tombh

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   by tombh 4y ago

   It's actually at the top of Reddit's r/AskHistorians recommended reading list[1]. And I in fact ended up choosing to read it instead of Guns, Germs and Steel after enough comments there suggested to me that it was more deep
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   by tombh 4y ago

   I need a font (or some other method) to display the UTF8 Full Block for all characters, including CJK. Does anybody know of anything? It's for rendering in Browsh, a text-based web browser: https://github.com/browsh-o
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   by tombh 4y ago

   ` I am @tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad in South America .
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   by tombh 4y ago

   I just set up khal recently with vdirsyncer too! But to read my Fastmail Calendar. I was a little surprised that the default khal config was not at all to my liking. Here's what I ended up with: [calendars] [[main]]
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   by tombh 4y ago

   I don't think my comment helped. You had already made what I think is the main point, that a _common_ linguistic ancestor (rather than direct ancestry) is plausible between the Hun and the Navajo. But the parent comment author (which I
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   by tombh 4y ago

   I may be misunderstanding your point, but Wikipedia is suggesting that the connection is because of a _back_ migration from North America to Asia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951421
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   by tombh 4y ago

   Well you've inspired me to make more TUIs!
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   by tombh 4y ago

   This is amazing! So we could have an entire other internet based on your protocol? I'm definitely going to take inspiration from it, thank you.
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   by tombh 4y ago

   How do you mean run locally? Like caching Stack pages? At least, Browsh has a Docker image, so anywhere you can run `docker run browsh/browsh`, you can run Browsh.
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    by tombh 4y ago

    The best example is the scrolling one. MoSH scrolls the buffer on the _remote_ machine and tries to send the _UI_ diff. I want my protocol to send the whole document (or at least many pages worth of it), so that scrolling can be done locall
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Oh yes, that makes sense. I wonder if anybody's ever attempted that before
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    by tombh 4y ago

    How do you mean? Like supporting emojis?
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Wow, that's really motivating to hear, thank so much :)
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    by tombh 4y ago

    I must admit I've never used Gemini nor Gopher. Where do I start?
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Well the whole point of Browsh is that you run it on a remote server and use other clients to access it. You can even access Browsh with plain curl using Browsh's HTTP server mode: https://www.brow.sh/docs/in-brows
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Ah, that's what I feared, close but not close enough :/
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    by tombh 4y ago

    I was for a long time against that, simply because it can't be represented as text. But now I understand that sixels are just more text-based ANSI escape codes! So I'm on board again, but I'm not so personally interested in i
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    by tombh 4y ago

    That's exactly what I mean. It's annoying seeing as in theory the diff should have been small. But I guess it's just MoSH's algorithm not being quite clever enough. I wonder what can be learnt from video codecs in this r
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Author here. I haven't done much with the code in about 3 years. But I still have lots of plans for it. The big thing is I want to write my own UDP protocol for it. It'll be similar to MoSH's in the sense it's optimised
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    by tombh 4y ago

    Me too. It's essentially a polemic of the common idea that modernity "fell" from Eden, or more conventionally, "fell" from Rousseau's State of Nature. Gobekli Tepi is used as one of many examples of how nowaday
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    by tombh 4y ago

    I think Noam Chomsky even believes that human's language ability was selected for to aid computation not communication. Therefore in humans: communication IS computation.
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    by tombh 4y ago

    ` I am @tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad in South America .
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    by tombh 4y ago

    ` I am @tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad in South America .
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    by tombh 4y ago

    > There is no such thing as Western Science, Eastern Science, Chinese Science, or Indigenous Science. There is just Science ... Of course we all understand that. But isn't the reality that Science is skewed towards Science That Gets
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    by tombh 5y ago

    That's the real koan.
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    by tombh 5y ago

    me too. this must have been studied linguistically somewhere? when i'm in lowercase mode i'll actually even go back and delete an accidental uppercase letter! so it's not just about laziness. maybe it has something to do with
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    by tombh 5y ago

    SEEKING WORK | Remote, South America timezones (British digital nomad) Some of you might know me from https://brow.sh that's been on the front page a few times. Technologies: Linux, Typescript, Ruby, Python, Kubernetes,
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    by tombh 5y ago

    ` I am @tombh Full-stack engineer with 15 years experience ' British digital nomad in South America
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    by tombh 5y ago

    r/AskHistorians seems to prefer Why The West Rules: For Now by Ian Morris. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004ASNG04
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    by tombh 5y ago

    I'm not actually an expert on the matter, but I suspect not, unless the light response was to simply return more light.