We may laugh about this but don’t forget Trump does NOT take back his words. So the new reality is that Trump has found fraud in the Social security system and he will act accordingly. The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else. When does Trump get removed ? #uspol
COBOL is still used everwhere in financial systems. Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
fuckin called it. 19-25 year old web devs and crypto idiots going into the American federal government? They're going to meet cobol and fortran and perl codebases originally written in the fifties running on hardware maintained since the... Also fifties, and even the smallest component of how it hangs together and what it does will be incomprehensible.
It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security...Show more."
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in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else.
When does Trump get removed ?
#uspol
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in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •The ISO 8601 standard wasn't published until 1988.
The last time I wrote any COBOL was about 1979.
My memory was that COBOL date/time was stored in largely ad-hoc mainly text based formats back then and almost always with two digit year fields.
Bytes were expensive.
This was well after COBOL was about the only language for business and accounting programmes.
Git orf muh lawn Musk and you still owe me a beer.
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in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
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in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
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A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security...Show more."
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