I spent ‘99 travelling from the top of west oz to the bottom analysing embedded systems for date faults, for others to repair. So much of our mining industry could have been stopped overnight.

— Paul Williams (@buddhawilliams) August 22, 2022

Yep. Y2K was a “big nothing” in most people’s perception because hundreds of thousands of people spent billions of person hours fixing shit in advance. It’s the preparedness paradox in action. If you correct a major problem before the consequences strike, everyone believes there was no problem in the first place. It’s a major and seemingly irremediable flaw in human cognition.

I kind of wish we’d fixed nothing so the whole economy would’ve ground to a halt so these stupid wankers would now be shut the fuck up.