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Ratjaculation posted:Quote this and I'll post like a /r/childfree poster for the rest of the day Do it.
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A legendary snipe.
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Ratjaculation posted:Quote this and I'll post like a /r/childfree poster for the rest of the day 
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Aug 9, 2020 10:49
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imagine all of the horrible things that wouldnt have happened if the millenium bug had killed civilisation as it was supposed to
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Vitamins posted:imagine all of the horrible things that wouldnt have happened if the millenium bug had killed civilisation as it was supposed to It's apparently coming back because predictably all the work done to fix it was half arsed and left to the future
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Aug 9, 2020 10:58
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But I thought that it was all a big hoax and nothing happened*? *because of the precautions that were taken
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Jose posted:It's apparently coming back because predictably all the work done to fix it was half arsed and left to the future This isn't quiiiittee true. The 2038 bug isn't because the millennium bug wasn't patched properly. It's a much deeper problem in architecture of computer systems. 2038 is an order of magnitude worse too. Looking forward to it.
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quote:The Year 2038 problem (also called Y2038 or Y2k38 or Unix Y2K) relates to representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit integer. Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. lmao
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Aug 9, 2020 11:09
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I like epoch time, it makes me think of the 1970s. I wasn't alive then but I've seen the films and that
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Aug 9, 2020 11:11
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Jose posted:It's apparently coming back because predictably all the work done to fix it was half arsed and left to the future Some systems hosed up at the start of this year because the patch for them was to just keep year as a two digit range and apply a 20 year offset, assuming that would be long enough for a proper fix to be made (lol) It meant that WWE 2K20 was down for a few weeks, which I'm sure was a welcome relief to those unlucky enough to be playing it
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Aug 9, 2020 11:13
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The exciting part is that some of it can't be fixed. Fixed data structures like uh the FAT32 filesystem (iirc) just will stop working properly.
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I mean we have 18 years to sort it out and i'm p sure we can trust national governments to deal in good time with a very expensive technical problem that the general public doesn't understand
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Most things will be 64 bit by then, but I imagine there'll be some really important legacy systems that can't be easily replaced. I wonder if it'll be easier to just reset them to 1970 and deal with whatever fuckery that causes.
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crispix posted:I mean we have 18 years to sort it out and i'm p sure we can trust national governments to deal in good time with very a very expensive technical problem that the general public doesn't understand Plenty of computer systems deal with data regarding things happening more than ten years away. It needs to start being fixed now.
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Aug 9, 2020 11:15
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sorry but i am a committed cyberpunk, let chaos reign!!!!! 
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You'll regret this!!!
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Party Boat posted:It meant that WWE 2K20 was down for a few weeks, which I'm sure was a welcome relief to those unlucky enough to be playing it i would like one like wwe all stars where its classic wrestlers i have heard of with a couple of modern ones shoehorned in to make them seem more important just please for the love of god do not use the 2020 engine
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Aug 9, 2020 11:33
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who's your favourite out of big daddy and giant haystacks
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captain scarlet
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and then old battlestar galactica on the telly as we warm up in front of the fire after swimming while me mam starts the sunday dinner
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i think i would prefer a wrestling management game like champ man crossed with theme park or something
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Bobby Deluxe posted:and then old battlestar galactica on the telly as we warm up in front of the fire after swimming while me mam starts the sunday dinner new bsg was almost 20 years ago :/
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Aug 9, 2020 11:38
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transformers joints clicking into place penny mix up from the sweet shop with the video rental stand the smell of panini stickers banana medicine all these things will be lost like micro machines on the beach
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Posting on page 2000 of the UK thread Happy thread birthday everyone
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Most things will be 64 bit by then, but I imagine there'll be some really important legacy systems that can't be easily replaced. I wonder if it'll be easier to just reset them to 1970 and deal with whatever fuckery that causes. The problem is that you have code in abandoned libraries that are typed to int(32), embedded systems coded by companies long-gone, developed in obscure languages or frameworks you can no longer get a license for. It's not just a case of typing `ALTER TABLE delivery_date ALTER COLUMN date bigint` into a database and it's all fixed. In many cases very expensive and bespoke software needs to be completely recoded. The company I work for still has a handful of customers running a 16-bit version of DOS software we developed 20 years ago because it's the only thing that works with the even older equipment in their warehouse (however, the software still thinks it's 1980 because the fix was just to modify the date on the computer).
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CancerCakes posted:Posting on page 2000 of the UK thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcWOviMI6Lk don't click this
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CancerCakes posted:Posting on page 2000 of the UK thread thread now has the millenial bug and must be closed down you don't want to know what bug will pop up on page 2020
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aren't there a bunch of legacy systems that are still in use today that were written in the late 60s/early 70s in like COBOL or something and haven't ever been updated because if it aint broke don't fix it plus money
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oh no computer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcWOviMI6Lk do click it
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https://youtu.be/Y6Rms5J7nGI
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Jose posted:It's apparently coming back because predictably all the work done to fix it was half arsed and left to the future my only personal experience with weird computer date fuckery was my dads psion 2 organiser that wouldnt let you select a date beyond 1/1/2000 and just rolled around to 1970 again im looking forward to legacy government and technology systems held together with string and duct tape breaking horrendously in the near future
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oh no computer posted:aren't there a bunch of legacy systems that are still in use today that were written in the late 60s/early 70s in like COBOL or something and haven't ever been updated because if it aint broke don't fix it plus money there are and it's often a bit more complicated than ain't broke don't fix it. A lot of businesses have ancient systems that cost a fortune in maintenance and that they'd very much like to replace but can't because they're critical to the business and enmeshed in its operations and the people who understand them are either not around anymore or won't cooperate with replacing it the public sector is full of them too. a lot of the work in NHS IT involves maintaining and getting stuff out of and into ancient systems crispix fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Gonna buy wwe and make all of you wrestle in a rumble to see who my new favourite poster will be
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i think i would prefer a wrestling management game like champ man crossed with theme park or something If I knew anything about game design or dev I would make this phone game and make $$$ Your wrestlers all have stamina meters but you can feed them "energy pills" to get them back in the ring faster
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So this is why Elon Musk wants to go to Mars, to escape the wrath of the machines. I'm sure it'll all be fine so long as we pay Don Cummings companies hundreds of billions to fix it
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i think i would prefer a wrestling management game like champ man crossed with theme park or something This used to exist but it was very easy to be successful I found
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the police use an old dos inventory system for their calls because it was designed back in the falklands war and as such is night on impossible to hack microsoft have convinced them to upgrade to a mess that has been cobbled together from multiple other systems and probably contains a huge amount of security vulnerabilities as a result also the text is tiny and is giving people migraines its fine. everything is ok and police databases are about to be laid wide open to any criminals organised enough to pay for a hacker
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Gonna buy wwe and make all of you wrestle in a rumble to see who my new favourite poster will be you don't need to spend 40 quid to watch looke and vitamins pin ratty down
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NotJustANumber99 posted:i think i would prefer a wrestling management game like champ man crossed with theme park or something I'm pretty sure this is a thing that already exists, but they're homemade and so are basically text adventures Some of the WWE games used to have a 'GM mode' or something similar, where you sign dudes and book matches, and just like in real life your job is to stop the gradual slide of viewers so that you're not beaten in the ratings by a man wrestling with his hands in his pockets
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