Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Been there, seen that. Ages ago, I got a customers database project on my desk. Trying to add an entry threw the server into a frenzy, from which he did not return. It was the 65537th entry…

      Many network applications break at 64512 (or a bunch less) concurrent users. Guess why.

      I’ve seen my fair shit pieces of programming in over 40 years at the keyboard…