I've been consuming a lot of older American pop culture recently and one thing that struck me was the vast difference in tone the 70s had.
As a child of 90s (technically born in the 80s) I had a sense of the differences between 80s culture and 90s culture. I also mentally had some sense that the 50s were a different time, but my brain lumped the 60s and 70s together.
But going back and reading books, watching TV shows, and listening to music from both eras there's a notable and stark contrast between the two decades.
Frankly I have to say that the 70s are far and away my least favorite era of American popular culture. It doesn't fit my tastes at all, to the point where it almost feels like a 'lost decade' to me.
In short, I'd dread having to live through it if we were to revert.
64bit? Not so fast!
We could just add a flag to signify "time after 2038" and "time before 1901". That would give us another 68 years into the future and the past. Doesn't that seeme like a great solution? /s
I normally try to irritate pedants, that criticise everything, by finding more not less mistakes, such as lots of prepositions to end my sentences with.
Another nit, there was never a mistake with ending sentences with prepositions, it comes from Latin where you can't do that but John Dryden in the 1600s wanted to bring that to English, but no one really cared.
Ironic, isn't it? (I say this jokingly, I get your irritation with pedants, sometimes I feel the same way.)
With that argument coming from the 13th Century, I'd say that the democratic nature of English has killed it. So to be more pedantic, the 'from' is optional. Not required, but neither is it wrong.
0x80000000, the number I asked what to do about, if it's neither in the past nor in the future (along with all other numbers between it and 0xFFFFFFFF). 0x80000000 is the number they said to send to hell "or" use 64 bits to store.
But storing it in 64 bits still leaves you with the same number waiting for interpretation. (Possibly two numbers depending on sign extension settings.) So do you still need to send it to hell, or what happens differently?
