• Yozul@beehaw.org
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    13 days ago

    SSNs are literally just handed out to hospitals and social security offices in batches and given out in sequential order. They were specifically and intentionally designed to be a terrible system of ID numbers because people actually used to care about their privacy. There are countless people who’ve gone their whole lives using the wrong social security number and gotten their benefits just fine, because unlike everyone else in this dumpster fire of a country the social security office has never been stupid enough to rely on just a single number.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      When Elon was in his early teens, that word was a common pejorative.

      If you look at Elon and interpret his behavior as if he was 13, it all makes a lot more sense.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      Used by the guy who did two Nazi salutes at the inauguration? It absolutely is

  • Im_old@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Also that’s not how deduplication works.

    He means/thinks that SSN is not unique (which is not a problem, just different design).

    Of course he’s wrong about lots of stuff, just the nerd in me could not not explain it.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I imagine he’s looking at a payments table where there is a non-unique key to relate a citizen to each payment.

  • Jorn@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    He got community-noted for being wrong. Per usual, it’s only a matter of time before he deletes his post.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The more this dipshit talks about programming the more I’m convinced that he’s got absolutely no clue how any of it works. Like, he’s famous for creating PayPal, I’m really wondering if he paid someone to code that shit and just took credit (and all the money from its sale).

    • glitches_brew@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Here’s a video out there where he’s talking to Twitter devs telling them they need a total rewrite because their stack is too complicated.

      Someone gives him the slightest amount of pushback by asking what exactly he means by a rewrite and he cannot give a coherent answer. Someone else asks him to clarify what it is about their stack that is ‘crazy’. Elon gets very flustered and can only respond by calling the guy a jackass.

      He knows absolutely nothing about programming.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    You know, the thing that always seemed really scary about the OG Nazis is that they were competent, intelligent, put-together people that were just fucking evil. Then you look at the US Nazis and the fucking bozo density is off the charts, but they seem to be succeeding anyway.

    Three possibilities come to mind:

    • These bozos are going to find out, hard and soon.
    • The OG Nazis were actually bozos too.
    • Competence and intelligence doesn’t actually matter in running a fascist regime
    • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      12 days ago

      You know, the thing that always seemed really scary about the OG Nazis is that they were competent, intelligent, put-together people that were just fucking evil. Then you look at the US Nazis and the fucking bozo density is off the charts, but they seem to be succeeding anyway.

      Not every fascist and Nazi needed to be competent, intelligent, and put-together. Just enough of them. I suppose we’ll find out in real-time if they have amassed sufficient numbers this go 'round.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      The nazis weren’t as competent and intelligent as you suggest, that work was outsourced to IBM - Yes, that IBM.

      You know that Watson product that IBM sells and advertises so often? R one that plays chess and was on jeopardy (Fun!) Turns out that Watson was the name of the dude that signed off on them accelerating the Holocaust for the nazis. Some believe the nazis couldn’t have been nearly as efficient at unrepentant large scale murder without IBM joining the fray, yet they skate on by…

      • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        They were more competent bozos. They ran Germany the way that your stupid friend gets laid more often because they aren’t smart enough to be embarrassed by themselves and they know only one goal.

        Whereas these guys run America like an ugly stupid person that insists that no, actually, they have already in fact convinced you to sleep with them despite what your words say and the goal is to confuse you into bed.

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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          12 days ago

          The best decision that nazis ever made was not to indiscriminately purge the military and bureaucracy. Purges certainly did happen but they were focused on the political class and very targeted elsewhere.

          They kept the systems people depended on running well to not immediately create massive public backlash… they also got lucky as hell. The military and populace were deeply bitter after WW1 and they leveraged grand gestures to great effect while changing relatively little administratively. The fucks in the US are making flaccid grand gestures while tearing down systems people actually depend on.

      • naught101@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Is it also a case of survivorship bias? Like, I am not super versed in Nazi history, but… There are famous “smart” Nazis like Goebbels and Himmler and Speer - are they only well known because a) they slowly emerged as influential and/or b) it became clear years later that they were the ones behind the wheel?

        'Cause I do think that trump and musk are dumb as bricks, but I don’t think Steve Bannon is, and there are probably others like him…

    • josefo@leminal.space
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      12 days ago

      OG Nazis were master manipulators, dressed cool as fuck and their propaganda machine was one of the best ever. Intelligent? There is no hard evidence of that, and their military strategies were poorly thought. They had fucking cool weapons and equipment, so maybe good engineers were involved, but that’s it.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Hopefully all 3 but as the other poster said, Nazis really were clowns.

      Sure, Hitler had some early successes militarily - combined arms blitzkrieg was a new deal and effective - but it’s not like that won the war. Besides which there is just so much dumbass occult bullshit going on in the background with the Nazis like you would not believe.

      You don’t need to be smart or super competent to get a bunch of people killed. You just need enough people willing to pull the triggers and for the rest of the people to go along. Going along is easy until it ends with shit like the Holocaust.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I think some of the more intelligent US Nazis are letting the bozos do their thing and riding the coat-tails and avoiding direct blame if things turn. I’m looking at a good chunk of the House and Senate.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    12 days ago

    Someone needs to explain to Musk how to debug with the JSON so that the ipv6 GUI does not overflow into the git API front-end

    • Sabata@ani.social
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      12 days ago

      Easy. Just defragment the kernel flux, water root but do not saturate the soil, and then set the virtual tensors to sigWumbo++. If you saturated root then set the tensors to asyncoMumbo-- to account for the extra conductivity. After that refragment the kernel flux because it was happy that way.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ‘‘office of mysterious authority you don’t get to background check that operates in the dark’’ and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government functionality. That’s crazy talk!

      • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        You guys are literally fighting against government transparency and stopping wasteful spending of your (or at least someone elses) tax dollars because you have an irrational hatred for the guy. Absolutely insane. No one should be against what DOGE is doing - unless of course you’re one of the many people profiting from the blank cheques being handed out wastefully.

        • kungen@feddit.nu
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          11 days ago

          the blank cheques being handed out wastefully

          What blank cheques exactly?

          And I’m not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There’s not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.

          And how many “blank cheques” to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it’s not about cutting “wasteful spending”.

          • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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            11 days ago

            What blank cheques exactly?

            The ones where USAID literally just approved every single thing that came into their inbox.

            It seems like the USA government didn’t even have a real budget, they just kept handing out money to all the NGOs that threw most of it back their (the politicians) way. They definitely don’t have an auditable budget.

            Is there massive waste in the defense industry? Absolutely - and DOGE will get there. They’ve been at the job for like 2 weeks, they haven’t gotten to every single nook and cranny.

  • Tetragrade@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Sounds like he got confused looking at a view of a join.

    SELECT holder_name, amount
FROM account JOIN transaction ON transaction.account_id=account.id;

-- WTF!! THERE'S DUPLICATES!!!