We're being short-sighted
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gork@lemm.eereplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
There might be a new calendar year system by then. Probably some galactic dictator who says that the beginning of their rule is now Year Zero.
Year Zero of the Glorious Zorg Empire!
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rusty@lemmy.careplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
I don't think 10000 year is a problem. There is a real "year 2038 problem" that affects system storing unix time in signed int32, but it's mostly solved already. The next problem will be in year 33000 or something like that.
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ERROR: Earth.exe has crashedreplied to gork@lemm.ee last edited by
Lol China used to use "Year 1" right after Xinhai Revolution.
Its "民国" (ROC) followed by the year number
Example: 民国一年 ROC Year One (aka 1912)
(ROC stand for Republic of China, btw)
Then the communists kicked the KMT out, and I think the ROC government in exhile in Taiwan stopped using it.
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chetradley@lemm.eereplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
In 9999, this meme will be problematic because it assumes the entire galaxy conforms to an Earth-based calendar system.
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The Giant Koreanreplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
Good news! We'll be exctinct long before this happens. One less thing to worry about!
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.dereplied to The Giant Korean last edited by
Seems hyperbolic to assume we will be extinct by 9999.
Sure we’re heading for a climate crisis, but I don’t think all humans will be dead; Just the poorest.
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Please no.
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zink@programming.devreplied to chetradley@lemm.ee last edited by
Well the USA is on Earth so obviously the earth calendar is the default.
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donkter@lemmy.worldreplied to dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de last edited by
That has forever been the fallacy.
The poor won't die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.
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Don't worry, we'll be extinct soon, hopefully. Maybe even before int32_t runs out. Unfortunately not soon enough to stop the humans impact on earth before the worst damage is done.
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pfm@scribe.disroot.orgreplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
I wonder how Voyagers' code represents time
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dovah@lemmy.worldreplied to pfm@scribe.disroot.org last edited by
It just counts up, according to this answer.
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dogwater@lemmy.worldreplied to donkter@lemmy.world last edited by
That's true until it isn't. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.
The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.
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Still set by London
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Programmers dealing with the timezones of asymmetric period binary and trinary star systems once we go interstellar
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I'll let you in on a secret.
Humanity and the animals that we like will get through just fine.
Humans in general and the vast majority of biodiversity will be fucked.
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zeca@lemmy.eco.brreplied to donkter@lemmy.world last edited by
just to nitpick, they said the "poorest", not the poor in general.
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letsdothis@lemmy.worldreplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
"Were being short-sighted"
Lol Picard maneuver. Pretty sure your opinion wasn't asked for.
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toddestan@lemm.eereplied to rusty@lemmy.ca last edited by
I've been curious about that myself. On one hand, it still seems far away. On the other hand, it's a bit over 13 years away and I have gear actively in use that's older than that today.
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a9cx34udp4zz0@lemmy.worldreplied to The Picard Maneuver last edited by
Actual programmers wondering why this joke doesn't mention 65535...