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Re:Timeline of the far future by OscarCunningham on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:54PM (#17561085)
That's the good way to write code, surely? Then you can just change it once to DAY_SECONDS=86401.
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Re:Timeline of the far future by nemothekid on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:08PM (#17561218)
And they can also pray that their development environment still works on Linux 9.21
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Re:Timeline of the far future by OscarCunningham on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:38PM (#17561452)
Maybe GNU Hurd will be on version 1 by then.
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Re:Timeline of the far future by joelcornett on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:07AM (#17564026)
Maybe humans will no longer be responsible for maintaining software
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Re:Timeline of the far future by rtkwe on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:03PM (#17561173)
Fine but now you have to find every packaged binary using the old compiled version and update that too.
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Re:Timeline of the far future by vidanay on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:51PM (#17561553)
Quantum compilers will have that done by Tuesday afternoon.
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Re:Timeline of the far future by stickfigure on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @06:20PM (#17562530)
Maybe.
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