I see what you did lol… well played
As an actual Corporate IT Nerd, I don’t know how you got “Corporate IT Nerd” from that post.
Now user thawing their frozen microwave burrito on their Laser Printer? Yeeeaaaaaa
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The bug was definitely a thing. A few years ago I had to trace a code change from the mid-90s at my workplace to avoid a regression, and along the way I came across a Y2K fix.
There aren’t a lot of systems it would’ve caused to crash altogether, and it wouldn’t have caused immediate extinction or anything. But anything that needed to perform reports, audits, ledgers etc (financial industry, businesses) would’ve been pretty hosed, which would’ve caused a lot of economic chaos. The thing is, we had several years to adequately prepare and fix it. It was largely done by the time it hit headlines, and they spun it from “yeah that could’ve caused some problems, glad we caught it” to “BIBLICAL NUKULAR APOCALYPSE”.
Like, you know how fast people pounced on patching Heartbleed? Imagine that, but with 2-3 years advance notice for your whole dev team to perform reviews of your entire codebase, perform DB upgrades, and do regression testing.
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twenty years ago i was still using dialup. i couldn’t get cable modem till 2002
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Is it Y2K2?
Penumbrae said she was a corporate I.T. nerd in an earlier post but I must have clicked reply to a later one.
The bug was definitely a thing. A few years ago I had to trace a code change from the mid-90s at my workplace to avoid a regression, and along the way I came across a Y2K fix.
There aren’t a lot of systems it would’ve caused to crash altogether…
…the thing is, we had several years to adequately prepare and fix it. It was largely done by the time it hit headlines, and they spun it from “yeah that could’ve caused some problems, glad we caught it” to “BIBLICAL NUKULAR APOCALYPSE”.
Pray, forgive me there is going to be a lot of irony in this post I’m about to make here.
See, on one hand, that my primitive mind doesn’t consider a problem that relevant if it’s not capable of causing any degree of serious problem. For me, if it’s not an extreme result, I don’t consider it much of a big deal, little more than an insect bite that I often get that I simply ignore most of the time then they disappear on their own. In short, my primitive brain can only understand things in extremes. Of course what can you expect from someone that plays a fantasy game where in the game the mythical and magical is simply a natural reality.
Yet the irony of this, is that it’s this exact sort of attitude that causes the mass hysteria of ‘biblical nuklear apocalypse’ as you put it in the first place, as when people become obsessed with only extremes. This can be dangerous when one believes that the only solution to complex problems are simple solutions, often with extreme measures.
Y2K bug did happen it’s just that most machines were patched to prevent it.
If no one had done anything it would have been a very VERY big problem.
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I can’t wait for the freak-out train when Apophis passes by Earth lmao
The crazies are going to go full throttle
It was only a 2.9% chance of an impact in 2029 now that’s been downgraded and until the 2030’s at least.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity. They’ll still hype it up way more than it should, lol
So lock up your daughter, lock up your wife, lock up your back door and run for your life.
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So you are sayin it is more likely then getting Invincible?!?!?!
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Let’s be clear. Y2k was a problem and we survived it. But it was an issue.
Well when you put it like that…
mother pls hold me D:
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I am already ordering my marker and sign board from Amazon.
“The end is 2.9% neigh!”
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Not anymore. Forgive me it was a 2.7% chance not 2.9%, but for this calculation to even be a possibility it would have to pass through a gravitational keyhole, and the chances of that happening are also very low.
Let’s put this way, if Earth was a piece of loot from wow, the asteroid would have to type /roll and get 100% both times.
The possibility of a 2036 impact is 1 in 45, 000 so to me the risk is so small that its virtually zero.
And even if it did /roll 100 twice, it would cause damage sure but this planet suffers asteroid collisions of that scale every 80, 000 years of average. It might cause a ruckus to our civilization but we would get through it.
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The physics gets interesting here depending on the composition and structure of the asteroid as well as speed and angle of impact. Given its shape it is probably not a solid body meaning as a moving pile of rubble it is likely to break up in the atmosphere and increase the chances of multiple air-burst such as Tunguska. As you put it, a ruckus if over a populated area for certain but definitely not a civilization ending such as an impact the size of the Chicxulub event that finished off the all the dinosaurs except the birds.
Yeah Y2K was 100% an indictment of sensationalist coverage. There was a problem, and it was super serious – left alone, it would’ve caused massive recessions and severe national security weaknesses. But what got covered was not only very late to the party, but also bloated into a very specific kind of threat that it wasn’t: instant BSOD and/or Skynet. That was pretty much the only kind of threat it wasn’t.
Y2K in a military system wouldn’t have arbitrarily launched nukes. But it would have crippled ongoing development because it broke all their administrative, organizational, and auditing tools, and other bugs would’ve slipped through while they had to improvise all that. That was the hazard of Y2K.
Don’t even need to wait for Apophis. Rags like Daily Express run this crap twice a week about every rock that comes within 500 moon distances 
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