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Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure. (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (2^6) and was caught by a 2^7s check (127s)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

what do we say to the god of software bugs ruining our space exploration? not today!

one of these days we will finally say it, but... not today 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs#Space

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not today, because the date overflowed a counter somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Days since last timezone incident: -1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tiredofsametab @intelati @14th_cylon @wahming You've been harmed by timezones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When your timezone handling doesn't handle time dilation...