• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Front line tech during the Y2K crisis. I had 60 software updates to manage across 600 car dealerships from Texas to Guam.

    The real trick was convincing everyone to do it early because the '00 model year cars were coming out in '98 and '99 and could have broken a lot of things.

    “Y2K? That’s months from now!”

    “When do you get your '00 cars?”

    “Next week.”

    “Do you want to be able to sell them?”

    “!!” (Metal Gear Solid noise)

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      2 months ago

      Interesting design choice to store the model year as a date instead of an int. I guess it was probably done for a reason but I’m having a hard time thinking of one.

  • Bad_Engineering@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I personally programmed all of the robots that weld together the frames of every Nissan pickup truck except for diesel models made after 2016. I also did the same for any Ford f-350 to f-650 built after 2017.

  • Chef@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    30 years ago, I was a young research student on the project to synthesize an injectable form of birth control. I was responsible for isolating proteins using column chromatography.