Ah yes, the Y2K problem. Proof that if you set people on a difficult task with well-defined goals and enough time to craft a solution, they will solve it so well that people will forget that it was a problem and wonder why they made such a big deal out of it.
Calling it a "nothingburger" is just insulting, really. It would have been a huge problem had it not been properly addressed. I didn't work on it myself, but colleagues did.
Congrats, fellow hero! I was working as a network engineer at the time of the Y2K problem. The last couple of years, from 1998 on, we worked many extra nights and weekends to fix everything. We worked every day to pour over every line of code with the old date format. We had to update every server and PC Bios and every piece of network equipment (every router, bridge and switch and even print servers and printers). On the last day of 1999, we were required to stay around the clock. After midnight, we monitored and rechecked all systems. It was all a success. We turned a potential catastrophe into a "nothing burger". You're welcome world.
not that we despise Wikipedia, but some articles have questionable sources. It needs experienced readers to notice the credibility of the sources. Something that not all students are aware of. For instance, I have seen that many Wiki pages that are written my native language misinterpret information or sometimes do not cite any sources, which make the facts hard to confirm. But Wikipedia is a good starter for anyone who just learn about a topic. Just make sure to check the references to confirm the fact.
I am really glad that projects like Wikipedia exist. It helps many people, particularly those from developing countries, to access information that previously was only accessible for few elites. Of course problems like credibility of sources exist because the information is crowdsourced, but Wikipedia is a good start to get into a topic.
Every single time you release a video, I think to myself 'why haven't I looked into this before?!' . My interests and curiosities align perfectly with what you release, and I freakin love them all man!!! Keep em coming!!
This reminds me of how Linux got itself started. Both used to just be its small neat things, but its policy on openness and an idealist leader who are equally tolerant and visionary led to it becoming a massive collaborative project that benefited everyone even if it comparatively didn't make much money.
Yes the site is very liberal and is openly criticized of right wing pages, no matter what political ideology you lean to wiki pages should be completely unbiased.
Teachers aren't smart to understand Wikipedia. Editors really go to wars for a smallest change on major pages. We must be proud of the regular editors and admins who have contributed so much to Wiki Articles.
@@tchin25 nice.. We only see his face (or sometimes hyperlink) on top banner of the page for the annual donation plea... hope the web version gonna be as good as app mobile android version...
I remember hearing the founder interviewed on the radio long, long ago. Amazing that the name “wiki” came from a (as I recall, so fact-check me) hawiian word.
Unrelated to the video, but the new vector 2022 skin for Wikipedia is out now. You can enable it in the preferences under the appearance section, just look for the vector 2022 skin. It looks so much nicer and modern.
I absolutely love wikipedia and have never found anything there that I thought was incorrect. I mainly use it to lookup quick facts about new tech - the language and frameworks some software is built on, new systems, etc. I then click on the various references and go from there. It's a beautiful thing!!!
If you stick to topics like that, yeah, it's pretty reliable, accurate, unbiased, and a good starting place. However, when you get topics/articles on politics, current events, or controversial figures/movements it becomes a different story.
@@redpillsatori3020 that makes sense. I've not used it much for stuff like that, but I could definitely see where things would get dicey in that category 🤣
I wouldn't normally make a fuss about this and magnanimously cut you some slack for such a benign lexical error since the content of your videos (third day in a row and I am still binging down the rabbit hole, hoping to quench my lust for knowledge consolidation) keeps amazing me, but please allow me to kindly give you constructive "flak" : the first time I heard you say it, I obviously didn't bother to comment, but the idiom at the timestamp should be "getting a lot of flak" instead of "getting a lot of 'slack'". 😉 Please keep up the good work; did you apply in order to get in at Space X or Tesla yet?
