@nixCraft That about smells right

@nixCraft
Please enable macros to view my super important message.

@nixCraft In 50 years we will discover that there actually is a straightforward unification of quantum mechanics and gravity that also permits an engineerable at-light-speed paradox-free solution for an Alcubierre drive. It will be found that we would've discovered this much sooner had Microsoft Excel not had an obscure floating point rounding bug.

@nixCraft not shown: stupid amounts of money on fire in an attempt to enforce controls over the existing spreadsheets.

@nixCraft See also NIST compliance.

@nixCraft I think you mistyped 2003.

@nixCraft If it was just the financial system...

@nixCraft s/Microsoft Excel 2013/Microsoft Excel Macros

@nixCraft not wrong

@nixCraft this is so accurate it hurts

@nixCraft I sent this to our head of finance, and he cracked up, because it's entirely true.

@nixCraft and the sand is COBOL

@nixCraft That can be applied to most industries

@nixCraft lol

@nixCraft 2038 can't come fast enough

@nixCraft
Cobol wäre treffender, Excel dann eher als Datenzugang für Manager 🙂