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Maybe things are actually pretty okay, and it’s just the information we get makes it seem like everything is falling apart. Remember Y2K? Everyone thought we w

by gretch 4y ago

Maybe things are actually pretty okay, and it’s just the information we get makes it seem like everything is falling apart. Remember Y2K? Everyone thought we would have mass system failure across the world. And while some systems did fail and some people had to work diligently against the clock to make patches, for the most part, it was just okay. I suspect this rice shortage is probably similar to the Y2K situation

antifa 4y ago
I don't like the Y2K as an example to this, hubris and overconfidence over solving Y2K might lead us (our leaders, specifically) to dropping the ball on the 2037 problem. And we could have the largest "food rotting in ports" famine of the century. It won't just be the 2037 problem, it'll the last few decades of cutting corners that will build up to this. Anyways, that's wild speculation on my part, maybe all software will be rewritten with 64bit timestamps by an AI by 2036.
spaceman_2020 4y ago
I mean, we just came out of once in a lifetime pandemic...sometimes, things actually do happen.
- gretch 4y ago
  I’m not saying that rice production won’t be short or that there won’t be some small hiccups, but is it worth the attention of all these lay-people. The news about this rice production is not going to have more of an impact on your personal life than e.g. taking the time to call your mom and tell her you love her. We all sit around worrying about the rice production and don’t actually work on the things that are immediately applicable to all of us.
pixl97 4y ago
Remember working really hard to fix those problems before Y2K, because I do. There is nothing wrong that with saying a system is at risk of failing. It gets people to pay attention to the system and to ensure it doesn't fail. It's the systems that we don't pay attention to that can lead to massive loss of life.

by gretch 4y ago

antifa 4y ago

I don't like the Y2K as an example to this, hubris and overconfidence over solving Y2K might lead us (our leaders, specifically) to dropping the ball on the 2037 problem. And we could have the largest "food rotting in ports" famine of the century. It won't just be the 2037 problem, it'll the last few decades of cutting corners that will build up to this. Anyways, that's wild speculation on my part, maybe all software will be rewritten with 64bit timestamps by an AI by 2036.

spaceman_2020 4y ago

I mean, we just came out of once in a lifetime pandemic...sometimes, things actually do happen.

gretch 4y ago
I’m not saying that rice production won’t be short or that there won’t be some small hiccups, but is it worth the attention of all these lay-people. The news about this rice production is not going to have more of an impact on your personal life than e.g. taking the time to call your mom and tell her you love her. We all sit around worrying about the rice production and don’t actually work on the things that are immediately applicable to all of us.

pixl97 4y ago

Remember working really hard to fix those problems before Y2K, because I do. There is nothing wrong that with saying a system is at risk of failing. It gets people to pay attention to the system and to ensure it doesn't fail. It's the systems that we don't pay attention to that can lead to massive loss of life.