Today,

I went to a shop in Machida to start a retried battle with my two daughters and my wife who also was crazy for hot.

In the narrow shop, we made two teams and sat the seat down separately, and I ordered "Hokkyoku-Ramen" without mistake.

Blood-red soup and bright white beansprout.

At first, single swallow of the soup.

Too hot! but delicious!!

Secondly, I put bundle of noodle dipped by soup into my mouth.

I looks like I eat the burned charcoal, but

"It is delicious. Perfect. Both the taste struggle against the hot, and both the taste and hot make wonderful harmony.

"What a overwhelming and violent taste is"

"Outstanding work!"

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There are a lot of spicy foods in the world. It is very easy to make spicy foods, became we put many spices and condiment into foods

However, in many cases, such foods are rough.

Because the tastes are going to disappear against the hot.

For example, curry chain shops which show the fifth spicy ranks are not good, though I don't like the shop.

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By comparison, this "Hokkyoku-Ramen" is a complete ramen, that taste was calculated in advance.

For the first time in many years, this ramen threw me into an ecstasy.

I had a experiment that I couldn't be lost to sight with swear like snow avalanche.

I felt heartbreaking grief that I couldn't drink up the soup. However I am a head of family, a (temporary) project manager, and had to go to office today.

I am a old man who is called in question about a brave "do not drink soup dare"

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Next time I want to take the hot-soup out in the bottle.

If I cooked stir-fried vegetables with hot-soup, it would be delicious.

Nothing to lose. I ask a waiter for that.

I open all audio files and text files for learning by heart that the Ebata's daughters have used for the junior high school examination.

About the use of these files, I do not perform any right claim, but do not have any responsibility.

In spite of my junior daughter's checks, I am afraid that there are some doubtful descriptions in these files. Please use these files at your own risk.

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These audio files are generated by VOCALOID "Yuzuki Yukari"

In the Ebatas, we call this software "Yukari-san" with the highest respect.

If you are interested in making the audio files, don't hesitate to buy this software, and try to make your original "audio file for learning by heart" based on these opened text files.

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My daughters continue to hear these file by Pod or CD-R in private automobile.

And I made them hear these file in my room, with editing the text real-time (I erased the items they had learned by heart) using my PC.

Finally, I let them fight endless, like "Yukari-san vs. my daughter" by all items in the text file had been erased.

Anyhow, "Yukari-san" is inexhaustible and speaks endless, so I could live comfortable.

My daughters felt serious, but they did their best.

I am proud of you heartily

One year has passed from the implementation of that "Test-takers students dual delivery system".

"Time and tide wait no man" is true, I think.

Now, at this moment, prospective students and their parents are anxiety for the exam, snowfall and scare to influenza. Genuinely, I will pity.

"Hurry up to execute May-June exam and start the new school year in September" and I cannot stop writing.

So the story and set it aside to another opportunity.

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I have a policy that basically I do not help people."

However, only the "children who have been studying for the entrance exam" is my exception.

Previously, I talked with my wife about the service of "examination of dual delivery" as a volunteer.

Wife: "What kind of design of the service do you have?"

I discussed the following three points roughly.

(1)Standby at home for as their personal accidents, for example a transportation troubles to the examination venue.

(2)After receiving the contact of the SOS, the scramble starting in car

(3)Rescuing the students from the nearest train station, and take the students to the exam venue.

Wife:"How about your company?"

Ebata:"I can use flex-time, and if needed, I will take a half day off"

Wife:"I am afraid that the service might be difficult even if you do"

Ebata:"Why?"

Wife:"To begin with, we did , in advance, simulation thorough, careful calculation, in-depth meeting"

Ebata:"We might skip some of them"

Wife:"Unless you do up there, I wonder if the value of their services is going to appear."

Ebata: "... certainly"

Wife: "And, you might lost the route, and be involved in a traffic jam. After all your server might be a bad situation to reverse."

Ebata: "It makes sense. In that case, it will damage irreparably with respect to the child's life.

Wife: "In addition, even though the emergency situation happens, can they use the car whose driver is not known at all? There is the possibility of kidnapping. As for you, can you make your daughters to use the service?"