5:41 "while there were some errors here and there once we hit 2000, nothing catastrophic unfolded. and the Year 2000 problem ended up being a big nothing burger." what an irresponsibly misleading thing to say. it makes it sounds like the concerned were unjustifiable hysteria. the reason it turned out to be a nothing burger is because of all the colossal amount of money and effort went into correcting technology to go through the change smoothly. not because It wAs a BiG nOtHiG BuRgEr. this kind of careless wording is how masses of ignorant fools ignore warnings and alarm raisers about legitimate issues that plague society. from climate change, to infectious outbreaks.
On 2017 , Jimmy Whales was live on Facebook, from a regular account, And i was one of 4 viewers , that time I didn’t know how to screenshot or screen-record.
"teachers all over the world hate Wikipedia" that is most definitely not the case. Now you can't cite Wikipedia but it gives you a good place to start.
I remember editing rosters of our country's domestic basketball league (news source included) and then someone reverted it back and messaged me. Haha. Fun times.
Well obviously you love Wikipedia, you use it for every video! I often check Wikipedia after watching one of your videos to get more info on the topic, so I'm pretty confident that this correct, I'm I?
In my opinion, Wikipedia or some other pedia should not have articles or essays but show clips, or captures from the sources. Basically, the reference area on Wikipedia pages.
Very Nobel work done by Founders of Encyclopedia, My everyday School/College projects or assignment was completed only because of Encyclopedia. Still Most Trustful source of Information Provider.
I have a huge positive opinion on Wikipedia. Having very little ressources, it is the only organism that I donate money to and I do it once a year when their funding campaing is launched. Too bad Larry never dumped his perfectionist approach to online encyclopedia. He would have been a real asset for the foundation. Wikipedia is not perfect but it is a tremendous tool if you use it for what is its purpose. A good source if you want quick information and a good start if you want to go further in your research.
I was working directly on the problem myself. The last couple of years, from 1998 on, we worked night and day to pour over every line of code with the old date format. On the last day of 1999, we were required to stay around the clock. After midnight, we checked all systems (programs and machines) and were relieved to have resolved all the issues.
@@do0nv I am not sure what you are arguing against. And specificity about Fandom is also not the point of my comment but that it wasn't included in the video.
5:41 if all problems could "ended up being a big nothing burger" given just lots of human efforts... But some problems are (IIRC) theoretically unsolvable .
13:05 "Bomis which was a guy-oriented search engine?" okay, are you just straight up trolling now? did you mean "GUI" ?? if so, that's not how you pronounce it. hint: use wikipedia to look up how its pronounced. this is a sloppy effort an a video. you didn't produce the facts within it. you are taking them for free from somewhere. the least you can do is put some thought and and care into the presentation and delivery.
As long as this clown is keeping the term "SerboCroatian language", "Balkan peninsula" and West Balkans" on Wikipedia this will for me be a pseudosite. Croatian and Serbian are two close but distinctive languages (with many unique dialects) that both had their own distinctive development throughout approximately one millenia in poetry, laws, liturgy, different redactions from different respective dialects and so on. SerboCroatian was artificial creation for purpose of common language in Yugoslavia but it never had a real management because Yu-republics were using their different versions and even dialectal versions in different regions. In some cases Wikipedia is going all the way that this pseudo-language existed from middle ages. West Balkans doesn't exist because here are the Dinaric mountains while Balkan or Stara Planina is only on Bulgarian territory. That said Balkan peninsula doesn't exist in geographical term because the land line has to be approximately two times shorter than sea side lines and that here is not the case. Only Greece and Albania are technically on peninsula by geographic standards. If this three "political" agendas are axepted as normal thing because of some globalist interests to have this pseudoregion as one big state than what other bigger lies and interests are written in Wikipedia 🧐🤔
Might want to get your eyes checked for that myopia. Maybe calibrate wiki accuracy by their proximity to sponsors? You claim it’s free… well, when you are not invited to the table, you are the meal. A cursory review of site history shows dense editing by Three Letter Agencies, for example, that always works well. Sponsors all seem to have glowing pages while only handful of editors are allowed. It has been hacked down to the nub and rewritten many times by handful. This is why we keep encyclopedias in print. I do. Embrace the errors and propaganda as they are plugged into our Brave New ‘voracity’ engines for social truth du-jour and brace for the next round of cancel-roulette featuring numerological re-programming.
