abdulhaq

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by abdulhaq 5y ago
A friend of mine was a nurse on a mental health ward in the UK. There was a long term patient there who no-one could understand, until my friend, who was Mauritian, started working there. The patient was saying 'mes dents, mes dents&#x
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
It's fun, and fun is good for the heart and soul.
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
As time goes on my experience is that I get more and more intellectually and spiritually isolated, even in a globally connected society. Perhaps it's an inevitable part of continuing personal deveopment in a society changing dramatical
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
I was thinking the spelling was wrong but I just couldn't remember it, you're right thanks
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They also have a very refined palette, which is why they are often found in top restaurants
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
It feels weird to me that some hackers don't know what a 6502 is! Sign of my age I guess.
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
> I’ve just found that making things with my hands is the best way for me to relax and get a break from everything digital. I’ll be binge watching this tonight. Irony of ironies!
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by abdulhaq 5y ago
There's another bug... open a file, make a single change (asterisk appears), press Ctrl-Z to undo, asterisk does not disappear.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Religious muslims don't say that the weather forecast is heresy, that would be nonsense. Perhaps someone said to you that God can change the weather to be other-than-what-was-forecast, which from the Islamic POV is simple plain sense.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Lots of big mistakes here. His name was Abu Hamid alGhazali. If you read his "almunqidh min aD-Dalaal" (Deliverance From Error) which was an autobiography and summary of his thought, he states that e.g. "MATHEMATICS. This emb
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
When I saw the screenshot of the app I first thought, "that's Swing". But then I saw that tick mark and I thought, holy moley oculd that be the tick mark from Borland (e.g. OWL)? https://sourceforge.net/p&#x2F
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Flash has been declared dead many times. This time it really is the end, it's final. Maybe.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Surely you have to define reality before approaching this question?
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Roblox to me, aged 56: It's a fairly new game, for kids Roblox to most HNers: Yeah, I played it when I was young, now I run a startup Me: Where's my mug of cocoa, it's 9pm and it's bedtime
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Don't forget NURBs
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
It's not just-in-time compilation. Maybe he wants a kind of REPL for Rust - I guess?
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
For a long time what I've wanted is to be free of devices altogether, instead displays and input mechanisms should be universally available. I should be able to walk up to a wall, sit at a desk, stand in the street, and summon up a dis
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Sender sends video as a base quality stream plus a delta to the next level quality and plus a third stream which is the delta to top quality. Server passes on either 1, 2, or 3 streams according to bandwidth
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
The interesting question is, why do we still read these things? We already kind of know what they are going to say, and we already have well informed and stable opinions about them. I think personally deep down maybe I'm hoping they&#x
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
The media news is not primarily intended to inform, it's primarily intended to make money, albeit through publishing stories that are 'new'.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
I think you _are_ missing the point TBH. The people who say that there is no real objective value, and that that knowledge is important, are claiming that knowing that nothing has objective value, has value.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
It's for this sort of thing that Google had to get rid of their "do no evil" spiel.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
This reads like typical 'think tank' fodder with an axe to grind, but with some sentences that just don't make sense as if written by a Chinese content farm. Weird.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Any person or company using US hardware/software should understand that it may have been tainted at the request of the US state, and that for the manufacturer/provider of the hardware/software to disclose said tainting is als
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Make it very easy for people to report these messages, then put in a temporary block on a user after the first report, until it can be checked by a human.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Control of global tech infrastructure is an important aspect of global dominance and 'defence'. Expect a lot of disinformation in this area.
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
If a child, woman or old person is coming the other way then I take the side nearest to the traffic to protect them
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
There is no being called "Hacker News" and no-one is saying that "Hacker News" _should_ read it. If enough individuals like it and are interested by it, it will be voted up and more can read it. If you don't want to
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Early Arcade Classics Developers(shmuplations.com)
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by abdulhaq 6y ago
Some people see this and say 'how did you do it?'. Others say to themselves, 'how would I do it?'. I'm in the second category...

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