• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    Programmers in 292,271,023,045 after uint64_t isn’t enough for the unix timestamp anymore:

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      Programmers dealing with the timezones of asymmetric period binary and trinary star systems once we go interstellar 💀

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        Don’t worry, we’ll be extinct soon, hopefully. Maybe even before int32_t runs out. Unfortunately not soon enough to stop the humans impact on earth before the worst damage is done.

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          well there have been mass extinctions before, the most notable maybe oxygenation catastrophe , mainly caused by photosynthetic life.

          And it represented a major breakthrough for life on Earth, so i doubt that this one is an irreparable crisis.

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          I’ll let you in on a secret.

          Humanity and the animals that we like will get through just fine.

          Humans in general and the vast majority of biodiversity will be fucked if it ever happens.

          I firmly believe it won’t. Too many good people in the world doing far more than the shitty ones.