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Episode 101: Year 2000 Problem

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The Importance of Self Preservation

"This was a case of hysteria, right? Like a lot of this was blown wildly out of proportion," he says. "We learned not to use a legacy system just for the sake of it being a legacy system because we don't know how to upgrade it." The year 2038 thing is even funnier because it exists by virtue of Unix systems having this kind of French Revolution calendar whereby they count up in seconds from midnight first of January 1970. 'A little buy sticker that says, please remember to turn off your computer before midnight on December 31st'

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