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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev ·
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

www.wired.com

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev ·
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

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    I wonder if it will be web scale

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      That takes me back

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      How does that have less than a million views? My team and I quote/use/reference it so often.

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      Yes. Because they’ll store everything in MongoDB.

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      Every time I watch it, I giggle 🤭

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        Idk, something about the words “web scale” just sounds too funny

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