DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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If Trump is smart, he'll let Musk do all the unpopular project 2025 stuff, then throw him in prison at the end and escape the blame personally. This way he gets to keep popularity with his base while telling his donors they got everything they asked for. It's what all dictators do, really.
I'd be fine with the Musk in prison part. Launching him into the sun in one of his own rockets would be cooler, though.
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They're really playing with fire here.
So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump's minions break this, we're going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.
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"Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!"
They'll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.
I've come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.
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If SS payments stop, there will be hundreds of thousands of people with nothing left to lose.
Suicide bombers on mobility scooters. Be very afraid.
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My mom is over 80. Little old suburban white lady. She already volunteered - "Just get me close." She'd be super-thrilled to have her shot with a suicide vest.
I also know a 93-year-old lady who has loudly talked about taking a few of the bastards with her. The sentiment may be more widespread than we think.
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Nah I think it will just be
const benefits = false;In Javascript, no less
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This is how you know Musk is a fraud. This far into his career and he’s leading teams into rookie mistakes.
Or, he knows this will break it and that’s the goal. I’m just not sure how he avoids the blame.
When he suggested PayPal convert its data centers from Linux to Microsoft Server, I knew he was a wrong'un. That was one of the reasons he got booted out of PayPal, by the way. Even the other bullshitter tech bros knew how stupid that idea was.
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This has the stench of junior engineer all over it. This rewrite will go way over budget and come limping across the finish line late, with more bugs and less features than the system it replaces. I guarantee it.
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They're really playing with fire here.
So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump's minions break this, we're going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.
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I don't think Rust is a bad language for doing same things people do with C++, but with a smaller standard and less legacy.
But yep, that's the kind of people.
About dinosaur things - I've started learning Tcl/Tk and it's just wonderful.
Oh Rust is great, and it's on my learning to do list...but its evangelists are annoying as shit.
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It's not a case of "seeing the code isn't perfect" but rather, not understanding the myriad problems the code is solving or mitigating.
I'm reminded of this shitshow:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Queensland_Health_payroll_system_implementation
Queensland is a state of about 3m people in Australia. Their health service employs about 100k people. They ended up spending about 900m USD to develop their payroll software and fix the fuck ups it caused.
I'm an accountant by trade, there's a classic "techbro does accounting" style of development we see a lot. Like if you hadn't spent a career learning how complex accounting can be, it would be easy to look at a payroll system and conclude "it's just a database with some rules".
Yea, that's a mich better way of putting it.
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how do you do this? probably good for all of us to know
First you need to log into your social security account. If you have never done this is can be a bit cumbersome, but better to get it figured out now than later. Then once you have been able to log in to "my Social Security" you will see a "Your Social Security Statement" on that landing page. It will allow you do download a PDF that has your projected benefit and your earnings records by work year.
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Oh Rust is great, and it's on my learning to do list...but its evangelists are annoying as shit.
Agree, one of the reasons I haven't even started trying
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These comments are completely missing the truth.
They have zero intention of rebuilding anything, this is just an excuse to destroy SSA ...
This is my suspicion as well.
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With Grok looking more and more like the only one working for Musk with enough (digital) balls to stand up to his boss, that might be better than the alternative of "Big Balls" and the rest of the Digital Oblivous Goons of Elon
They'll have it lobotomized in a few days.
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They're really playing with fire here.
So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump's minions break this, we're going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.
No they’d just blame the liberals and maintain 100% loyalty lol.
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Russia just wants musks boy toys to cripple the only checks and balances putin thinks he has.
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First you need to log into your social security account. If you have never done this is can be a bit cumbersome, but better to get it figured out now than later. Then once you have been able to log in to "my Social Security" you will see a "Your Social Security Statement" on that landing page. It will allow you do download a PDF that has your projected benefit and your earnings records by work year.
thank you!
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In theory, it wouldn't be a necessarily bad idea to port the COBOL code to something more modern, but I cannot trust Muskrat and a few vibe coder youngsters with this task.
If these people are good enough to redo federal codebases I should apply for a coding job already
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Old enough to collect benefits themselves
