ulterno

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have that too, but it requires a much higher intensity than just going out in the sun.
i.e. I need to have slept for a while in the dark and then come out and stare at the Sun to get the ACHOO.

Also, I once looked straight at a solar eclipse (don't tell my mother :P) for a few seconds and my eyes were still better than most other people for many years.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can pop outwards by closing my mouth and nose and then putting pressure on my mouth walls with the air.
Reverse, I can manage only down to equal pressure, by simply drinking back my saliva.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My nose is specially sensitive to stuff like deodorants and synthetic perfumes, formaldehyde and other paint smells, the stuff from Odonil™, WD 40 etc. I feel like, if I wanted to train myself to detect non-lethal doses of HCN, I might manage it.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, light degrades into heat. I feel it too, for the high powered ones. I have my bicycle headlights and can feel the heat wherever they hit me.

Oh you can hear the expensive ones too? Nice. Not sure about your case, but for me, it is low enough to be useful but not distracting. You can let a bit more of your ear wax build up, which should help reduce it a bit.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As a child I was told by my parents that using headphones (circum aural) would destroy my hearing. They preferred me using earphones (in ear) instead.
I kept using headphones.

I'm way past the teens and can still hear the tubelights (the new ones, only from very close, when other things are silent) and the old flat screen CRT. Also, the whine from the UPS at the previous workplace, which most other couldn't hear, but for me, was pretty loud.

The difference was that my headphone volume tended to be at 10 - 20% while other people went out to dance parties with continuous loud music (I didn't).

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I can clap each of my hands individually.

In other words, snap using 3 or 4 fingers at a time, without relying on the thumb to coil the muscles. That seems doable with a bit of prctc. Let me know if you meant something else.

If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully.

I just tried the same thing. Felt a pull on one of my joints the wrong way. Not going to try turning my head any further and will be careful not to turn my head while yawning from now. Yes, that was scary.

I have dysgraphia.

Due to how I learnt to write when I started using a pen, any long term writing causes my thumb movement muscles to cramp up, making me have to stop writing.
I also seem to have something related to dysgraphia, but it's much milder than as depicted in the image in the Wikipedia article. So, the glyph metrics don't match. I still use cursive though, just because I'm used to it. It's also much milder than your example, though I do tend to have times when characters get switched or entangled.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Well, unlike postal addresses, email addresses have an easier way to validate them. OTPs.
But that needs to be implemented on the application side

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Go instead with:

Humans helping the global warming demons is causing the polar ice cap gods to become weaker, who in turn are unable to contain the cold yin winds in the poles, causing them to move to your house.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

How long before they start making posts and adding likes in your name?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

On the + side, this keep HDD sales up, which would otherwise have dropped low enough for most consumer facing markets to shut down long before the rise of home made NAS devices

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

The high resolution bristles were necessary to prevent plague to the teeth of the characters, from the microscopically 3d scanned streptococci.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago

I'd say it's a very "thing that's done in politics" everywhere.

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