This week has been ordinary and confusing. I haven't done anything special, and nothing special has happened either.
The Legend of the Condor Heroes#
When I was researching how to use alist, I came across various resources and decided to watch The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
A thousand words can be summed up in one sentence: Zhu Yin is both beautiful and talented.
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But looking back now, Huang Rong's character is actually different from what I remembered. Guo Jing is an average person with no exceptional talent. It was only after meeting Huang Rong that he achieved success. Speaking of which, Huang Rong is a third party and the type of person who doesn't care if you are married or not, she just wants to be with you. She has beauty, money, intelligence, and connections. She can take you to new heights. A girl like her who is devoted to you, it's no wonder why so many middle-aged and elderly men like Guo Jing (actually, they might like Huang Rong).
But I don't like Guo Jing at all. He broke his engagement and betrayed Hua Zheng and Tie Muzhen. The true hero fights for the country and the people. He took the Wumu's book of martial arts to Temujin to train his troops, and then fought against the Mongolian army in the next part. There's nothing more to say about him.
If I have to say, I prefer Yang Guo, but I'm too lazy to catch up on the story.
Speaking of which, most people may not have noticed, but Yin Zhiping's first appearance was in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. He is around the same age as Guo Jing, and in reality, he is one year older than Yang Kang. In The Return of the Condor Heroes, he should be considered an uncle-like character, but in the TV series, he is portrayed as a young man similar in age to Yang Guo.
Andy's Game#
I saw someone mention Andy's Game, and a few days ago, I watched it after being recommended by a classmate. I watched the movie and read the novel.
I really don't understand what's good about it, but I dare not say it. I always feel like my cultural accomplishment is not high enough.
Sigh, just thinking about it, it's not good-looking. It's just not good-looking.
Night Poem#
I didn't eat dinner because my stomach wasn't feeling well.
Now I still don't feel well, but I'm not hungry either. I don't really feel like eating anything, but my body is protesting that if I don't eat, I won't be able to sleep.
I looked at food delivery options, but my brain couldn't process whether it was expensive or not.
I really think that people who are sensitive to prices are the ones who make money. I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to consider the price and ends up being a sucker.
I got up and rummaged through the refrigerator for a while. It seems like I ate all the food in the past few days. I don't even have any eggs left to make instant noodles.
Feeling melancholic. As the saying goes:
"My stomach is empty like a mirror, and I can't sleep at night. Thoughts are vast like the sea, where is the food?"
Such a good poem.
Flutter Day 1+Day 2#
I want to start learning programming and be able to create my own app as soon as possible. I've been thinking about this for a long time. There are many mature technologies available these days, but considering that I want my app to work on both desktop and mobile, it has to be cross-platform.
Before starting, I need to choose which development tool to use. For non-programmers like me, this can be subjective.
If it's about front-end development, the first choice might be Electron. I looked into it, and it seems like it uses a browser to render web pages. It's a lazy but torturous way of programming. Plus, I don't remember how to use JavaScript, so there's no need to consider this option.
Then there's Uniapp, which seems to be popular in China. It has the same problem, and app development with it seems to be even more challenging than with Electron.
So it seems like Flutter is the only choice.
My first impression is that setting up the environment is so troublesome. It took me almost two to three hours to get into the development interface. I tried a few times, and hot reload is quite fast, so I guess the performance is okay? But the code looks confusing, and I haven't understood it yet.
Time flew by, and I had a headache. I finally set up the environment and ran a demo. I wonder when I'll be able to create the app I have in mind.
I want to add that I don't recommend watching the official YouTube tutorials. They talk a lot but don't say anything useful.
It's much more complicated than WinForms. In WinForms, you can start developing by simply dragging controls. But I also realized that layouts that rely on dragging are not stable. If you slightly adjust the size or resolution, the position information changes. It's not like WPF, where the front-end and back-end are completely separated. In Flutter, the layout information and logic are written in Dart.
I briefly looked into Dart, and it doesn't seem much different from other programming languages (it feels like Python?).
It's enjoyable to have one codebase that can run on all platforms. I think I don't even need to use an Android emulator for debugging. Can't I just debug directly in Chrome?
Keyboard Politics#
I was scrolling through Douyin and came across the files about the "Double Reduction" policy. Although they have been released every year for the past few years, the emotions in the comments are different each year. Since I have been following this topic, I find it quite interesting.
When this policy was first introduced, everyone (except for training teachers) applauded it. Of course, there were also people who supported it but mentioned that it would be tough for the rich to switch to one-on-one tutoring.
After a few years of "Double Reduction" (I don't remember exactly how long), a new policy was introduced to increase the punishment. The comments section is now filled with criticism of this policy. Because ultimately, those who don't have money may still be able to afford tutoring, but one-on-one tutoring is not as cheap as regular training institutions.
On one hand, schools are reducing the burden and promoting happy education, but on the other hand, other children are receiving one-on-one tutoring. Either you spend more money on one-on-one tutoring or you become an individual with a low level of education.
I'm not a teacher at a training institution, nor am I a parent, but looking at this policy and the public's reaction is quite interesting. Firstly, most people don't understand the impact of the policy, and secondly, whoever has children should be prepared to suffer.
But if you think about it, after 30 years of declining birth rates, the labor cost in the service industry will inevitably increase, and people with a lower level of education may have better income.
Who knows.
Echo of Destiny's Echo#
I didn't expect that the game Destiny's Echo would earn me a month's worth of mooncakes from a supermarket.
Here's what happened: I went to the supermarket to buy food, and they had a promotion where if you made a purchase, you could play rock-paper-scissors at the front desk. If you won, you would receive a mooncake; if you lost or tied, you wouldn't get anything.
While the cashier was explaining the rules to me, my brain immediately recalled the scene in Destiny's Echo where Wei Dad played rock-paper-scissors at an amusement park and someone told him, "Statistically, people usually start with scissors, so you should choose rock. The King of Rock-Paper-Scissors obviously discovered this."
I burst out laughing because my opponent was the "King of Rock-Paper-Scissors."
It was so funny, and I came back laughing, "Hahaha."
Echo of Carefree Journey#
I finally solved the dilemma I had when I was studying.
It was probably in high school when I read Zhuangzi's "Carefree Journey" in the Chinese textbook. At that time, it talked about learning from the great roc bird to soar ninety thousand miles high and how the accumulation of water is not enough to support a large boat. (I remember these lines because they were the ones tested)
I never understood it. How is this carefree? Why is it called a carefree journey? (Looking back, maybe you have to become a roc bird to have a carefree journey in the world). Even now, I feel like it spreads anxiety. Plus, I always liked the "Tao Te Ching," so I never understood how Zhuangzi's philosophy became Taoist philosophy.
Today, I randomly clicked on "Carefree Journey" and read a few more lines.
"Now, suppose you have a big tree that you worry is useless. Why not plant it in a place where there is nothing, in a vast wilderness? Wander around it without doing anything, sleep and rest under it. It won't be harmed by axes and saws, and there is nothing that can trouble it! Since it has no use, it won't bring any trouble!"
This is the philosophy of Taoism! Forget about soaring ninety thousand miles high, that's just a mutilated article for pickup artists.
Photography#
There are other pictures, but I'll export them later and work on them slowly.
Input#
- What stage are house prices at now? It's actually quite reasonable, but I don't know if it's objective or not.
- Better Tools for Thinking, I stumbled upon this and feel like I should summarize the content one day.
- FF14 Daily Card made with short code. This can be used to imitate and modify things I like. It's worth learning the approach. But lately, I'm still too lazy to modify code.