sounds like it was a great talk, kudos Al (damn, I'll write "Alisdair" as the short form looks like the initialism-du-siècle) and thanks for sharing, John.

Nice ref to Chesterton's Fence there too

yes :-)

I think you chose the best of the beers on offer 🍻 untappd.com/user/qmacro/...

Two great shows btw :-)

Exactly, I feel some folks are losing the understanding of understanding, brought about initially by Googling for answers and exacerbated by having AI do that for us now. I loved the fact that the review was an allegory of this and also a moral tale.

You: "I will, if you can explain the word's etymology"

can you do it in an RSS format please so I can subscribe to it? :-)

You don't half come out with some cracking reading recommendations

err that was supposed to be "unto", not "until", natch

Nice post (I do find the title interesting, surely the second half is superfluous ;-)). It reminds me that SQL is a whole universe until itself, an entire discipline that's sometimes too easy to collapse into viewing as just a language.