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by chiph 2067 days ago
As someone who worked through Y2K, I guarantee you that the code needed fixing, otherwise societal-level bad things really would have happened.
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As someone who worked through Y2K, over 90% of the money spent accross society was straight-up con. It wasn't nothing, but what a massive sales beat-up it became.

Disagree, go nuts. Who do you trust? The engineer making the convincing case. "Trust engineers" not so much.