Dr. Codd Was Right: May 2022

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

$536,800,000 MARF^™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]

Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)

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.
-- 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]

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

I believe quite strongly that, if you think about the issue at the appropriate level of abstraction, you're inexorably led to the position that databases must be relational.

-- Chris Date/2009

This week's thought

[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist.
-- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF^™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]

Therefore:

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.

25 May 2022

By The Numbers - part the thirteenth

So, isn't America Great Again??? We lead the world in school shooting deaths. To see the strength of our resolve, here are the numbers. MAGA has 288 kids killed in school by guns (that number may not reflect the latest tally of dead in Uvalde), while Mexico is second with 8. Odd that the originalist Constitutionalists don't assert what is plain in the document, circa 1800: every free white man is allowed, should he be a member of a state militia, to hold a muzzle loading flintlock rifle. That's it.

17 May 2022

Jackpot!

It's official

Covid-19 has killed at least 1,000,037 people and infected about 82.7 million in the United States since January 2020, according to data by Johns Hopkins University.

04 May 2022

I Told You So - 4 May 2022

Well, now we hear from the Lamestream Media calling out just the issue raised in these missives some time ago.

[I]f Alito's opinion is ultimately rendered, it will represent an opening salvo in a push to target other rights grounded in privacy and liberty. It will also destabilize the law by rendering the legal doctrine of stare decisis -- the notion that courts should follow their precedents even if they disagree with them, to protect the cohesion of the law -- a dead letter. And it will raise new questions about the politicization of the court.

Recall what was proposed in these missives: if there is no right to privacy, Sleepy Joe can let loose the dogs of investigation without regard to anything at all. And so can Big Bidnezz. And so can any Fascist administration that may follow. Sleepy Joe just wants to put the insurrectionists in prison. The Fascists want to put anyone not still living like it's 1829 in prison. Big Bidnezz wants to stop any revelations about bad goods, or pollution, or sexual harassment, or racial profiling, or ... Say or write anything that pisses off the Snappy Cracky Co., and you'll find everything in your life ripped open for them to see. What did Huxley call it?? "Brave New World".

"If there's a majority of justices no longer willing to recognize such a right [to privacy] in the context of abortion -- indeed, who believe the court should never have recognized it -- then that calls into question those other rights, as well," [Steve Vladeck] said.

Let's party like it's 1789!! Bring your wenches and your slaves! Don't bring your children; they've work to do in mills and on farms.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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