My dude moonwalks everywhere.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Did you walk more than 2,147,483,647 steps so it overflowed and went around into the negatives?
No 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 steps
I would walk 4,611,686,018,427,387 miles and I would walk 4,611,686,018,427,387 more just to be the man who walks 9,223,372,036,854,774 miles to fall down at your door
Walking backwards makes you unfit
Antiwalking my way to an early grave
Why you walk backwards everywhere?!!
Can someone guess how this happens?
Random possible explanation:
- Steps are not recorded as a single number, but instead as a list of timestamped+GPS'd events (probably in small batches rather than per-step). This is the data they'd want to collect about you if their goal was to monetise your habits.
- "Number of steps" on the UI parses this list of step batches to work out how many steps you have taken, but also subtracts a previous number from it (eg global number of steps at start of day) to get just the steps for today.
- Timetravel caused by timezone change or daylight savings. The global number of steps at start of day ends up bigger than the sum of steps batches. Perhaps the sum of steps batches only gets processed up until "now" and "now" has moved backwards.