Dr. Codd Was Right: Thought For The Day

Lisa Murkowski, Swamp Critter

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]

I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country. And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it's aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism. I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.
-- Dr. Paul Offit/2025 [may the MAGA and MAHA be with you]

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 atmosphere is like a giant sponge. As the air gets warmer, which is what's been happening because of climate change, the sponge can hold a lot more water. And then when there's a storm, the same sponge can squeeze out way more water than it used to.
-- Arsum Pathak/2025 [may be if physics were a universal requirement in high school, we wouldn't have so many 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.

17 July 2025

Thought For The Day - 17 July 2025

My my. Now this is just too, too rich. The WSJ publishes The Letter to Jeff from (among others) Garfield 2.0 (a step closer), and, as one might expect, he goes batshit. Suing the WSJ, NewsCorp, and Murdoch (personally?). I just said to the Wife, this is the start of some Chinese Water Torture, as payback for all those tariffs. [timestamp this as 9:50 pm EDT, just because more water likely has dripped by the time you've read.]

So, a bit of Warren Zevon is called for

I'm hiding in honduras, I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan

Send lawyers, guns, and money
Send lawyers, guns, and money

Send lawyers, guns, and money, hiyah!
Send lawyers, guns, and money, ow!

I'm gonna bet Rupert has more money, and smart lawyers, than Garfield 2.0 (a step closer). Being outed as a pedophile might not get Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) impeached (the MAGAnauts are all preverts, ya know), but it'll take some git out of his giddyup.

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Lisa Murkowski, Swamp Critter

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