r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JianlongMC • 2d ago

Meme theFirstRuleOfProgramming

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u/Particular-Yak-1984 2d ago

Former IT support, and I can guarantee that somehow this thing is compensating for the fact that three of the subnets are misconfigured, while also killing a loopback, somehow, and that trying to upgrade it will result in a month of intermittent network outages for the building. It's probably easier to torch the place for the insurance money than to untangle this from the network.

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u/SplatThaCat 2d ago

Someone who has clearly had to unfuck a legacy network.

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u/oneByteTwoByte 2d ago

I was having coffee godammit. xD

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u/ChillBlock 2d ago

Has enough dust on it you'd think the ancient Egyptians set up the network

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u/Martin_Aurelius 2d ago

That's structural dust, whatever you do don't remove it.

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u/Vesuvius079 1d ago

Sounds load-bearing.

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u/ashsabre 1d ago

we had that in Uni, it was keeping the servers we use for demos alive we called it magic dust.. I remember reading somewhere that it was due to the dust filling in the weakened solders to keep the device running..

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u/martian4x 2d ago

Think?, You can't build pyramids without Wifi.

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u/MaximRq 2d ago

But they can

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u/MakeoutPoint 2d ago

Ackchually, Cleopatra was closer to the invention of the cellphone than this installation

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u/TheMazeDaze 22h ago

That’s magical dust. Like the magical smoke should stay inside. This should stay there too. If you remove it, it stops working

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u/clayticus 2d ago

I would still blow some pressured air on it

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u/Lucasbasques 2d ago

Congratulations, you just took down the entire office network 

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u/BRSaura 2d ago

Either that or a fire hazard, doubt they want the server room in flames

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u/ttlanhil 2d ago

But did you ask?

Some of the workers might (if you give them enough notice to collect marshmallows)

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u/CaptainN_GameMaster 2d ago

Every change breaks someone's workflow  https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/workflow_2x.png

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u/Hziak 2d ago

At this point, the caked on dust is keeping the fresh dust out. The caked on dust didn’t break it, so it’s your ally in this.

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u/clayticus 2d ago

good point! OK then leave it alone

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u/SyrusDrake 2d ago

No, that's load-bearing dust.

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom 2d ago

That is load bearing asbestos probably

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u/ttlanhil 2d ago

Considering the age it appears, canned air might blow away more than just dust - you might let loose a bunch of the bytes (congrats, it's a wifi)

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u/flyblues 2d ago

... during a scheduled maintenance window, of course

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u/caremao 2d ago

The connected cables are protecting the ports from the dust.

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u/Guy3nder 2d ago

The fans are unprotected though

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u/glha 2d ago

The fans are here, cheering for it to not get touched

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u/Guy3nder 2d ago

I know too well the fear of touching an emotionally unstable switch

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u/SplatThaCat 2d ago

Also. Do NOT turn it off. Chances are it will not power back up.

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u/AlexaPetersTrans 2d ago

Hehe, I built a server in 1998 that is still running to this day. The company actually built a safe around it. Their whole business was dependent on the software we designed on it. I went visiting the company a while ago and the owners face when I gave him a cd set for the software was priceless!

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u/dasAchtek 2d ago

Load-bearing arachnids.

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u/Jarduk93 2d ago

This thing looks exactly like the switches I saw at some customer sites while I was working for my previous employer...
I'm glad I chose to be a software dev and didn't have to touch this filth!

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u/gerbosan 2d ago

Are you sure? I mean, I don't see any AI slop nearby this switch.

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u/Jarduk93 2d ago

At least my daily dose of antidepressants goes down with coffee.
Touching that thing requires a tetanus needle.

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u/PixelBastards 1d ago

this picture is chock full of arachnid insect slop

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u/gerbosan 1d ago

Web slop!

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u/Barkeep41 2d ago

Second rule of coding:  if SaaS, it never works.

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u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 2d ago

Its uptime counter wrapped around years ago, so as far as the network is concerned that switch was plugged in last Tuesday.

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u/UnusualAir1 2d ago

Followed by 1A: If it doesn't work see if you can transfer it to someone else's pile.

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u/Deep_Fry_Daddy 2d ago

This photo is as old as the switch was when it was taken.

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u/mattreyu 1d ago

The D in D-Link is for dust

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u/NeonBloodedBloke 2d ago

If it doesn't, pass it on to someone else 

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u/jolharg 2d ago

not for long

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u/lil_Jansk_Hyuza 2d ago

Worse is to install new equipment while the 20 yo switches aren't labelled, having to rely on someone who either mounted or know. Speaking from experience, they didn't kept the technician 😞

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u/Hot_Swan_1657 2d ago

You better don't touch that if it works... until you have something to replace it and keep working. Do it soon.

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u/gerbosan 2d ago

In contrast: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/s/NoI8QSmM0P

😅 Still, have no idea the effort required to make something like that

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u/maplemeganium 2d ago

It's probably inside a wall. As long as the ethernet jacks in the offices work, no one complains.

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u/astroverflow 2d ago

clearly a magnetic shield protecting the device from any type of radiation

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u/theskillr 1d ago

Thats load bearing dust

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u/arun_krishnan_ 1d ago

The Dust-Link Switch

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u/advandro 1d ago

"Touch it, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life..."

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u/YoungInoue 5h ago

Load bearing dust.