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75% of Americans Believe AI Will Reduce Jobs(news.gallup.com)

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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How many Americans thought Y2K was going to crash the entire world?

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exohuman@programming.dev
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The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.

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theuberwalrus@lemmy.world
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This is such a frustrating concept that so many people don’t get. It was a huge issue, that’s why it got fixed before it could cause major damage.

My dad thinks climate change is overblown because Y2K didn’t break the world.

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mPony@kbin.social
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it’s COBOL by the way

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exohuman@programming.dev
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Ha! Thanks for that. I wasn’t one of the kids who took up the call.

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HubertManne@kbin.social
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eyup. I was writing reports for a database for engineers to reference for remediation.

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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That wasn’t my question

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pewter@lemmy.world
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Is that what some countries call Y2K?

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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No, that’s what my stupid brain vomited out lol. Thank you, I corrected it.

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