Now after Covid-19 I hope all the people spouting garbage like “Y2K wasn’t a real problem” will SHUT THE FUCKING FUCK UP. It was a real problem — we just spent nearly a decade fixing it. I fixed a few things for it myself before I even worked full-time in IT!
Can confirm. In 1999 I spent six month on a Oracle codebase that generated invoices for a electrical utility.
Imagine if you aggregate dates wrong and print a million wrong invoices that are for 100 years instead of a month and accidentally debit all people's money. https://t.co/ilwN2yZWXz
— Thomas #raisethebar Fuchs (@thomasfuchs) April 5, 2020
People just have enormous, unfathomable trouble understanding crises averted, and the fact that we did something to avoid it doesn’t mean we could have NOT done those things. The reason the crisis didn’t occur is because we successfully prevented it. I cannot understand it, and that even a lot of seemingly-smart people fall into this cognitive pit of utter dumbassery.