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Year 2038 occupies my brainspace much more than Y2K.
by Hamuko 3y ago
Year 2038 occupies my brainspace much more than Y2K.
- senectus1 3y agonah, she'll be right mate :-D and if not, I plan on be very close to retirement by then anyway.
- prerok 3y 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 3y agoPretty sure ChatGPT or whatever replaces it will be doing the job instead of us.
- ben_w 3y agoI'm just hoping it won't do that before I plan to retire.
- kugelblitz 3y 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 3y agoYou, sir, have just invented the Imperial Unit for time measurement. "How old are you?" "3 iPhones and half an M1 Macbook"
- ben_w 3y 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 3y 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 3y agoMmm, likewise. Right now I'm half-expecting that unfixed 2038 bugs will accidentally save us from AI apocalypse. Or possibly cause it.
- senectus1 3y 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.