noufalibrahim

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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   Yup. I practice western calligraphy but haven't been able to make much inroads into Arabic. Partly because of the lack of high quality instruction material (which is available as books for Western calligraphy) and partly because of the
2. 32.▲
   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   In a certain way, moving from "Free Software" to "Open Source" started this transition and it's not slowing down.
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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   I was just going to say the same thing. I couldn't afford the rigs needed to run any of these games and never really played them. Now, it's running inside a browser on a laptop.
4. 34.▲
   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   Fair enough but speed, especially the kind that comes with LLMs, is fast enough to open new ways of working and doing things. We don't have infinite time and if there's something that can give me multiple, for example, UI suggesti
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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   Isn't this essentially a user space filesystem implementation?
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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   I don't mind the idea of using HTML components and widgets to style desktop applications. CSS and the DOM are widely known and reusing those for desktop apps is probably a good idea. The problem, as you've pointed out, is that ele
7. 37.▲
   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   > Any definitive claim to know what are the right things kids should learn in a moment of rapid technological shift is probably garbage and just a projection of our own biases. I don't think this is as clear as you make it out to be
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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   Yes. That is an insight but then again, most marketing emails were templatised slop1.0 from mailchimp and other sites. This just makes it slicker. So, I'm not sure.
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   by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

   I'm not so sure of that. A friend of mine automated the lead generation and marketing function of his tiny startup using OpenClaw and set of skills he wrote for it. It would find potential leads (from a list of sources), contact them,
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I don't do much IF these days and I'm not sure if I will but if I do ever have time to sit down with something new, I will definitely give Loreline a try.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Oh yes. What other software allows you so much to make it your own? Yes, I know the yak shaving argument etc. But what's the fun in opening up some computer/OS/software that looks and feels exactly like everyone elses? An Ema
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Yup. I've aliased it to e and and it works just fine. Sort of "send file into Emacs". I've also added some elisp to say things like e something.c:43 so that it opens it up at line 43. I used have a ep which I could pipe
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Thanks. You should. I remember something I read about a teacher who asked kids to write little interactive fiction pieces using Inform 7 set in different parts of the school and then he stitched them all together into a large story and they
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I wrote a few games using Inform 7 and ran a couple of workshops for it too. It's not just the technical idiosyncrasies of the language. I've noticed that if you use it for the few hours and get into "the zone", you star
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I'd wager that most people have just their parents to go off of and a few recallibrate using their own experiences, learning, and introspecting about them. Those are the few to whom books and seminars are useful as sources. I think, fo
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Not exactly my idea. However, it's pleasant to see two people I admire so much having respect for each other.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    DHH markets himself much better. His company (basecamp), in a sense, revolves around his public persona and he's unapologetic about this. It's the same with all of his projects (e.g. Omarchy recently).
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I generally agree. I look at Emacs like a lisp interpreter with text editing primitives on which someone has built a decent editor. There was a "community" about a decade or two ago. On Freenode IRC, there were regulars who hung a
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I guess it depends greatly on where one lives etc. This is a concern I've heard from all my friends in the States.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    There is a bubble here. Running ones own business is, on the overall, better than being employed especially given the current world. However, that doesn't automatically equal to startups. There are people who are running their own bric
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    "you're absolutely right. I should have taken human psychology into consideration while creating the plan. Let me fix that."
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Was going to say the same thing. It's a very nice trip down memory lane. Also, Jason Scott's talk on how he recovered the original source code from a bunch of dusty disks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    +1 to that. I used https://ledger-cli.org/ and the accompanying Emacs mode for a long long time. I used small slips of paper to record cash spends during the day and by bank statements for online ones. Then kept track. I ke
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I needed something to help me stay off the computer (sites and applications) at certain times of the day with enforcement and in a way that's hard to remove. I had some ideas but was able to systematize all that into a proper program t
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    AI is no doubt powerful and i think that's reflected on HN. However, a lot of AI news these days is alloyed with hype and falsehood. Some amount of sceptical counter pressure is warranted.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Yup. Claude will rtfm. Most humans won't.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Fair enough but even thing acquired within a lifetime have a hierarchy. Many societies, for example, assume that the kids who are good in Math are smart but the ones who write well or are exemplary in "co-curricular" subjects simp
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    To improve the user experience.
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    Thanks. Is this quote from a book?
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    by noufalibrahim 4mo ago

    I see that point of view but there's another that I've recently been thinking about. Many of the fields that were traditionally considered for "smart" people (STEM etc.) are the ones that are being really hammered by AI.