Dr. Codd Was Right: Fly United

Now We Bow to President Vance, may be?

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions. Greed makes governments — at every level — less responsive, less efficient and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve.
-- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson/2024 [the MAGAnauts get even more aggressive when their perfidy is exposed]

Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.
-- David Pressman/2025 [former Amb. there - a cautionary tale]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

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 extreme letter sent to Harvard frankly demanded to take outside ideological control of all admissions, all faculty appointments, curriculum, and governance. It proposed a more sweeping system of control by outside ideological MAGA deciders than anything even Communists install these days to control universities. [Trump] is a would-be patrimonial corrupt ruler. The oldest kind in the world.
-- Theda Skocpol/2025

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

Therefore:

In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode (RIP) 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.

03 August 2022

Fly United

If you're of a certain age, you've seen the poster 'Fly United'. In the bidnezz world, M&A is the fly united meme. And it always starts with rhetoric about synergy and proposed whole being far more valuable than the existing parts. Yada, yada, yada. What really happens, for all these decades of merging, is a massive debt and equally massive cost cutting, aka reduction of product. IOW, the consumers lose. The CxO class gets richly rewarded for their 'hard decisions'. And so on.

So, another example:

The announcement of scrapping plans for the two films comes amid Warner Bros. Discovery trying to cut costs, a whopping $3 billion, in the wake of their merger in April.

American bidnezz is on your side!

Dr. Codd Was Right

Now We Bow to President Vance, may be?

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