Dr. Codd Was Right: By The Numbers - part the eighty seventh

Welcome to Trumpistan. Leave your Tariffs with the Guard.

The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision.
-- Dmitry Peskov/2025 [did FDR tell France to capitulate to the Nazis? just askin]
We are now buddies with the Axis of Evil.
-- Claire McCaskill/2025 [Good News!! Make America White Again]

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

Mass layoffs have begun across the city's largest employer, tipping economic forecasts for the Washington, D.C., region toward recession. Real estate agents are bracing for a housing slump.
-- Campbell Robertson/2025 [as mentioned previously, private equity is licking its chops]

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

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 am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.
-- Lisa Murkowski/2025 [so... why the fuck did you vote to confirm almost all Bone Spur Samurai^© idiots?]

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 March 2025

By The Numbers - part the eighty seventh

A pundit on MSNBC just let go with the howitzer comment: if Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) don't change mind between now and midnight, the cost of a USofA (titularly, of course) auto will rise by $12,000!!! Now, that sounds a bit gross, and the pundit didn't state what current/base cost autos he was talking about. I mean, if he's talking about $90,000 SUVs, I can surely get behind that.

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03 March 2025

By The Numbers - part the eighty seventh

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