Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by corel_ on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:00PM (#22549149)

I also was around for this but my favourite thing about it wasn't the resignation of "it wasn't a big deal" from the public but the mockery of people at the time talking about 2038 as alarmist nutjobs. It was not going to be a issue in 2038 because we'd all be running 64 bit quantum computers by then.

18 years away now and an absolute ton of affected systems are still out there and mission critical.

These type pf issues, from Corona to 2038 to climate change, always remind me of that Homer Simpson quote.

"Pfft, that's a problem for future Homer. Man I don't envy that guy."

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by pingyong on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:24AM (#22555090)

Reminder that the MySQL Timestamp type is still 32-bit. And probably will be until 2037, if we're lucky.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by henrikschroder on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:00PM (#22551722)

We have passed the halfway point between 2000 and 2038 now.

Already halfway, and we haven't done shit.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by xuki on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:49PM (#22552051)

Just like a PhD thesis, it’s best to be done last minute.

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