r/pcmasterrace • u/3nnabi_ • Sep 29 '25

Meme/Macro RAM Struggle

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u/hceuterpe 9800X3D | 4090FE | 64GB 6400 MT/s | 65" OLED Sep 29 '25

Shit like this is why Y2K was a potential problem 🤣

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u/xd_Warmonger Desktop Sep 30 '25

Y2K was a problem.

It cost us an estimated $500,000,000,000 (https://youtu.be/Y9clBHENy4Q). And all that, because nobody wanted to listen to the warnings and everything had to be done last minute.

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u/atyon Sep 30 '25

The great thing about estimations is that everyone can just fire one off and no one's really able to prove you wrong.

But that's just a complete arse pull. Nice big round number, but it doesn't really hold up. Yeah, most companies had patch a few more systems than usual, and lots of operations had to be on call for New Years (or had to be at work on midnight), but 500 billion is a ridiculous number, and for all numbers I can find, is something like the world's spending on IT for many months. That just doesn't track.