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10,000 years from now, society has been destroyed. And people come across a glass plate with laser etchings. How bummed will they be when they go through all of
by CameronBanga 7y ago
10,000 years from now, society has been destroyed. And people come across a glass plate with laser etchings. How bummed will they be when they go through all of the effort of decoding it, only to learn it's like some python library for managing drivers on a 2014 Dell laptop running linux?
- saagarjha 7y agoI'd consider Linux to be the culmination of some of humanity's greatest achievements. Certainly I'd prefer they found that instead of the average website on the internet.
- ShnooblyGmuln 7y agoYet just a vehicle for either running browsers or serving them content.
- patrickmcnamara 7y agoLinux would be a tiny drop in the bucket relative to the rest of GitHub. I wonder if they'll mark certain parts of the archive as more important or interesting.
- jobigoud 7y agoUnless that website is Wikipedia. Another great achievement.
- shpx 7y agoI really hope people that are burying physical copies of the entire Wikipedia are archiving the entire edit history and not just a snapshot that hides all the ongoing edit wars. It's a much larger dataset (terabytes) so they probably aren't.
- dev_dull 7y ago"Python 2.7 only??!"
- flafla2 7y agoI'm sure in 12019 there will still be some Python 2 users.
- J5892 7y agoDespite having the ability to directly access memory via neural interface, thus rendering the concept of output obsolete, I still don't want to give up the Python2 print syntax.
- zaptheimpaler 7y agoDon't worry we will build a PC simulator on neuralOS, with a backport of linux, docker and Windows 95. That way you can run python2 in linux in docker in PCSim in neuralOS and i can play minesweeper in windows95 in PCSim in neuralOS.
- zrobotics 7y agoImagine what a BSOD would do to you if it was running on your brain tissue--not sure I'd be brave enough to run win95 on my neurons.
- DownGoat 7y agoHow else are you going to mod your IRC client!?
- znpy 7y ago> Despite having the ability to directly access memory via neural interface Someone will write a GNU Emacs mode for that
- diegoperini 7y agoFor some calendars, that's this year.
- sebazzz 7y agoOnly to find a packages.json file without a packages-lock.json file checked in, to make it impossible to restore the node_modules directory.
- koolba 7y agoThe real problem is that NPM wouldn’t be around. Better check in your node_modules directory the night before archive day so it’s included.
- radicalriddler 7y agoI don't think there would be enough storage capability to store that many node_module directories.
- koolba 7y agoAssuming they are deduping based on content hash it shouldn’t be that big a deal. Worst case it’s the size of npm itself.
- fastball 7y agoWell yeah, but at that point you should just be cloning NPM on 2/2/20 as well.
- account42 7y agohttps://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault > The snapshot will consist of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size. Each repository will be packaged as a single TAR file. 100KB is a very low limit, many repos will be useless
- koolba 7y ago100KB per file would cover most JS projects. Even those with a checked nose_modules would be entirely included as the dependencies are already expanded.
- nickjj 7y agoMaybe using tabs instead of spaces will be punishable by death in 10,000 years and a number of people will be held accountable for accidentally having git repos on their computing devices that contain primarily tabs (Makefiles get an exception of course!).
- bransonf 7y agoI think you’re mistaken. We’ll be smarter in the future, which means we won’t slap the space bar like primates anymore...
- code_code 7y agoTab will be a printable shape.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThere will be different skintone, multi-gender, tab emoji.
- jlgaddis 7y agoYou mean once get the past the ads and the popup form asking for their email address?
- Laforet 7y agoWell, the Rosetta Stone was just a mundane tax decree and that does not take anything away from it's significance.
- tzfld 7y agoIt has significance but practical use not really.
- gwd 7y agoIt's surprising how apparently-useless information can give people a lot of insight. In "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse" for instance, there were people who dug through the latrines of ancient societies to determine that the early Easter Islanders' diet consisted of 25% porpoises; and that the Greenland Norse colony didn't eat any fish. Looking at the receipts of medicines bought in the court of Henry VIII allowed people to conclude fairly conclusively that he did not have syphilis. The thing is, it's really impossible to predict what information will and will not be a critical key to unlocking understanding of future generations. Just keeping it all, history, comments, and all, will be a huge boon to future historiographers trying to figure out what developing in the early 21st century was like.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI'm pretty sure Henry was cagey enough to have those receipts burned, also the doctors when it didn't work.
- osener 7y agoLook on the bright side: in 10,000 years Python dependency management will be in a better shape and they'll have a fighting chance of running your software.
- znpy 7y agofuture generation that will rebuild civilization will find enough code to enjoy teledildonics once again