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Y10K problem: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem#:~:text=The%20Year%2010%2C000%20problem%20(also,five%20digits%20for%20a%20year https://simpl

Y10K problem: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem#:~:text=The%20Year%2010%2C000%20problem%20(also,five%20digits%20for%20a%20year https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem#:~:tex....

drewzero1 5y ago
See also, the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
- YATA0 5y ago
  Do you blame him? He can probably make more than $400k a year grifting with NFTs, doing an order of magnitude less work.
  - drewzero1 5y ago
    I don't blame anyone for fooling around with alternative date formats but I do find it a bit silly, and distracting from whatever serious point they were trying to make. I can't imagine the hubris of believing anything we say or do now will matter (or even exist) 7900 years from now, and it's not going to be a problem before then-- if our date system is somehow still in use by that point! ...I think this might have been meant for another comment/thread anyway.
    - YATA0 5y ago
      Whoops, yes my comment was meant for a totally different thread.
      - kragen 5y ago
        Yeah, I wish I made US$400k a year. Shit, I'd be satisfied with AR$400k a year, at least until inflation gets a bit worse.
    - kragen 5y ago
      Pretty sure the distraction of people complaining about people fooling around with alternative date formats is at least 100 times greater than the distraction of people using them. I think it's plausible that things we say or do now will matter 7900 years from now. The languages we speak today, and the beef, pork, and wheat we eat, are to a significant extent the result of the Bug-Dniester culture 7900 years ago; and Voyager 2 will very likely still exist 7900 years from now unless we catch up with it. And the advent of writing has made it much easier for direct cultural influence to span vast gaps of time. I think it's very likely that the human species will become extinct within a century, but quite possible that something will survive because of what we say and do today.
unixbane 5y ago
Almost all software that stores numbers in fixed precision is just because they copy int semantics from C and its derivatives as opposed to any real resource constraint problem. This is braindamage.
School-Cotton 5y ago
Writing with four digits doesn't induce any Y10k problem. We write dates with as many digits as they need; for example, we write the year 327 with three digits.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  In the best interest of future generations, we should specify that this count is in the Christian Era. Our descendants may want to reset the count (and change the duration of a standard year) at some point.
  - SahAssar 5y ago
    You should probably include when you count the Julian-Gregorian calendar switch too. Especially today and if you are from Sweden and perhaps using relative dates, since 310 years ago that was february 30th.
  - kragen 5y ago
    Just for redundancy, we should include the Hebrew calendar year (5782), the Mayan Long Count date (13.0.9.5.16—sorry, I don't have my keybindings set up to type Maya numerals), and the Hindu calendar (Kali Yuga year 5123). You can't be too careful!
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drewzero1 5y ago

See also, the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation

YATA0 5y ago
Do you blame him? He can probably make more than $400k a year grifting with NFTs, doing an order of magnitude less work.
- drewzero1 5y ago
  I don't blame anyone for fooling around with alternative date formats but I do find it a bit silly, and distracting from whatever serious point they were trying to make. I can't imagine the hubris of believing anything we say or do now will matter (or even exist) 7900 years from now, and it's not going to be a problem before then-- if our date system is somehow still in use by that point! ...I think this might have been meant for another comment/thread anyway.
  - YATA0 5y ago
    Whoops, yes my comment was meant for a totally different thread.
    - kragen 5y ago
      Yeah, I wish I made US$400k a year. Shit, I'd be satisfied with AR$400k a year, at least until inflation gets a bit worse.
  - kragen 5y ago
    Pretty sure the distraction of people complaining about people fooling around with alternative date formats is at least 100 times greater than the distraction of people using them. I think it's plausible that things we say or do now will matter 7900 years from now. The languages we speak today, and the beef, pork, and wheat we eat, are to a significant extent the result of the Bug-Dniester culture 7900 years ago; and Voyager 2 will very likely still exist 7900 years from now unless we catch up with it. And the advent of writing has made it much easier for direct cultural influence to span vast gaps of time. I think it's very likely that the human species will become extinct within a century, but quite possible that something will survive because of what we say and do today.

unixbane 5y ago

Almost all software that stores numbers in fixed precision is just because they copy int semantics from C and its derivatives as opposed to any real resource constraint problem. This is braindamage.

School-Cotton 5y ago

Writing with four digits doesn't induce any Y10k problem. We write dates with as many digits as they need; for example, we write the year 327 with three digits.

rbanffy 5y ago
In the best interest of future generations, we should specify that this count is in the Christian Era. Our descendants may want to reset the count (and change the duration of a standard year) at some point.
- SahAssar 5y ago
  You should probably include when you count the Julian-Gregorian calendar switch too. Especially today and if you are from Sweden and perhaps using relative dates, since 310 years ago that was february 30th.
- kragen 5y ago
  Just for redundancy, we should include the Hebrew calendar year (5782), the Mayan Long Count date (13.0.9.5.16—sorry, I don't have my keybindings set up to type Maya numerals), and the Hindu calendar (Kali Yuga year 5123). You can't be too careful!

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