Comment by newswasboring
5 years ago
My favorite out of these is the 500 miles email limitation one. I work mostly on big bulky manufacturing equipment but my job is to abstract out the computing part. This story reminds me that every time I want to do something I am still limited by physics. I am reminded of this story whenever the hardware people ask me to insert an artificial delay in computation.
Yes the old limits of the time style bugs are great. SOme arbitrary limit or variable to hold a value deemed way more than enough at the time, for years/decades later to jump out and catch you out. Y2K was one of those well known ones, but been many of those types of bugs.