Ask Lemmy

I go to bed at 9pm everyday, and get 8hrs+ of sleep.

For the 2022 Microsoft Excel World Championship I downloaded the problems the moment they were released to the contestants and public and solved as many as I could in real time. I would have finished 5th.

I haven't seen any Star Wars movie.

I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.

At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. "There is no leak here, you're just imagining things" was the response after I showed the room to my boss. "There is and we shall see in a few days." After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.

I've been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn't so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.

I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.

In visual studio, a program for software developers, one of the type of templates you can start up and make a program with is in "blazor webassembly". One of Microsoft's fancy new things.

In there, right after starting it, there is some example code thrown in your face. Code that contains pi... with a rounding error.

So I, being the insistent autistic nerd I am, made a pull request and had it fixed. And I still wonder how so many people looked at that and it bothered absolutely no one enough to go and fix it.

I can eyeball the smallest available Tupperware that will fit the leftovers, every time.

After a lifetime of allergies, I’m really good at Dracula-sneezing in the least bad direction

I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses..., in full 3D and a victorian setting.

In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).

I have a stomache of steel. Nothing will pass my digestive tract alive or intact. I never had any kind of stomache trouble and I can not puke. I ate every dish in south-east-asia that landet in front of me, even from some dirty streetfood shack in the middle of the burmese jungle. Most of the stuff would have killed the average middle european slob. Not me.

It even goes so far that I cannot use edibles. Which is funny, because all the growmies make fun of me now.

I work full home office

I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.

I haven't shit my pants for like 30 years.

b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore.

Grew up without hot running water and I can relate. It's only a problem in some hotels really, where the showers don't get cold enough.

My weird flex would be being so accustomed to command line that I don't know how to use well, and get frustrated by, GUI applications.

I ran over 1000 miles in 2023! I've taken an 8.5" circumference toy anally!

I've been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.

I can drive as long as possible without touching my phone.

After over half a century of action, a lot of it in "extreme sports", and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.

I can cook minute rice in 56 seconds. I try to only use my powers for good.

Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.

Sometimes I'll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone's clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What's actually happening is they're breathing my spores, and they love it.

I once ate 6 pizzas in one sitting.

I used to drive a Ford Flex. I was frequently assured of its weirdness.

That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress.. most only go through the tourist area.

Communicated from California to E. Europe via SSB during solar maximum aka worst possible RF condition's with only 5 watts. Plus I communicate about 200 miles with a half dead 9v battery and and 100miliwatts. ✅QRP / QRPp

I've actively moderated the Zootopia subreddit almost since its inception. We did a lot of cool stuff but, uh, moderating a subreddit is not the kind of thing you brag about. Anyway, i quit this year.

Also i have every single r/place-related medal because i helped organize artworks. That's not any better is it?

I've starred in 1 local govt commercial, have my mustached face in an airport infomercial (around the 40-50s mark) and have some 3-5 seconds of screentime as an extra in 2 different brazilian movies.

I can lick my elbow.

Quite the opposite. I am so used to burn away my migraines, i can last in 60 degrees hot water for a (short) while.

I could walk both ways up a hill both ways in the snow after dialysis treatment.

Past tense because I got a kidney transplant.

Which caused a very rare Cancer (1st condition to get it, you must've never gotten Epstein Barr virus, ever, which 90-95% of the world has. Second is getting a transplanted organ that carries the virus lol).

Which led me to weird flex #2: I have unusually high cold resistance and can also mentally raise my body temperature. This was helpful when having to walk to the patient hotel in a strong blizzard with nothing but hospital clothes.

Unfortunately that means I do terribly in the heat, and there's not much AC in Finland for the summer...

The funny thing is I grew up in El Salvador, and then Texas.

Some code I wrote is buried in an archive storage underground in the Arctic

If you had some code in an active GitHub repo before February 2020 you may too, https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

Everything about me is a weird flex

• I invented two novel fire eating tricks, one of which involves my split tongue
• I can scratch the back of my skull through my nose with an icepick. I can also put a running power drill in my nose or feed a silicone tube through and out the mouth
• I often shave with a torch or lighter

I'm double jointed.