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re: From Elons idiot comments today: Anyone else have to learn Cobalt programing in college
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:56 pm to JetsetNuggs
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:56 pm to JetsetNuggs
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This is the same guy that can literally catch a fricking rocket with giant tongs and reuse it or am I wrong?
Shhhh.. don’t ruin tuthill’s fantasy that Elon is somehow the worlds richest idiot.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:01 pm to TutHillTiger
You still taking pics of little boys for Young Fashions ?
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:02 pm to Gifman
I used punch card apps in college, was that cobalt???
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:06 pm to Trevaylin
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used punch card apps in college, was that cobalt???
Probably Fortran. Fortran was for the science crowd and COBOL was the business crowd.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:26 pm to Gifman
quote:According to his table, there are 121,797,498 supposedly living people aged 60 or over in the SSS database. But, the Census Bureau says that 64 million people are collecting payments (SSA says around 67 and, thinking that some might say that they were a lying government agency, I looked for Fox stats...quick search didn't show anything on main Fox site [I didn't spend hours digging] but a local Fox station was relaying national content and said 72 million people, lot of folks, but not a massive difference percentage wise).
What is the correct math? I’m curious. It sounds like you’ve done your own calculations.
US News says the average payout in February 2024 was $1,862 per month (looked at several different sources and that's pretty much in the median range, but there are numbers showing +/- a few hundred either way). If all of those on his list over the age of 60 (and you could shave 20 million off the number for the 60-62 crowd that was in the tabulation because it won't make much difference to this number) collected the average payout, that would be $226,786,941,276 per month, and $2,721,443,295,312.00 per year. SSA reports $1.6 trillion per year payouts, however.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:26 pm to TutHillTiger
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None of his code army knows Cobalt. Lol.
Yeah I'm sure the guy who learned to code at 10 can't handle COBAL.
Seriously, it's coding, not forbidden magic. My uncle knows COBAL inside & out. He's smart, but he's a big ol dork who's multiple tiers below Elon & co.
These guys are coding savants, they can figure this stuff out as well as anyone on planet earth.
Edit: Almost forgot the dude owns SpaceX too!!
Rocket science > COBAL
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 9:34 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:29 pm to stout
quote:Agreed, but if Musk is going to release those kinds of raw numbers I think he also needs to provide explanatory data before letting the internets run wild with speculation.
Being upset about this getting fixed is a stupid hill to die on.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:29 pm to TutHillTiger
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Cobalt
Is this a sarcastic parody post, because I honestly can’t tell.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:34 pm to TutHillTiger
I have yet to see any substantiation for all these increasingly wild claims of fraud. Just Elon throwing shite at the wall on twitter with nothing to back it up.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:37 pm to HarryBalzack
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Agreed, but if Musk is going to release those kinds of raw numbers I think he also needs to provide explanatory data before letting the internets run wild with speculation.
I don't think he has any, not to the degree he's claiming. These pronouncements coming from Doge are getting more and more outlandish. Somebody's going to eventually point out the emperor has no clothes.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:39 pm to HarryBalzack
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According to his table, there are 121,797,498 supposedly living people aged 60 or over in the SSS database. But, the Census Bureau says that 64 million people are collecting payments (SSA says around 67 and, thinking that some might say that they were a lying government agency, I looked for Fox stats...quick search didn't show anything on main Fox site [I didn't spend hours digging] but a local Fox station was relaying national content and said 72 million people, lot of folks, but not a massive difference percentage wise). US News says the average payout in February 2024 was $1,862 per month (looked at several different sources and that's pretty much in the median range, but there are numbers showing +/- a few hundred either way). If all of those on his list over the age of 60 (and you could shave 20 million off the number for the 60-62 crowd that was in the tabulation because it won't make much difference to this number) collected the average payout, that would be $226,786,941,276 per month, and $2,721,443,295,312.00 per year. SSA reports $1.6 trillion per year payouts, however.
Good analysis.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:42 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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This is completely false and was started by some dude on twitter as a theory.
Exactly. I'm not reading all these dumb arse responses but I am a senior sys analyst who has been around since COBOL was still prevalent in manufacturing IT systems.
Any experienced Computer Science Genius worth a shite could master COBOL in under a month.
This would NOT be an obstacle at all. I assure you.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:43 pm to mikelbr
These guys working for Musk aren't programmers they're script kiddies.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:45 pm to TutHillTiger
All my companies write in Dunlap.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:46 pm to TutHillTiger
I used Mark IV…..punched cards……..ran a job and it output a yellow tape of code. So looooooong ago. 
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:47 pm to DesScorp
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Is this a sarcastic parody post, because I honestly can’t tell.
no, OP is an imbecile...but i am a little surprised at how many others in this thread don't know that it isn't actually cobalt
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:51 pm to TutHillTiger
I learned WATBOL at LSU, which is the COBOL iteration developed by Waterloo University
Business majors could take FORTRAN or COBOL. FORTRAN was supposed to be harder, so everybody signed up for COBOL. Then they made COBOL the harder one.
Business majors could take FORTRAN or COBOL. FORTRAN was supposed to be harder, so everybody signed up for COBOL. Then they made COBOL the harder one.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:55 pm to Yewkindewit
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I used Mark IV…..punched cards……..ran a job and it output a yellow tape of code. So looooooong ago.
Oh jeezus. When I entered the 'real world' in 1999 I had a coworker who was retiring after 40 years in the industry. He would tell stories of working for some contractor at Stennis in the 1960s and how 'coding' was done back then on forms and punch cards. and how they'd have allocated time slots to go run their cards and if they didn't work they'd try again the next day.
I would have never made it in this field during his era as I was brought up with the likes of C++ and Visual Basic 5. Even in 2000 we had decent predictive features and excellent step-through debugging at our disposal.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:58 pm to TutHillTiger
So you really think Elon doesn’t understand data scrubbing and default values lol
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:02 pm to Nevada_Tiger
I don't know what Elon understands or doesn't. All I see out of him so far are accusations with nothing concrete to back them up. He needs to start showing his work.
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