Charlie Stross on Nostr: This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so ...
This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s.
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