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  • This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.

    They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.

    Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.

    The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.















  • Ditto. Both my wife and I were heavy smokers and moved to vapes. As soon as I used a vape I thought “this is the solution!” after trying to quit smoking many times for decades.

    They really provide 80 to 90% of the satisfaction of a cigarette and take the edge off those moments when you damn well need a ciggie.

    After a couple of years of vaping I find it now much easier to do without them for a few days, although I do like one with a beer.

    You have to have been on that 10 or 20 year journey of smoking cigarettes to understand how hard they are to put down, and vaping was the tool that got me away from burning the evil tobacco leaf.