Nobody uses wikipedia as a super serious source for serious projects, like constructing a bridge or building. We just use it for the references. Of course, a lot of information on it is correct enough.
“Moderating an online discussion group about philosophy” yep, definitely born to be a mod
Lmaoooo 😂
@@LogicallyAnswered Thank you for the incredible videos Logic, always makes my day to see a new video🤘
@@LogicallyAnswered or jaqqed owf limp snake heads
Ah yes, the Y2K problem. Proof that if you set people on a difficult task with well-defined goals and enough time to craft a solution, they will solve it so well that people will forget that it was a problem and wonder why they made such a big deal out of it.
Calling it a "nothingburger" is just insulting, really. It would have been a huge problem had it not been properly addressed.
I didn't work on it myself, but colleagues did.
@@HansPolak came to say. It was engineered into being a nothing burger
Congrats, fellow hero! I was working as a network engineer at the time of the Y2K problem. The last couple of years, from 1998 on, we worked many extra nights and weekends to fix everything. We worked every day to pour over every line of code with the old date format. We had to update every server and PC Bios and every piece of network equipment (every router, bridge and switch and even print servers and printers). On the last day of 1999, we were required to stay around the clock. After midnight, we monitored and rechecked all systems. It was all a success. We turned a potential catastrophe into a "nothing burger". You're welcome world.
As what you said, teachers arent a big fan for Wikipedia. For me it's still better than the outdated website from 10 years ago that they have gave us.
Hahaha, true
not that we despise Wikipedia, but some articles have questionable sources. It needs experienced readers to notice the credibility of the sources. Something that not all students are aware of. For instance, I have seen that many Wiki pages that are written my native language misinterpret information or sometimes do not cite any sources, which make the facts hard to confirm. But Wikipedia is a good starter for anyone who just learn about a topic. Just make sure to check the references to confirm the fact.
@@GierlangBhaktiPutra dont care bout surces. they be crimpin my style 247. all deez crips in school
Some articles in Wiki are quite misleading
I am really glad that projects like Wikipedia exist. It helps many people, particularly those from developing countries, to access information that previously was only accessible for few elites. Of course problems like credibility of sources exist because the information is crowdsourced, but Wikipedia is a good start to get into a topic.
Yep well said!
@@LogicallyAnsweredWhy did you not include the interview with the founder saying you can no longer trust the site? Its one google away...
Every single time you release a video, I think to myself 'why haven't I looked into this before?!' . My interests and curiosities align perfectly with what you release, and I freakin love them all man!!! Keep em coming!!
This reminds me of how Linux got itself started. Both used to just be its small neat things, but its policy on openness and an idealist leader who are equally tolerant and visionary led to it becoming a massive collaborative project that benefited everyone even if it comparatively didn't make much money.
Its no longer the case. Its heavily controlled now.
I have to agreed with Larry that Wikipedia has been quite bias on certain sensitive topics during these last several years
Fair enough
大衆の愚民性
Yes the site is very liberal and is openly criticized of right wing pages, no matter what political ideology you lean to wiki pages should be completely unbiased.
@@Ma1q444 You don't want unbiased on these "sensitive issues", you want bias for your opinion on them
Without Wikipedia I would have never passed my Highschool, Bachelors and my Masters at King's College LOL
Is that a Kings Charles cavalier? Of course it is, I can tell
Hahaha
Indian toh nhi ho
I didn't know about Wikipedia in my highschool days
Teachers aren't smart to understand Wikipedia. Editors really go to wars for a smallest change on major pages. We must be proud of the regular editors and admins who have contributed so much to Wiki Articles.
Yawn. You mean the select elite few allowed to change, and re-change, until sponsor-adjacent pages glow.
