Nah, that’s too fancy. It’s all held together by some arcane Visual Basic macro someone wrote 25 years ago right before going to retirement and no one has dared to touch it ever since.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Qbasic, if that.

Biden is a blue dog and never cared about infrastructure. Trump cant spell the word. Obama did, but for overpriced drones and oil. Bush only did for oil and deregulated to make things worse. Clinton cut thing Bush Sr cut things. Reagan fucked everything up with "trickle down"

Meaning the last president that did major infrastructure spending is at best Carter, Ford or Nixon.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I laughed but really I know when the last good database and systems people left government to be replaced by contractors. It was Bush's first term. Since then everything has been just putting a new front end on the back end government programmers created in the 1990's.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad you laughed, wasnt entirely serious

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't think we can be. We'd be paralyzed if we tried to be wholly serious.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Holy mother of visual basic

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

with vlookups across multiple sheets to get around row limitations, that's just common sense in MyExcelDB

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I could see it all being a big vendor specific XML file with XSLT for the application layer