2019-07-21 – Mostly Software

Homemade oat’s milk and almond butter, both were bomb.
Amazon sold some $5k+ camera gear for $100 on prime day due to a pricing error. https://petapixel.com/2019/07/17/amazon-accidentally-sold-13000-camera-gear-for-100-on-prime-day.
5 users – that’s usually all it takes to get a good distribution of the space for design.
Neuralink launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI.

FDA approval is the tough part.
Release end of 2020 (lol).
Implant that simulates the action potential, providing a neural interface.

Some say that the government played a pivotal role in the genesis of silicon valley. Meh. Tech innovation is gonna naturally create an epicenter somewhere. Maybe some of the american ideals (free speech, capitalist platforms, etc) helped accelerate it.
There were a few successful logins (un/pw) to my steam account which I haven’t used in 10+ years. Emails were sent to trackseventeen and gmail. I changed the pw.
Spinnaker is the CD platform at Netflix. Deployment, environments, staging, pipelines, etc. Allows red/black deploys, where the new (red) phases in and takes load until the old (black) lessens to offline.
Remember, Kayenta is the canary app at Netflix.
Even some of the art that netflix presents to you is personalized. Often, shows and movies have multiple images that can be thumbnailed in presentation. Based on your other tastes, machine learning on your account will personalize the one that resonates.
Flutter is a framework for developing mobile apps. It’s built by Google. It focuses mostly on UI. It’s crossplatform. It also supports native mobile/web/desktop.
React native and flutter are probably the two main competitors for crossplatform mobile development right now. Hot reloading and other common features.
Went to the natural history museum. Was nice. Saw lots of dinosaurs, mammals, and birds mostly.
Blockchains lol. Ledges that show every transaction, ever. In order to place the next block (make a transaction), you need your private/public key. This is associated with you wallet, of which someone can have many. Therefore, your anonymity is preserved (until you try to transfer back to USD or something else with an identifiable destination). A cryptographic hash is solved to record the transaction. It’s broadcasted to all nodes to compare and prevent fraudulent transactions. In order to successfully fake it out, you’d have to be faster than the rest of the entire network (which would make your fraudulent tail of the chain more trustworthy in the mathematical race). Nodes can be people(s) who dedicate their computer to mining. This incentivizes by giving a small amount of coin for uses the computing resources to solve the math problems for new transactions.

And a very good counterargument in a great article https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec: “Let’s create a very long sequence of small files — each one containing a hash of the previous file, some new data, and the answer to a difficult math problem — and divide up some money every hour among anyone willing to certify and store those files for us on their computers. And then everyone keeps their records in a tamper-proof repository not owned by anyone.”