david-cako

CloudKit, edge, etc

I find the process of writing database access functions annoying, and for the most part, arbitrary and repetitive. ORM functionality that bakes types/accessors, migrations, graphQL, and even infrastructure into your codebase is where it’s at. The fact that you are writing your models once and automatically exposing them as types in any project’s language is a huge value. I don’t need the same language everywhere, but I want types that plug together without hassle.

Next generation “serverless” databases will fully abstract object mapping away. It’s tedious and arbitrary. Even indexing is relatively easy to automate. I am incredibly excited for what Apple is brewing up right now for developers.

I too am extremely opposed to any and all non-consenting invasions of digital privacy (i.e., the problem isn’t the known-known of what you upload, but the hidden implications of it), but on the contrary, I make a disciplined effort to make my digital fingerprint reflect my actual views and identity. Whatever time capsule my digital identity ends up in, I want to be as accurate and beautiful as possible.

This includes my avid support of corporations which make good faith efforts to defend natural rights and freedoms, and my vehement opposition to corporate/political nonsense that does not represent, in good faith, the interests of humanity and nature. “A reasonable amount” of surveillance is an essential aspect of society, but it SHOULD be considered invasive, and should never be invisible. I suspect that there will be BS metrics to evaluate how “consenting” a given individual is to NSA/Clearview type behavior, and I would hope that I am casting a shield of protection. I feel bad about the fact that an element of bitterness is necessary to be resilient. I know no other way than truth.

I truly act as if AI is learning from me, and believe that there are long reaching and metaphysical effects to all actions.

Unix philosophy for services encourages the user to model their problem rather than their architecture. Edge computing is a brewing shitstorm at companies which are not trending in this direction.

Reading even deeper, there is further subtext where individuals with backbone will work from home if they want to. I see “do what you think is right”, with a first hand example of the owner of the company doing both at once.

Slate Star Codex is one of my favorite blogs, much needed corporate and political philosophy. The musings on Moloch are psychedelic :)

It’s interesting to me also how these sorts of “skeptic” blogs are such strong affirmations of faith for me. Skepticism is what makes faith real.

The tetragrammaton is a 4-letter name of God, and a conceptualization of

- somethingness

- becoming observable/“contrasty”

- germinating

- and becoming self-aware (and an applied practice)

Like a stack overflow of reality. It is one of many names of God in Hebrew.

This essentially represents “the all”, as we can understand it. It’s interesting how ancient alphabets were built on base concepts and interactions. They have a sort of philosophy to them.

Markov chain text generation is pretty wild, because we now can build computer systems that endlessly generate their own many-letter “names of God”. God has many names in Hebrew; everything is a name of God, so to speak, like a DNA sequence.

Probably also adjusts delivery priority and improves battery life.

Apple’s APIs are really good about exposing specific use-cases as separate functions and enums.

Kabbalah and the associated mysteries; BOTA has great coursework on the tarot that teaches to the Hebrew roots.

To me the tetragrammaton is a logical proof that approximates an “initial commit”.

Which represents the “breath of life”, and all possible things it can become.

social media is surveillance disguised as a top hat. :)

EdgeCompute coming soon I suppose.

In another way it makes sense, divergent thinking is tolerated for the very purpose of evaluating how effective new ideas are, and we ourselves tolerate being weird because we believe we can prove something new.

One decides how far to push the envelope and how much they can tolerate seeming crazy. That’s how you earn trust in your judgement.

“Individual” and “collective” is a fundamental/metaphysical concept. General purpose AI probably will have a concept of individual influence/veto among its “nodes” so that it is capable of self organizing and reorganizing.

It remains to be seen if corporate-like structure is something it surpasses, but complex systems seem to usually have orders of influence, and multiple hands on any given wheel.

I think they created the expectation of vertical integration too. “Amazon does it better and quicker”, a retail customer might think, as they peruse possible cloud providers.

Amazon is an incredibly sticky brand because they created expectations that you almost have to be vertically integrated (or at least one of the largest customers of the post office, the electric company, the computer hardware company, the software vendor, etc) to fulfill.

This headline sounds like a Metal Gear mission brief.

On the road to R# I guess.

I guess shipping Windows API cargo crates makes too much sense. Does anyone have any context for gaps in Rust they are addressing?

In TFA it mentions that ownership will be based on groups of objects, but I’m not sure I understand what this solves that a struct doesn’t.

“Capitalist discourse” in Lacan’s theory of discourses reminds me a bit of this; it is essentially the realization of “new” constraints, ex nihilo, that can be reorganized and resolved.

The methods in the article are almost like further subcategories for the internal alchemy at play when creating something new.

“Gnosis”, is this rooted in Gnostic or neoplatonic philosophy? Or just the name of knowledge.

