The other day, my senior daughter joined a market for figure dolls ,like "comike", on the side

Checking in on the day before, she worked at information desk for the event.

However, I thought the first person who would try to join an event like that, is either junior daughter or me.

Junior daughter will be a seller of her "illustrations" or "comics".

I will be a seller of my columns or be a news reporter

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As a result, senior daughter's comike debut was beyond us.

Every year, at this time, I have to code (programming) as if I were driven.

Recently, I have been staring at the display for about 10 hours every day (including weekends).

However, my code is not for a product development ("product program"). They are mostly used as one that verifies the hypothesis of your own system ("verification program").

The verification program, in many cases,

- is not developed by a multi-player team,

- is used by myself,

- in many cases, nobody will reuse the past code

Especially, from the viewpoint of "reuse", not "reuse of past code" but only "past memories of my code" is reliable.

It is a rare case to reuse my code by another red person.

So, now I am making code with "writing priority", "time priority", and "confirmation priority".

"Three days a day over 1000 steps", is normal for me.

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So, the backwardness of that "cumbersome code" makes me write many comments in my codes.

It is fun to watch those "excuses comments".

"Is there a problem with global variables?"

"Let's stop "anything subroutine""

"Troublesome searching for argument types is wasting time"

"In the main routine, making a loop makes is easier to debug"

"Since memory is abundant, it is no problem to secure a sufficiently large area statically"

There were many people saying "I want to use the code", but there was never actually a request to send a "code"

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It is fun to watch past of (and the current) my driven work,

I think that the new type virus disease at this time, might be called "pandemic".

Now we have had a image of "an accident at poor country far from our country" when hearing the word of "pandemic".

"problem for someone else", so called.

However now, our country is now recognized as "a source of infection" is meaningful though I also think this is not valid assessment

I think there are two points.

The first point is

"We japanese now should be got "exclusion order" from other country, or that possibility will be high."

The image of "Japanese are sources of infection" is conclusiveness now, even if we keep reputation for neatness ( my misunderstanding?).

So we have a chance to be treated as discriminated internationally.

(We had already experimented it when the accident at a nuclear power generation plant | occurred)

The second point is

"This accident will be a effective engine to improve "work style reform" in our country, like tel-working, staggered office hours and refraining voluntarily from drinking parties"

In this situation, the counterforce of the reform, have no other choice to try various work styles (e.g using IT systems)

Especially, people who have rejected to use PC and tel-conference system will be distinguished, selected and abandoned.

It will pay that if we can recognize that company buildings are just boxs and they are "needless", after all.

Both peopleless convenience stores and automatic vehicle without driver will be big advantage.

Moreover, based on the virtual education classes on the Internet, if "bulling" and "seclusion" are resolved, it is wonderful, I think.

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Needless to say, "pandemic" is the worst disaster.

I never want to meet the disaster again.

However the disaster is here.

So, I think that we should countermove the disaster by every means possible.

(Continuation from yesterday)

I want to change myself... I've never thought about that in my life.

# When I tell people about this, they seem to be quite taken aback.

There are two reasons for this.

The first reason is because it's "weird".

It seems to me that "I want to change myself" means "I want to exchange myself", which is the same as "I want to become someone else" --so I don't understand it and it's weird.

The second reason is that I believe that we cannot change ourselves in the first place.

I think it is as difficult as changing a material called "wood" to a material called "stone".

Well, it might be possible to change "wood" to "stone".

However, when I think about the energy spent on the conversion, I can't help but think it's irrational or a waste of time and money.

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So, back to the topic of "good" and "bad"...

Instead of "changing myself," I think it's better to think about "how to use (operate) myself better.

Probably, "how to utilize" will take less money and time, and it is definitely easier.

"If it were that easy to find a way to utilize myself, I wouldn't have all this trouble!"

I can understand the point of view, but I think the odds are better than the reckless challenge of "changing myself".

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Well, when it comes to this kind of talk, I think it sounds like "bragging from the top" from a guy who just happens to have his life in a good way.

Maybe so.

