2021-08-14
Eat, work and sleep, is a sufficient model when one is a manual labourer, as I was during much of the past five years. But it is not good enough for deskwork, because not all sleep benefits deskwork.
Instead it may be more refined to specify - eat, work, and recover - as the applicable model for industrial readiness.
2021-08-15
Tactically, he should have offered to resign while making Friday's offer in concert.
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Recovered from Sat, on to Sun.
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The Golden Rule : do unto others as *you* wish they would do to you.
The Golden Fallacy : doing unto others as *they* wish you would not do to them.
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Every job I do I remind people that the a leader's job is not to introduce ideas. Any idiot can introduce ideas, and technology facilitates this as time progresses. The leader's job is to kill ideas, and the technology for that is not yet good enough, so we depend on humans to do it.
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Serious question : has anyone done a study on the alignment between { music in major keys and the sympathetic nervous system }, and { music in minor keys and the parasympathetic nervous system }?
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Flip chart boards : Dumb prices. Definitely need to make a few of these for home and all offices. Later.
2021-08-16
So when Mahia is finally out, we will then see knives brought out against him, for "conniving with DAP", just wait for it.
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There are no accidents this year. Not in Malaysia, not in Afghanistan.
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Today we are coding in : Chinese
2021-08-17
FINALLY retrieved FY2020 audit documents. Thanks MITI. Maybe I'll reorganise my room tonight.
2021-08-19
Crunch time again. So, I foresee a need to refocus on physical conditioning. Lots of supplements, hopefully avoiding dependency, mainly more protein and creatine, sporadic B12, and lots of exercise need to be scheduled in. And sleep. Have been missing hours too often.
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Mageran is an anagram of Negara-M
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Pureen appears to be the only Malaysian source of INDA / EDANA Flushability Guidelines compliant wet wipes.
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Down. 4.5 hours. Up. Wash. Housekeeping. Dose creatine. Start coffee. Drill holes, secure shelf, clean up. End coffee. Message spouse. Ready for office. Need to pick up breakfast on the way. It's a good day to die!
2021-08-20
Tajuk karangan hari ini, "Kalau Saya Seorang Ketua Negara" ... yang diwajibkan memilih seorang yang disokong ramai, dari puak yang kekurangan sokongan ... kita akan minta setiap satu antara mereka menyampaikan pidato, bagi menyatakan faedah, "Kenapa Korang Kena Sokong Saya". Setiap sorang itu, mesti cuba. Selepas semua pidato dipidatokan, barulah kita cuba mendapatahu, sesiapa yang terdapatnya sokongan yang amat besar. Kalau masih lagi tiada sorang yang cukup sokongannya, kita akan meminta setiap sorang itu berulang lagi, berpidato dengan tajuk baru, berulang-ulang, sampai semua orang letih, dan akhirnya sorang mesti mendapat sokongan majoriti. Itu saja karangan saya. Sekian, terima kasih ...
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If our best prime ministers are constitutionally vague appointments, then it follows that the Constitution should be updated.
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Multi-monitoring in Linux : This was much easier than anticipated.
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I see a lot of confused and disappointed Malaysians in my timeline. You all not familiar with this country's system is it?
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Diet check. Need more protein. Not healing fast enough.
2021-08-21
You can't properly insure the money in your bank account, with the money in your bank account. Nevertheless, countless people attempt to insure their relationships with the stuff of the same relationships. Ludicrous.
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Why would anyone wanting an emotionally enriching relationship, seek it from someone who treats emotions as third-class citizens of the psyche. 🤔 It's fascinating.
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In 2014 I thoughts "artisanal" was a bit of a dumb phrase to use in reference to computer programming; but after running a brick and mortar business, and spending a lot of time digging through documentation that most people don't seem to care about ... yup ... pretty much the same thing, I guess.
2021-08-22
Over the past few months, I hacked together a basic inventory tracker for my office. The weird thing was deciding to implement this in Google Sheets, using scripts that crawled GS like the storage-layer of a database. IT was a good introductory exercise in writing a database ... rudimentary locking, incremental index generation, optimisations based on size-of-data and access-patterns, mutability, etc. It wasn't anticipated, but it has been interesting.
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Last two months slow. Lots of housekeeping done today. Time to clock-in again ...
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I find it interesting that discussions of a contract can take up dynamic and elaborate mutations after the contract has been terminated. I thought about the intentions behind this, and I decided that the intentions do not matter, as the operational priority for discussing a contract ... is while it remains under enforcement. Given the absence of a lawsuit ... and my general deprioritisation of the public's view of my work ... I think it is best to ignore such discussions as being distracting from ongoing work.
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Sanskrit कुल (kula, “family; clan; lineage”) + वर्ग (varga, “class; clan; family”)
Siapakah ahli keluarga Malaysia? Kula rajah berkelas pertama, varga Melayu berkelas kedua, kula orang asli berkelas ketiga, dan varga-varga yang selain-lain denganya ... yang mana ahli keluarga pulak?