Yeah, it does look like the approval process has gotten a lot more strict over the years.
@@jonathanedwardgibson damn your accounts comments are pretty sad to read. Every video is just hate for whoever it's about.
Wiki mods = idiots with too much power
And they don't get paid they just for their happiness
I work at the Wikimedia Foundation. One time Jimmy joined a meeting I was in and it was the first time I was starstruck :^)
Hahaha, that's awesome Thomas! What do you do there?
@@LogicallyAnswered I'm a software engineer working directly on the core codebase, so anyone who has ever gone on Wikipedia has used my code
Ah nice!
@@tchin25 nice..
We only see his face (or sometimes hyperlink) on top banner of the page for the annual donation plea...
hope the web version gonna be as good as app mobile android version...
So far I have donated to them twice, that site has saved sooo much of my time.
I have other reasons too, but it annoys me that they shove the donations into my face with a massive banner
Stop donating to them. They are a biased, far-left propaganda outlet at this point.
The funniest thing is, in your pastebin, there are 3 Wikipedia links on this topic. This literally made my day. Haha
Yep hahaha! Usually, I have a lot of sources other than Wikipedia, but for this one, I thought that was only fitting.
@@LogicallyAnswered could you make a video on how you source info and make a video out of it ...
I remember hearing the founder interviewed on the radio long, long ago. Amazing that the name “wiki” came from a (as I recall, so fact-check me) hawiian word.
Ah interesting!
@@LogicallyAnswered the founders are in jail lol
@@masternobody1896 [citation needed]
amazing site. last one on the world that is adds free.. real gold 😂😂
For real hahaha
It does ask you to donate each time though
Edit: I don’t mind this because it’s a free website full of information but I was just mentioning it.
Basedcooking
Wikipedia is great. Probably saved me a lot of time on homeworks in basic biology, chemistry and physics.
Get a Wikipedia for this UA-camr logically explained. One of the UA-camrs doing their stuff
That would be awesome hahaha!
Aside from social issue articles, raw science articals (geology, chemestry, mathamatics) are pretty accurate on wikipedia. It documents time well.
i have been reading wikipedia since 2014 and it helped me in everything... especially on information that isn't regulated
Unrelated to the video, but the new vector 2022 skin for Wikipedia is out now. You can enable it in the preferences under the appearance section, just look for the vector 2022 skin. It looks so much nicer and modern.
Hahaha, thanks for sharing Efraim
Thanks for taking the efforts to make yet another interesting vid 👍 Keep it up ...
the greatest educational tool we have
Wikpedia has saved me so much with school work.
I absolutely love wikipedia and have never found anything there that I thought was incorrect. I mainly use it to lookup quick facts about new tech - the language and frameworks some software is built on, new systems, etc. I then click on the various references and go from there. It's a beautiful thing!!!
If you stick to topics like that, yeah, it's pretty reliable, accurate, unbiased, and a good starting place. However, when you get topics/articles on politics, current events, or controversial figures/movements it becomes a different story.
@@redpillsatori3020 that makes sense. I've not used it much for stuff like that, but I could definitely see where things would get dicey in that category 🤣
I've written so many university papers thanks to Wiki :)
Hahaha, glad it helped you out!
I like this video [Citation needed]
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if wikipedia doesn't exist many Indians doesn't have complete any assignments in graduation
I've Studied Wikipedia For Years And Im Already Giving Knowledge 😎
Wiki is good for science but Leftist for opinion
I wouldn't normally make a fuss about this and magnanimously cut you some slack for such a benign lexical error since the content of your videos (third day in a row and I am still binging down the rabbit hole, hoping to quench my lust for knowledge consolidation) keeps amazing me, but please allow me to kindly give you constructive "flak" : the first time I heard you say it, I obviously didn't bother to comment, but the idiom at the timestamp should be "getting a lot of flak" instead of "getting a lot of 'slack'".
😉
Please keep up the good work; did you apply in order to get in at Space X or Tesla yet?
