Stark from Earth @ LS @tonyfromls@qoto.org
Nah. not gonna pursue that lady I been talking about. Turns out we are not compatible when it comes to philosophy. For her money matters. Money is the center of her universe.
On the other hand, my philosophy is Islam. Allah (SWT) is the center of my universe, everything else, even the career and my ambitions are just noise.
We are not compatible 😆
So changes in plans. Obviously not gonna pursue PMC career anymore or for that matter any profession of arms related jobs.
The pay is low compared to my engineering work and the opportunity is literally 0 for people like me. It's not that we are not qualified in skills nor knowledge but it has something to do with clearance, and security policy as well as industry job demand size.
For that matter, I will return to my original career in Engineering including my transition as an AI Engineer. The new plan is to maintain course in where we have established ourselves already. Pursue the Electrical Engineering (EE) formal education but stay away from the older traditional EE's because with the rise of AI things are changing and that the engineers that will be relevant moving forward are not the traditional EE anymore but the Computer Engineers, AI Engineers, anything where system integration is paramount and not deep specialization.
For that matter, a BSCpE fits me. After that I will get back to UP Diliman for MSEE under the specialization of Control Systems and Robotics. Will join the projects related to space tech such as microsatellite development while taking electives the four core graduate school physics courses from either MA or MS Physics. Then will proceed to PhD EEE and will specialize in maybe 3 fields, continuing control systems and robotics, microelectronics, and electromagnetics for communications and high speed circuits, while at the same time taking more electives from graduate school physics but not PhD Physics, the electives will come from MA or MS Physics and should be from condensed matter physics, quantum mechanics, and plasma physics. Outside MSEE or PhD EEE I will take a course on Nuclear Science under the DOST program.
I will pursue teaching and research under a university in Metro Manila and so I can have free access to the laboratories and do my R&D with the funding from or via the University. This is better than going solo like from my original plan. In that way establishing a company will also be much easier again compared to being solo without a university affiliation.
That means I'm going to pursue establishing companies outside the academe. The direction of the vision also changes significantly and instead of a general defense company, it will be a company focusing on AI applications both in the software / computing domain, and on the hardware / physical domain with an eye on AI and Physical AI systems development including integrating quantum engineering in relevant applications such as a quantum radar for example.
Of course on the sides, we will study theoretical physics apart from the electives that's im going to take while at MSEE and PhD EEE. I'm also interested in smart materials and meta materials which is under the field of condensed matter physics.
Let's do this!
So let's get to the topic of managers vs workers.
Some or maybe most workers will downplay their managers and this is very true in the industry of software engineering, well at least from my 20 years experience and I been guilty of this too.
We tend to see that managers just sit around and do nothing compared to the efforts that software engineers put into making a system. This is how we see the managers specially during the bumpy times.
But after me taking a professional certificate course on International Security & Risk Management made me realize that managers do important things that we software engineers fails to see.
First, top management or the executive levels has a mismatch of culture and language when it comes to interacting with workers, the managers bridge that gap.
And because of this communication and culture difference between executive and workers, there is also a gap for trust. Managers bridges this gap and without them, it would be hard for executive level to trust the workers.
Workers like the software engineers under a manager, are focused on the details of their world. The world of the executives including the bigger picture in which the company is trying move around is invisible to the workers. The managers steer the workers to align with the company strategy.
There is a lot more to say about the importance of managers, without managers, there would not be an interface between the company / organization and the workers.
One might say that nah just remove the manager and I as the worker will take over. But then that simply means the worker is replacing the manager as a manager albeit in a poor capacity 😅
Anyways some romantic talk. I met a woman from last night and I felt attracted but this person is very different from the usual ladies that I met.
Cutting the whole story short, the lady is a very successful one and indeed most guys are afraid of her simply because of her success, leadership, and inner strength. I don't feel intimidated though but I've been in my head if I should pursue this lady or not 😅💘.
Another thing is that I am not sure if she is a Muslim as her lifestyle does not show it but more of a Kafir but one highlight in her IG when I saw it, she did visit Iran in the past and she wore a traditional persian outfit for women and she covered her head even in she was in Dubai. Something for me to think about but that I saw her as more physically attractive.