Ebata: "I say "Do not use it" absolutely"

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In conclusion, the volunteer service of "Tstudents dual delivery for test-takers stundent" was, in the study stage, rejected.

(Continuation from yesterday)

Then, if asked "does subordinate have to accept discomfort"? -- if only you work for only (or almost) company or organization --- I have to say "that's right."

There is no other way than walking "a life of only unpleasantness".

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However, your boss's advice does not arrive for private times such as weekends and holidays at private space outside the organization,

No one can speak about what you want to do on your own way, (though it is limited to what is different from the business of the company, of course)

From the viewpoint of both practically and legally(*), we have no problem to have two separate personality simultaneously, for example , "I of the weekday" and "I of the weekend" or "I who am working" and "I who am out of working hours"

(*)In the patent law, under the scope of work of the duties invention provision (Article 30 of the law) and Article 432 of the Civil Code, it is characterized by not making this area rather rigid, however, it is only about "inventions".

Here, the concept of "Weekend XX", like "Weekend Researcher", "Weekend Singer", "Weekend Manga Artist" will occur.

I think that this thought of this "weekend XX" is a very important concept.

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Talked about it before, this is a story when I was assigned to North America for two years.

One of the project members (local member) at a drinking party, started "Hamlet's One-man show". It was highly complete. unlikely to be an amateur trick.

There was another member who sang a song. He sold his own CDs.

There was also a master of programming which publishes his programming method.

In any case, I think it was obvious that they have lived on another life, for another time and at another place.

They have practiced "to live more than two lifes simultaneously".

(To be continued)

I am an IT engineer, however, I have never used "Data-Base" since now.

Basically, I have been an engineer for control system, so I try to make a system just using ordinary system memory for super-high speed and super-small capacity.

Even for a simulator for of 100 million persons, I want to operate the simulation, not using DB HDD, SSD, but just ordinary system memory.

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This time, with several reasons, I have to use "SQL DB". To tell you the truth, I was surprised that

"What is on earth, this convenience device?"

(Incidently, I am using a DB whose name is PostgresSQL.)

While writing one million data, I can read data (Of course, I can use an ordinary system memory but I also make other mechanisms like threads, information protect, and open/close files).

Especially, the grammar of SQL message are usable viscerally.

I don't know how to work a DB, however the speed of search is surprisingly fast. The DB can display the information of specific person from data of 600,000 person.

(To be continued)

My senior daughter(SD) is irritated to acquaintance of the temperament that "Nobody can do that except me!"

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SD:"You are to blame!"

Ebata:"Why?"

SD:"Everyday, you are making a fool of the person who says "Nobody can do that except me"

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Well she is reasonable.

My motto is,

"Anybody can do that except me"

If the name of the stop on the way is the same as the name of your old boss, why don't you think, "Let's leave now."

Do you not? Well you not.

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To Hakone, there is a tourist spot with a wonderful view.

However, since the name of the sightseeing spot is the same as the name of the person who was displeased in the past, so I still can't visit there.

Just looking at the poster can make me uncomfortable.

This is not because of my "narrow-mind."

He was bad for everything.

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By the way, there is a town with the same name as me in Fukui Prefecture.

"Everyone who lives there must be good people"

I am convinced of that.

I'm realizing that 'The only person who can help me is the past me'.

For a few years now, I've been trying to leave every bit of lousy code, every dirty script, every unsightly SQL statement on my homepage.

Of course, the description is only about "technology", so you know what I do, but you don't know what kind of work I do.

Or rather, it's intentionally written that way -- with all sorts of disguised information thrown in if necessary.

Because I have a duty of confidentiality regarding my work.

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All I have in my notes are the results of using the notes (public information) left by my predecessors and running them by myself.

This is basically a "memorandum transfer to future me", but at the same time, it is intended as a "small contribution to the contributions of my predecessors".

So, I'm not sure if these "personal scribbled notes" are useful to other people, but they seem to be quite useful.

It's pretty amazing, but the page that generates the most PV on my wp.kobore.net site is

"A lot of trouble to get a single "tree" into MSYS2 (PGP key unknown)"

and

"Day by day of suffering from "dial tcp: lookup db on 127.0.0.11:53: no such host exit"

Can you believe it?

