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Nobody remembers Y2K anymore?
by a012 2y ago
Nobody remembers Y2K anymore?
- Hamuko 2y agoYear 2038 occupies my brainspace much more than Y2K.
- senectus1 2y agonah, she'll be right mate :-D and if not, I plan on be very close to retirement by then anyway.
- prerok 2y agoMe too :) It does open up opportunities for consulting in all the programming languages in use today (or 10-20 years ago), so we can expect to be in high demand right before retiring :)
- OccamsMirror 2y agoPretty sure ChatGPT or whatever replaces it will be doing the job instead of us.
- ben_w 2y agoI'm just hoping it won't do that before I plan to retire.
- kugelblitz 2y agoShoot, I'm just realizing that we're as far from 2038 as we are from 2010. In 2010 the the iPad was released and the movie Avatar had come out. So we're closer to 2038 than the release of the iPhone (2007).
- cookiengineer 2y agoYou, sir, have just invented the Imperial Unit for time measurement. "How old are you?" "3 iPhones and half an M1 Macbook"
- ben_w 2y ago"Four score and seven iPhones ago our investors brought forth on this bay, a new company, conceived in Los Altos, and dedicated to the proposition that all home computers are created as decorative art pieces in a rainbow of colours."
- kibibu 2y agoI remember thinking, in 2000, "well hopefully we've learned our lesson so 2038 isn't a big deal". Then the public consensus switched to "Y2K was entirely made up and nothing bad happened" so I'm somewhat less optimistic.
- ben_w 2y agoMmm, likewise. Right now I'm half-expecting that unfixed 2038 bugs will accidentally save us from AI apocalypse. Or possibly cause it.
- senectus1 2y agoamazing given the run around and preparation/mitigation work we did in that preceding year! Any work done well, is just work that obviously didn't need money spent on it in the first place.
- silon42 2y agoLooks like the airlines failed to fix it.
- robjan 2y agoThey fixed it by having a rolling "epoch" it just so happens that some people's ages don't fit that assumption.