #Ax9kYH7OcaN7fX2Yoy by [email protected] |
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@ayke *requires repro |
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Post #Ax9kaEy3aXOLZtbpCa by [email protected] |
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@ayke reminds me of the 500 mile email back in the day :) https://web.mit.edu/… |
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Post #Ax9kf6nXOGQ7gj0gjY by [email protected] |
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@ayke omg devs what are you waiting for |
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Post #Ax9kjRQ6eyVqnx7H3g by [email protected] |
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@ayke If someone reading this 200 billion years from now somehow managed to kee… |
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Post #Ax9kl0TJp7iZo0Mi24 by [email protected] |
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@ayke Also, undocumented is the special "sleep forever" command, whic… |
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Post #Ax9ksqbyMtPfXa9Tzk by [email protected] |
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@ayke Testing the code. It gets to that part. Sleeps 250 billion years. The … |
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Post #Ax9kx4UahXBTkYiHrc by [email protected] |
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@ayke A quick calculation reveals that a signed 64 bit integer can represent ab… |
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Post #Ax9ky8PZcEO2C6sDCq by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ca… |
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Post #Ax9ky8Xj7uuObOgium by [email protected] |
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@m0xEE By an ancient and secretive order of monks, no doubt.@Ea5iyl @ayke |
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Post #Ax9ky8fAgErayUAfWC by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]&#… |
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Post #Ax9kyOlmnPf4vdOB3A by [email protected] |
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@jandi @chesheer @ayke I thought she used a Lisp Machine? |
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Post #Ax9l1YN5YOMjZnLDlY by [email protected] |
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@veronica @tfed @ayke Well, time is relative. So you never know. |
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Post #Ax9l1YVb2lAg0BK11k by [email protected] |
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@jdoe probably our universe is in a black hole which is not even the biggest one |
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Post #Ax9lAFyzI9wh9QDbAe by [email protected] |
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@darkling @chesheer @ayke Not in this thread. This goes per thread. #FediTheodi… |
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Post #Ax9lB6x2M8sRQiiHzM by [email protected] |
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@ayke Somewhat related - timekeeping in VMS:https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/dec… |
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Post #Ax9lE11spVhrvsMhX6 by [email protected] |
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@ayke @jra Well, it could be fixed by having an arbitrary precision type implem… |
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Post #Ax9lMT6cKIqRKIbsf2 by [email protected] |
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@ayke An opportunity to remember this tidbit from @djb in https://cr.yp.to/prot… |
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Post #Ax9lVr4GbamMFXzDnc by [email protected] |
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@ayke fun to think about how the components running the sleep command (PCB, tra… |
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Post #Ax9lXT9MVCGyeJ8hcm by [email protected] |
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@ayke I dig this so much! This is awesome! |
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Post #Ax9lpCwHVrPVaHTmxE by [email protected] |
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@ayke is the bug report proof for time traveling? |
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Post #Ax9lpVWOQKzXDUVsjw by [email protected] |
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@ayke @tfed It's a relevant context if one assumes the counter is real time… |
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Post #Ax9qrJiBnpACwIiH56 by [email protected] |
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@ayke It is a bug, not because you need that specific length duration, but beca… |
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Post #Ax9qrJovOmYFHBrea0 by [email protected] |
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@dalias @ayke Let's add "sleep inf" to POSIX next? |
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Post #Ax9sI5CbxKHhiEGm0W by [email protected] |
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@ayke"Have you tried rebooting the universe to clear the error?" |
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Post #Ax9sIHGb6KbT84E7t2 by [email protected] |
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@ayke I'm pretty sure that Red Dwarf toaster run into that bug |
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Post #Ax9sQSxLWX35hT7vPM by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] shortest cat nap: |
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Post #AxA4cMKTBguO4VNdRY by [email protected] |
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@ayke That's why I said that having 64 bit time representation is a short t… |
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Post #AxA4hB5aPBfCeviTFw by [email protected] |
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@dalias @ayke Which you can do with sleep one billion years. Or tee.Honestly, I… |
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Post #AxA4hMiz92iOkJEah6 by [email protected] |
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@jornane The default behavior of strtoll saturates on overflow. All you have to… |
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Post #AxA4hMoenxFh1tt7XE by [email protected] |
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@dalias Ah that makes sense. I see no reason to check errno there if the only e… |
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Post #AxA4hMuKSrmzJUXeNM by [email protected] |
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@jornane It won't wake before the wait time because the hardware and operat… |
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Post #AxA53vQEovyqjIDsCe by [email protected] |
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@dalias Of course, but I do enjoy reading a manpage that ignores such obvious u… |
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Post #AxAFBYfyH0zO2drOhk by [email protected] |
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@leah @dalias @ayke reminds me of one of the first y2038 bugs that occurred whe… |
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Post #AxAN0K15Eh231Xt8nA by [email protected] |
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@dalias @ayke but just straight up assuming 250 billion years is permanent is t… |
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Post #AxB6OiixWMDmXaQ2k4 by [email protected] |
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@ayke "you must wait at least 250G years before closing this bug report.&q… |
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Post #AxC0jGD6KBpPcYtA5w by [email protected] |
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@jornane Besides, hardware concerns are easy to manage by migrating a VM to a d… |
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Post #AxC0mFN5tqkHt7zFr6 by [email protected] |
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@ayke I bet you, somebody asked for a larger value range in the past... Wothout… |
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Post #AxC0mFkUUrSd3gvwK8 by [email protected] |
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@atkelar @ayke Wouldn't surprise me in the least! "The maximum is too … |
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Post #AxD2HcC630YnoFI4R6 by [email protected] |
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@leah @dalias @ayke I'd rather have a different utility called pause tbh |
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Post #AxD2Ho7Dixn2mb6LVA by [email protected] |
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@ska @leah @ayke I'd rather have something you can rely on to work on exist… |
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Post #AxD2HoFNEeJPBsurD6 by [email protected] |
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@dalias @leah @ayke If that's what you want, nothing prevents you from writ… |
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Post #AxD2HxIXaFC1GJT0tc by [email protected] |
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@ska @leah @ayke Yeah you just need to know the huge number that won't erro… |
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Post #AxSLoC0PFX4odxT8tc by [email protected] |
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@tig @ayke omg I am old enough to remember when this made it around the Interne… |
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Post #AxSMMvZyJXnhpjfRk8 by [email protected] |
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@tig thank you for sharing! Yeah that's an interesting quirk of the system … |
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Post #AxSMMvhPrrkuCp9OLY by [email protected] |
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@ayke It wasn't my story but I remember reading it many years ago :) |
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Post #AxSMX1ZasrSNJqIz44 by [email protected] |
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@grumpyoldtechie ah interesting! |
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Post #AxSMm4G1BbAbzJK1aK by [email protected] |
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@argv_minus_one @Ea5iyl @ayke arguably the assumed intent should be that the co… |
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Post #AxSN1KEI5Hsvrtn0EK by [email protected] |
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@kaito02 @ayke I've been told some people are running this OS on virtual ma… |
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Post #AxSv0Ftk6FVaaQq7Bw by [email protected] |
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@kobold @ayke another member of scary devil monastery? :) |
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Post #AxTCRPCtIQTMUsKOm0 by [email protected] |
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@gooseliketyping @ayke And itβll probably be running on a RAD750 in the dista… |
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Post #AxehFDCfKlqr6xRnzU by [email protected] |
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@ayke Ah yes, the Y292,271,025,070 problem. |
