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

submitted 1 year ago by intelati@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 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

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not today, because the date overflowed a counter somewhere.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Days since last timezone incident: -1

[–] ellenor2000@mastodon.top 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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