2021-08-24
An ergonomic ABAC implementation is going to be a good intellectual indulgence for the coming weeks.
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In the few minutes I've had to think about my pet projects, I need to implement session-authenticated access control in this AWS Lambda web framework. So I had to check on the this definition. I think I will have to use ABAC, as it is a superset of RBAC.
Also Nth pet peeve : people who draw distinctions between "authentication" and "access control" - truly the latter is a subset of the former. You're only authenticated in any event in any system, by virtue of access control checking specific tokens. You're not you, unless you can prove that you are you.
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Off to test the makan before work pattern.
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Love : I literally don't value it. Which is why I don't place value on what I have to give. I just chuck it out there come what may. Not very entrepreneurial, I must admit. - late night chats
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Lifted wipers are an emblem of Malaysian subclass rococco.
2021-08-25
These 8-hour-sleep days are killing me. Still off by 20%. Feed.
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That time of day when I can afford to set aside work, and also force myself to recreate by thinking about different subjects, is as bit of a luxury these days.
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Can someone tell the UI manager at MySejahtera to reduce the step count between "profile" and "scan in" already?!
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"Your ideal candidate shall fit what roles?"
"Ideal candidate
- capable of self-studying stats up to the master's level
- capable of operating a code editor and finding their own bugs
- capable of managing stakeholders for ill-defined undocumented problems
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2021-08-26
Framework for talent fittings.
Date :
Author :
Subject :
Context :
Summary Evaluation :
Professional Aspirations :
Independent Study :
Professional Experience :
Formal Certification :
Interviewer's Notes :
Candidate's Self Appraisal :
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I think just to get into the mindset of someone who is happy making 1500-2500 MYR/mo at the age of 18-24 ... is going to take me a day of proper thinking.
At 18 I was making 80 MYR/h sweeping stairs, and at 21 my classmates were doing 19,000 MYR/mo jobs (before annual bonus, 38,000 MYR signing bonus). In 2006 when I got to see the data, even the bank CIO salaries in Malaysia were not very interesting : 30,000 MYR/mo + 100% bonus? Really?
Anyway, we all have different journeys. The point of anthropology is to become other people. On we go. Let me think about this properly.
I have to figure out which hat to put on because I spend most of my adult life in a retirement mindset where money doesn't matter ... but to play the game properly, I have to maintain a global context, while exercising some empathy with the locals.
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- Ban chap fan self service.
- Cap maximum occupancy at very low numbers.
- Open everything 24-7.
- Ban thermometers and vapour sprays.
- Open all businesses.
#sopdreams
2021-08-28
Got RM8 of pure glycerin to test as skin moisturiser. Ask me about this in a few weeks.
Also TIL nitroglycerin is used as medication via metabolism to nitric oxide.
2021-08-29
Point of personal development : now resolving to adopt Japanese manners in terms of parking butt-first whenever possible.
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Empire Subang : checking neither Risk Level nor Vaccine status for entry.
2021-09-30
800-178 is pretty important
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Awake. Warm waking temperature has been a good hack / correction. Still learning how to apply hyperventilation in reaction to hypoxia at out-of-cycle waking times.
Being generally tolerant of lower O2 levels has trained me out of allowing myself to hyperventilate autonomously. Need to untrain.
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At the end of this year it'll have been 30 years since I learnt about hypothesis testing in school. 🤓
2021-08-31
Housekeeping - up with the Joneses :
I postponed using e-wallets since they were started in Malaysia ... till yesterday, and today I theoretically saved RM12 in shipping and RM15 ... a 5.1% discount. I think the amount of time it took to calculate this, and sign up for that, and park this and that ... took maybe ... an hour. RM 27 / hour is not worth it. But in theory it may come to a 5% discount on a number of future events, and that results in : whatever consumption I do on Shopee. Assuming it comes down to something like RM 2/minute, I think this starts to make sense. I'll have to monitor and see how, if it does.
Credit cards. Definitely when I think about it, even with an RM100 rebate, after two hours of research, it's a net loss on time. But hey, I suppose a few hundred bucks a year back on petrol and groceries is a more effortless approach.
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Awake. Off to feed, then work.
2021-09-01
Following up on my once-every-five-years consumer finance optimisation project ... so the best (Maybank) credit card for cash back is Signature Visa.
Cash back RM 1058 a year. But you have to jump through hoops. You need to spend RM 1760 a month, on PETROL and GROCERIES only, in receipts above RM 20 in order to get this.
Fuck off. Wait till I have a few babies ... or a driving job. So this is great for drivers.
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A friend's tip : and I noted -
AFFIN IS INTERESTING : 3% on auto-billing, EWALLET TOP-UPS, and e-commerce ... capped at 500 MYR/y for monthly balances under 3000/mo, or capped at 960 MYR/y for monthly balances over 3000/mo
It turns out that Affin points are also 19% more valuable than Maybank points ... so this is particularly interesting.
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Here's a tip for Malaysian SaaS vendors trying to pitch "pay-per-use (API call / data volume stored / etc. ) " pricing models.
