When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
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1.) ISO-8601 is not an integer from epoch format, it's a calendar representation
2.) I've never heard of any system that uses 1875 as an epoch date. Spent a few minutes looking and didnt find any either
The explicit reference date was removed with 8601-1:2019
But consider what Elon said. Either there's hundreds brain dead staff giving money to 150 year olds or an intern didn't check an old standard of a dead language. Which seems more likely?
It's bad. Don't do it.
"ILE COBOL uses a default windowing algorithm with a base century of 1900 and a base year of 40"
I haven't seen anything about a 150 year default.
Apply Hanlon's Razor in Reverse; always, no exception.
You might want to read up on the blistering analysis by his 14-year long buddy Philip Low @brainking.bsky.social .
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
sometimes it really is just that simple
( @ilvestoomas.bsky.social , any insight?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
I'm curious to see how his talent for self-owns plays out. He may accidentally actually drain the swamp. A big part of rich people controlling governments has been that they're discreet about it. Musk has blown that up.
So they know how it works. Just like they know no one was eating dogs and cats or that kids were using kitty litters in bathrooms. Or kids don't go to school and come home a new sex.
Each decision we're learning about shows them lacking the required merits to do such complex task & out of their depth.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3li4m2vjjfk2t
Their breach of govt systems is unauthorized by law. Their reckless handling of our PII is unauthorized by law. A case can be made that they are in violation of a few laws already, regardless of whom they threatened to gain access, imo.
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
Yes, we knew that. But also yes, WE NEED PROOF OF THEIR IDIOCY. This is EXACTLY the kind of info we need to get to what little media we have left that's telling the whole truth!
There are MILLIONS of voters out there not very tuned into all this, who lean right but have no idea how dangerous 47 is. There are still some we can reach.
Best criminals. Best cowards. Best morons. Best lapdogs. Best sycophants
So.... Unless there is a custom epoch starting at 1875 used for govt systems, this original post doesn't make sense.
I guess it all matters what version of 8601 they are using.
the post was a joke but people had been surfacing Musk's ignorance for years by then
Will put alttext request replies, don't gave access to source to copy/ paste.
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@alttext.bsky.social
Hope this works
The only thing he’s ever done is to bring money into a project, and then claim its prize for himself, while saying, “Look what I achieved!”
Examples are, PayPal, Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, et al
Though fictional, this was actually used as a sort of Case Study in a 400-Level Leadership class I once had in University.
It was a fun class.
I thought he'd run off to spend time with his kids or work on an entirely different stolen corp.
Then gullible GOP family members started rhapsodizing about him.
Also I'm gonna leave some credit information and a link to the original.
https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-internet
https://bsky.app/profile/504spyboy.bsky.social/post/3lhrawljuq226
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
The fact that they're so siloed into "AI alone can fix it" may have briefly spared us more destruction.
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/cobol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSaHtdo_-Ac
These morons are going to kill us all
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
Never EVER assume creating this kind of chaos & subsequent riots is NOT intentional.
Provokatsjia, straight from the Cheka Handbook.
Resulting in Martial Law.
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
(Funny, that's also how I feel about Ben Shapiro too, lol)
Took $80M FEMA for migrant housing secretly from NYC account. Mayor Adams claims he’ll sue
“The Com is the English-language cybercriminal hacking equivalent of a violent street gang“
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
But I guess because the fuckhead is rich he automatically knows everything and is better than us? Ffs.
new ... improved ... with Object Oriented methods
and an /ANSI standard
Lots of smoke and mirrors with the supposed genius.
But I agree with you that the claim looks wrong.
A quick look at IBM's COBOL shows a DATE-OF-INTEGER function that has an epoch in January 1st, 1601 - also not a match.
If the system used that format at any point in it's upgrade path, any records with the default date entered during that time period would still be in the current system.
and that's all their supporters need to hear. Same as it ever was: say outrageous thing, outrageous thing is clearly wrong, but outrageous thing has been heard - and those doing the hearing don't care about facts
That's why I don't talk about what I'm seeing if I look at some Cobal.
In Australia a tribal group realised that they could pickle the thumb of their deceased leader and get money. AMP not USA!
Ask and you shall receive
Who are the victims? I imagine that black and native Americans are the group most likely to fall in the category of ‘unknown data of birth' and therefore show as born in 1875.
Yet, Musk screams FRAUD! Despicable!
I've done large corp Business System Process & Methodology improvement as well as for financial, access, & data controls analysis for decades.
It cannot be done in two weeks.
Musk is a fraud.
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
Dates in most UNIX systems are stored as the number of seconds after midnight at the start of Jan 1, 1970
A ZERO DATE is Jan 1, 1970
In 2038, this will cause another "Y2K" issue for many UNIX systems since 32 bits of seconds end Jan 19, 2038
Musk doesn't know this?
My synopsis:
https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b
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