Trump's Second Term

It's all about punishing Canada.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy. They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels.
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a_unique_person said:
COBOL is a relatively simple language. It's also no more archaic than C is. For business needs the reason it's still running is because it works and it works reliably. Newer versions have OO tacked on but you can just ignore that.
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Indeed, it is one of my dozen or so languages. But of lot of it involves data formatting, much of it implicit. While modern languages do this different ways. Any specialised COBOL code may contain little non-obvious tricks using features not available in, say, Java.

Another problem will be code and runtime efficiency. COBOL is typically a compiled program, creating efficient and quick programs. Modern apps are typically not compiled, but are effectively interpretive and thus inefficient and slow by comparison. Fractions of seconds slower per transaction add up to many hours or days when it comes to potentially hundreds of millions of transactions per run. You can throw expensive hardware at it, but that won't help.
a_unique_person said:
The problem is the sheer volume of code. It will be multiple programs that perform multiple tasks. It's not one monolith of 60 million lines. Since it is the US government the scale will be huge. There will be multiple interfaces that have to be integrated.
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Of course. Each program will need to be thoroughly analysed to determine what it is really doing. And that alone will takes years if not decades.
 
"Norman Alexander said:
junkshop said:
It was good enough for Strom Thurmond."
I don't know who that is, but they sound like a character from low budget LOTR or SOIAF knock-off.
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This "person" was a Senator from South Carolina for decades and a hard core Dixiecrat / Segregationist / Racist. When the Democrats moved away from Racism etc., in the 60's he like so many other Dixiecrats etc., joined the Republicans as more accommodating to their Racism under the usual guise of protecting "States Rights". Helms of North Carolina is another example. Thurmond was notorious for his use of filibusters to stop legislation, generally Civil Rights stuff, he didn't like.

Thurmond's speciality was raving about "miscegenation" and the threat Black men posed to the purity of White women. It turned out that when he was a young man Thurmond had seduced the underaged Black daughter of his families Housekeeper and impregnated her while engaged in statutory rape. The resulting kid was paid hush money for decades to keep the whole thing under wraps.
 
Pacal said:
"Norman Alexander said:


This "person" was a Senator from South Carolina for decades and a hard core Dixiecrat / Segregationist / Racist. When the Democrats moved away from Racism etc., in the 60's he like so many other Dixiecrats etc., joined the Republicans as more accommodating to their Racism under the usual guise of protecting "States Rights". Helms of North Carolina is another example. Thurmond was notorious for his use of filibusters to stop legislation, generally Civil Rights stuff, he didn't like.

Thurmond's speciality was raving about "miscegenation" and the threat Black men posed to the purity of White women. It turned out that when he was a young man Thurmond had seduced the underaged Black daughter of his families Housekeeper and impregnated her while engaged in statutory rape. The resulting kid was paid hush money for decades to keep the whole thing under wraps.
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I see "The best people" has a long tradition.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tuberville: “We built China - the American taxpayers...
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What does he think he's talking about? I can't even begin to imagine the thought process involved. When did US taxpayers build China?

Does you suppose he means "We bought lots of stuff made in China because it was really cheap" and now he thinks America deserves compensation for paying less for manufactured goods for a couple of decades?
 
Norman Alexander said:
Indeed, it is one of my dozen or so languages. But of lot of it involves data formatting, much of it implicit. While modern languages do this different ways. Any specialised COBOL code may contain little non-obvious tricks using features not available in, say, Java.

Another problem will be code and runtime efficiency. COBOL is typically a compiled program, creating efficient and quick programs. Modern apps are typically not compiled, but are effectively interpretive and thus inefficient and slow by comparison. Fractions of seconds slower per transaction add up to many hours or days when it comes to potentially hundreds of millions of transactions per run. You can throw expensive hardware at it, but that won't help.

Of course. Each program will need to be thoroughly analysed to determine what it is really doing. And that alone will takes years if not decades.
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Ah yes, the sweaty fear that the overnight batch won't complete before the start of the business day. I certainly put a lot of work in the 80s into finding marginal performance gains to stop this happening.

Of course AI can reverse engineer anything perfectly in seconds regardless of complexity - also I have a bridge for sale if you're interested.
 
a_unique_person said:
COBOL is a relatively simple language. It's also no more archaic than C is. For business needs the reason it's still running is because it works and it works reliably. Newer versions have OO tacked on but you can just ignore that.

The problem is the sheer volume of code. It will be multiple programs that perform multiple tasks. It's not one monolith of 60 million lines. Since it is the US government the scale will be huge. There will be multiple interfaces that have to be integrated.
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Musk is a genius, he knows it will only take a couple of weeks, so he's padding the timescale, so he looks good when they beat his deadline. I mean when has Musk ever not delivered on what he promised and when has he ever missed any deadline?
 
a_unique_person said:
If I read that right, he's talking about putting a tariff on Fentanyl? He should put a tariff on Cocaine from Columbia and Mexico. Genius.
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Putting a tariff on smuggled illegal substances? What would the great Al Capone have to say about that?

And "if I read that right" is a salient point. Interpretation is required. As I noted with Trump 1.0, and all the moreso with Trump 2.0, the reason some people don't realise he's talking nonsense every single time he opens his yap is that he cannot speak in coherent sentences, so it's not possible to nail down what he really said.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tuberville: “We built China - the American taxpayers. We built the Middle East. We built Europe. So now it’s time they help us build back our country after we’ve helped them so much, and that happens to be with tariffs.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1907151861544874318
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Build back? What I'm hearing is that America is weak and cannot win a trade war.

Or maybe it's just the lies of a bully.
 
It's all about punishing Canada.


Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy. They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels.
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So he's going to tariff the fentanyl? Thats what this statement makes it sound like. I starting to think he doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

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Adam Schiff wants credit for doing something that he and others should have done with all of Schitler's nominees.

Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov)

BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.
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