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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I think we can defederate that company's name from our personal vocabulary instances.

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[–] NABDad 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next doom and gloom scenario is 2038, when poorly maintained *nix systems will think it's Jan 1st, 1970.

I'll be pushing 68. Hopefully retired or dead by then.

... I'll probably still be working, though...

[–] visor841 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh, it only being an issue for 32-bit systems will hopefully help. But of course somebody will still be running that in 15 years.

[–] Bruncvik 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of financial institutions are still using software programmed with Cobol. My father graduated with a software engineering degree for Cobol in the mid-1970s. My company provides external API for customers who still use green screen terminals. Of course there will be people running 32-bit systems. And I'm sure there will be well-paid jobs for fixing any date overflow on those systems.

[–] VindictiveJudge 1 points 1 year ago

And even then, 64-bit time for 32-bit systems is already a thing that's being implemented specifically to avoid this.