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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] 16 points 9 hours ago

As someone who does systems administration which includes numerous government owned database servers, this is news to me.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

REAL GOVERNMENTS USE EXCEL SHEETS /j

Wasn't it the uk or something that messed up a vote due to excel's row limit?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago

I think it was something to do with COVID stats during the initial outbreak, but yes, yes it was the UK government and their bizarre love affair with stupid tech choices.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

The only 'transparency' he's shown is screenshots of basic spreadsheets that don't actually clarify anything. His minions are just sending him spreadsheets extracted from systems they don't understand, and he's just making decisions based on whether the title of the program sounds woke or not.

It's going to be fun when he fucks with some Wall Street Equity fund's money.

[–] iAvicenna 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

dis what you get for working with 19 year old kids with inflated egos whom you only hired to worship you. Also when someone who is not an expert in a field has the confidence to make grand claims about practices in that field, it is a very nice litmus paper telling you that person is generally bullshitting.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 16 hours 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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[–] HappySkullsplitter 109 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Sure as hell did when I worked there

[–] pyre 17 points 12 hours ago

if this troglodyte says it doesn't you can be sure that it does.

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[–] SuperEars 237 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this after he bought Twitter

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Storms I hope that’s true.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago

IIRC they kicked him out of PayPal because he wanted to run everything on windows instead of the Unix/Linux servers they were running on. And the reason for it was because he couldn't figure out Linux.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago

He is a fraud gamer. He is almost definitely a fraud coder.

[–] pivot_root 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 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."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

They already stopped providing passports to trans people, even if they're willing to use their old name and gender. And I'm sure that policy will end up hurting women that changed their name after marriage as well, it anyone that changed their name for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

There are already attempts to make it so your name has to match your birth certificate in order to vote.

Targets both trans rights and women's rights, simultaneously.

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[–] HexesofVexes 55 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Seasm0ke 9 points 9 hours ago

Little Bobby tables, we call him

[–] [email protected] 136 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Elon is basically what a dumb kid thinks smart people sound like

[–] [email protected] 34 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Replace "dumb kid" with half dozen of my boomer relatives, and you're spot-on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

and the dumb kids, unfortunately. I did a spot with some non-US teenagers, in a class recently. The topic was "name a person you admire and why". Guess whose filthy name came up...

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