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To: dayglored

sounds similar to the Y2K problem except it happens after every 51 days ... i.e., counter overflows and similar extremely bad coding ...

probably because the coding was done in India, China, Pakistan and the like, or because they brought Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese to the U.S. to do it ...

assuming they continue to refuse to use U.S. coders, they’d have been WAY better off to bring in some Russian or other Eastern European coders instead, who are some of the best coders in the world ...


10 posted on 04/02/2020 9:51:45 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman
sounds similar to the Y2K problem except it happens after every 51 days … i.e., counter overflows and similar extremely bad coding …
Yes, that was my first thought as well. 51 days sounds about like the time span when a 32-bit millisec tick counter overflows. Looks like many idiot programmers still have problems handling overflow and modulo arithmetic correctly. Maybe that is what happens if they spend more and more time learning gender studies instead of math in college…
31 posted on 04/02/2020 10:12:31 AM PDT by cartan
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