5:41
"while there were some errors here and there once we hit 2000, nothing catastrophic unfolded. and the Year 2000 problem ended up being a big nothing burger."
what an irresponsibly misleading thing to say.
it makes it sounds like the concerned were unjustifiable hysteria.
the reason it turned out to be a nothing burger is because of all the colossal amount of money and effort went into correcting technology to go through the change smoothly.
not because It wAs a BiG nOtHiG BuRgEr.
this kind of careless wording is how masses of ignorant fools ignore warnings and alarm raisers about legitimate issues that plague society.
from climate change, to infectious outbreaks.
On 2017 , Jimmy Whales was live on Facebook, from a regular account, And i was one of 4 viewers , that time I didn’t know how to screenshot or screen-record.
Nice editing for your video
What WikiPedia made will lasts forever. Thank you
"teachers all over the world hate Wikipedia" that is most definitely not the case. Now you can't cite Wikipedia but it gives you a good place to start.
"Ph.D. In philosophy" = "Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy".
There are many great people around. We don't always notice. And the new generations must stand at least at the height of their predecessors.
I remember editing rosters of our country's domestic basketball league (news source included) and then someone reverted it back and messaged me. Haha. Fun times.
Multi-User Dungeons didn't even have that much graphics. It was all ASCII, in-line command line.
Well obviously you love Wikipedia, you use it for every video!
I often check Wikipedia after watching one of your videos to get more info on the topic, so I'm pretty confident that this correct, I'm I?
Yeah, Wikipedia is a regular source hahaha. All of my sources are always linked in the description
@@LogicallyAnswered oh never saw that🤣
Pretty cool, everything I see I look for other sources etc.
Me 🤝 Jimmy
Sharing the same birthday
In my opinion, Wikipedia or some other pedia should not have articles or essays but show clips, or captures from the sources. Basically, the reference area on Wikipedia pages.
An amazing free knowledge repository tool!
I like Wki. I donate to Wiki. I am curious as to what were the criticisms Jumbo has about Wikipedia. 🤔😉
PhD in finance and gave away a product free wow!!
😇
He is not foolish, being a founder of such big brand provides revenue latter on other stuff, like the Uk consultant job etc etc
Very Nobel work done by Founders of Encyclopedia, My everyday School/College projects or assignment was completed only because of Encyclopedia. Still Most Trustful source of Information Provider.
hi mr. person i watch at 2 am
Hahaha, thanks for watching!
Wikipedia is basically a modern library
NPO's are not beholden to profit motives. They are often beholden to much more insidious masters.
I have a huge positive opinion on Wikipedia. Having very little ressources, it is the only organism that I donate money to and I do it once a year when their funding campaing is launched.
Too bad Larry never dumped his perfectionist approach to online encyclopedia. He would have been a real asset for the foundation.
Wikipedia is not perfect but it is a tremendous tool if you use it for what is its purpose. A good source if you want quick information and a good start if you want to go further in your research.
Peace
The one Chad discord mod who actually turned their life around and didn't succumb to the stereotype. Awesome!!
The Y2K bug was very real and folks would work till late hours to fix stuff in Israel they start working on the Y2K 10 years before it started in 1990
Ah! Well, glad they fixed it before it become unmanageable
Yeah 👍
I was working directly on the problem myself. The last couple of years, from 1998 on, we worked night and day to pour over every line of code with the old date format. On the last day of 1999, we were required to stay around the clock. After midnight, we checked all systems (programs and machines) and were relieved to have resolved all the issues.
cant believe people will watch stock content for 13 minutes straight
😢
@@LogicallyAnswered apologies, did not mean any disrespect to your work. Just to me just seems like a podcast I could listen to, that’s all
@@LogicallyAnswered was a nice video
No mention of the for profit version of Wikipedia called Fandom (Wiki)?
That's not what Fandom is used for.
