Why StackExchange is absolute garbage
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@Watson said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
@coderpatsy
So I've been reading Vinge's A Deepness In the Sky. Programmer/Archaeologist digs down through eight thousand years' worth of date/time handling arithmetic crusted over with layers handling multiple calenders and accounting for things like the relativistic drift caused by travelling for decades at one-third light speed, and finds — right down at the bottom and ultimately driving all the layers above — an integer counter ticking off seconds elapsed since the moment humans first set foot on another world (or, rather, for some reason, a moment approximately fifteen million seconds later).Huh...read this book several times...I don't recall this particular thing.
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@Polygeekery said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
2038
At that time, we will still be waiting for the final answer to the meaning of all of it:
Covid-42.
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@Polygeekery said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
@dkf said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
Which should be good to at least some time in 3058. Someone else can worry about it…
With the state of the world today and how quickly everything seems to be going to shit, are we even justified in worrying about the 2038 deadline?
Well, we already missed that deadline, kind of.
FLASH memory in MCUs is usually promised something like a 20 year retention time. So, devices manufactured today may work into 2040-something. Meaning, the bomb is ticking.
Want to bet SOHO routers will all go tits-up come January 2039? AIUI most of them are using ancient (and thus small) Linux versions.
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@acrow said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
Want to bet SOHO routers will all go tits-up come January 2039? AIUI most of them are using ancient (and thus small) Linux versions.
Doesn't matter. On the trajectory we're currently at, by that time everything will randomly go tits up if you don't install two security updates every day.
Also, basically, whenever you buy someting you'll be lucky if they haven't shut off the servers by the time you get home from the shop.
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@topspin said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
@acrow said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
Want to bet SOHO routers will all go tits-up come January 2039? AIUI most of them are using ancient (and thus small) Linux versions.
Doesn't matter. On the trajectory we're currently at, by that time everything will randomly go tits up if you don't install two security updates every day.
Stuff that's normally on an isolated network, like most industrial stuff should be, has been an exception. Until now.
Gas station pumps...
Cell tower base controls...
Chinese factory Windows-based PLCs...Also, basically, whenever you buy a license for someting you'll be lucky if they haven't shut off the servers by the time you get home from the shop.
FTFY
You can't own anything anymore.
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@acrow said in Why StackExchange is absolute garbage:
ChineseAny factory Windows-based PLCs...FTFMe
