Lakshan Jayathilaka

I build apps and draw little pictures sometimes.

[Melker Svard @melkersvard]

We ran the largest ever study on MODERN SHOES👟 effect on FEET🦶🏻

Here's what we found during our month in Sri Lanka (pictured below with the Veddah people)

Welcome to 'The Shoe Effect'

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[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

BOOM!

The world’s longest continuous operating computer is still operating!

It is also the farthest known computer.

It is back online!

“NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth”

https://t.co/AAxclHb1ue

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@dialoglk Hi, I'm trying to install the app for the first time.

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@dialoglk

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@Elliiipses If travel time less than one month, Evisa just works. I traveled 2 months ago. Applied online and got visa in email within 3 days.

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@dialoglk what's the procedure to convert an e-Sim to a physical sim? Can I do it online if I have a Sim card?

[Umesh Moramudali @UmeshMoramudali]

Most Sri Lankan middle class didn’t really care about the quality public transport or public health coz they could afford a car ride, and insurance due to low taxes and subsidized fuel and electricity. Now it hurts to think of going on a bus or to gov hospital

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@heyBarsee Free

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective.

Here are 8 gems.

1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

I've been using ChatGPT instead of Google more and more lately.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Smart move, Google.

🔗 https://t.co/tFOmymfigL

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Wow!

“The link between lack of sleep and cancer is now so strong that the World Health Organization has classified any form of nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen."

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.

The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint.

Here's a breakdown 🧵

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

@nanayakkara77 Bro, මම රට තුල සිටිමින් ඩොලර් උපයන්නෙක්. එත් මම සාමාන්‍ය පුරවැසියකුට ලැබෙන දෙයකට වඩා කිසි දෙයක් බලාපොරොත්තු වනනේ නෑ.
1. අපට සාමාන්‍ය පූරවැසියෙක් මෙන් බැංකු ණය ලබා ගැනීමට ක්‍රමයක් සකසන්න
2. $ ගෙන්වන සෑම අවස්ථාවකම බැංකු අප දෙස ත්‍රස්තවාදියෙක් ලෙස බැලීම නතරකරවන්න

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[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

No problem BMW, just open APIs, allow developers to build apps for your cars. So we can make a free alternative 🤗

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This is wild — BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats in your car.

• Monthly fee: $18
• Annual fee: $180

The car will come with all the necessary components, but payment is needed to remove a software block.

Welcome to microtransaction hell.

[Rakhitha 🇱🇰 @rakhimutu]

We're in a very bad situation. But we'll in deep deep shit if the JVP comes to power

[Lakshan Jayathilaka @lakshanz]

'First time in history': Cancer vanishes from every patient's body in drug trial https://t.co/AIL1FkQqLz

[Thisuri Wanniarachchi @ThisuriW]

A society that can laugh about another's home burning down is a cruel society. A society that can cheer on another's pain and humiliation is broken society. There is no situation in which violence is the solution. We are better than this. We must do better than this.

[Jim Browning @JimBrowning11]

#scammers Quote of the day "Who is in my backside?"
Full video here: https://t.co/9ZgSfij3uB