Trump's Second Term

Segnosaur said:
There are a lot of reasons why rewriting a big government system like that in a short period of time will be a disaster. But, code efficiency should not be a problem.

In a system that does a lot of database processing, the bottleneck is typically data access. And while many languages like Java are (sort of) interpreted, I think the interpreters have gotten pretty smart (with things like "Just in Time" compilers) which should eliminate any performance issues.
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Yeah, my experience with coding in these languages has been that IO speeds have many factors that affect performance. So there are many coding "tricks" that are used to overcome limitations that are specific to the hardware and are not obvious. So while you can recreate the logical functionality in different code, the practical functionality suffers badly. JIT compilers don't help here. It's one of the reasons why old COBOL (and other legacy languages) programs still exist. Plenty of efforts have been made to replace them, but few run better or more efficiently than the originals...which may already be many iterations improved anyway.

Also, as our dear Monkey can likely attest, COBOL is not the only problem. We had some SQL "genius" optimise some of our SQL packages for a major hospital patients records system. He "optimised" one report run from about one hour down to 3.5 days, badly affecting daily operations while it ran. This is the calibre of coding you can expect from the DOGE team.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Yeah, my experience with coding in these languages has been that IO speeds have many factors that affect performance. So there are many coding "tricks" that are used to overcome limitations that are specific to the hardware and are not obvious. So while you can recreate the logical functionality in different code, the practical functionality suffers badly. JIT compilers don't help here. It's one of the reasons why old COBOL (and other legacy languages) programs still exist. Plenty of efforts have been made to replace them, but few run better or more efficiently than the originals...which may already be many iterations improved anyway.

Also, as our dear Monkey can likely attest, COBOL is not the only problem. We had some SQL "genius" optimise some of our SQL packages for a major hospital patients records system. He "optimised" one report run from about one hour down to 3.5 days, badly affecting daily operations while it ran. This is the calibre of coding you can expect from the DOGE team.
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The older the system, the more duct-tape holding it together behind the scenes. That's an argument for going very carefully and slowly when introducing change, it's not an argument for wading in with a chainsaw!

I just hope somebody has complete backups safely stowed somewhere these DOGE idiots don't know about and can't get to because they are surely going to be needed to fix the upcoming damage.
 
Beyond the countries on the chart, the rest of the world gets hit with a 10% tariff except Canada and Mexico apparently. I guess he feels he's hit us hard enough already.

S&P 500 futures drop 3% during his speech
 
Mr. Trump said China would be hit with a 34% reciprocal tariff, the European Union 20%, Vietnam 46%, Taiwan 32%, Japan 24%, India 26% and South Korea 25%. The chart showed Cambodia facing the highest reciprocal tariff, at 49%, followed by Laos at 48% and Madagascar at 47%.
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Looks like he just threw darts at a board to get these numbers.
 
Dan Kelly, the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, has summed up frustrations about how Trump announced the tariffs.

“I can’t believe the whole world is trying to learn where their economies are headed by straining to see a stupid chart held by the president,” Kelly wrote in a post on X.
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"There will never have been a transformation of a country like the transformation that's already happening in the United States of America. It's an incredible thing to watch."

"There will be complaints from globalists, special interests and fake news"

He says "soon" he will be getting calls from kings, queens and ambassadors looking for tariff exemptions.

No, the complaints won’t be from “globalists.” They’ll be from working families, small businesses, and everyday Americans
 
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"An old fashioned term that we use, groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
 
WTF did Madagascar do to get him so riled up ?

Is he afraid of talking animals or something or is this some complex payback for Sacha Baron-Cohen's treatment of Rudi Giuliano. After all he is the king of Madagascar...
 
Andy_Ross said:
"There will never have been a transformation of a country like the transformation that's already happening in the United States of America. It's an incredible thing to watch."

"There will be complaints from globalists, special interests and fake news"

He says "soon" he will be getting calls from kings, queens and ambassadors looking for tariff exemptions.

No, the complaints won’t be from “globalists.” They’ll be from working families, small businesses, and everyday Americans
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True.

Within limits, globalists will be able to take this in their stride. Their rest of world business will continue to work as before (or perhaps even better if trade barriers are lowered elsewhere) and they'll find a way of doing business in the US

OTOH US consumers will have higher prices, less choice and shrinking overseas markets for US products and services.
 
Andy_Ross said:
No, the complaints won’t be from “globalists.” They’ll be from working families, small businesses, and everyday Americans
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Someone needs to edit a Schitler speech to include the intense purring of many leopards.

edit, look, I got a sound sample

Leopard after eating Dump supporters' faces, 2025, colourized

edit2: No, it's not in a cage, it's lying next to the walls of a Dump supporter enclosure in El Salvador.
 
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