Clearly, this is an example of someone purposefully making everything they touch an absolute mess such that no one else can work on it without catastrophic results. As such, that person cannot be fired. However, instead of one person, it is a professional association (cabal) of software engineers who like D&D and have been in control of the net for decades.
@clintcarpentier2424 This is an honorable tradition in maintenance and design stretching back as far as history itself. If no one but you knows where the Allen wrenches are and what those bits on the schematic do, then firing you is a risky proposition. There's a reason most of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings have simply replaced, but catastrophic, flaws in them. It made it so you can't just steal a page from his journal and replace him without someone that is roughly his equal in engineering.
@@clintcarpentier2424 Its making yourself valuable and job security. Backdoors, bookmarks and other fun stuff and keeping details backed up on separate drives not on company servers is nice too.
Great story; Excellent narration! Not the ending I was expecting, but still a good ending! I thought the "issues" affecting the net would be Wizzard's AI familiar becoming sentient on the net. LOL!!!
Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Great story all around, but I'm embarrassed that, of all the references, it took me longest to get the Agent Smith one.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. NASA from the 1960's would kill for my HP Stream laptop, and it's hardly a powerful unit.
@@larsharris Yep, sounds about right. I know not long after that time I owned a car that had more computer power than the Apollo spacecrafts that went to the moon.
@larsharr space shuttles used core memory for guidance and control. Literal magnetic beads with wires wrapped around them by hand to store ones and zeros. 5 computers 4 running the same software with voting, 1 running software written by an entirely different team in case there was a logic bomb in the main code. Clock speed of the main computers was 400khz, that's less than 1mhz. Your phone has processors in it running at GHz.
Wow, I never knew the shuttle used core memory. That was an antique by the time I got an Assoc. of Elec. Tech. back in the early 90s. We had a sample in our "history" room.😂 But, it worked, so who am I to talk.
There is something to be said for a device that controls whether you live or die being based on the absolutely most stable architecture possible. That laptop may have been the most powerful computer on the shuttle, but did it ever need a reboot during the trip?
The internet relies on a number of programs and communication architectures that can go back decades. For example, even today most financial systems rely on COBOL programs that were written back in the card reader days. As a result the people who keep all this running, and in particular patching or updating the old software are the "wizards." Solid6 in this instance probably refers to "six sigma," a patch to increase the reliability of various functions.
@@xephael3485 Six sigma basically refers to the level of errors or mistakes you can have, or 99.9999%. That's it. It got applied to *everything* back in the 90's, hence it's reputation as garbage. Since almost all your banking runs on COBOL, it obviously isn't as garbage as you think. I used to be programmer, and I've seen more "new, exciting" programming languages come and go over the past 45 years than most people. Funnily enough, FORTRAN and COBOL are still around and in use.
@Norbrookc no... Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986....
@Norbrookc Fortran and Cobal have been virtually decimated in current code bases. I know boomers and older folks think their code lives forever but it actually gets put out to pasture and dies
Clearly, this is an example of someone purposefully making everything they touch an absolute mess such that no one else can work on it without catastrophic results. As such, that person cannot be fired. However, instead of one person, it is a professional association (cabal) of software engineers who like D&D and have been in control of the net for decades.
Now you understand IT.
@@clintcarpentier2424 No, they're merely scratching the surface of IT. Why do you think that over 50% is known to be a specific group?
@clintcarpentier2424 This is an honorable tradition in maintenance and design stretching back as far as history itself. If no one but you knows where the Allen wrenches are and what those bits on the schematic do, then firing you is a risky proposition. There's a reason most of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings have simply replaced, but catastrophic, flaws in them. It made it so you can't just steal a page from his journal and replace him without someone that is roughly his equal in engineering.
@@clintcarpentier2424 Its making yourself valuable and job security. Backdoors, bookmarks and other fun stuff and keeping details backed up on separate drives not on company servers is nice too.
@@boywonderrr71
What are you? A spy?
Great story; Excellent narration! Not the ending I was expecting, but still a good ending! I thought the "issues" affecting the net would be Wizzard's AI familiar becoming sentient on the net. LOL!!!
That's it. I'm ordering a Wizard Hat and getting back into ultra-low level programming. I should go find the local D-Wiz Dojo.
Happy New Year everyone 🎉 !😊 Keep up the Awesome work Agro Squirrel!
Nice, the author was a fan of I Robot. Bye the way of asking the right question.
And LOTR
Greetings, Mentlegent!
For the Rhyhtm that is Algo
Great story all around, but I'm embarrassed that, of all the references, it took me longest to get the Agent Smith one.
I hope the Unix Wizzards don't Grep this, it would make them unbearable for days. RTFM!
They won't stoo hitting the pipes!
GNU Terry
@@zyeborm Gnu's not Unix. Thus spake Richard Stallman.
Thanks for the laugh! WITH ENERGY!!
Happy new year all 🎉🎉
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!
For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿
Daft 😂
Bravo Sir Encore!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. NASA from the 1960's would kill for my HP Stream laptop, and it's hardly a powerful unit.
When the space shuttles launched. I understood the most powerful, fastest computer involved was the laptop a crew person brought on board.
@@larsharris Yep, sounds about right. I know not long after that time I owned a car that had more computer power than the Apollo spacecrafts that went to the moon.
@larsharr space shuttles used core memory for guidance and control. Literal magnetic beads with wires wrapped around them by hand to store ones and zeros.
5 computers 4 running the same software with voting, 1 running software written by an entirely different team in case there was a logic bomb in the main code.
Clock speed of the main computers was 400khz, that's less than 1mhz. Your phone has processors in it running at GHz.
Wow, I never knew the shuttle used core memory. That was an antique by the time I got an Assoc. of Elec. Tech. back in the early 90s. We had a sample in our "history" room.😂 But, it worked, so who am I to talk.
There is something to be said for a device that controls whether you live or die being based on the absolutely most stable architecture possible. That laptop may have been the most powerful computer on the shuttle, but did it ever need a reboot during the trip?
This story makes me wish i understood programming language, LOL
Never too late to learn brosef. There's mountains of python out there, or if you like "real world" pick up an Arduino mate
neat
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1st, 1 January 2025
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This story doesn't make much sense
The internet relies on a number of programs and communication architectures that can go back decades. For example, even today most financial systems rely on COBOL programs that were written back in the card reader days. As a result the people who keep all this running, and in particular patching or updating the old software are the "wizards." Solid6 in this instance probably refers to "six sigma," a patch to increase the reliability of various functions.
@Norbrookc six sigma is garbage and so is cobol
@@xephael3485 Six sigma basically refers to the level of errors or mistakes you can have, or 99.9999%. That's it. It got applied to *everything* back in the 90's, hence it's reputation as garbage. Since almost all your banking runs on COBOL, it obviously isn't as garbage as you think. I used to be programmer, and I've seen more "new, exciting" programming languages come and go over the past 45 years than most people. Funnily enough, FORTRAN and COBOL are still around and in use.
@Norbrookc no... Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986....
@Norbrookc Fortran and Cobal have been virtually decimated in current code bases. I know boomers and older folks think their code lives forever but it actually gets put out to pasture and dies