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The government doesn't use SQL (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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See the post on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/provisionalidea.bsky.social/post/3lhujtm2qkc2i

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] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well tbf, the standard coming from computing is doubling the bits until it stops being a problem, or with ipv6 practically having more IPs than there are atoms in the entire planet of earth (i think i did the calculation a while ago, and it was like, most of the atoms in earth, so like, not quite, but for all intents and purposes, might as well be)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

According to XKCD about 40% of the earth

https://xkcd.com/865/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

yeah that sounds about right, someone should make an XKCD search engine i think.