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  • Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

    Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed "19".year

    So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

  • My "smart" bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you

    I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi

    Its app hadn't been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again

  • There are rules in Australia that if you set a trap for an animal you must check the trap at least daily. I don't know that people actually follow that when it comes to nice though

  • I think we're mostly using 64 bit machines now. Even loads of embedded stuff is running on 64 bit processors now.

    There will still be a lot of old software and hardware that needs updating before the 32 bit Unix time overflow

  • If everyone is aware. If the player knows the DC and the GM knows the players character sheet

    ...ignore the concept

    I call it following the rules. 1 as an auto fail is a common house rule, it is not the rule in d&d

  • Nope. 1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20.

    What do you mean here? Any roll is as likely as any other

    Do you mean 2-20 is more likely than rolling a 1? Of course it is, but an invisible rogue sneaking at +15 shouldn't be seen by the monster who's -4 to spot 1 in 20 events, or if 20s are also special, 1 in 10 events (one for the rogue getting a 1, one for monster getting a 20)

  • It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids

    Our heart valves are check valves

  • Isn't that okay for easy stuff? Skilled characters also see harder challenges, disarming a dc20 trap for example

    Why should they fail to tie a simple knot on a +5, dc5 use rope check 1 in 20 times?