At the speed of light?
The State of New York files a suit to stop DOGE from doing its job at 2100 on a Friday night. By 0100 Saturday, a judge has issued a TRO stopping the President from performing his duties as defined by the Constitution.
The DoJ files suit in New York to stop the state from tipping off illegal aliens when their DMV records are accessed. The court schedules the initial conference for May 14th, 90 days.
NY v. Trump
The state is now claiming that the state’s bank account numbers and other sensitive financial information
was disclosed to members of DOGE in violation of numerous laws and regulations
Never mind that “members of DOGE” are employees of the United States of America. Just like any other government agency.
The state claims this these DOGE members are “unauthorized”.
There is no proof that they are “unauthorized.” They are just outsiders.
Why Do You Make It So Hard? Qt ORM
The current magic term for designing applications is Model/View/Control, or MVC. With an MVC design, you have three different aspects to any object. The model of the data. The view of the data. And how the data should be manipulated.
Consider an order for an item. The order has header information, line information, and meta information. The header information is in the “order” table. Each line is in the “order_line” table. The order_line table contains a unique id, the order_id, the product_id, the number of items, and the cost per item.
The View of the order would show the line number, the product name, the SKU for the product, the count, the cost per, and the extended cost.
The logic would make sure that we don’t attempt to send out more items than we have, and other things of that sort.
The control works on the data, it doesn’t worry about how to display it.
So what is an ORM? An ORM is an object relation model. It is how you describe the database, how you access the database, how you relate different parts of the database.
Qt doesn’t have an ORM. Instead, it has a database API. All table creation. All data access is done by constructing and executing SQL queries. Not difficult, but not an ORM.
And for goodness sake, please give me a method of defining tables such that when I alter that table definition, it alters the database to match. GRRR, I want my Django ORM.
Why do they make it so difficult? Link’s in views
I have a simple need. When the user clicks on a link in the text display, a signal is emitted with the href. What do I have now? I can’t even get the dang widget to size itself properly. And my events are limited to “Cell x, y was clicked.”
This frustration has existed for a bit.
Tick Tock, it keeps running
Pretty graphs aside, it is fun to see “accurate” times showing.
I have two issues. The first is that I do not know how accurate the PPS is, and the second is I don’t know what the fudge fact for the KPPS processing should be. I can get the delay from the chip to the GPIO pin. What I do not know is how long it takes from the pin being activated and the interrupt being processed.
This would require me to spend more time than I want to get the hardware specifications for interrupt processing. Then I would need to figure out the time it takes to process the interrupt. My mind keeps going in circles over this.
The biggest issue I have is that I want it to be more accurate. I’m not sure if I can do that with this equipment.
SCOTUS
The Court is still granting cert. Our cases have been silent. We aren’t going to have an opinion before 2026.
Question of the Week
What do you think the NPCs will pivot to after “constitutional crisis?” We had “destroying democracy” and now “constitutional crisis.” What is next?
Comments
7 responses to “Friday Feedback”
Re the next coordinated wail to try, I’d guess either a variant of “think of the children!” Or “those poor souls, thrown out on the street!”
Maybe combinations. “Those poor fired people, think of their children begging for food!”
NY will continue to FAFO with ICE only to discover that ICE already has workarounds to their nefarious plots.
The Trump Administration will prevail; the Progressives in NY have little support outside the large urban areas.
I think they’ll break with the alliteration and go to “eroding freedom”
I liked what one of the congress critters had to say about Musk. It was something along the lines of, “Does he have a security clearance? Yes, of course he has a security clearance. He’s one of the people who works with NASA on our rockets, for heaven’s sake! He has TS security clearance!”
Honestly … It’s a valid question to ask. At least, until it’s been answered once.
A slightly more relevant question to ask the administration, would be what is the basis for his “need to know.”
Just because you hold a clearance, doesn’t mean you automatically have access to all information at that and lower levels. I think Chris covered this in an earlier post.
First, I don’t believe that anything that he has been doing regarding finding fraud and waste is actually classified. If some are, they are the unusual, and we have heard nothing about him accessing Classified Material.
The most I’ve seen is FOUO and Unclassified Sensitive.
Second, the need to know is that he is looking for fraud and waste. The issue of sensitive and FOUO data is because it is ancillary to his tasks.
The banking information that they are concerned about comes from a need to be able to make payments and to do claw backs.
The freak out is entirely unwarranted.
Oh, I agree, the freakout is absolutely unwarranted.
There is a decent chance some of the things DOGE will consider are in fact “really” classified (e.g. secret, TS, etc.) because that’s one way to hide questionable or embarrassing programs. It’s not supposed to be done, but, well, here we are.
Like I said, asking the questions about clearance and NTK is reasonable ….once. Now those have been addressed, there’s no good reason to keep bringing them up other than to try to score points and frighten poorly informed voters.