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Going to document some approaches to produce data visualizations using ari via DuckDB. Don’t know why it didn’t occur to me earlier, that there would be some solid community extensions for in DuckDB.

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I was trying to use an approach that relies on community extensions, but installing them is proving finicky. Going to consider an approach that requires less futzing.

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අද පොහොය දවස. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හැම මාසයකම පුන් සඳ පායන දවස පොදු නිවාඩු දිනයක්. වෙසක් පොහොය (මැයි මස) ලෝකයටම නිවාඩු දිනයක්.

Today is Poya Day. The full moon day of every month in Sri Lanka is a public holiday. Vesak Poya (May) is a holiday for the whole world.

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Collected my helper functions to lozenge.el package, e.g. (◊duckduckgo "textlog") opens ddg. Lozenge is ◊ character. Others are (◊find-file), (◊grep), (◊github-search), (◊show-commit) etc.

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Reading Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, discovered via onboarding content in mymind mymind.com

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Still running but already look deceptive. Fck that

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Nothing works ffs

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such a real thread. godspeed

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Why did the scarecrow keep winning all the awards? It was out standing in its field.

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Fair play to Apple and team, 5 apps in for review, 4 passed through each within an hour. 'Appy days

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History is written by the people who write stuff down.

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Haha. Seems necessary but not sufficient. Isn’t being victorious part of it, too?

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That's definitely the common knowledge but I'm starting to think that victory -> writing about it has it backwards in a lot of cases, esp in modern corporate life.

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good one liner :D makes me wanna write things down

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I was contemplating pwc372, p2 and came up with “- 1+&/-/'(&'(?x)=x)@0 -1” (goal). Conceptually I like it, but maybe it can be simplified further?

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Have a wonderful day.

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Added it as a company on LinkedIn so it must be 'live' now. Cheltenham-od.uk

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time

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I can't stop thinking

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I'm sorry about that. Overthinking can be bad.

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it's okay now, sometimes my brain just can't seem to wrap around a few issues

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Here I am trying to shine amidst all the darkness that pulls me down.

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Google Play

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for a moment I thought someone had published it 😂 but soon I hope we’ll have it on both iPhone and Android app stores. We’re in the process.

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Body's awake, eyes are sleepy. Mind's awake, brain is sleepy.

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After everything's awake and a good kind of sore. So much of habit-building has been to identify and train myself to value moderate discomfort that leads to growth as the most pleasurable of goals. Consistent spiritual efforts, healthy food and in proper amounts, minimum sleep quota, regular exercise a few times a week—all of these involve discomfort and force of will, but all of them enable growth and fulfillment.

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The Perfect Hiring System

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I made a chrome extension to bring the top Hacker News stories to your new tab, with quick summaries. So every time you open a new tab, you might discover something everyone else hasn’t heard about yet. If you’ve never heard of Hacker News: it was created by Paul Graham(founder

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pourover ritual :pray:

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16g of light roast, 350ml of Montcalm water, ~24 clicks on C40 and a Cafec ABACA filter paper in a v60 neo dripper

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