Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

On 10/1/24 3:54 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:40:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
 

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Then, people ignore the problem until it's right there.
For instance, the 2038 problem I'm betting will be ignored until 2035.
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 Hasn't the 2038 problem already been fixed?
 GNU/Linux has had 64-bit time for many years already.

   It's not just HAVING 64/128-bit vars. Gotta look
   at every function, every line. The original pgmr
   likely specified 32-bit vars for a of of the
   date-related stuff because, well, datetime is
   always 32 bit, right ? Hey, the cdates/mdates
   on FILES too ......
   The swamp just gets deeper and deeper.
   There are kind of the literal gazillion bits of
   code in dozens of languages created from the
   late 1950s on that are inside apps/systems
   everywhere today that in some way deal
   with, depend on, datetimes.
   In the ancient days, there was an ultra-nerd
   named Bill Gates who used to participate in,
   often win, contests to see who could code
   some useful function in the very least number
   of bytes/cycles. Bill was something of a hero
   figure then. However, he wrote that code using
   the ASSUMPTIONS of the day. Betcha there's
   still some of his old code in modern systems.
   As such, only "AI" is going to be able to deal
   with such volume and diversity. It will have to
   be trained to detect datetime operations and
   literally re-write the relevant code.
   And we'd better make/train it QUICKLY.