Just making sure of one thing, I don't want the same cycle as my romantic past. I'm never gonna go back on that same shit again if I will have a romantic partner again, I want someone who respects and believes in Allah (SWT), and solidly knows themselves including their strength and their weakness, and knows how to apply the knowledge of politics to move around the corporate world to build their empire and not just to freeload with mine.
It also follows from my recent toot that Software Engineers who codes, software developers, or programmers are more exposed to logic than an average person. Might be more than a lawyer or a philosopher but not really more than a mathematician.
Why is this so, because, coding involves logic. All the programming codes follows a logical pattern and one illogical move breaks the code.
In fact, programming is mathematics, it's just that it is not expressed as a typical mathematical expression or equation that we usually see in the mathematics courses so most of us are not aware. The proof there is that in computer programs, we or the AI creates functions and functions is a mathematical construct that defines a relationship. That alone is a proof that programming is mathematics. Then you make statements in the code expressing some truth or untruth. Again, that is logic, and expressing logic to build a system, is mathematics.
People has a lot of fallacies and one thing I noticed for months now, that simple proverbs be it from religion or simply from the rest of the literature is actually based on fallacies and the more a culture is heavily based on proverbs, the more fallacy it accumulates.
An example, I saw that proverb about a turtle that came up on top of a tree and it sits there undisturbed by predators. While a rabbit stays at the base of the tree on the ground and it gets eaten. Then suddenly that FB post concludes, that the lesson or moral of the story is sit on top as manager and you don't suffer the consequence while remain below as a worker and you end up facing consequences. I mean what an idiot way to make a moral story 😆
That is called a fallacy of analogy and it does occur but the most I've seen in high frequencies is the fallacy of the strawman argument, the fallacy of over generalization, the fallacy of false dichotomy. It's just interesting that lately the frequency on the fallacy of analogy is on the rise.
Now there is another false analogy I've seen, this is about the death of a human and the cutting of flowers. The false analogy was made between good people dying early and good flowers being cut to be taken. Again this is a false analogy.
I think most of the time people want meaning and so they make their own realities that will fit what narrative they want.
So this comes with the idea of a religion but there are people who subscribes to beliefs and they downplay religion and say things like religion is false, but faith is true. But if religion is false, then it must follow that faith (in the context of believing a deity) is also false.
For people trying to glorify aspects of Islam if not the whole religion but claims religion is false is also claiming that Islam is false.
This is why logic is very important. It is not enough to study logic in short phrases getting familiar with propositions and conclusions. One needs to study logic in depth, its structure, it's behavior, application, and proofs establishing sound logic, counterproofs, and fallacies. Without this, one becomes blind in the search for truth.
People has a lot of fallacies and one thing I noticed for months now, that simple proverbs be it from religion or simply from the rest of the literature is actually based on fallacies and the more a culture is heavily based on proverbs, the more fallacy it accumulates.
An example, I saw that proverb about a turtle that came up on top of a tree and it sits there undisturbed by predators. While a rabbit stays at the base of the tree on the ground and it gets eaten. Then suddenly that FB post concludes, that the lesson or moral of the story is sit on top as manager and you don't suffer the consequence while remain below as a worker and you end up facing consequences. I mean what an idiot way to make a moral story 😆
That is called a fallacy of analogy and it does occur but the most I've seen in high frequencies is the fallacy of the strawman argument, the fallacy of over generalization, the fallacy of false dichotomy. It's just interesting that lately the frequency on the fallacy of analogy is on the rise.
Now there is another false analogy I've seen, this is about the death of a human and the cutting of flowers. The false analogy was made between good people dying early and good flowers being cut to be taken. Again this is a false analogy.
I think most of the time people want meaning and so they make their own realities that will fit what narrative they want.
So this comes with the idea of a religion but there are people who subscribes to beliefs and they downplay religion and say things like religion is false, but faith is true. But if religion is false, then it must follow that faith (in the context of believing a deity) is also false.
