• Updated iOS 16.1.2. Bunch of fedora updates on laptop as well.
• Friendsgiving last night was awesome.
• Created ticket for sbsc to score each user’s picks against the field and send them out before sunday matches start: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt/supercontest/-/issues/168
• Gyft is a mobile wallet for gift cards. Played with it, but it doesn’t work. Tried to add a card (via code) and it failed to register.
• Established Titles is a scam.
• Mark-to-market = values stuff at the most recent market price.
• Neuralink is hopefully a few months away from human trials.
• Jimmy G carted off in Q1 of niners/dolphins today, looked like an ankle twist. Out rest of game. Still won.
• Westgate’s typo this week (2 asterisks for buccaneers as home team instead of 1) meant that the team name entered into my DBs was “buccaneers ” (with a space at the end). This was breaking stuff because it didn’t match any logos, etc – it was considered a new team. Fixed:

update lines set favored_team='BUCCANEERS',home_team='BUCCANEERS' where id=1450;
update picks set team='BUCCANEERS' where line_id=1450 and team='BUCCANEERS ';

• Caught up on AWS:reInvent by watching the keynotes on-demand.
• Peter DeSantis.
  • Performance.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11YgBEZzqE
  • Nitro chips. v5 launched. Twice the performance. Graviton3E processor too. Combined, HPC7g.
  • SRD = scalable reliable datagram. A faster networking solution. All EBS use it now. Doesn’t just help storage – helps compute, ML models/trainer, more.
  • Guest speaker was from f1.
  • Firecracker: their (very efficient) virtualization solution for lambda to separate workloads.
• Adam Selipsky.
  • Overview of many launches.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xus8C2s5K9A
    • Capital markets, startups, renewable energy, supply chains, healthcare, cancer, many more – all on AWS.
  • New – OpenSearch has a serverless mode.
  • SageMaker – build/train/deploy ML models.
  • Lots of capability for federated queries (across multiple services). And ETL support. ELT most common between transactional DBs and data warehouses, so AWS offers no-ETL solutions to integrate aurora (mysql/postgres) and redshift (warehouse). Data appears in both automatically!
  • DataZone. Data mgmt service to catalog and govern data. Define projects, access, glossaries, etc.
  • QuickSight is their business intelligence (BI) tool, like tableau.
  • GuardDuty. ML/AI to detect security problems across your usage of all other AWS services. Includes some capability to detect issues within running containers.
  • Guest speakers were a few AWS clients (siemens, etc).
  • Launch: AWS Clean Rooms. The ability to allow others to use/analyze/interact with your data but with the private constraints you place. So you can expose certain analytics to clients downstream without revealing raw data.
  • “Just Walk Out” technology. Skipping the checkout lines at grocery stores. Your phone automatically determines what you got, and charges you. Same tech is being applied to other lines in other places.

• SBF went on twitter spaces last night for another grill session.
  • Saw Armin Ronacher, Rudy Gobert, Andreessen, Coffeezilla, Dorsey, many others listening.
  • More deflection. Kinda sick of the people thanking him for his appearance, his time, etc – he’s allegedly a criminal who stole billions of dollars. Would we do the same for a murderer? Always good to be courteous but be direct and proportional, cmon people – he’s not a celebrity.
  • Also – let’s stop accepting that he had no idea about anything. He’s a very smart, accomplished CEO who was running an empire. There’s no way he was ignorant of the books or absent of the decisions. He was well aware of the overcollateralization, the comingling of funds, and the misleading of users. He just ate the risk and got bit by the market. Own it.
• Tesla’s electric semis in use by pepsi. Also Biden’s IRA now only allows north-america-final-assembly EVs to get the credit, and Macron is not happy.
• Put some RODI water in bed.
• Mealprepped: Powders. Peanut butter. Liver. Protein bars.
• My percula AND ocellaris started bonding with new rose BTA (took <24hrs once the anemone was introduced).
• A postworkout snack I like a lot: rice, oatmilk, protein powder (vanilla, coconut, or banana). Produces a hearty meal that tastes like sweet sticky rice. Full of protein and carbs for recovery.
• Checked the temp of the water in the shrimp hatchery. 100F. 20 degrees too hot. Moved it to the very corner, as far as possible away from the light in the hood.
• Redeemed all cc rewards (only $100 since last time, about a month ago).
• Paradox of tolerance: If a society is 100% tolerant, it will ultimately be overthrown by the intolerant (bc the society tolerated the intolerant).
• Replaced the 4x C batteries in my motion-sensor closet light. Was getting dim. Come back here as a time reference to see how long it lasted.
• Lots of private work.
• Prepared for friendsgiving tomorrow, ~30 at my place. Injected duck fat, buttered, garlic-ed, and dry rubbed the turkey after 24hr dry pellicle brine in the fridge. Back in for 12 more hours.

• Lots of private work.
• Started the fermentation of the next batch of pickles.
  • Just a salt brine, no vinegar. You don’t get any probiotics with vinegar for the easy-pickling method! Proper fermentation is required for the gut benefits.
  • You need tannins to retain the crunch and prevent from going soft. Bay leaves are common. I used hibiscus flowers.
  • Cut off the ends of the cucumbers, they have enzymes that make the pickles soft.
  • 3-4% saltwater brine (7-10g salt per 1c water). Sea salt in water.
  • Use RODI water if you have excess minerals or chlorine in your tap. Can stop the fermentation process.
  • Mix with garlic, chilis, pepper, mustard seed, dill, whatever you want.
  • Use a fermentation weight at the top, or a ziploc with water. Cannot have pickles exposed to air.
  • Do not tighten lid, keep loose.
  • Cool, dark place for 3-5 days. Then refrigerate to stop fermentation and preserve.
  • Used some ghost pepper for this batch. 4 full english cucumbers, speared.
  • For my jar, use half a cup of whole salt (yielding less when ground) and ~12c water.
• Magnus won the Dodgy finals handily.
• Segmented, tenderized, and brined turkey. Sitting in fridge for ~40hrs uncovered to develop the pellicle.
• Started the brine shrimp hatchery.
  • It’s in the hood of my aquarium so everything is contained in the same place.
  • You need the same water params as the tank. Maybe slightly lower salinity. But I just use my tank water.
  • The light in the hood gives off enough heat to keep the hatchery within the desired temp range.
  • My hatchery is about 1.5cups. A gram of shrimp eggs is ~1/2tsp. So fill with water and add a rounded 1/8tsp of eggs.
  • Keep most the eggs in the freezer. Store only about a month’s worth in the fridge.
  • Allow to hatch for about 2 days.
  • Then to harvest: turn off aerator, wait a couple minutes for the hatched shrimp to fall to the bottom and the shells to float to the surface, then detach the hatchery from the air pump and collect from the bottom.
• Received liveaquaria: rose bubbletip anemone, bluetip sebae anemone, saron shrimp, tiger cowrie, sally lightfoot crab.