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re: If COBOL programming defaults DOB to 1875 then why are there people over 150 in SS?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 11:09 am to roadGator
Posted on 2/18/25 at 11:09 am to roadGator
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COBOL programmers are a dying breed and very expensive to hire.
Many of them get trained in house these days because few if any schools still teach it.
I took it in college as a requirement for my major and most people laughed and said it would be useless. Not so much.
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Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:20 pm to stout
Now I understand why you almost exclusively post other people’s tweets.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:41 pm to stout
The way that I interpreted the other COBOL post is that COBOL might not have a standard date format field and that programmers use some sort of reference date, possibly in 1875, as a starting point.
In Excel, if you type in the number 1 into a cell, then change the format to a date format, it will display 1/1/1900. All dates are in reference to that date. Today's date formatted as a number in which Excel actual stores the data is 45,706. If you wanted to store today at noon it would be 45,706.5. SQL databases on the other hand have an actual date/time field structure of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS.
If the DOGE team doesn't know what day 1 is in the SS db, then how can they correctly calculate the ages of everyone. I would think that they are smarter than that, but MSM needs to try to play it off somehow.
In Excel, if you type in the number 1 into a cell, then change the format to a date format, it will display 1/1/1900. All dates are in reference to that date. Today's date formatted as a number in which Excel actual stores the data is 45,706. If you wanted to store today at noon it would be 45,706.5. SQL databases on the other hand have an actual date/time field structure of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS.
If the DOGE team doesn't know what day 1 is in the SS db, then how can they correctly calculate the ages of everyone. I would think that they are smarter than that, but MSM needs to try to play it off somehow.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:45 pm to stout
Aren't COBOL and FORTRAN really old computer languages?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 12:59 pm to stout
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Even if none of them were receiving benefits, do you at the very least admit that it proves pure incompetence that they are still in the system marked as active?
She's not worried about scrubbing voter rolls either.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:04 pm to angryslugs
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That’s quite a lot of “accidental” entries.
Having written a lot of software that has to deal with human-entered data, the fact it is that bad is not a surprise. Many of them are likely due to incorrect date formats on the raw data side leading to it being coded into something utterly fubar.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:06 pm to Night Vision
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Aren't COBOL and FORTRAN really old computer languages?
Yes and it is typically better to not do full rewrites of critical software infrastructure. That is why the banks and governments are usually responsible for keeping greybeard programmers well compensated. Not many under 50 are learning these languages unless they want to fill some niche in fintech or govtech.
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