For people trying to glorify aspects of Islam if not the whole religion but claims religion is false is also claiming that Islam is false.
This is why logic is very important. It is not enough to study logic in short phrases getting familiar with propositions and conclusions. One needs to study logic in depth, its structure, it's behavior, application, and proofs establishing sound logic, counterproofs, and fallacies. Without this, one becomes blind in the search for truth.
Container is up with my main service and a mocked service.
Continuing later as I wanna sleep.
WSL is corrupted, had to do something and now it's fixed.
Installed Docker Desktop but my WSL is too old hence did a wsl --update and is installing windows subsystem for linux.
Why I don't have docker desktop? I used to have one when I was working for a game company in Europe. I guess I uninstalled it at some point 😅
Installing one again.
PMD issues fixed and added credentials on the Sonatype in POM.
One more issue and it's the CVE vulnerability finding on logback but like the other service I did, just update logback version on a higher one.
Refactoring codes on the new coding exercise and dealing with compiler errors, PMD failures, and right now Sonatype because I have not added my credentials for a scan request.
Continuing later because I am so hungry this lunch time.
People are afraid of death and the shallow perspective is cowardice, but I think people are afraid of death because they are not used to the loss of control in this life.
I am a Muslim and my convictions to my beliefs, specially to the God of Abraham, Allah (SWT) made me not fear death. Not because I am super brave but because I already understood that I have no control in this life. After all, it is the God of Abraham that has control in this life. If I have control then why can't I control death? If everyone of us has real control then why can't we stop death? Death is the proof that destiny exist and that human free-will is bounded by it. The significance is that it turns out, we really don't have control of this life. It is God that has control and he sends the angel of death, Malak al-Mawt when it is our time.
So why fear death? Let the God of Abraham decide when.
Allahu Akbar!!!
I remember from last year during one-on-one meeting with my direct manager at work and because the company has implemented the policy of AI use in software development, I told my manager that I tried Cursor for the first time and although the AI model and AI Agent on it made mistakes, the turnaround time for these AI's to fix it with me instructing and guiding them was astonishing.
We were using Intellij IDE with Copilot but no AI Agent that can execute task the way how it was done in Cursor so I asked my manager if we have that option but there was no AI Agent that can be integrated under the company policy except that we use Copilot.
Then my manager also downplayed the possibility that a workflow where humans and AI collaborate and that AI Agents play an important role in the coding cycle. He said it will never happen.
Well, guess what? It's not only happening, it's more effective, more productive, and this is the reality now.
I wonder what that manager is thinking now if he remembers me with the fact that what he downplayed back then is a reality nowadays 😅
Also did an evening 10km run in long-slow-distance. Cardio performance is getting better. Tomorrow will do a fartlek for 10km for the speed workout.
I think next week I can get back on 21km runs already.
Working on a new Spring Boot project exercise and currently understanding the business requirements.
After this, will be back on the previous project to add throttling and other architectural and design patterns for performance and including observability.
Replaced OWASP Dependency Check with Sonatype and it worked flawlessly. Sonatype previously allowed for anonymous request for CVE scans but these days, one needs to create an account and create a user token. So basically, pom updates only.
Run mvn verify to scan the project. Ended up with 17 CVE vulnerability findings. Excluded tests related dependencies and the findings went down a few. Upgraded to Spring Boot 3.5.15 removed almost all the CVE vulnerability findings and finally upgraded logback version.The cvss score threshold used is 7.
Made a latest stable release.
Got into a snack very late in the afternoon and did early dinner and I'm good now. Tomorrow I'll do gym workouts and martial arts and the following day back to long distance run and some tactical.
Did a review of performance design patterns including architectural design patters.
So OWASP Dependency Check is a crap. I'll be replacing it with Trivy soon and implement a observability, both for a second release tag.
Been resting laying down since after lunch after I went for a 10km long distance run. Just LSD or long-slow-distance and it's hard because it's not only hot but also highly humid at the same time and now I feel like throwing up maybe because of acid. I have not eating lunch yet.
