noufalibrahim

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by noufalibrahim 12d ago
We used to give presentations about the average life of pages on the internet before it 404ed. It was cited from a SciAm article which was offline at the time and the only way to get the stat was via. the mirror on the Wayback Machine.
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by noufalibrahim 15d ago
I'm in the middle. I've been using Python since the early 2.x series. The good parts are that the inbuilt data structures and their apis are efficient and clean enough to write code that's mostly readable. Most of the heavy l
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by noufalibrahim 17d ago
It's very nicely done. I snapped the seatbelt on and that dread of a long boring flight automatically hit me. :)
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by noufalibrahim 24d ago
It's a beautiful house and I'm very happy for them. My own memories of lan parties were much messier. People bringing their own assembled machines and running cables around the place to get this to work somehow, swapping cards etc
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by noufalibrahim 1mo ago
On my machine, e is just a way to send things into Emacs. $ which e e () { snippet="(nkv-find-file-and-jump \"$1\")" emacsclient --no-wait -e $snippet }
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by noufalibrahim 1mo ago
I have mixed feelings. The barrier and time between idea and usable implementation is almost zero now. I don't have to imagine. I can just write something and see it work before making larger decisions. I really like this. Many of my i
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by noufalibrahim 2mo ago
I think the first instance of games being separated from the "engine" so that you could make the game and it would run on all platforms that the engine ran out without porting was Infocom's Z-machine. http://maher.
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by noufalibrahim 2mo ago
I remember an old company called "Access software" that had something called "Realsound" with which they played really high quality audio on the PC speaker. Their games were things like Countdown, Martian Memorandum etc.
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by noufalibrahim 2mo ago
Yes but going really far down that path has given us sterilized UIs that have no character and no personality. Every website and app looks more or less the same. I, for one, enjoy a thriving baroque culture of weird interfaces with differen
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by noufalibrahim 2mo ago
That physical books age and retain pieces of their history is one of my favourite things about them. I found a used book that was given to someone when he graduated top of his class in the early 1900s. There was an inscription from the prin
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by noufalibrahim 2mo ago
Mortimer Adler (of how to read a book fame) has notes on this https://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/rcunningham/2022-23... MAny a times, the books I read don't have enough place to scribble so I keep
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
This reminded me of an old DOS game I used to play called Castle Adventure. I'd almost forgotten about it. Apparently, the original programmer was just 14 when he made it and the source was stolen and sold by some other companies. htt
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
Can't argue there. The first time I visited the US, I bought expensive calligraphy paper. I brought it back home to India and saved it for when I would be "Good enough" and practiced on cheap copier stock. Fast forward a few
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
You remind me of Nigel Tufnel of the Spinal Tap rockumentary fame and his guitar collection. The clip on Youtube is a must watch if you're not seen it.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I'm probably missing something here but if I have to worry about getting an expensive watch that calls it "Submariner" wet of all things, at the very least, it's badly named.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I did this with my first (and only Macbook) in 2014. Did it with a pocket file. I never thought about blogging about it though. Perhaps something to consider.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I was building an in-house infra management platform (including a self hosted AI agent) for companies in a segment that's very careful about its internal IP. I spoke to the CTO of a well funded company who was spending a few millions o
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
Surely I can't be the only one who misread the heading and clicked expecting to see DOOM implemented using just HTML DOM. :-/
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
A lisp interpreter with text editing primitives.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
There are many things you can do to get it out of your family's life. No phones in the bedroom, No phones after X O'clock, Open conversations about social media with your kids, Unite with them in the fight against social media, bl
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
Ah. This is something I'm not familiar with. This is the Pen Hospital I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2a_yKeCS7M
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I don't know if that's the same. There's another here called Kim and Co. which makes ebonite pens without fillers. They became popular via. social media and a lot of people ordered pens from them. Perhaps that's the one
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
That's an exaggeration. Things are not as repairable as they used to be and people are not as thrifty as they used to be. However, I do think the culture of repairing things is strong and mostly financially motivated.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I'm glad fountain pens came up here. There's a shop a few hours away from where I stay in an old town in India called the "Pen Hospital". It was a thriving business in the 60s when my father went to college. Lots of peop
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
Probably not but it's hard to really pin this down. On the one hand, China's rise has in the recent past has been phenomenal but that kind of rapid cleanup has always been accompanied by repression and destruction of political riv
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I wonder how much of this is informed opinion vs. reflexive kickback due to a threat to ones livelihood.
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I've had success with Aider from October of 2025 (from my git logs). I have to differ from the general sentiment over here. The tools and models are good enough to make a change in the way work is done. Of course, Big Tech. will move
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
I was creating a scene by scene remake of a cutscene from an old DOS game. The sprite sheet had several sprites which were cycled (e.g. a horse with it's head down and up). The engine would cycle through these regularly to create some
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by noufalibrahim 3mo ago
Yes I know but it's not always that straightforward and my muscle memory from western hands interferes.

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