A few days ago I explained the concept of an untrusted foreign key constraint to a sales person from a vendor: All doctors in a hospital should hold a...

Thanks, and glad it resonated.

Indeed. This is physical work for the CPU, but we dismiss it because it's fast. and because for small data sets, it appears instantaneous.

Picturing little men and women in the...

Orgs always want to move blame around. It's one of the reasons accountability is hard. Is it the data scientist or engineer that built the system and encourage users to...

Under the European GDPR, any decision based on an AI is an automated decision if there is no meaningful human decisionmaking based on the AI recommendation. And automated decisions...

I'm working more in data governance and compliance now and California and Colorado (among others) are enacting strong legislation around Automated Decisioning, so this was quite timely. Colorado's law...

That's the correct answer. The SMK encryption automatically opens it.

Was? Is? meaning you tried it? If this is your post int he test thread, I see your response with 3 links.

Supposedly (maybe that should be bold and in caps?) they found a place in the spam filter that limits to 2 links (or 1?). This has been removed.

There was a...

Thanks, I used to better know how to do these when I worked on Unix and Emacs, but that knowledge has faded. I still get glimpses of something I remember,...

Filed a ticket, but it's quiet over in the UK. I think I have a few people out on vacation, so might not get fixed quickly.

I can post with a...

Change because of new PMs or execs, is usually a waste of time, but hard to avoid.

At least with AI, migrations to new systems can be easier. Or maybe you...

Doesn't sound familiar, but maybe someone else will have an idea.

Enjoy!

My wife and I are trying to take a short break every month for the rest of the year. It's been a year, so some quick getaways and disconnects are...

It's a typo. My apologies. Doing too many things and in the habit of adding parens for functions.

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