Diary

Tomorrow, I have an exam in Guiyang for a public institution under the Department of Transportation, so today I’m rushing to catch a bus to Guiyang. As I left the house, I overheard two kids talking. One of them said: When I was little, I thought if a mouse got sick, it should take rat poison. Exams are truly expensive, especially since hotels turn into a seller’s market whenever there’s an exam—price hikes are inevitable. Many hotels have raised their rates so much that they practically deserve to be publicly shamed on utility poles. ...

The provincial exam results are out, and I ranked 16th—utterly ridiculous. It feels like the era of Kong Yiji has returned. Due to the poor employment environment, a large number of young people are flocking to civil service exams, creating a vicious cycle. Today is my mother’s birthday. At noon, I bought her two small cakes. In the evening, I took my mother for a walk around the neighborhood. She still seems a bit confused about directions and roads—perhaps she needs to walk the route a few more times. My parents and I don’t have deep conversations; we rarely talk about anything beyond daily life. ...

Human laziness is, to some extent, a manifestation of the law of inertia, and it inherently carries significant friction. A person lying down or at rest finds it difficult to maintain a state of continuous forward motion. 00:09 Getting ready for bed Spent most of today watching educational videos and discovered a highly capable teacher with solid values: The Right Path in Public Exams is Full of Vicissitudes. I also found his verbatim notes on interviews, which I’ve reposted on my blog: Verbatim Notes on Interview Insights | The Right Path in Public Exams is Full of Vicissitudes. ...

I said my diary is very similar to the “Progress Reports” written by Charlie, but writing it doesn’t necessarily make one improve. It’s more about observing one’s own life cycle and seeing which stage one is currently in. 17:39 Finished reading Flowers for Algernon Yesterday, I read about two-thirds of the book and wrote a letter to Huanhuan: Seeing True Love Is a Difficult Thing. But after finishing the book, I had more thoughts. I pondered the differences between the same person named Charlie at an IQ of 185 versus 68. I reflected on how society overlooks individual lives and existence, from small things like the purpose of brain surgery to larger issues like various experiments, policies, and wars in society. This world is full of selfish people, and harm caused by selfishness is everywhere. On different scales, each of us could be a victim like Charlie, or we might inadvertently become perpetrators. ...

11:02 Totally Blind The website’s Sitemap kept generating empty files, and I spent time troubleshooting the issue. After a round of debugging, I realized the disable flag in the configuration file was set to true. The local hugo.yaml had already been changed to false, but I still wasted two hours. 1 2 3 4 sitemap: changefreq: always disable: false priority: 0.8 11:49 After Eating Liangfen pre-commit always makes me wait forever during submissions, and the node_modules directory also slows down Obsidian’s startup. So, I deleted it. ...

09:57 Woke up Haha, currently teaching Xiaohuanhuan about Git and GitHub. 10:16 Teaching Xiaohuanhuan markdown syntax Haha, she seemed quite amazed and curious. But it’s indeed very useful—taking just a few minutes to learn it is definitely worth it. Noon At noon, we fried mushrooms again. Using only potato starch didn’t taste very good. The potato starch was sticky, and after frying, it turned out quite tough. The texture wasn’t great, so we can improve on that later. ...

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