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Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 20 days ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 20 days ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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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130•20 days ago
It would be funny except for all the old people who are going to stop getting checks and find out Musk closed their local SS office.
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  37•20 days ago
  Agreed. But my first thought was
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  60•20 days ago
  I thought they were working on establishing ss offices
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    kek