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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.
Now one thing that most people don't know, because some will defend the Duterte administration stance on opening PH to Chinese back to the times of their terms.
I've seen an intelligence article published for public consumption but mainly for the academics I think that was way back in 2023 or 2024 and that document explained that every Chinese citizen under the communist party of China has been mandated to conduct surveillance in all aspect of life where they have access to. That means everything from religion, to business, to technology, politics, and even military.
The citizens don't have choice and everything they see, hear, know, they must report back to the authorities in China.
I know this might verge towards racial discrimination but just take this with caution.
The PH conflict with China, can be used in as a political weapon within the political power struggles in the PH itself but then some people forget that the states internal politics even the issues on corruption is not a reason to betray the homeland.
Looking back at Ukraine, that state is a corrupt state under the leadership of also a corrupt leader Zelenskyy yet people will have to fight for Ukraine after Russia invaded it because regardless of the corruption of the homeland, it is not the reason to give it up to foreign invasion, not a reason to surrender the state's sovereignty.
Same goes to PH, regardless of the scale and disappointment brought about by the corruption scandal, we still have to fight for PH if China invades our shores. For that matter, any foreign entity that will undermine PH sovereignty, the citizens will have to fight it.
Now the armed forces of the Philippines has officially announced thru one of their spokesperson that indeed PH is now under an information war against China. Although they just announced it recently, the information war between PH and China has been happening already for quite sometime now due to the conflict brought about by China encroaching into PH territories, with the motive of securing natural resources and taking advantage of strategical territory foothold in the event of China's reunification with Taiwan.
The purpose of the information war is upper hand in propaganda with the aimed effects of military and civilian demoralization, assertion of China's superiority in terms of military, technology, and morals. It is also about the narrative that China is in the moral right and PH is in the moral wrong.
The conflict actually started way before the Aquino administration and during those times, China and other countries with claims in the island within PH territory will build structures just to be blown away by the PH NAVSOG and that kind of warfare was regular on all parties. Then come the Aquino administration where the conflict escalated and became a national issue and brought to the international community where PH won the ruling. Duterte administration came and PH became open to Chinese and of course that means free flow of Chinese spies to the country and such gave way for more leverage to China on the information warfare that is waged later on to PH.
So the admission of the armed forces that indeed an information war is happening already between PH and China is also a signal for a potential greater conflict that might involve a full blown war in the future. Hence, the government is pushing aggressively to draft more individuals to the reserve force and actually is currently thinking of forced draft or conscription which I think the latter is the best one.
Personally I think war will come to PH shores and the war that will happen is also a new kind of war in the likes of what we've seen so far in Ukraine and in Iran.
So maybe my tactical, intel, scuba, surveillance, and security & risk trainings will be used in that upcoming war and not really for a PMC career 😅
But yes, I'm ready. If that war comes, then let it come.
Woke up and did some house chores and preparing for a 10km run under the sun and before that lets do some rants this morning.
Mass shooting incident in the PH and the assailants are minors. It's becoming messy because a violent game is being dragged into the issue despite the fact that the violent game is rated 18+ and apart from that, more stringent firearms laws on ownership is being pushed because it turns that the incident involved a gun from a police officer that was used by the assailant.
Games do affect the mental state of people even adults. In fact, back in 2021 when I joined a group of Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) players from other places while we are on Covid19 at lockdown, at some point one of the boy teens said he wanted to join the reserve force and he was serious and then he said he hopes he can enter the reserve force without any trainings because he is already very good in CODM. Even if I tried, I could not help but suddenly burst into laughter and that offended the boy teen. I had to explain to him that there are a lot of the physical stuffs that he don't have to wrestle in CODM but in real life he has to. For example, he can jump around many times and run and jump to evade being hit by the enemy and in real life, you can only jump for a certain height with all weight of the gear pulling him down due to gravity and he can only sprint for so many times and it will take the breath out of him because simply, games does not reflect the realities of Physics that we feel.
Now the guns, I've seen this debate in the US happen for a long time now because we all know that in the US, two factions are arguing about the root cause and solution for the regular mass shooting. One side wants stricter gun regulations while the other side believes that doing so adds the pressure to law abiding citizens yet the criminals does not get affected because criminals won't spend their time submitting to the laws of gun control. Basically, advocating for stricter gun laws does not really solve the problem. Even if the state bans the use of guns except for state forces, then the criminals will simply use knives, machete. Again, ban these bladed tools and the criminals will resort to using hammers. The solution is not about weapons control. It has something to do with security and early signal detection with counseling involving the parents, health professionals, schools, and police force.
If PH really does not like the idea of a violent game in PH, they should simply ban violent games in the PH.
