5/23/2024 Every time I hear news about attacks by the homeless in liberal states such as CA, incompetence in catch and release of criminals, victimizations of landlords, uncontrolled immigration, etc. I thought, these are major fails that Trump could have used against Biden in their upcoming interesting debates. So for more concern than fun, I posted this on FB:
I would advice consideration for Biden by both parties, even though both Trump and Biden are good at being in denial. Biden's health may not be able to withstand the pressure in the coming debates, especially the kind of arsenal Trump has against Biden's last few years of handling the country.
5/21/2024 Fundamentals by Mark Seemann. With all the frameworks and technological widgets, sometimes it may seem overwhelming to keep it, for tech folks. But the way around this is to master the foundations, or as Seemann called it, the Fundamentals. I think his article is worth a read because he has the same view as mine, even though it's not comprehensive enough for me. Also, since he's worked in the IT field in the 90s. I think the new comers post 2000 in the software developing industry are taking shortcuts that they don't really know what programming is. But they've gotten hired and paid wages higher than mine. I'm not jealous or envying their "success", because I see that as a problem, in the long run for companies that hired them (the reason we see lots of lay-offs these days: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Elon Musk's, etc.), and a broken personality - a very Epicurean one.
5/20/2024 Finally met the new neighbor (brothers: Yunnis and Yannis) who came after Joe left. I think there was maybe another family rented Joe's house between Joe and Yannis. The new landlord was probably some Chinese lady whom we never met. These two brothers kicked their soccer ball into our backyard today so they politely reached out in our Ring doorbell. They're probably around 15-25 years of age. I think there's probably a mother with them. Gave them the ball, we introduced each other. Apparently Willy was the first one who made contact with them. Nice brothers.
Interesting article on going for interviews once a year even if you already are comfortable and satisfied with your current job. I think if I'm more disciplined and diligent, I would have come up with something like this. This certainly is a good idea, to keep oneself aware of surrounding opportunities. I don't think this is disingenuous because many companies do their own testing on their side via interviews as well.
This exercise seems to be a good way to learn the RUST programming language.
5/17/2024 TLDR's way to learn D3.js
5/14/2024 Mona Lisa Background recognized by geologist Ann Pizzorusso as in town of Lecco by the shore of Lake Como. The bridge on the right of the painting's background is thought to be the Visconti Bridge.
5/13/2024 Open Flagstar Bank Ready Checking account with initial deposit of $50+, maintain daily average $500+ for first 90 days, direct deposits $500+. $250 cash bonus will appear between days 91 and 104. I need to ask Tracy of NYGC about frequently changing direct deposits.
100,000 Stars. Cool Milky Way Virtual Model for Chrome users. It plays a movie zooming from our Sun to the galaxy.
5/10/2024 Online hardware store with best catalog website I've seen: MCMaster.com
Messing with world maps in webpages, github offers some cool toy.
MoonRay review: DreamWorks Animations' superb rendering software is free for all. The article also suggested best laptops to do rendering with.
Some insights into EV Cars experience in China. By Kevin Williams: I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked. I can see in the comments of the article that there are some jealous Westerners trying for some propagandas against this article.
5/7/2024 William Lane Craig's (WLC) May 6 2024 Podcast: Questions on Personal Causation, Time, and Christology, in an interesting one where someone asked a question against the Kalam cosmological argument (WLC's favorite apologetics method), that it does not proof a personal first cause, but opens for an impersonal first cause as well. WLC's response was by using Al-Ghazali's (or was he referring to Al-Ash’ari?) argument that FREE WILL is the only uncaused cause, and this for any to have a beginning, there must ultimately be a personal free will and not impersonal "cause" which would be in infinite regress in seeking for a prime mover. This reminded me just last week I told Steve at church that RC Sproul failed in his answer to the problem and origin of evil but assuming that free will is caused. Sproul was wrong in making causality as non-negotiable logical assumption. Nevertheless, WLC failed, perhaps as Al-Ghazali would too, in assuming that he could simply do away the other problem to his argument: "That it opens the possibility to an eternal universe", by just saying that an eternal universe would require a personal cause, without any explanation. So here the creator-creation distinction is required to properly answer the question. Towards the end of the podcast, WLC alluded that he's now researching on the dual natures of Christ in Christology, that he's trying to rationalize it. So I think he's more of a rationalist. We should be rational, but not rationalists.
5/6/2024 World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024. This is of interest to me since I chipped a tooth last year, and having a harder than usual surgery on my right wisdom tooth (removal/cut of crown instead of extract).