We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return.
At 01:55 PM 4/4/2025, Joel Ewing wrote:
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Right! If you think DOGE folks have any concept
of acceptable change management practices, or
that they care about what they break from
ignorance or lack of understanding, you haven't been paying attention.
These dodgy guys are convinced they are geniuses
who can understand and improve the SSA system
after a few days of study. When you are
convinced you are "top gun" and can't make
mistakes, then you see parallel testing as
redundant. As long as it compiles, just put it
into production and insist all results must be
correct. If a few people starve or die
homeless as a result, that's just acceptable
collateral damage from incorrect use of the system.
According to Trump's Commerce Secretary, the
only ones who will be upset about receiving
incorrect SS payments or late SS payments are
those who are trying to commit fraud. With the
quality of people currently in charge, one would
expect adoption of the approach that worked so
well in the UK for almost three decades with
their postmaster accounting system: insist the
computer results are accurate, deny that
problems are being reported, and imprison or
fine the complainers for misappropriation of funds.
JC Ewing
On 4/4/25 12:25 PM, Michael Watkins wrote:
'I can see the problems occurring when they run
both systems in parallel for 6 months...'
Why assume they will run both systems in parallel for 6 months?
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They may be able to automate changing the code
to a fancier language - that's the "easy bit"
I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for
6 months, and try to find the cause of the two
systems giving different results - this is the hard bit.
I remember having problems when we changed the version of the compiler...
it exposed a timing window - and this was on the same code base!
This situation is when you need tracing etc in
the programs, which you will not from the automatic conversion.
Colin
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 18:03, Mark Regan <
[email protected]> wrote:
This might wrap for some of you.
https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
computerworld.com%2Farticle%2F3953741%2Fdoge-wants-to-modernize-social
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Mark Regan
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