Post AzVVjZARCEL4NteSW0 by clew@ecoevo.social
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(DIR) Post #AzVKlEhz8Mxg11w97A by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-23T15:09:33Z
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Well *I* think relational databases are exciting.
(DIR) Post #AzVKwxzr5sE7eytBOy by martinhowitt@urbanists.social
2025-10-23T15:11:38Z
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@futurebird me too.
(DIR) Post #AzVLVQ2tJZpSUwjlgW by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-10-23T15:17:49Z
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@futurebird One of my favorite CS books is “Databases, Types, and the Relational Mode: The Third Manifesto”I actually have a (ginormous) dead-tree copy that doesn’t fit on any shelf but it’s available in PDF format as well: https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf(I realize I’m preaching to the choir here, but anyone who happens to find this toot gets to read one of my favorite books!)
(DIR) Post #AzVLamXX6pbli7cvXU by chriscz@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-23T15:18:46Z
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@futurebird well I'll be slapped... by an elephant's trunk...
(DIR) Post #AzVLuKW10sXkaOEpRQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-23T15:22:24Z
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@rk What is it about doing database design that makes writing a manifesto to put the whole world right again (well the database design part of it) seem… so natural?
(DIR) Post #AzVNqlk22rW3mBDxT6 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-10-23T15:44:08Z
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@futurebird it's not so much that I find them exciting, it's just, you know, other kinds of databases are unrelatable.
(DIR) Post #AzVQzzpBLzcXvGiyx6 by mick@cosocial.ca
2025-10-23T16:19:24Z
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@futurebird magic, really.
(DIR) Post #AzVTeob0CrEGsXgS6S by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T16:49:10Z
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@futurebird yuck
(DIR) Post #AzVVUEcZIwm0JkUzpY by bradr@infosec.exchange
2025-10-23T17:09:42Z
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@futurebird Well I think relational databases are exciting.You are one of a SELECT few.
(DIR) Post #AzVVZhsDyJiyUTQmnY by NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot
2025-10-23T17:10:40Z
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@futurebird I cannot disagree! They paid my wages for many years! 😁
(DIR) Post #AzVVjZARCEL4NteSW0 by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-23T17:12:24Z
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Same as programming generally, mathematics, videogames, a particular kind of worldbuilding SF&F… the perfectible understandable artificial world is sooooo seductive. @futurebird @rk
(DIR) Post #AzVWZmv9J44Y69OyES by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2025-10-23T17:21:54Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzVYljHCshUEBAXaiG by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-10-23T17:46:28Z
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@futurebird @rk It is inherently an exercise in organizing "everything." (In the db design sense, "everything" is everything that might need to be represented in that db, but after your fourth or fifth unplanned edge case, you start to think maybe you should just plan for EVERYTHING.)
(DIR) Post #AzVcZSs4Rxx3dlBtk8 by coldfish@sfba.social
2025-10-23T18:29:04Z
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@futurebird wait until you start playing with vector databases
(DIR) Post #AzVdPQ36BhdPwi7gcS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-23T18:38:29Z
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@amy @rk I feel uneasy.
(DIR) Post #AzVrnjYqgzzSlnSiMi by sushee@ohai.social
2025-10-23T21:19:43Z
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@futurebird databases are awesome and everything is a log which is even awesomer the longer I think about it :)
(DIR) Post #AzWmkeMlFHyJB0TiK0 by jak2k@mastodontech.de
2025-10-24T07:57:50Z
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@futurebird I recently started reading Postgres' docs. It's so f***ing great!
(DIR) Post #AzYpjfTMKolsUshw7U by Landa@graz.social
2025-10-25T07:40:41Z
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@futurebird it’s cumulative effect of the little jolts of joy you get when you can take a small part of the world and make it make sense. Similar to the „I just bought sufficient storage boxes and bookshelves at Ikea for everything“ high. See also the following meme that’s followed me through 25 years of tricking sand into counting shit:@rk