FaaS

1. I was waiting for public clouds to launch them, and was very happy when Lambda GTM-ed. I developed on it for a bit, just for fun.

2. The quickest roll-your-own seems to be : k0s + kNative + alpine, or something like that. I had a brief look at this last year, without getting very far into tests. The overhead for such a system is also non-trivial ( 1+ vCPU, 1+GB ) compared to an application-level system such as in Erlang/OTP.

3. At this point I might actually need to go lower, in order to brain the resource minimisation limit. Maybe it is a matter of building a toy with Rust + cgroups.

Sometimes I feel that life is wasted on little things. But I can't find any big things worth doing, so the little things have it. 

penterjemahan "liberal arts"

 Oi, "liberal arts" bermaksud

✅ "kemahiran bebas" lah

... iaitu persekolahan bagi wargakota bukan hamba yunani kuno ... bukan

❌ "sastera bebas"

❌ "kesenian bebas"

- - -

✅ "kemahiran kebebasan"

✅ "kemahiran warga bebas"

probably more accurate

the problem with communism was not the socialism

Communism : Doesn't work without a clear governance protocol. Can't leave it to executive judgement. Guess what protocol works? Democracy. Ergo democratic, socialism. You could call it democratic, communism, that's just a change of name. Historically non-democratic socialism always failed - do you think it was the socialism, or the non-democratic authoritarianism? Lmao

A guide to the Formal Analysis of Word Salad

( In order of appearance below : unity, education, politics, life, death, adulthood, values, purpose, strategy, tactics, governance, economics, ethics, metaphysics, spirituality, common sense, philosophy, risk management )

Unity is a farce, in the sense that every individual is disposable - if their individual cost exceeds the collective needs of the union. That is how it is with multicellular organisms, and that is how it is with multiorganism organisations. Individual programming holds each individual in place, at various degrees of willingness to keep (within a certain range ) their social cost. That is why education is nothing more, and nothing less than politics. 

- In a world of many, the [ person : as an individual organism ] begins ( being programmed by others ) according to the needs of society at the time.

- In a world of one, the person programs themself according to what is known about their own continuous individuality, including factors that define their own ends for perpetual existence, or eventual demise. < Sidenote : Adulthood as defined by society, is simply the point at which the education of the individual transitions, from being the responsibility of society, to being the responsibility of the person. A society may define childhood as perpetual. >

Politics is therefore merely teleology. That classical word, means the study of [ ends : goals, objectives, purposes ]. Laid out roughly, this is a progression, from intuited values, to precise goals, to strategies, to tactics. A modern phrase, which may be easier understood by rational materialists, is [ control engineering : other modern words referring to a similar concept, are governance, and cybernetics ].

In summary, 

1. the following are identities :

- all talk of unity,

- philosophy of education,

- politics in progress, and 

- governance as a process.

Therefore, everyone who participates in the discussion of what makes an individual maintainable or disposable, in any context, reifies all these named concepts at once.

2. Wherever quantitative methods are applied, it is further named :

- economics.

3. In short, all these bear the name : 

- [ ethics : questions of the general form, "what should we do?" ]

< Sidenote : a classical phrasing, is that ethics depends on [ ontology : a.k.a. metaphysics, questions of the general form "what exists?" ].

- This then points us to mathematics and the natural science as dependencies for a MORE rational approach to 1.

- Whereas, broadening ontology includes LESS rational, non-scientific, natural-language, alternative-traditional, concepts ... including such notions as : spirituality, common sense, and custom.

The sum of ethics and metaphysics, is generally referred to as philosophy.

When philosophy is applied to itself, it is conveniently referred to as metaphilosophy, whose concerns include [ epistemology : questions of the general form, "how do we know what we know?" ]. >

malay and malaysian identity in the constitution

Sebagai penjelasan lagi, perlembagaan menugaskan peranan raja2 dalam mempertahankan hak Melayu+BS&S. 

Dalam perbahasan, ramai orang ingat ini bermaksud "raja2 harus menjadikan Malaysia satu tempat di mana budaya Melayu diwajibkan sebagain alhuiat kebangsaan", sebaliknya ini pembacaan yang salah.

Dalam satu negara yang alhuiatnya bukan hanya M+B raja2 berperanan untuk menjaga hak M+B di tempat duduk M+B. Tetapi di tempat bukan rizab, sepatutnya dibereskan bagi alhuiat am.

penyelesaian muktamad

Saya cadangkan penyelesaian muktamad.

1. Semua Cina dan India pindah ke (a) Sarawak (b) Pulau Pinang dan Melaka tak boleh sebab terlalu dekat (c) Sabah tak boleh sebab ada masalah politik yang belum selesai sejak peristiwa televisyen dulu.

2. Sarawak dan Tanah Melayu berpisah.

3. Tanah Melayu membesarkan lagi majoriti Melayu. Boleh betulkan perlembagaan dan keluarkan perkara mengenai kaum, supaya sesiapa yang tinggal semua jadi serata dan tiada apa-apa keistimewaan bagi marhaen ( raja2 mash spesial ).

4. Sabah settle dulu keadaannya dah pilih nak teman siapa.

Inilah cadangan yang paling bes must try minggu ini diskaun mesti jual habis2an 🤣🤣🤣

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temperatures are rising in Malaysia. not to worry, the KLCI is at 50,000 ... how did that happen?! 

empathy with the chronically anxious

I feel that the greatest loss of time in my life has been empathising with anxious people. I've been quite good at it because it has been my natural environment, but I am not sure it is always a profitable expense. 

Malaysia is famously anxious - one of our national tropes is pent-up anxiety, and we contributed the word 'amok' to the English. I have written to a greater extent on this before. 

My parents, only one of whom was born in Malaysia, were both anxious wrecks for the most part.

So that is how it became my natural environment, two levels deep around me.

Nowadays I expend some energy here and there in this activity, but generally I am wary of taking profits upfront, as anxiety tends to be a debilitating condition for those who have it chronically. They do not often get well fast enough to make superficial therapy a well-paid endeavour. Professional therapists will string this out and it is a goldmine. I do not prefer to participate in that. 

Maybe one day, I will. 

agama kepatungan hati

Hidup di Malaysia memang pelik. Semua pihak mematungkan agama. 

Satu disyaki mematungkan sebatang kayu.

Dia pulak ingat kawannya mematungkan khayalan. 

Kawannya pulak ingat seorang lagi mematungkan manusia.

Seorang lagi itu ingat orang yang lain mematungkan wang.

Adapun yang disyaki mematungkan kekosongan. 

Ada lagi yang disyaki mematungkan keindahan.

Ada lagi yang disyaki mematungkan tamadun.

Ko patungkan apa? Tahu tak, apa itu maksud agama? 

GABA : DMN suppression

TIL : the GABA neurotransmitter is greatly involved in suppressing the [ Default Mode Network, DMN ], an operation which is required for control to pass to the [ Executive Control Network, ECN ] ... hence the link between GABA boosters like barbiturates and executive function disorders, such as those of the Autism spectrum.

In college I figured out how to quantify conscious experiences. Now I get to learn about how the experiences are controlled. Fun.

what happens if I turn X off?

Studying complicated structures, with multiple overlapping control planes, such as the nervous system : I find it is useful to read first 

• in terms of "what happens if I turn X off", 
• instead of "what does X do". 

They are essentially the same question - however due to cultural reasons, possibly related to the anthropology of linguistics, the positive statement "subject-has-predicate" does not generally provide details of "subject-not-has-predicate". This is quite interesting for various reasons.