Collection of Lame Jokes

[fresh_42]

What about 12,000 years from now? Not very future proof.

You mean they will still have COBOL programs running?

Oh, wait... Humanity is almost certain to have destroyed itself long before then.

Another Carrington event will do.

 

[DrClaude]

So do we permantly spring forward, or forever fall backward? Inquiring minds want to know.

(BTW, I agree it would be best to not keep changing back and forth, but I don't know which of the two choices is best...)

Noon should correspond as closely as possible to the Sun being at its zenith.

 

[WWGD]

You mean they will still have COBOL programs running?

Another Carrington event will do.

I don't see why become concerned over something that will happen long after we're all dead.

 

[fresh_42]

I don't see why become concern over sonething that will happen long after we're all dead.

Carrington is overdue, so I wouldn't bet.

 

[WWGD]

Carrington is overdue, so I wouldn't bet.

Never met him.

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

Never met him.

I know. You are online.

 

[WWGD]

I know. You are online.

And S/he's not? Still no idea on Carrington.

 

[WWGD]

 

[DaveC426913]

I don't see why become concerned over something that will happen long after we're all dead.

That's what all we programmers were saying leading up to 2000.

 

[gmax137]

That's what all we programmers were saying leading up to 2000.

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

 

[WWGD]

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

Maybe because they we're planning for Y10K? ;).

 

[WWGD]

 

[fresh_42]

My brother had summer jobs in the mid 1970s doing programming. Around 1999 he told me that he had been including in 4-digit years in his programs back then, and the 'greybeard' programmers he reported to called him an a**hole college kid.

Of course, they did. Do you have the slightest idea how much money was made by checking and changing those old programs?

 

[WWGD]

Of course, they did. Do you have the slightest idea how much money was made by checking and changing those old programs?

Carrington was clearly benefiting (??)

 

[Ibix]

Carrington was clearly benefiting (??)

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

Given the amount of stuff that relies on wireless these days a rerun would not be funny.

 

[WWGD]

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

Given the amount of stuff that relies on wireless these days a rerun would not be funny.

Thank you. A bad think about connectivity is that I have no real excuse for my laziness in looking it up ;). Edit: Using a phone makes it harder to search and come back. With a PC I can just open a new window. Ah, first world problems.

 

[WWGD]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I told a guy I'm a big fan of USB and he accused me of being against the USA.

 

[WWGD]

I told a guy I'm a big fan of USB and he accused me of being against the USA.

I think he attended USC.

 

[phinds]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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[phinds]

 

[strangerep]

Another Carrington event will do.

TIL... about the "Carrington event".

I suspect the next one is waiting until there's major bushfires on many continents, major cyclones/hurricanes/tornadoes, heavy dependence on 5G towers, and the $\varepsilon/\theta/\kappa$ COVID variants have been granted their "freedom".

 

[phinds]

 

[WWGD]

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Wonder if Millenials know the meaning of (counter)clockwise.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Wonder if Millenials know the meaning of (counter)clockwise.

Just explain that you turn the dial on a phone clockwise.

 

[phinds]

Just explain that you turn the dial on a phone clockwise.

But which way is that? Smartphones don't HAVE a rotary dial.

 

[DaveC426913]

But which way is that? Smartphones don't HAVE a rotary dial.

The same way the hands go on a space-age Timex watch.