I don't think it's as bad as you think. Check out this thread: https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/952265416289632256. If shit hits the fan and you end up surviving, your help in the aftermath can be crucial.
This is much less than the American bombings of Japan in World War 2, when 60 Japanese cities were firebombed (see e.g. [2]). But even so, the total deaths in Japan in the entire war were something like 4% of the population. If there is a war now, most people living in Japan will survive.
[1] https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/nuclear-notebook/ [2] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/national/deadly...
Management skills could be crucial too. But there’s prob gonna be people around who are better at it.
Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates. Then we’re all doomed.
Don't worry, we're implementing Survival KANBAN. Challenges and allocations will happen naturally on a board, while management tracks concurrent Survival In Progress to make sure we're not creating more survivors than we can handle.
I figure if most data centers are targeted and destroyed people will probably have to host servers on their own local machines, which at least requires a DevOps person in each community.
That might actually be pleasant.
If you put a machine/wood working shop in your garage + you do your own home repairs you can learn all kinds of useful skills.
At the moment of writing this, North Korea alone is not able to bring about the kind of total apocalypse people are thinking when they talk about "post-apocalyptic world". Assuming China joins in (thought I am unsure why they would, unless US strikes first), according the Wikipedia they have 260 warheads [1], which is enough to bring about a massive catastrophe but I am not convinced that the result would be total collapse of civilization.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...