Just call it "post-paid xyz". Post-paid Accounting SaaS, etc.
For non-Malaysians, this is because telcos here use that language for billing call plans.
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Universities should preserve the traditions of tenure. However, the necessary requirements for tenure should include multiple demonstrations of the industrial effects of one's field of expertise. No one should get a license to prattle without proof of relevance to factors of economic welfare.
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Post run. Various people have stopped bothering me for the day, so it is time for ... work!
The main advantage of recent runs is that my brain is starting to warm up again. APM is up ... or rather, APH is up, more consistently than having spurts of high APM and then sloth.
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Studying consumer gimmicks : TNG's AliPay Shell vouchers ... you can use RM20 max per transaction ... saving RM1. So if you VERY FUCKING RAJIN you can make 5% on your gas bill all year if you top up your gas RM20 at a time.
Here we have an excellent example of the poverty trap. If you're poor, rich people will take advantage of you to waste your time and to keep you poor.
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To be fair, there's an equivalent option for Giant, and it isn't clear if you will be capped in terms of vouchers-per-transaction - you can check and let me know.
2021-09-05
Studying consumer gimmicks : TNG's AliPay Shell vouchers ... you can use RM20 max per transaction ... saving RM1. So if you VERY FUCKING RAJIN you can make 5% on your gas bill all year if you top up your gas RM20 at a time.
Here we have an excellent example of the poverty trap. If you're poor, rich people will take advantage of you to waste your time and to keep you poor.
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To be fair, there's an equivalent option for Giant, and it isn't clear if you will be capped in terms of vouchers-per-transaction - you can check and let me know.
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Thinking of buying anything at IOI Resort City? Wow! So beautiful! The hills! The water features! So many waterfalls, 10-feet-wide, 15-feet-wide! Wait, these features are actually bugs ... hydrology bugs. What is hydrology? You ask the developer lah. Build houses on hills, and highway exits in valleys, and not enough drainage. So scenic. So pretty. But to be frank, the entire route to KL via Jalan Sungai Besi + Sungai Besi Expressway has similar issues. Good catch ...
2021-09-06
(54%RH,24C)-(59%,25.6C) Done farting around with humidity control. Happy to have nerdy PhD friends haha. Now scheduling myself for a possible all-or-half nighter, then new recruit orientation in the morning, and investor relations review before dinner.
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I often hear about people having difficulties in discussing sex with prospective partners. So there's this pattern where someone hasn't figured out the difference between :
A : being sexually attractive to the counterparty
B : getting sexual consent from the counterparty
... and then there's this FREQUENT problem where people spend loads of energy discussing B before establishing A. Stop it, stop it, please ... hold on ... can we talk about physics for a second ... one of these goes before the other ... B does not go first ... OMG, I thought this was obvious to people even before I ever even participated in this ritual ... can we huddle please ... maybe we can fix the incels ...
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In terms of teaching people how to engage in romantic and/or sexual interactions with technical precision ... I mean informatically, communications is a matter of memory management ... maybe the game to teach this takes the form of an MTG-esque card game, because cards on the table are literally concepts occupying memory.
The life/damage mechanics are also applicable. But the end game should be to maximise resource points (not simply to reduce the opponent's to zero : a zero-sum game). But you can lose resources until death. So the overall strategic direction would be systematic derisking of unknowns in the counterparty's deck.
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Pure glycerin as moisturiser test : I tried this before going to work today - conclusion is that it absorbs too much water for grimy days. I'd rather just keep cleansing through the day. For home use, I don't mind the wetting effect. (2021-09-16 update : 25% is working better )
So i think if you already have good features, you can accentuate parts with tactical application of hygroscopic material.
2021-09-06
A 40 hour week distributed over 7 days is 5 hours and 43 minutes per day-ish. Now that I'm actually ahead of schedule, I should probably enforce earlier daily stops in order to secure other work I have neglected, such as last's year's corporate clean up, etc.
2021-09-07
Hm. I'm out of touch with CPUs. Turns out Ryzen 5x00Us are way superior to Intel 11xxGx chips in terms of performance per price.
2021-09-08
Around 1994 I noticed that it was easy to improve on the monkey bars just by practicing constantly. But I figured I'd do it later in life. I guess later is now.
2021-09-09
This is my third Facebook account in 17 years or so. My first profile pic is lost in time - nah, it's probably just cold storaged.
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2021 consumer finance study :
- the real estate market is full of potholes
- e-wallets are a near total waste of time
- the best value car is still a Kancil (if you're not worried about dying)
Not yet done :
- fungible asset classes like crypto and stocks
- insurance
2021-09-10
Oh.
Shift + MouseWheel scrolls horizontally ...
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Shucks. Now I will remember Guocoland as the developer whose salespeople invited me to burn a half day, to look at something which they have no available stock of.
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Tinder needs to implement "looking for" checkboxes ... for love / sex / romance ... and just keep all the irrelevant matches out of everyone's feed.
