Honestly, if you make it to 150 you deserve the money
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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LMAO watch the US be saved by an inability of Muskys frat bois to understand COBOL
I dont even program and i could've told them it was probably a placeholder or default value lol "durrrrrr lot of people in this database were born at the exact same time on the same day in the same year that predates electronic databases, gotta be fraud!!1!1!11"
Also predates social security. It's the long con for sure.
2016-2020 was the age of too stupid to break everything. Now we're staring down the barrel of "The files are in the computer?" But the entire US government is the computer.
More likely they nuke it due to that lack of understanding.
They'd probably just delete the Cobol code since "nobody would use that old stuff anyway".
In before Musk says "You think the government uses COBOL?!"
Not only do many important government systems ultimately rely on or make heavy use of COBOL...
So do many older private companies.
Like banks. Account balances, transactions.
Its actually quite a serious problem that basically nobody who needs to take seriously actually does.
Basically no one is taught COBOL anymore, but a huge amount of code that undergirds much of what we consider 'modernity' is written in COBOL, and all the older folks that actually know COBOL are retiring.
We're gonna hit a point where the COBOL parts of a system to be altered or maintained, and ... there just isn't anyone who actually knows how to do it.
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I don't think the government uses COBOL. I know the government uses COBOL.
It doesn't matter what I think or know, the government uses COBOL.
He would dismiss COBOL and try to prove that he is a super cool geek with a deep knowledge of DnD and gaming culture. So more like:
"COBOL? Such a language doesn't even exist unless you think Kobolds are real! Hahaha"
I can't wait for them to discover a bunch of people who are 9999 years old next.
Or supposedly received 9.223.372.036.854.775.807 dollars (64-bit max int).
In the legacy world we just call it the HIGH_DATE constant.
In my experience in the legacy world we have the isHighDate function which not only checks the constant, but also 5 other edge cases where the value isn't HIGH_DATE but should be treated as if it is.
tbf it's only embarrassing if you're capable of embarrassment.
More specifically, they didn't find anyone receiving social security who were 150 years old because they didn't prove that they were receiving anything as that's not the purpose of that database.
But but it's BREAKING! With a red light emoji!
They also found that there's people over 200, so that default date thing doesn't really explain it all.
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As someone who is working on a project of recreating an enterprise application in a modern tech stack, the legacy code is hard to understand too.
We have something similar in that a ClaimClosedDate is defaulted to 01/01/1900 and if it has that date it means it’s not closed whereas now that would be a nullable field.
Eejit...