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After 2000, *lots* of people sneered that the Y2K bug had been a big nothing, massively overhyped. They were idiots. If the vast amount of Y2K remediation that took place hadn't, planes might well have fallen from the sky, nuclear power plants might well have melted down. I worked on two projects myself to fix bad 2 digit dates. We get to the other side of the current Nazi infestation, the same idiots are going to say, "See, you were just hysterical." Neil Gaiman wrote: "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game." I'm not Gaiman, and probably neither are you (unless you are, in which case hi, Neil.) But this is true for me and true for most of us.
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 @fatsam I've done that for people who have absolutely no clue 😅 I wish some did that for us 😆 |
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@fatsam same with pandemic measures and vaccines. Imagine where we’d be if none of that happened.
@fatsam Recently I found this Y2.1K bug in the datetime encoding code of a smart home product/ecosystem. I wonder how many instances of this are present out there in the wild.