circlingthesun

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by circlingthesun 2y ago
I once posted a picture of an email stating my train was delayed in French. So the word 'retard' appeared in it. Instagram banned me from monetization or partnerships or something on my account, because the word for delay in Frenc
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
GPS watch. Although I did accidentally run back where I came from for a bit O_o
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
It might be. I ran 30h race earlier this year and had no hallucinations. I've not done _exhaustive_ research on this, I'm just recalling some undergrad neuropsychology. It could also be the environment. I suspect it's a lot l
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
Ha ha, the t-shirt wasn't even that nice :p
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
I've never experienced auditory hallucinations before. I did however do a 42 hour self navigated run last year with 0 sleep. After about 30 hours I was visually hallucinating pretty much consistently. Amongst the things I saw was Darth
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
I had do not disturb on by accident the whole day yesterday. It was great, it made be wonder if I should enable it permanently. As the technical founder of a startup, I suspect it'll probably be to my detrimental when shit hits the fan
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by circlingthesun 4y ago
I believe these are the people behind the asyncpg Postgres library for Python. We use it daily, thanks :)
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by circlingthesun 5y ago
There is a related video by minute physics about how the RGB color space stores the square root of the brightness of each color channel, because human color perception is roughly logarithmic. Bad color blending is therefore pretty commonpla
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by circlingthesun 5y ago
Lottie files can be converted, with some limitations, to native SVG SMIL animations via bodymovin-to-smil [1]. With SMIL animations you save 66.6k worth of gzipped javascript [2] and your animations run before any javascript kicks in (great
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by circlingthesun 5y ago
I have an emoji prefixed to my name on LinkedIn so whenever someone starts an email with: "Hi Rickert", I know it's an automated message.
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by circlingthesun 6y ago
It apparently also lacks good color management. https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/ihi1wm/xwayland_ov...
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by circlingthesun 6y ago
Lots of ideas, few commitments. I guess this is positive.
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by circlingthesun 6y ago
We got hit by this on Saturday night :|
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by circlingthesun 7y ago
As someone who lives in South Africa, it's quite frustrating to travel when you realise your money isn't worth shit in most developed countries. It financially restricts where you can go for how long and how often. Many imported t
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by circlingthesun 7y ago
I had an interesting experience sorting exam papers when I was a TA. I found that quicksort used up too much desk/floor space. I settled on splitting the papers into piles of 10 or so, applying insertion sort on each pile and then pair
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by circlingthesun 7y ago
I love the analysis in this post. I think utility functions along with a set of design tokens (Styled System [1] / ThemeUI [2]) is a better mechanism and achieves the same end goal as utility-first CSS, at least in the React ecosystem.
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by circlingthesun 7y ago
Something something GDPR?
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by circlingthesun 8y ago
737-800, I guess I'll be okay
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by circlingthesun 8y ago
Nice headline to see as I'm about to board a 737 :\
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by circlingthesun 8y ago
I certainly won't be building any Gmail add-ons soon/ever.
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by circlingthesun 8y ago
If you assume that people tend to consider all options before making a choice, putting the primary action on the right makes sense. If you put the primary action on the left, a user will see it first, but then read on to look at the other o
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
"As a bonus, fit tin cans to both ends and you get voice as well as broadband on the same wet string!" Ha!
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
> Regarding everything being destructed at once: that’s called an arena Thats such a great name :)
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
Reminds me of Ali G's ice cream glove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48TR0vUPQCs
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
Planned obsolescence?
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
"no way to know which exception you are gonna get" Java much?
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
Do we get wildcard certs?
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by circlingthesun 9y ago
"Breakit’s co-founder" not "co-founder of Foodora".
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by circlingthesun 10y ago
The name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
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by circlingthesun 10y ago
It's a cold day in hell.

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