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.

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.

> 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.

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?

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.

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

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

Source: was turn of the century developer at Everything2

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.

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.

Not aving things in society which actively prey on people with atypical dopamine response patterns to the point of them committing suicide, harming others, and going into deep financial and physical ruin is ... an easy "tradeoff."

You can listen to it on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/1TwLLLOArGizLfbzR2Pbgi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music?wprov=sfla1

But even crazier is so did Mozart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel...

It's funny we coach people not to ascribe human characteristics to LLMS..

But we seem equally capable of denying the very human characteristics in our would be overlords.

Which warlord will we canonize next?

Is the bomb "overblown" or are we on track to have 2 billion less people on this planet in 150 years (assuming "replacement level" rates)? (And PS those 6 billion will almost entirely be senior citizens.)

But by all means make arguments about scenarios that your headline are declaring won't happen. That definitely increases credibility.

So managing write concurrency is definitely a secondary priority since it's not the norm to have multiple writers.