Dr. Codd Was Right: Bleach

Leading an Insurrection is now an Official Act

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

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

I honestly thought this was a parody. This is Pierre's imagined Canada where people kill food for dinner, drink wine to celebrate sobriety, rely on Russian jets for protection, mistake Ukrainian universities for Canada.
-- Charlie Angus/2024 [the Nice People of Canada have Right Wingnuts, too. eh?]

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.

17 July 2024

Bleach

There's been some backlash, to over-use an over-used word, asserting that Sleepy Joe is lying about the Trump/bleach fiasco. Politico has a long, quoting piece on the fiasco.

Now, it is true that Trump didn't say "bleach" in his word salads... But... it is a true logical conclusion. If we go to the transcript, it is shown that one William Bryan (not a doctor or scientist near as I can find) does explicitly equate 'bleach' as 'disinfectant'.

We're also testing disinfectants readily available. We've tested bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.

Case closed: wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 is a pure bred moron.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Leading an Insurrection is now an Official Act

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