We're being short-sighted

[kungen@feddit.nu]

I forgot what the N stands for in NTP, but the network engineer might know.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

"Fuckin' Y10K..."

[appayipyip@lemmy.world]

This would be a great short story if for some reason the AI didn't realize there was going to be a date issue and didn't properly update itself causing it to crash. Then the problem is it was self sufficient for so long no humans know how to restart it or fix the issue, causing society to have a technology blackout for the first time in centuries.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Yes, it's kind of a familiar sci-fi trope - a supercomputer that has no built-in recovery mechanism in spite of being vitally important. Like the Star Trek episode where they made smoke come out of a robot's head by saying illogical things.

[sam_bass@lemmy.world]

Yeah assuming tech gets that far before imploding

[grandkaiser@lemmy.today]

Absolutely. I'm a ddi engineer. Infoblox. Systems, including ntp, are designed to handle leap seconds. Negative leap seconds are uncharted territory.

[jol@discuss.tchncs.de]

We love long dry niche rants though.

[genosseflosse@feddit.org]

Maybe, but there are still a lot of invisible people involved to get the food all the way to your table. And small suppliers cannot afford to switch their whole operation to robots.

[dogwater@lemmy.world]

Yeah so they go out of business lol

[yannic@lemmy.ca]

Ditto for the Y6239 problem for what must be a dozen of pieces of software that use the hebrew calendar, when it switches to five digit years.

[beardedgingerwonder@feddit.uk]

I'll listen, then I can seem knowledgeable af when it gets mentioned on a call 3 days before it happens and everyone else is freaking out.

[jcbazpx@lemmy.world]

You underestimate the enduring laziness of programmers.