9 points
The first universe simulator will be built, and it’ll crash our current simulation due to recursion.
/s
8 points
How are we running in a simulation if the first simulator hasn’t been built?
2 points
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0 points
Do you have any 32 bit computers anymore? Any running important stuff that needs good dates?
6 points
Lots of embedded systems and infrastructure. But yeah, nothing important like your porn watching device.
1 point
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
13 points
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