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Re:Never write your own date parsing library by breatheoften on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:00PM (#44696883)
What IS the right way to model dates in a pacemaker ...? I hope the answer is "just don't do it" -- but I don't know what reasons there might be for a pacemaker to need to depend on calendar dates in order to best do its job ...
Re:Never write your own date parsing library by fc417fc802 on Saturday July 26, 2025 @06:58PM (#44697568)
Well naturally it will need to connect to your phone via Bluetooth for the app to proxy update downloads and historic location data uploads. But in order to do anything on the network securely you need an accurate clock and the ability to parse datetimes because the PKI implementation depends on that.

Then the app pings you to remind you that your premium subscription will be expiring soon after which your heart rate will be limited to 100 bpm or less.

Re:Never write your own date parsing library by 1718627440 on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:32AM (#44708199)
Hopefully no real pacemaker manufacturer is allowed to do that. Creating radiation in the middle of a body near a critical organ without a medical reason sounds like a really dumb idea.

Also you want the pacemaker to be as air-gapped and simple as possible, because it needs 100% uptime.

(maybe I missed the implied /s)