we should be approaching more problems in the way we did for the ozone layer hole and the year-2000 problem, and less problems in the way we did for cigarettes and cars
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@joepie91 i used to think the y2k problem was just a big fad but I learned relatively recently that banks would have crashed and even some nuclear power plants would have lost time synchronisation in possiby dangerous ways.
@aetios absolutely. it would've likewise seriously interfered with scientific endeavours, basic civil infrastructure (power for example), and so on. the only reason it ended up being a nothingburger is because people made a ton of noise about it and then put in a ton of work to *make* it a nothingburger
Yeah, at my job, we put in a fair bit of work ahead of NYE, then on that evening, a bunch of us were at work playing some network-able game like Duke Nukem or whatevever, so that we'd be there and alert IF something went bananas.
Turned out, the devs had caught it all, and we were OK.
'Twasn't a nothingburger. 'Twas a welldoneburger.
if you don't know what "the ozone layer hole" was, or you're thinking "but the year-2000 problem was a lot of hubbub about nothing"...
yes, exactly, that's because the problem was actually addressed before it broke the world