Malaysia is simply not interested in STEM

( On teaching languages causing a reduction in STEM capabilities. )

More of one doesn't mean less of the other. 

It is just that we do not place enough emphasis on STEM. 

The notion that putting emphasis elsewhere reduces STEM is a poverty mentality. It is what they want you to think, when the real game is "actually we just don't want to improve at STEM".

Indeed, Malaysia is where STEM goes to die.

Redundant ways to use AWS Lambda

Local test enviroments : 

• (ServerlessApplicationModelSAM), 
• (ServerlessFramework|SLS)

SAM uses (RuntimeInterfaceEmulator|RIE), SLS uses ... buttfuckall, no one has a name for it, it's not RIE, but it does the same thing.

Alternatives are LocalStack, et al.

Deployment tools :

• SAM, 
• SLS, 
• (CloudDevelopmentKit|CDK), 
• (CloudFormation|CF) 

... they are all wrappers for CF ... and CF is just a wrapper for the AWS API, so the most minimalist approach turns out to be to script against the AWS API directly. 

Alternatives are Terraform, Ansible, et al.

subby + mengamok : compounded with authoritarian public policy

A tangent on the personality-skew of Malays.

Upon this post, a Threads friend, a practicing Muslim, said they weren't fond of support for the conservative legal system. To which I joked, 

"I think it's a personality thing. Regardless of choice of creed ...

• a) some people like jerking themselves
• b) some people like to be whipped

:D"

To which they said they suspected it was a "... Malay thing because the way they put themselves beneath everyone else ..." etc. 

To which, I responded, not-intended as a joke :

"Being subby + mengamok in Malay culture has had anthropological attention.

• 1. Hypothesis that living in the non-hurricane + non-ring-of-fire + non-desert has setup a comfortable environment and thus culture.
• 2. The introduction of Islam as an ideology of self-restraint has a deep interaction with 1., which may of course have both healthy and pathological modes.
• 3. The pathological mode of 2., is excessive restraint without reasonable support structure, increases risk of explosive release."

Then we talked further about downstream public policy, and how it has shaped knowledge, culture, and daily tendencies for all Malaysians.

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Friend said, "fact that religion overrides logic annoys ... [ redacted ] ... not even theology ... [ redacted ] ... just basic common sense". To which I responded : 

"- "common sense" is a notion that disregards cultural structure

- going into the structures, it seems you prefer a different culture

- structures are built from various factors ( discussed above in our chat )

- a lot of the structure in Malaysia is authoritarian, which aligns with the Mahathir era of Malaysia's development ( he wasn't a cleric, but clerical developments advanced in parallel with his public policies )"