So I also think it is "polite" for "people who live with the feeling that something is going well" to keep quiet about it.

I sometimes feel that I must be silent too.

I make a lot of noise in my columns and blogs, but there are many things I keep quiet about.

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On the other hand--

When I see people abusing words like "I hate myself" and "I want to change myself" and acting like it's an "exemption" for their life not going well...

Yes, for example, when I listen to teen idol songs full of those kinds of lyrics.

"You also shut up for a minute"

That's what I want to say.

The headline, "Russia invades Crimea," was at the top of this morning's newspaper.

The moment I read this, all at once, I felt as if I had been transported back in time.

"Tiananmen Square Death Toll Rises to Thousands."

At the time, I was a student living in a student dormitory, and I read the articles in the newspaper with fury.

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By the way, at that time, I was being organized by a leftist group (I forgot the name) that was affiliated with Mao Zedong's ideology, but I didn't like the idea of a (political) movement in a clique.

I was a self-proclaimed "solo activist" who said, "If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it alone," and in addition, I rarely did political campaigns.

I even did a couple of agitations on the university campus when I was a dormitory director.

Even the police and public security were completely unaware of our existence.

Incidentally, after the Tiananmen Square incident, I was no longer approached by that organization.

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As a person who had spent a month wandering around mainland China before this incident, I thought that this incident, in which unarmed students were killed and wounded in volley firing, was 'absolutely unacceptable'.

And I was agitating against the arrogance of the Chinese Communist Party -- to the elementary (upper grade) students at the cram school.

In addition, at the end, I reminded the children, "Don't tell anyone about this, especially your parents.

I think I was "poor" and "incompetence" myself.

But that's beside the point.

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I have a lot of thoughts about this "Russian invasion of Crimea" incident (for example, Advance? Invasion? etc.)

Anyway, what I did was to reserve "Materials on the Russian Army" at the city library.

At any rate, I thought I'd try to get a rough understanding of the (historical) background and figures of this case.

If this action is "conservative" -- I think I am becoming more and more "conservative" in a scheduled way as I age.

Today's diary is taken off, as the new column has been released.

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Is going out once a day worth 2,000 Yen? Let's estimate the loss that "loneliness" brings.

(Click on the figure to jump to the article)

In this issue, I read a paper analyzing "mobility" and "wellbeing".

The conclusion I came to was, "If you want to avoid loneliness and be happy, go outside every day".

This is a continuation of yesterday's story.

The following is a quote from "Bye-Bye Jupiter" (Tokuma Bunko edition, p.394) by the late Sakyo Komatsu.

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"Are you okay with pushing yourself too hard?"

Dr. Bernard murmured as he peered under Millie's hand.

"A long time ago, I knew a guy who thought too hard about crossword puzzles and became aphasic for about six months. ......"

"I, on the other hand, if I start doing something, I have to keep doing it. ......"

Millie brushed her hair out of her face.

"Besides, what I am doing now is a kind of "training" for this computer: ......"

"I'm not sure about that for someone like me, who is a field opponent in the rough-and-tumble discipline of cosmic archaeology. ......"

Dr. Bernard smiled faintly.

"Is there still room for human beings to try to fill in the blanks on a problem ?"

"Yes, ....... Humans are supposed to be "fools" in that case. ......"

Millie said as she switched off the computer.

"The computer also makes some excellent deductions, but its reasoning is too logical and methodical ...... to check for, how shall we say, the most preposterous and ridiculous of possibilities. I guess.

In other words, computers are not yet good at dealing with nonsense and humor.

So, when I come up with crazy possibilities that look like something out of Alice in Wonderland and demand solution after solution, the computer suffers, its eyes glazing over.

But if I don't accept the "unanswerable" output and repeatedly ask it questions from different angles, It will gradually become smarter. ......"

"Poor thing, I guess that computer is being squeezed by you too ......"

Dr. Bernard broke into a smile.

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This is the same as "how to use ChatGPT well".

I never thought I would witness a similar scene in my lifetime -- and I am a bit moved by it.

Anyway, read "Bye-bye Jupiter."