It allows people to create mini wikis for specific things (like movies, video games etc)
@@do0nv I am not sure what you are arguing against. And specificity about Fandom is also not the point of my comment but that it wasn't included in the video.
5:41 if all problems could "ended up being a big nothing burger" given just lots of human efforts... But some problems are (IIRC) theoretically unsolvable .
Wikipedia is an excellent source of facts , in my opinion.
They got a job at the DNC.
3:44 has que real moderator face
😂
Wikipedia, is my go to place for everything, I am a Wikinerd
I love Wikipedia I recently donated 80 INR ie. 1 USD
Larry looks like Lester from gta 5
For real hahaha
Internet became interesting, thanks to Wikipedia...
It's still pretty accurate regardless.
A lot of Wikipedia topics are rather subjective and extremely bias
Wikipedia is badass.
❤️
good
Actually my generation, say mostly "If it's not on wikipedia, it's not true"
One of the best informative website...
Appreciate your work. But please stop showing small kids when ur telling about somebody's birth
Thanks for the feedback Hoodrich! What you suggest instead if pictures of the person as a kid aren’t available?
@@LogicallyAnswered for example in this video : "he was born in Alabama" you could show some Alabama pictures. (If no photos as a kid available)
Also, Wikipedia is constantly predated by Google and the likes
13:05
"Bomis which was a guy-oriented search engine?"
okay, are you just straight up trolling now?
did you mean "GUI" ??
if so, that's not how you pronounce it.
hint: use wikipedia to look up how its pronounced.
this is a sloppy effort an a video.
you didn't produce the facts within it. you are taking them for free from somewhere.
the least you can do is put some thought and and care into the presentation and delivery.
Wikipedia is great, but would be even greater, if they had not a left-leaning bias.
As long as this clown is keeping the term "SerboCroatian language", "Balkan peninsula" and West Balkans" on Wikipedia this will for me be a pseudosite. Croatian and Serbian are two close but distinctive languages (with many unique dialects) that both had their own distinctive development throughout approximately one millenia in poetry, laws, liturgy, different redactions from different respective dialects and so on.
SerboCroatian was artificial creation for purpose of common language in Yugoslavia but it never had a real management because Yu-republics were using their different versions and even dialectal versions in different regions. In some cases Wikipedia is going all the way that this pseudo-language existed from middle ages. West Balkans doesn't exist because here are the Dinaric mountains while Balkan or Stara Planina is only on Bulgarian territory. That said Balkan peninsula doesn't exist in geographical term because the land line has to be approximately two times shorter than sea side lines and that here is not the case. Only Greece and Albania are technically on peninsula by geographic standards.
If this three "political" agendas are axepted as normal thing because of some globalist interests to have this pseudoregion as one big state than what other bigger lies and interests are written in Wikipedia 🧐🤔
wt:social is an utter failure
Makes sense hahaha
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Might want to get your eyes checked for that myopia. Maybe calibrate wiki accuracy by their proximity to sponsors? You claim it’s free… well, when you are not invited to the table, you are the meal. A cursory review of site history shows dense editing by Three Letter Agencies, for example, that always works well. Sponsors all seem to have glowing pages while only handful of editors are allowed. It has been hacked down to the nub and rewritten many times by handful. This is why we keep encyclopedias in print. I do. Embrace the errors and propaganda as they are plugged into our Brave New ‘voracity’ engines for social truth du-jour and brace for the next round of cancel-roulette featuring numerological re-programming.
Yawn
see? this is why you should’ve never smoked that shit
Nobody uses wikipedia as a super serious source for serious projects, like constructing a bridge or building. We just use it for the references. Of course, a lot of information on it is correct enough.
@@diecarly or drink the cool aid
Hey @Jonathan Gibson - do you talk as the above in daily life, as well?!?
wikipediAHH
how can he hope to beat Wikipedia?
Quite ambitious indeed
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Thanks for being early as always!
Sad that Wikipedia is dying. I use it alot, actually. Nearly everyday use.
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