@tournesol vintage = vingt ans d’âge.
Donc tout ce qui est avant avril 2004 est « vintage ».
Ça c’est la logique des mots. Je suis bien dans la catégorie « adulte » et je ne vois pas la différence entre la mode des années 2000 et maintenant.
「 "The 2038 problem" relates to an issue with how Unix-based systems store dates and timestamps. Most Unix systems use a 32-bit signed integer to represent the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970. This is known as the Unix epoch or Unix time 」
We are watching the #Y2K documentary on HBO and it’s wild how modern the public reaction to this sounds in retrospect. Ultra-conservative militias, etc. stirring up larger panic and exploiting the panic to sell preppers ammo and MRE’s. My wife was like “History doesn’t repeat…it rhymes.” https://youtu.be/d6Q8v7Z7TJs?si=VfrmEZagzsA47yqR
@revk speaking as someone who spent a lot of time in the Y2K trenches, I guarantee you that in many instances, the "fix" was of the "if it's <50, assume 20xx" variety.
Frankly, if I don't become a millionaire over 2038, I hope to when 2050 explodes 😉
@revk the irony, of course, being that the reasoning used - usually "it's too big a job to fix properly, but this system will be long gone by the time it becomes an issue" is precisely what lead to the problem in the first place.
Those who fail to learn from history, etc., etc., ...
When I was a front end cashier at Sobeys in 1999/2000, I wasn’t allowed to wear nail polish. I had to wear all-white sneakers with no visible brand name, something that is almost impossible to find. I had to wear the same ugly smock over white or nude pantyhose every day. I rebelled by wearing PVC miniskirts, rude tshirts, and kinky underwear under my smock.
I wasn’t allowed to ever sit down on the job, even when I was very unwell. I wasnt given enough time on my lunch break to go to the bathroom and eat my lunch. I wasn’t allowed to drink water while working, and all of the cashiers were frequently sick because whenever anyone entered or exited the store in winter, it was so cold that we could all see our breath. Pneumonia and bronchitis were frequent, and I had to go to emergency at the hospital several times because of asthma attacks triggered by the cold air.
On NYE 1999, on the cusp of what everyone thought would be Armageddon because of the Y2K bug, none of the cashiers were given any breaks during their shift. The excuse was that there were too many customers for us to take a break. The line for the cash registers wrapped three times around the perimeter of the entire store, and it was a huge store. All of the customers were in foul moods and snapping at us. Grocery store rage is as real as road rage.
I had a bad repetitive stress issue with my wrists from keying things into the cash register. I could barely grasp things, but not a single customer ever thought to pick up their own heavy items, like frozen turkeys, bags of dogfood, or flats of canned goods or bottled water. While I wasn’t on the clock, I wore a sling.
I didn’t make enough money at this job to wash my laundry and had to wash my clothes in the shower every day after work. I didn’t make enough money to eat decent food and had to buy whatever wasn’t too rotten in the discount section.
I have never worked so hard and been treated so poorly as I have at any minimum wage job.
It isn’t acceptable to treat people so poorly, but it is legal.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is ethical. Break unethical laws. Do crime. And if you see someone steal food, no, you didn’t.
@Shanmonster
This post reminded me of @scalzi's brilliant and famous Thanksgiving compilation of his aphorisms on Being Poor. If you've never read it, Google it.
@gee C’est marrant de le relire au moment où pleins de techs qui ont bossé pour éviter la catastrophe se plaignent que les gens considèrent qu’on a sur-estimé le problème, alors que c’est juste qu’ils ont bien bossé…
@breizh@gee Enfin une partie seulement, coté Unix ça avait l'air plutôt tranquille (mon père ayant bosé dedans à l'époque), cf. article suivant.
2038 ça va être assez chiant (déjà qu'on commence à avoir des soucis sur les dates futures…), surtout coté format binaires dans des trucs parfois oubliés.
Au moins coté trucs comme № de série DNS y'a le temps, ça sera en 2286 que le timestamp dépassera 10 chiffres (et on pourra toujours écrire en ISO qui laisse 2 chiffres de marge, genre 2024021200 pour la première modif d'aujourd'hui).
People who diminish the necessity of the massive effort and expense directed at the #Year2000 problem are no better than doomsday #preppers and #conspiracy theorists spreading pointless #disinformation.
@mjgardner yeah, it always surprised me how people reacted. just because nothing super major happened, didn't mean there wasn't an actual problem. programmers just worked their ASSES off fixing software, right up to the last minute in some cases. And even so, there were still some high-profile failures; if I remember correctly a French railway was completely incapacitated as their entire booking system went down.
Muito bom o documentário do #y2k. O que hoje pode não parecer grande coisa, na época foi uma ansiedade bastante real, quase como foi a emergência de saúde em 2019.
No fim, da mesma forma como as coisas funcionavam de modo transparente até quase ser tarde demais, a virada do milênio foi funcional e transparente na maior parte dos casos, pois um exército de pessoas trabalhou nos bastidores para ser assim, como sempre foi.
E a burrice que resultou nisso tudo, que foi escrever em pedra os dois primeiros dígitos do ano e mudar só os dois últimos como se o ano 2000 não fosse chegar, foi uma decisão com o bolso e não com o cérebro. Capitalismo sendo capitalismo.
No final o bug do milênio veio morder a bunda dos governos e empresários, que tiveram que investir altas somas de dinheiro para evitar o pior enquanto perdiam as calças.
E influenciou a vida e decisões de inúmeras pessoas e grupos.
Ein Ausdruck der mangelnden #IT#Bildung unserer Tage. 🤦♂️
Hätten aufgrund des Aufschreis im Vorfeld nicht alle Entscheider Ressourcen gewährt, dass hunderttausende Fachkräfte Software Y2k-reif gemacht haben, dann wäre weltweit vermutlich wirklich die Katastrophe passiert.
So haben wir unseren Job gemacht & es wird von journalistischen Nichtrecherchierern verharmlost.
@publicvoit Der Tweet Greta nicht "We all die in 2023", sondern "..if we do nothing till 2023..", und das haben wir ja, "...we all die in the future."🤷