You may be able to turn it off. I just went into my Vizio M’s settings menu for the first time in forever and low and behold a ToS for “Automated Content Recognition” shows up before I can access the settings. They make it sound so cool.

The setting can later be accessed buried away in “Reset and Admin”.

I wonder often if technology needs more legal guardrails for the 90% of people that don’t pay attention to telemetry and will gladly accept. Nutrition/medicine is another iffy one. It’s interesting to me how some countries require warnings on high sodium and high sugar food. Something like that probably wouldn’t fly in the US but I like that it exists.

Could you also view this through the lens of all social bubbles, especially online ones with weighted ranking of popular opinion, being detrimental to one’s concept of truth?

In real life we have very different inputs and outputs and sense for anonymity. All of the internet has turned us into a different creature. All technology seems to. We make tools that change us.

Seems like the best we can do is understand as many social spheres as possible.

Another value of their large network, WeWork has relationships with large companies (like Amazon) to manage satellite offices across the country. Some of those are just a corner of a WeWork carved out, and some of those are entire floors of office buildings that WeWork handles administrative, custodial, and break room for.

I don’t know how much that impacts their profitability or value as a company, but it feels like a very cloud computing model of work space where you get what you need where you need it, so that you can have local employees in cities across the country to serve customers there.

AWS runs on servers, electricity, and drives like the rest of the internet.

If your application and data are single-AZ it is not fault tolerant. If that datacenter goes down or the EBS volume fails, at the very least your application will have downtime.

EBS is replicated within the AZ but that is not guaranteeing you fault tolerance. You must take snapshots and store them across AZs, like any other mission critical S3 object.

Very good question, and the only justification I can come up with is the opportunity to beam truth out from within.

This at some times more than others seems like enough, if no one else takes responsibility. We are hard wired to seek meaning and protect the will.

One piece of evidence is that men have a flatter distribution of outcomes and more often than women are falling off either end of the chart, for better and worse.

All it takes is a look at those OkCupid studies for rating distributions to see how much larger the difference is between success and failure for men.

This problem is not exclusive to men, but affects more men.

Women more often have an expectation of mating upwards, and high status women have a similar problem of finding themselves excluded.

What is the alternative? It’s enough like a traditional TV guide experience that people get it, its remote uses similar touch physics as iOS (I typically tap directions rather than swipe though), your phone can act as a remote (with an identical UI) or a keyboard, and you can cast any arbitrary content pretty seamlessly. I also love that the iOS remote actually controls my AV receiver’s power and volume.

The music app can get too deeply nested, but in general it is above all a consistent tabbed master-view experience in every app. The apis exposed to developers all lend to a very good, consistent experience for everything I’ve tried except YouTube TV, which doesn’t utilize the standard media transport API.

In general I like the idea that casting, while still as deeply integrated as Google Cast, is supplemental to the hardware remote. It’s not an afterthought, and neither is the remote. Both are good IMO.

Truly my only complaint is that the app switching dialogue uses reversed/“physical” swiping direction (like switching desktops with a trackpad). This makes no sense to me, as nothing else does this, including swiping between album covers in now playing. I get it, but it’s inconsistent with the whole rest of the UI.

It’s a commoditized market and Apple’s success blueprint is out for everyone to see, yet no one else can adapt mid century design principles and “high fashion” style marketing to technology. This sounds like shilling (and I do own Apple stock) but I’m serious.

Compare the Apple remote (with the iOS “emulator”), Apple TV, and Airplay to Chromecast’s UX, for instance. Apple does have special sauce. They make tools that work together and are understood at a surface level. Everything, including the new keyboards, fits a hardware market driven agenda (quiet, “appy”, small like a phone). Google and Amazon work backwards from services, and Samsung and co just aren’t even playing the same ballgame. They are much more like traditional prebuilt computer companies. MS is kind of coming close with just computers but they are not nearly as sticky as an everything tech company.

I work for AWS. There is typically a balance that has to be struck when sharing information with customers. I would imagine this goes for most companies, which is why it isn't until a post-mortem that the messaging is fully refined.

I did a PID mod on mine when I bought it around 5 years ago and love it. Built like a tank, and looks more commercial than similarly priced machines if that means anything to you.

My thoughts:

Apple Music is so much more baked into the Apple ecosystem, isn’t a rip off (as I might expect), and doesn’t have crappy selection (as I was afraid of — it has pretty much all of the niche stuff I didn’t expect it to).

iCloud and Apple Music are just part of the device purchase for me tbh. The whole thing is supposed to work together, and it does for the most part.

Someone mentioned regional licensing issues on Apple Music, which makes sense. I have not seen that yet in the US.