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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Oh, I'm calling it now. This one is going to be used as an attack of trans people. Throw out the archaic and manual process of updating names in federal databases, and keep it simple by making the records immutable. Then hit them with a lovely

"You MUST use your REAL NAME (MAIDEN NAME) on government forms. If the name does not match, you will be denied."

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Calling someone a retard for believing something that's obviously true is straight out of the flat-Earther playbook.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sure as hell did when I worked there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That sounds surprising modern. That's good! Or at least I would think it is good. So many things run on mainframes still.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All government data is processed using sed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I feel personally attacked right now.

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[–] [email protected] 261 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this after he bought Twitter

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Storms I hope that’s true.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I kind of doubt it. It's been known that he's a fraud of a coder for a while, that seems like a clear riff.

Enough that I was really disappointed when Some More News talked about Zip2 like he was the sole founder and therefore must have been good at coding at some point.

Btw, the guy he and his brother founded the company with died at 51.

As a megarich techie... With the dirt on Elon's real capabilities.

Interesting.

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