My father became too famous for winning the Reuter’s Chemistry Prize and an award from the Science Council of Japan.
So, we decided to install a security system in our house, and today a salesman from SECOM, a security company, came to our home to explain their services.
That said, my father only makes $15,000 a year, and we don't have a single thing of value in our house.
Because my father has become a celebrity, people might think our family is wealthy, which increases the chances of a burglar breaking in to search for his riches.
Even while I'm feeling down after causing a very minor "near-miss incident" at work, my company's internal social media (which allows any employee from our group companies to post blogs or microblogs on their smartphones outside working hours) is filled with other employees happily posting about their privately-owned cats 🐈, dogs 🐕, rats 🐀, rabbits 🐇, and parrots 🦜, or sharing scenes of themselves enjoying touring 🚴 on their travels.
I still don't understand what's so security-wise unacceptable about me taking a photo of the top page of that internal social media app on my Debian MacBook Air at a local café and posting it there.
I must be part of a class that's persecuted for every little "gray area" — while other neurotypical people get to do as they please.
I don't see the point in just complaining, so I'll give you a status update.
Tomorrow, I'm holding a JavaScript study session for my junior colleagues to help them improve their skills. I plan on teaching them how to create a modal window and a web form.
To begin with, what sparked my interest in composing music is deeply connected to the spread of desktop music (DTM).
At the time, I could already read sheet music and play the violin reasonably well. However, since I couldn't play the piano, I wasn't able to give form to any musical ideas I had on my own.
Desktop music provided someone like me with the means to construct an entire piece of music all by myself.
Ideally, like my forefathers, I want to create my own music by playing instruments like the violin myself.
The essence of music is the mechanism of physical feedback exchanged only by those who are actually playing.
Furthermore, even the constraint of whether a piece is actually playable is nothing more than one of the elements that guarantees music's beauty.
Of course, there are composers like Nancarrow who achieve unplayable music with player pianos.
However, music is not, in essence, the sound itself. It is the interplay between the body's movements and the brain's commands that weave the sounds, and the will to vocalize or express something.
In our fathers' performances, there was communication, and a sense of simultaneity—a shared "space"—redefined by that communication. And that is something that can never be fully captured in a recording.
In this vast, vast universe, a single space-time cannot exist. This was disproven long ago by Einstein's theory of relativity, and with things like superstring theory, the dimensions are even more complex.
Perhaps we as individuals are now nothing more than lonely beings, each living in separate worlds, fragmented and unable to truly connect.
But where there is music, there is a shared space. Counterpoint, while allowing each voice to maintain its autonomy, binds our emotions, which should otherwise be solitary.
Don't you feel that right there is the very necessity of music's existence?
This is one of those things where even asking an AI couldn't figure out the cause, but on my MacBook Air 2017 with Debian 13 installed, I can't log out.
I can shut it down or put it to sleep just fine, but I just can't end the user session and return to the original login screen.
I was at the bookstore until just a moment ago, thinking about starting to study for a certification.
Japan's national IT engineer certification, the "Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination," recently removed its practical coding test. Because of this, it's become common for people who are only good at memorization—and not naturally suited for engineering—to get it as an information literacy qualification.
Since my younger brother and my juniors want to get it too, I've found myself in a position where I have to study for it as well.
It's one thing to be "not good" at coding, but there are definitely people who just aren't cut out for it. I'm talking about people whose actions always contradict their words—people who are, fundamentally, logical psychopaths.
I'd rather not work with them, so I don't have a very positive view of the recent trend that emphasizes "vibe coding."
I was at the bookstore until just a moment ago, thinking about starting to study for a certification.
Japan's national IT engineer certification, the "Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination," recently removed its practical coding test. Because of this, it's become common for people who are only good at memorization—and not naturally suited for engineering—to get it as an information literacy qualification.
Since my younger brother and my juniors want to get it too, I've found myself in a position where I have to study for it as well.
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