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I find this post ironic in that it (unintentionally) mirrors the atticle's point.

Graph (hierarchical) databases and time series (SCADA) datbases predate your (implicit) definition of "database" as a "relational datbase."

Key values have also existed before Oracle came to be.

It's never really been a matter of "rethinking from first principles".

Like Norvig's contraint propagation in the post, it has been about choosing the right design for the problem at hand, instead of trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

I sympathize but totally disagree, if the $1 I paid guarantees:

A) it is an actual job, with intent to hire now B) I will get an actual response, from a human, within a few days

Then $100 is completely worth the time saved vs applying to ghost jobs.

FTA

> Meanwhile, Walgreens is also having a tough time. The pharmacy giant said in October it would close roughly 1,200 U.S. stores over the next three years, including 500 locations in fiscal 2025. In June, it said about 8,600 locations would be shuttered over the next few years.

I know it's a myth, but this is just the late stage capitalism equivalent of the Spartans casting away weak children and every eugenics program ever.

Either Benji (the kid in the article) gets the help they need to be part of our society or they don't.

Who are we?

Happy user so far in my early days ... appreciate the speed for sure

How ironic, due to my Internet situation I was greeted with a "prove you are a human" prompt.

The Taylorism (and eugenics) people would have a field day with this.

Are there any good sci fi stories or novels on reducing or eliminating sleep through better chemistry?

Given the impetus of the article is we're all chronically sleep deprived, I wonder what kind of (Swiftian?) political solution there might be to collectively improving sleep health.

Certainly the current commercial solution is drugs and lots of them.

The article is very real and human written and highly intelligent regardless of its merits.

So a bit of a false positive for your mental model.

The article is neutral on the impacts of needing less sleep. It's not proposing an increase in productivity or how to use more waking hours.

Its main raison d'etre is we're all sleep deprived so engineering less sleep may provide health and wellness benefits.

There's a whole section in TFA called "too good to be true?" Which calls this out but says we don't have enough data to know

Perl, not PHP.

Source: was turn of the century developer at Everything2

IME "best practices" is a demand problem, not a supply problem. IE far more people want best practices than there are actual best practices.

Prospects and customers desperately want to know our "best practices" and then complain when we say "it depends" or something experimentation is required, as if we are hiding secret teachings from them.

For me this is more a personality test: people who just want solutions on a silver platter vs DIYers who want to tinker and distrust black boxes.

Has selling shovels to the miners ever been a bad investment strategy?

shrug Either you believe you live in a society where your actions have repercussions on others, or you don't.

CTEs aren't really an "extra" feature they just are a composable reusable subquery. This just adds the benefit of storing CTEs as function calls aka table valued functions (TVFs) ... also not really an "extra" feature.

The main advantage to any non SQL language is its ability to more efficiently express recursion (graph / hierarchical queries) and dynamic expressions like transposition and pivots.

You can do those in SQL it's just clunky.