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   Tekniquelly correct (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:21:59 JST Tekniquelly correct

   DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

   > The project […] aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages,

   Yes, that's what COBOL means.

   > and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.

   It’s the stupid version of “Rewrite it in Rust”. “Jank it in Java”?

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     Tekniquelly correct (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:21:58 JST Tekniquelly correct

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     @mensrea I’m not sure if that's true. No one capable of janking it in OCaml would be caught dead doing it.

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     cuan_knaggs (mensrea@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:21:59 JST cuan_knaggs

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     @tek that's not fair. they could jank it in any language they wanted to

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     szakib (szakib@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:23:31 JST szakib

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     @tek There is absolutely no fucking way for this not to be a disaster. Even with the best people, the timeline would be insane. And there are some extremely compelling reasons for nobody having done this before.

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