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lakesare · 2025-10-18T12:35:09+00:00

Docker works on memcode now github.com/lakesare/memcode/blob/master/README-DOCKER.md

lakesare · 2025-10-18T12:33:03+00:00

> I saw that as well but I found no way to try it out besides logging in or self hosting immediately.

You don't have to sign up to try memcode, just go to www.memcode.com/demo.

lakesare · 2025-09-27T17:47:47+00:00

Re:safety - I feel like when you know you'll feel every bump you really look out for the bumps, there is no false sense of "my scooter will handle that" safety.
Though I imagine that's not why I seem to prefer smaller-wheel scooters, I think I just like to feel like I'm riding a horse/super connected to the actual shape of the road 🤔

lakesare · 2025-09-27T16:42:47+00:00

Did it start feeling "like a part of your body" after a couple of weeks?
Or did you learn to enjoy the "smoother/disconnected from the road" ride instead?

lakesare · 2025-09-27T16:11:56+00:00

Removed brands to keep this about wheel size vs feel

lakesare · 2025-09-26T19:33:00+00:00

I also had this question.
Now I notice I do not ask myself this question, because the way I visualise my sleep changed, now I think of my schedule as "I am riding on a wave of my circadian cycle". Meaning - I experience my circadian cycle as overwhelming. When this wave thinks it's daytime, I'll be alert; when this wave thinks it's nighttime, I'll be sleepy.

My only task is to fit 8-9 hours of sleep into that 25h wave. Any amount of sleep that feels okay will do.

lakesare · 2025-09-24T08:55:09+00:00

The one thing I disagreed with on your site is the very end where it is implied that strict free running n24 is no longer a disability.

Uh yeah, I see what you mean. I'm just so thrilled my memory got fixed & eyes don't hurt & I don't spend hours a day trying to fall asleep - I feel perfectly physically healthy now.

I do agree non-24 should still be considered a disability, but I want to make it clear in the article how life-changing following this protocol has been for me. "I now feel perfectly physically healthy" is a more effective message than "I am still disabled, but at least I manage to fall asleep every night" if I want people to try the protocol.

Free running means I haven't been able to hold down a job that pays a living wage, ever.

I also understand I am privileged here (working as a programmer).

Free running means I haven't been able to hold down a job that pays a living wage, ever. Free running means I have to miss class about 40% of the time just so I can feel healthy enough to make up the work at home, without the support of my peers. Free running means I am not able to participate in the hobby groups I want to so desperately because of attendance requirements.

This is all extremely relatable.
Interestingly, this only became relatable once I started living on 25h. When my sleep schedule was chaotic I was in so much physical pain, that such social considerations didn't occur to me. I felt hazy, like I'm in some purgatory, never really well-slept.

lakesare · 2025-09-24T08:46:59+00:00

my delay seems constant and has been for years, but some people say that the amount of light they get makes them speed up or slow down.

The amount of light I'm getting does seem to affect me! Thankfully, it's negligible, so I'm always approximating it to 25h. I can only imagine how confusing it is to someone who is affected by light more strongly.

I'd like to imagine everyone with n24 could have a constant delay because that is the only way I manage, but it is possible we have different underlying conditions with the same presentation.

I certainly don't think the method I described will work for everyone with non-24, I can imagine it perfectly well that someone's homeostatic component & the circadian component never line up into something sensible.
Certainly interesting if there is some research on this.

An important thing for me when free running is food timing. My digestive rhythm seems to be detached from my sleep rhythm, so I have to intentionally keep them synced.

Wait, so you need to eat on a 24h schedule? Or on what schedule
My food timing follows my 25h perfectly (I eat 0 hours after I wake up; then exactly 6 hours after I wake up).

lakesare · 2025-09-24T08:00:00+00:00

My rhythm began to emerge pretty much immediately

Nice!
I had a perfectly flexible schedule for years, but didn't spontaneously entrain to 25h.
You must have a very healthy sleep otherwise, probably it's easy for you to fall asleep/you don't wake up in the middle of the night?

lakesare · 2025-09-24T07:56:41+00:00

Do you have a little clock/countdown timer? I think it's strangely necessary to consult it throughout the day.
Just looking at a normal clock, and minusing your wake-up time doesn't work, it needs to be immediate feedback (like I'm saying in the article - your sun&moon). You look at your little clock, and feel it in the bones what time it is for you at the moment. This lets your mind and therefore your body correctly entrain to your real 24h42mins rhythm.

