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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 07:16:15 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   *The Y2K38 Bug. One wonders if anybody in 2038 will have the chops to deal with this

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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     Offbeatmammal (offbeatmammal@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 11:27:00 JST Offbeatmammal

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     @bruces I was very busy in the Y2K run-up (wonder what the COBOL market is like these days?!) so anyone dealing with Y2K38 has my sympathy (especially as the reward for doing a lot of work and minimizing the problem is to be repeatedly told "see, it was no big deal")

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     Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:38:54 JST Angus McIntyre

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     @bruces In retrospect, the Y2K38 bug was a smaller problem than we feared. The REAL problems started when someone said “Don’t worry, we can use AI to fix this.”