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   she hacked you (ekis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 19:48:50 JST she hacked you

   I have a id library, I wanted to compress the timestamps so I could have milliseconds sort-ability instead of seconds sort-ability

   To do this I defined a new epoch, closer to the present. Then before operations with the id timestamp, I simply add it or subtract it and reduce or compress my timestamp

   Its a reduction of 16-bits! Am I the only person who cares that I can shave 16-bits off an id?

   I can't be the first person to do this, right?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 19:48:50 JST Rich Felker

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     @ekis I mean that's basically how we got the Y2K and Y2038 bugs, no?