noufalibrahim

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by noufalibrahim 8mo ago
- Lisp Free x Emacs like - Lightweight x Electron Contradictions. Writing ones own editor is a bit of a rite of passage though. So, on that front, Congratulations!
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by noufalibrahim 8mo ago
Indeed. I don't remember all the details of the flow but the aesthetics of the diagram are still stuck in my head.
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by noufalibrahim 8mo ago
Completely agree. It shouldn't be treated as an excuse but it's silly to ignore this as a HUGE risk factor. Probably should be considered when making policies etc.
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by noufalibrahim 8mo ago
True. Damaged parents are often the kinds of people who are taken advantage of by sex offenders. I think it requires a social fix of some kind.
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by noufalibrahim 8mo ago
I've never used Arch but I can really get the vibe here. Wikis (especially toopical ones) are social media of sorts. There was a strong community around the #emacs IRC channel and emacswiki.org back in the day. About a 100 people who k
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I can relate to this. Early social media were forum sites, boards, irc, mailing lists and things like that.
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
Tangentially related. The idea that scientific research operates in a vacuum uninfluenced by real world considerations in its relentless search for truth is a notion that a lot of scientism advocates put out. I've always found the idea
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I think it was mostly familiarity. I'd been using Linux on thinkpads for so long that I had a few config files which for the tools I used. Mine was a very text heavy command line workflow. Mostly driven by the keyboard. Almost no mouse
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I remember a panel once at a PyCon where we were discussing, I think, the anaconda distribution in the context of packaging and a respected data scientist (whose talks have always been hugely popular) made the point that he doesn't lik
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I've been using Thinkpads exclusively from 2005 or so. My first was a T40 I got from work. Then I got a T42 of my own. I used it heavily till the fan gave out. After that, I got an X200 which I used for a long time. The keyboard got da
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
http://nibrahim.net.in . Not updated frequently. Mostly personal with a drop of technology. I've been on this hosting provider (hcoop.net) since 2002ish.
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I don't really know if I agree with you but the analogy is really good. :)
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I don't think that works. The fact that it can produce different output for the same input, usage of tools etc. don't really fit into the analogy or mental model. What has worked for me is treating it like an enthusiastic intern w
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
I'm somewhere in between myself. Before LLMs, I used to block a few sites that distracted me by adding entries in /etc/hosts file to mapping them to 127.0.0.1 on my work machine. I also made the file immutable so that it woul
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
Yes but i usually use inkscape for geometric figures.
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
Fair enough. We can argue about the betterness of org but even if so, its enough better enough to push our something as popular as Markdown. The real item of value is org mode .
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
Org format is reasonably intuitive (so is markdown). But org's real power comes from org-mode and the rest of Emacs. Being able to use it as PIM, as a quick way to write documents and export them, as a way to take notes, the keystrokes
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by noufalibrahim 9mo ago
As a die hard old schooler, I agree. I wasn't particularly impressed by co-pilot though it did so a few interesting tricks. Aider was something I liked and used quite heavily (with sonnet). Claude Code has genuinely been useful. I&#x2
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
It was somewhat anesthetized compared to running out into an empty lot to play football but yeah better than staring at a screen and calling it networking.
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
Isn't this suitable for a Bayesian classifier? Label some data (manual + automation using substrings) and use that to train a classifier and then it should be able to predict things for you fairly well. There's a new feeling that
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
Yeah. I recently stumbled across this in an interesting way. Went down a rabbit hole. I was recreating an old game for my education[1]. Scummvm supports Eye of the Beholder and I used it to take screenshots to compare against my own work. I
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
Parent of 3 here. It's not just possible. It's quite normal for young kids to be well behaved in public places without having an electronic baby sitter.
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
Thanks for this. I'd appreciate your insights about his C style as well. I'm a lapsed C programmer myself.
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
He's one of my programming heroes but that's based purely on the sheer volume of high quality output he has. Can you elaborate a little about the methods you mention and how you analysed them?
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
Very much agree. In the rush to "simplify" writing, we've stripped out a lot of the colour in the prose and made it boring. Sentences have a certain rhythm which becomes even more apparent when they're read out loudly or
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by noufalibrahim 10mo ago
I think you've nailed it and it's kind of depressing in a way since there were a lot of things kids were part of just a few decades ago. The local football group, the bunch that gathered together to watch a TV show at one guys hou
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by noufalibrahim 11mo ago
"The compression seems a little off". I'm really curious what kind of background and knowledge the creator of that video would have to develop instincts like that.
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by noufalibrahim 11mo ago
In around 2002, I got my hands on an old 386 which I was planning to use for teaching myself things. I was able to breathe life into it using MicroLinux. Two superformatted 1.44" floppy disks and the thing booted. Basic kernel, 16 colo
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by noufalibrahim 11mo ago
I agree here. There is something to be said for soldiering through a rough phase. It's not always the right thing to do but below a certain threshold, it's necessary to build some amount of resilience. Collapsing at the slightest
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by noufalibrahim 11mo ago
That's equal parts evil and clever. And completely plausible. You've just reduced my faith in humanity a little. Thanks. :-/

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