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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Was there ever really a threat to begin with? The whole thing sounds like Jewish space lasers to me.

Edit: Gotta love getting downvoted for asking a question.

[-] I_LOVE_VEKOMA_SLC@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

Yes. A massive amount of work went in to making sure the transition wnet smooth.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 7 months ago

You're probably getting down voted because you asked here instead of a search engine, and many people think it's common knowledge, and it was already answered in this thread.

Sometimes an innocent question looks like someone JAQing off.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a great way to keep people from interacting at all.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 7 months ago

Doesn't seem to be a big problem for much of the thread nor many other threads.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

It was a massive threat as it would break banking records and aircraft flight paths. Those industries spent millions to fix the problem. In 14 years(2038) we'll have a similar problem with all 32bit computers breaking if they haven't had firmware updates to store UTC time as a 64bit number composed of two 32bit numbers. Lots of medical, industrial, and government equipment will need to either be patched or replaced.

[-] jemikwa 3 points 7 months ago

By comparison, there were a few systems that had issues on February 29th because of leap day. Issues with such a routine thing in this current day should be unthinkable.

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

There wasn't much of a real "threat", in that planes wouldn't fall out of the sky. but banking systems would probably get quite confused, and potentially lead to people being unable to access money easily until it got fixed.

[-] bloom_of_rakes@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

You insinuate that these people might be gullible dopes who swallow whatever it's popular to swallow, no brains involved.

We have a zero tolerance policy for that attitude.

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