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Foraging,DnD, Jack of all trades master of none.

I help manage audio/video platforms & business stuff for streamers, programming crappy LLMs on the side.
*128 not 255
April 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Their conclusion represents dangerous misinformation.
I strongly recommend consulting proper database engineers rather than relying on "vibe coders" who clearly don't understand integer overflow fundamentals.
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The difference is purely in interpretation, with the first bit determining positive/negative status in signed integers.
The DOGE team appears to lack fundamental database architecture knowledge. This isn't fraud - it's an expected behavior when legacy systems encounter data outside their design.
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
At an estimated $200 monthly in the mid-1990s ($2,400 annually)
Total lifetime collection: approximately $41,000

The math aligns perfectly:
$2,400/year × 17.1 years ≈ $41,000
For technical context: in binary, 255 (unsigned) and -128 (signed) are both represented as 1111 1111.
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When a person's recorded age exceeds 127, it "wraps around" to -128 due to binary limitations.
This means:

The individual was actually born 255 years ago (not currently alive!)
They would have collected benefits from age 65 until death (around age 82)
This represents roughly 17 years of benefits
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The case in question involves a recipient showing as "-128 years old" in the system. This isn't fraud - it's a classic signed integer overflow. Let me explain the technical reality:
The SSA almost certainly uses signed integers for age storage. With 8-bit signed integers, the range is -128 to 127.
April 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That's awesome!
February 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If it wasn't happening live by family watching the game I would agree lol
February 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Absolutely it destroys your problem solving, remember when boomers had to remember massive times tables and our smart calculators decimated that skill? That x100
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yet conspiracies about the eagles rigging the super bowl for wokeness are what MAGA are believing and ranting about.... 😔
February 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
MAKE AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ANEMIC AGAIN
February 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
CAN WE PLEASE HIRE SOME MORE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS PLEASE??
February 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Protect what you swore to uphold
February 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🤞heres to hoping they don't vanish from thin air
February 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I mean what other value menu has more than one 2 dollar item? 10$ SLAM DOWN THOSE DOUBLE DECKER TACOS AND LEAVE WITH EXTRAS
February 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Absolutely make him as accountable as the average Americans, money shouldn't talk especially when it's dirtier than septic sludge.
February 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
So apparently anything that mentioned "White nationalism" was considered DEI as well ... So fighting any type of Nazi stuff is DEI...
February 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM