What we have been seeking throughout our lives is…

Wang Yi-zi said: Human relationships, spanning a lifetime of mutual support and dependence, may be held within one’s embrace, understood in the confines of one room; or they may arise from entrusted messages, dissolving into the vastness beyond.

  • In a lifetime, like a fleeting flower. Like grass and trees blossoming and withering, like the rising and setting of the sun and moon.
  • Yet, in this life, desires are numerous.
  • As a child, I lay under lotus plants and hemp in the stream, busy catching the east wind to fly kites, chasing yellow butterflies in haste,
  • Also learned to grow gourds by the shade of mulberry trees, returning home with a full meal after dusk, not shedding my cloak to lie beneath the moonlight.
  • As I grew older, I hoped to be inscribed on the gold list, to have a beautiful woman accompany me, to have endless wealth, to rise continuously, to have a full table of guests, to sing and play every night.
  • When old, I wanted health and longevity, welcome childhood servants, young children waiting at the door, a chessboard, a confidant, a bottle of wine, a courtyard, enjoying family harmony.

Futu Securities Stock Code Special Format Instructions

Uncommon, it will definitely encounter it over time; related stock code: Berkshire Hathaway

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Some stock ticker symbols contain periods or other special characters in their names. When submitting these to Interactive Brokers (IB) via Fix, certain transformations of the stock code name are required.

BRK/B -> BRK B

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For the Fidelity Securities case, it’s possible to analyze and implement the conversion rules are fixed through coding. When the rules are not fixed, generally the system needs to store the corresponding mapping relationships, which are updated periodically by business operations personnel.

Lost/Confused

  • Often, at some stage of life, people find themselves in a state of confusion, not knowing what they truly want, and gradually losing their pursuit of the meaning of work amidst the mundane daily routines. Looking back to when I first graduated, my heart was full of fervent aspirations – then I would without hesitation say, “I yearn to write code, to create brilliant, eye-catching code.” However, working until today, I’ve had more exposure to business-level affairs, which is largely due to the benefits brought by industry development.

Hong Kong Futures Basic Concepts

As financial markets continue to evolve, investors have begun seeking more effective investment tools to enhance their investment returns. To meet investor demand, The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has launched a range of stock futures contracts, all of which represent stocks listed on its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), which boasts high trading volumes and active liquidity. Through investing in stock futures, investors can participate in the performance of individual companies while also benefiting from the short selling and leverage effects offered by the derivatives market.

Capital Monopoly and the Demise of the Online Education Industry

Recent two trading days have seen a significant downturn in the stock market, exposing newcomers to the risks of the market. China is about to enter an aging demographic phase, and birth rates are dismal, with the decline exceeding the estimates of relevant experts, hindering industries that obstruct declining birth rates; the Party will take decisive action.

Reducing Student Burden

Those of us born in the 1990s didn’t have as many interest classes or tutoring sessions; after school, we would run wild playing. This was first due to the limitations of our families’ conditions and second because tutoring centers hadn’t yet established a brand effect, convincing parents to trust them. Twenty years have passed in a flash, and since 2019, the capitalization of K12 education has seen the rise of online tutoring companies like猿辅导 (Yuancu Tu), bolstered by capital, which have created various high-end tutoring centers by concentrating excellent resources. Despite exorbitant fees, parental enthusiasm remains unstoppable.

Chaos Engineering

A pattern of disruption to test system stability.

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The domestic internet industry is always fond of playing with new things, often introducing terms that most people wouldn’t be able to guess what they are. After reading some articles, this definition specifically for the early stages of Chaos Engineering is relatively easy to accept:

Early exploration of Chaos Engineering has actually been ongoing within the industry, previously existing under the guise of fault testing and disaster recovery exercises. As microservice architectures continue to develop and distributed systems grow ever larger, Chaos Engineering has begun to emerge and gain increasing importance. Following Netflix’s formal proposal of the Chaos Engineering concept, related theories have also rapidly enriched. Netflix’s practices have also demonstrated the significant impact Chaos Engineering has on stability.

Kubernetes paused pod

Deployment controllers implement a crucial function within a Kubernetes cluster: the ability to horizontally scale and shrink Pods. This capability was essential for traditional cloud-era platforms.

Encountering a business scenario where you need to modify data in a database, restarting Pod nodes after adjustments. However, during Pod operation, table fields are continuously modified, requiring temporary pausing of application updates to tables, adjusting the data, and then restoring the Pod.

Besides abruptly deleting the Deployment, are there other ways to achieve a similar pause effect?

Fixed Income Funds / Bond Funds

Those of us born in the 90s, we didn’t really feel the impact of the 2008 financial crisis – after all, we were young and hadn’t yet started to focus on finance. The roaring bull market of 2015 came with a lot of fanfare, and when it ended, it made quite a stir, ultimately requiring government intervention to stabilize the markets. Simultaneously, this brought the concept of “funds” into the view of ordinary people.