I even wondered who was using MSYS2.

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However, when I looked at the access log, it seems that there are accesses from all over the world.

People are using search engines to find this Far Eastern engineer's page.

And even if they can't read Japanese, they can probably guess what it is from the script that is written.

Whenever I have a technical problem, I try everything I can find, whether the content is in Chinese, Russian, or Arabic.

A cornered engineer will do anything.

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It's not an exaggeration to say that "making technical memos available to the world" is contributing to engineers around the world.

And this is just my personal opinion,

'Lousy code, dirty scripts, and unsightly SQL statements are useful'

Because that would be so much more helpful to me.

To be frank, a clean and concise code is of no use to me.

The company with which I have a SIM contract informed me that my credit card was not working. So I was inquiring with my credit card company via my online bank.

They said to me,

"When we checked the status of the card, we were informed that the customer's debit card information may have been traded on a black site"

"In order to prevent fraudulent use of the card, we have stopped the online payment of the card, so it seems that the payment could not be made"

In the meantime, I checked my past history and found no evidence of unauthorized use, so I am relieved.

And I'm sure the credit card company will be "fine" with this, however I came to think that,

"What if they suddenly deactivate my card without contacting me?"

If my credit card had been suspended while I was on an overseas business trip, I would have panicked.

I think, "I should be careful," but I don't really know what and how to be careful about.

Anyway, I went through the process of reissuing the card and contacted the SIM company about it.

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By the way, all of the above exchanges were in "chat".

As a rule, online banks do not provide telephone support for consultations (including complaints).

It really was a world of 'if you can't chat in real time on your phone/PC, you are not wanted'

However, there is a certain amount of anxiety associated with a contact system where we cannot make requests or complaints aloud to a real person.

On the other hand, for what it's worth, online banking is convenient, so I think,

-- I wonder if society (the masses) will eventually respond to it (chat and chatbots)?

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Although there seems to be some trouble, I realized that the GIGA school concept is an essential education for children to live by.

So, I think the behavior of us will be this way, as seniors.

After going through the above process, I completed my homework report and submitted it that day.

The deadline is in mid-February, but I had to take an incentive leave at that time, so I finished it ahead of schedule.

So today, when I went to the university to take a course, I was asked many questions by international students about this "method of measuring traffic volume using a smartphone".

That's why I added the English lines to this page on the fly today (I just put it into a translation engine).

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The problem is that the interface of this application is in Japanese.

I'm sure there are other apps with similar functions in English if they look for, but after thinking about it, I had a lot of trouble finding this one.

So I though of making my own.

Well, this time I was lucky and was able to find a suitable application.

I don't know if they can find an English app, or if they will use this Japanese app.

However, I would like to support these international students who are trying their best to acquire Japanese, which has been and will continue to be completely useless as an international language, as much as possible.

I have recently built systems using the Raspberry Pi (Raspi) at work and university.

I have seen many such situations where my subsequent work destroyed a system halfway through construction.

The Raspi can keep a clone of the system I have made halfway through on an SD card so that I can store the SD card image file on my PC. I can then duplicate the SD card as needed.

With this clone in place, I can continue to develop with peace of mind.

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However, there is another problem with this.

(1) When SD cards are ordered from workplaces or universities, it takes one to two weeks, and paperwork is required, so the work cannot be started immediately.

(2) The capacity of the SD card that Raspi handles is increasing daily (128GB now), so I can't use the SD cards that I have personally.

That's why I always go to Amazon's website to check the price of SD cards; Amazon usually delivers them the next day.

Who could blame me for reaching for the Amazon purchase button when I weighed "1,500 yen + next day" against "2 weeks + paperwork + multiple requests for approval"?

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A further recent problem is the capacity of SD cards.

When I first used Raspi, the SD card was 512MB.

It has grown to 1GB, 4GB, 16GB, 32GB, and now 128GB (32GB for Raspi, the Ebata family's video surveillance system).

Backup time has grown from a dozen minutes to four hours, and then the image files for the clone are straining my PC HDD.

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I feel a little depressed, 'I wonder if I must keep investing in these IT gadgets from now on.