I mean, that’s exactly what programmers in the '70s thought. That there would be no way in hell that their crap code would still be in use going onto 2000.
Thing is, copy/paste is always going to be easier than writing new code and that’s only going to get worse as chat bots start coding for us.
Y2K wasn’t entirely fear mongering horse shit. There were quite a few important cogs in our digital infrastructure that were using code that would not work past 1999. It was necessary to terrify corporate ownership into paying to fix the code, otherwise they would have never done it.
I can guarantee you that all the landlocked astronauts are very jealous of them right now.
I wonder which one gets to be “and the rest” this time.
Okay, you’re not required to snarkily broadcast that in the conversation, though. You could just ignore it.
The term football used to apply to any ball sport played on foot (as apposed to on horseback). The idea that it could only belong to soccer is actually quite arrogant.
It’s odd you seem to have more faith in China than in the US. Personally, while my trust in my country is low, it is infinitely higher than my trust in China.
There’s no national security basis to ban social media from the US or a friendly country. It would be protected by the first amendment otherwise. They have actual evidence that China was using TikTok as electronic warfare, which is the only reason they can ban it.
Not true. That’s why the banning has a clause allowing for the sale of the US portion to a US (or other allied) company.
The only reason this is bannable is that it is owned by china essentially; based on national security grounds. As long as the fediverse is never sold to an enemy nation, there’s nothing to worry about.
They likely didn’t know how to save the file, so they took a picture of the screen.
It’s not so much the excess hay their collecting, it’s the giant electromagnetic they’re building.
The “replaceable CEO” is part of the reason the system is broken in the first place.
In fact, it’s done nothing but make their own life worse.
The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
You underestimate the enduring laziness of programmers.