Looks a lot like 6NF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form)

See first footnote

Thanks, I had not spotted that. I guess "better SQL" claim makes it seem like it is something more novel.

Lakes Powell and Mead would like a word...

Appears so: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html

I was asking if tldraw had a scripting option.

Which answer after searching is yes and no:

https://tldraw.dev/docs/driver

It is actually definitely yes! You can script with JS. Steve Ruiz demonstrates having an LLM do that for you in his intro video to this "offline" version of tldraw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCyENfxgyYA

Reminds me of The Beer Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

See also the bullwhip effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

Might also be a reference to the Homestead strike et al. Pinkertons were often employed as strikebreakers.

“I work hard to avoid ~~even~~ only the appearance of impropriety.” —-Not Rep. Richard Hanna

Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?

Or, for that matter, "I unironically believe"? ;)

From context, GP's "I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically" obviously meant "I [perhaps ironically] believe there are capitalist economist types who unironically believe what Summers [perhaps ironically] wrote."

The next rhetorical question is: what does it even mean to believe something ironically? Sounds like the sort of grammatical blivetry that would have gotten 17th-century critics up in arms.

> Many times he [Shakespeare] fell into those things [which] could not escape laughter — as when he said in the person of Caesar [...] "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause."

Proclamation 4311.

And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.

To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html

Given that (I think?) the "OK/Cancel" dialog of the original Mac is one of those 'foundational' UI conventions that was copied pretty directly by every GUI that came after it, I am very curious if our world wouldn't be full of "Do It" buttons if this episode hadn't taken place. Even the Start Menu could have been called the "Do" menu in that alternate universe.

Interestingly, Apple's HIG generally suggest avoiding "Ok" in favor of an action describing what will happen. So save dialogs say "Save" not "OK". The empty trash dialog says "Empty Trash". Still I guess that's more clear than "Do It"

This change most likely happened sometime in the early 1990s, though it’s possible it could’ve happened in the late 1980s. I have a PDF copy of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1995 that recommends descriptive button text instead of “OK” and “Cancel.”