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Why does Dalí Clock "break" at midnight of Y2K (www.jwz.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by perviouslyiner@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

the fact that nothing happened doesn’t mean it was overblown. the fact that nothing happened means all the engineering effort and sleepless nights that went into the problem were well-spent

prevention that succeeds so completely to prevent a disaster that you don’t even notice is just a job very well done: not evidence that the disaster wasn’t real or very dangerous