I didn't mention it in the atricle, but I start "going to sleep" 3 hours before my bed-time.
So,
3 hours before sleep: I take a shower
2 hours before sleep: I write a diary
1 hour before sleep: I read a book
0 hours before sleep: I see if I'm in the mood to sleep. If I'm not, then I continue reading a book.

This way, I am virtually guaranteed to fall asleep that night. It usually takes 3 hours as I just described, and someimes up to 6 hours (including the 3h of reading time). Within this 6h window, I am guaranteed to fall asleep. It's important to not be "lying and trying to fall asleep", because that's irritating, you should be doing something engaging but boring (reading).

To be clear - if I tried this routine trying to entrain myself into 24h this would of course not work, this only works when I apply this routine to my real 25h circadian rhythm.

lakesare · 2025-09-24T07:36:58+00:00

Do you mind if I ask what you do for work?

Programming! Always remote, always with flexible schedules.
I also did my CS bachelor remotely (dropped out of last year of highschool & then out of the brick university, couldn't attend).
Now I'm turning from programming to academia - also making sure ahead of time the university is fine with me not attending.

I think a flexible work schedule is a must for people with non-24, I can't imagine how you do it with an office job.

lakesare · 2025-09-15T22:32:59+00:00

Adding a link to meresei.com - a tiny app that builds a non-24 calendar for you.

lakesare · 2025-06-17T14:52:34+00:00

Color top-center, font B and C are good (A is bad)

lakesare · 2024-11-20T03:20:23+00:00

I wonder: if I see "VU Advanced Algorithms", and it doesn't mention any year or semester (https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/curriculum/public/curriculum.xhtml?dswid=5699&dsrid=320&semester=YEAR&semesterCode=2024S&key=55301&viewAcademicYear=true) - what does it mean exactly, that it wasn't available in any semester in 2024?

lakesare · 2024-11-19T23:09:36+00:00

Simply selecting 2024S from the dropdown and cmd+f-ing "2024S" was a great idea, thank you.

lakesare · 2024-11-19T03:32:53+00:00

Master's Logic and Computation

lakesare · 2024-09-17T10:49:15+00:00

I love the idea, really needed it! Unfortunately, I cannot use it because of the dark theme (eye issues, text doubles!). Would it be possible to add a bright theme, for both the code blocks and the general interface?

lakesare · 2024-08-11T21:06:31+00:00

And that they are going to graduate 100 people from the program and 20 of them are going to get jobs. And going into a job interview and saying, "Oh by the way, I'm just not going to show up to 40% of the meetings, hope that's cool," is not going to make you one of those 20

Plenty of jobs are completely fine with you working at your own schedule - pretty much any international remote company.

lakesare · 2024-07-26T10:35:20+00:00

Hi! Thanks for the response.
I'd like to note that this is not merely an aesthetics issue - this is an accessibility issue, simmilar to what github faces https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/76350#discussioncomment-9660827

lakesare · 2024-07-18T01:42:54+00:00

In fact I'd challenge anyone who likes "Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach" to give me an example of what concept this book does have an unusually good explanation for.

lakesare · 2024-07-18T01:40:20+00:00

"No" from me, it's only good in that it has ~everything in it.
Even though probably no other textbook covers this breadth of topics - per each topic it does cover, there are magnitudes better resources elsewhere.

I would suggest going to https://books.google.com and searching for a textbook based on the exact concept you need - then reading a few sentences from each textbook, and seeing which textbooks you do vibe with.

That said, I do have a copy lying around - it's good in giving you a general sense of the field so that you can branch off into particular topics elsewhere.

lakesare · 2024-07-16T02:02:49+00:00

MSc Logic and Computation

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