abdullahkhalids

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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
Nastaliq fonts already exist and used whenever possible. Yes, rendering a Nastaliq font takes marginally more compute. But in a world of electron apps which have a 10-100 times slower UX than they could be, saving compute is not an argument
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
It's likely the same problem as in Pakistan. Due to the history of colonialism/control by European powers, in these countries personal economic success is usually tied to command of English or French. So even within each of these
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
There are many high quality Nastaliq fonts available. You can install them on your computer and use them easily in whatever software (example office apps) allows you to set the font. There are no technical reasons preventing the use of Nast
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
Because people don't want to abandon hundreds or thousands of years of culture for a completely solvable problem.
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
This problem is not limited to Arabic. Variants of the arabic alphabet are used by Persian (including Iranian and Dari dialects), Mazanderani, Qashqai, Luri, Gilaki, Kurdish (excluding Kurds in Turkey), Talysh, Azerbaijani (in Iran), Pamir
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
> (i.e. loud and busy environments with many strangers, often physically closer than comfortable) is unnatural to begin with. What is unnatural about this? We have plenty of anthropological evidence that humans have been doing massive fe
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
macOS Tahoe, Firefox 151.0.4, Canada. It's a connection error, so closer to "did voicedraw.com fail to load entirely in the browser,"
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
I am getting a "can’t connect to the server at voicedraw.com" error
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by abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
Do you think this can just be used as is to create subtitles for a multi-person video? How good is it at foreign languages? I am looking for a nice solution to subtitle some old movies.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Is it at all possible to run 1080p video using Pi Zero 2 W smoothly with no jittering? What about launching a browser and playing a 1080p video from a streaming site? I am looking for a computer to connect to my internet-disconnected TV.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
> If there was someone sitting at my computer, and I had to do all of my CAD design by explaining what I wanted them to do verbally, I'd rip out my hair. Isn't this how a lot of machine shops operate, or how things operate inte
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
> it provides an incredibly valuable and trustworthy banking service to the world For most people in developing countries, Swiss banks are places where politicians and rich people stash ill-gotten wealth (corruption, crime, etc), because
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
When I was a poor student, I carried around a small notepad in my pocket and a pencil and wrote down every transaction. Only way I ensured discipline to not waste money and then go hungry later. But now I am ruined by smartphones, which are
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
The openbanking thing has been going on for 4-5 years now, with no end in sight. The banks simply do not want to enable a system which allows third party apps to step into the space, and they are too large and lobby a lot. I don't expe
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Only need a read only API for financial analysis. I definitely do not support an API for doing financial transactions. That will result in so much hacking and theft.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
I would like to use finance tracking products like GNUCash. But I don't have the patience to download the csv for half a dozen accounts every month (Products like plaid are a no go from a basic security perspective). I am in Canada, an
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
I cannot support such thinking. Art is foundational to human experience. People crave that their free time is filled with good food, good music, good books, good movies and shows in beautiful houses with beautiful gardens. All of these are
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Forget children. I regularly coerce adults - junior members of my team - to learn properly things they don't care to learn too much. Both for the benefit of the organization (society in the case of children) and for their own benefit.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
I will bet that the number of adults who ever engage in coloring or painting as adults is extremely small. Probably less than the number of full time scientists, engineers, finance professionals etc. Yet no one complains that we are forcing
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
The per capita emissions of USA/Canada/Gulf countries have to be cut by a factor of 8-10 to reach sustainable levels. The per capita emissions of EU/China/SEA have to cut by 4 to reach sustainable levels. All within the
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
There are only about 1.6 billion cars in the world. Only about 20% of the world population has access to a personal car. Less than that have ever ridden a plane, and less than 10% fly with any regularity. A super majority of greenhouse gase
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
I am concerned by all chips and software made by giant corporations. None of them are trustable, and any one of them will sell me out for a buck. We must constantly fight to have open source and audited chips and software made in commodity
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
For a more down to earth example, my graduate school student union also only negotiated the floor of pay and benefits. The compensation for graduate students varied easily by 50% over this floor, even students in the same department.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Thanks for the detailed answer.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
How optimal is the PCB density? Do you think there is significant room for improvement to have a smaller PCB and larger screen and/or battery?
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Do these cards solve the electronic cash problem (in a completely different way than cryptocurrencies)? What I mean is that - Are the card readers special/trusted issued by bank/govt in some way? Or you can transfer money from one
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Protesting against a suboptimal Nash equilibrium is not wrong, just because protesting is ineffective at changing the rules of the game.
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
There are no technical reasons preventing the Mastodon federated network from scaling to billions of users. An individual server might not be able to scale to even 10 million users, but that is by design. There should be thousands or better
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
Why would you include the money required to pay shareholders, pay the humongous parts of the company doing ad tech, the lobbying money, the fine money, etc. What is the cost of running a social media site? I have previously calculated that
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by abdullahkhalids 4mo ago
My central problem is that in current pull based systems (both CC and direct debit), the merchant has access to the information to take money from my account. But that information can leak and someone else can take money from my account. It

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