The government doesn't use SQL : programmer

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 week ago

See the post on BlueSky

No thanks, that alone says you're not going to get an honest unbiased discussion. Also when your evidence is "according to many comments" from a app filled with people that hate Musk with all their being as if it's their entire identity, it's not good evidence.

Being a developer who has done work for many governments in my country, you cannot just say "the government DOES use SQL" because they have many, many, MANY different systems that have all been built in different technologies over different decades by different people with different design philosophies and preferences. Will there be ones that use SQL? Absolutely. Will there be ones that don't? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

He did the exact same thing after taking over Twitter, talking about "poorly batched RPCs" in the timeline which makes zero sense because that's obviously not how HTTP works.

The sad thing is Elon regularly shows how much of a very judgmental, "I'm so smart" idiot* he is, but somehow I keep meeting people who think he's a genius. I guess the assumption that money=smart still holds true in the US, despite being disproven time and time again.

*Do we not have a single word for this concept? I come across this kind of person so frequently there really should be one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Muskian fraud" seems like a good term for someone who desperately claims to be a genius but can't back it up. "Trumpian fraud" seems like a good term for someone who desperately claims to be wealthy but can't back it up.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He definitely doesn't know what deduplicated means...

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

A pretentious asshole billionaire is going to be preaching us about massive fraud. Because he totally earned all his wealth through back breaking honest hard work. Give me a fucking break.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tax dollars are definitely being stolen... by this unelected buffoon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ''office of mysterious authority you don't get to background check that operates in the dark'' and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government functionality. That's crazy talk!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd bet that the government is probably the largest user of SQL. Unless there are really old systems that predate SQL. I'd imagine they have shitloads of COBOL for example.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

There absolutely will be many, many old systems that predate and don't use SQL there. Anyone denying this has zero idea about how many extremely old legacy systems are still in use in big corporations and governments. Hell I've done work for companies with revenue in the billions who were still using a legacy Access database program that they didn't have the code for, nor any documentation, so trying to automate data imports was an absolute nightmare - but they insisted on not replacing it because "that's the system we know and it works".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where did this come from? Is this a precursor to pushing some blockchain shit or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yup.

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