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		robocat on Sept 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again (2019) The real absurdity is why not append 00, or 000? If you care about the 10k bug, why wouldn’t you care about the Y100K or Y1000K bug? Makes me think of Johnny Two Hats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8K1fTZaR7w who later comes back with four hats.

shagie on Sept 9, 2021 [–]

This is "addressed" in rfc2550. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2550 which takes the y10k problem to absurd levels.

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