[newswasboring]

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.

[Zenst]

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.