Sylvester Dias

Love to learn new things and Twitter is the best thing for that. Enjoy music and running, math and data, kinda geeky and laidback.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

True bravery is when you're sick and feeling low that you decide to listen to Radiohead. No Surprises that I was Climbing up the walls like a Paranoid Android. Lucky that Everything in it's Right Place.

[Kate Reid @katels33]

1997. Natalie Imbruglia’s cover of ‘Torn’. A cultural phenomenon. Hairdressers inundated with requests for pixie cuts. Cargo trouser sales soared. MTV had it on repeat. Guess you had to be there! @notgwendalupe @8090Throwbacks @Phil3Pan @UKBackintheDay2

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

6,000 years of world history on a single timeline. Zoom in. You could spend 30 minutes exploring this.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@nicolasasommo Sucks! My run streaks gone since last three weeks. Hamstring is not getting better. Only doing core strengthening and stretching. My physio has forbidden me from overthinking and using Gemini to diagnose myself!

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

WORLD RECORD!!!!🤯🤯

Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 breaks the Half Marathon World Record (WR) in 56:51 at the Buenos Aires Half Marathon.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Rewatching Tobey Maguire's Spiderman Series and its so damn f good!!! The later spiderman (men?) movies have not felt so personal as Raimi's takes. Beyond the webslinging, it's also just the tale of man struggling with life. Beyond nostalgia!

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@JohnGoldman Okay mine just started tightening and seizing up 6 miles into an easy run. Thot I'd run it off as it felt like a cramp. A week later it's still tight. Gonna take rehab seriously now. Take care and focus on recovery.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@keerthisiddeshw What's float?

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

First 250+ mileage month. Never thought I'll be able to run this much injury free. Hopefully, will be able to stack some 300k months over the next few months. Long way to go!

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@HankFrank Hank, how do you structure for marathon training blocks. Do you continue focussing on base building? Or its more race pace focussed workouts? What is the minimum "base maintenance" mileage ratio for your weekly mileage?

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Challenged by my mentor to get out of my comfort zone and try hitting 80km mileage this week. Managed 78.5k. Surprised how the body held up. Real challenge is to main this for the next 8 weeks. Onwards and upwards!

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Absolutely diabolical parody on the lips.

[Kirti_Searches @Kirtimm_]

New NCERT book 🥲

[Prapthi @prapthi_m]

The fixation with Indians producing more babies reflects a selective reading of demographic and development theory--one that foregrounds the economic utility of population growth while overlooking its human development prerequisites.

1. India is home to an estimated 37–39 million stunted children under five, and more than 21 million suffering from wasting.

2. Over 80 crore people depend on free ration for sustenance.

3. More than 100 million Indians are estimated to go to bed hungry every night (inability to afford square meals).

4. Millions of households are one medical emergency away from financial ruin.

5. Women in extremely vulnerable labour markets undergo mass hysterectomies in order to avoid losing workdays and wages.

Given the above reality, commentary on sustaining a population decline rate through more children is grossly misleading policy talk that sees humans as consumers, labour, tax payers and GDP contributors.

Any discussion on sustaining fertility rates, therefore, must be preceded by targets of dignity, opportunity, and well-being for the existing populations as the precondition.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Tough dilemma! Only @eurofounder would be able to find a complaint solution.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@sabeer My solution is to use noise cancelling earbuds while out in the city. It blocks 90% of the sounds and you can still hear some stuff for general awareness coz everything's so damn loud.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@suneelkoyi What was your training like in 2017-2019?

[Felipe👨‍💻- e/acc @FelipeTechPM]

> O ano é 2006
> Você chega da escola
> Vai direto pro computador
> Abre o uTorrent
> Percebe que ainda faltam alguns minutos
> Sua internet de 200kb não é lá essas coisas
> Ok, você tem tempo de almoçar
> Meia hora depois retorna
> Legal, a ISO terminou de baixar!
> Deixa o seed ligado por um tempo
> Outra pessoa quer baixar também
> Abre o Nero (quem lembra?)
> Burning…
> Grava a ISO!
> Abre o Daemon Tools (os de verdade sabem)
> Monta a imagem
> Instala o jogo!
> Inicia… ainda está pedindo um CD
> De volta pra internet
> Procure um crack No-Cd
> Baixe o crack
> AVAST grita: uma ameaça foi detectada!
> De volta pra internet
> Encontre um keygen russo misterioso
> Você vê dois botões, mas não fala russo
> Escolha com sabedoria
> Apareceu um código na tela!
> Copia, cola, copia, cola, copia, cola…
> Inicia o jogo de novo
> Tá rodando, bora caralho
> EA GAMES, challenge everything! 🫦
> Tun de run dun, de run de run dun oooh 🔈
> Through the window, to the wall (the wall)🔉

Eu vivi isso, tempos bons que não voltam mais 🥹

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

@darthdevi There's a line in the song Affirmation by Savage Garden where they say- 'I believe your parents did they best job they knew how to do'. If your best is not good enough, you end up doing more emotional damage than if you didn't try. It's all about doing right whatever you choose.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Feel the Heat issue needs a more nuanced take. Yes, our cities need to continue heavy development. Yes, we need more trees. Yes, we've always had hot summers. Yes, concretization causes more urban heat island effect or whatever that is. Yes, we need more sustainable development.

[Sylvester Dias @SillyDias]

Adidas will be milking these results for some time....