Whenever something evil befell my upper lower class father he would pronounce, "Come the revolution, things'll be different". I can't find the original (Pop wasn't that creative), but today's announcement from Intel will do as an early salvo in the revolution.
SSD has gone truly Mainstream, Best Buy stocks them in stores. Mind, only up to 80 gig, but still. I know, most folk will tend toward using them as just faster spinning rust, just as your grandfather used disc as faster tape; that doesn't mean those of us who can push the envelope won't see them as further justification for BCNF datastores. No more of that "but normal users don't have SSD" baloney. Now, they do. Yee Ha.
IFF AI, as currently implemented, can intuit Special Relativity from just a clock tower and a moving tram will I take AI seriously.
Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
The Kleptocracy of Muskistan Devours You
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't
believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders. -- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
-- Drew Weissman/2022
To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have
seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past
performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business
logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]
I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector,
what is dimensionality reduction.
-- Christopher Wylie/2018
... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having
a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.
-- Linus Torvalds/2007
-- Chris Date/2009
This Week's thought
In fact, the number of full-time federal workers has been relatively static, within a few hundred thousand civilians, since the 1960s. ... [C]ontractors frequently end up costing the government more money. -- Zachary B. Wolf/2024 [ya know, like The Musk Ox]
See you next week in a brand new show©Heckle and Jeckle
In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode machines, there is no reason not to
build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.
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2 comments:
Early XX Bolshevik house style: “Come the revolution and everyone will eat peaches and cream.” (e.g. http://www.taphilo.com/history/quotes.shtml).
Or more typically the sanguinary "Come the revolution, you'll be the first up against a wall" or "the streets will run red with blood".
Occasional whiffs of the phrase in P.G.Wodehouse.
Although I can't quite see why this is apposite for storage which has stopped revolving - "Coming the lack of revolution" comes to mind ...
Ah, a connoisseur of word play. The revolution is the replacement of the Olde (rotating rust) with the New (silicon, not alas, silicone).
Wodehouse is about the right era, Pop having been born in 1915. Could be an obscure Mencken-ism. And it was spoken with an accent agglomeration of Yiddish, Russian and German; WWII leaked in a bit, too.
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