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New comment by roelmore in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

roelmore — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:20:10 +0000

Man, I hadn't made the connection between my historical MUD experience (shout out Dark and Shattered Lands!) and my relative comfort in TUIs despite my somewhat non-technical background. My son is turning 7 this year and I'd love to get him into something like DSL....it was such a valuable experience for me across a variety of aspects -- obviously reading/typing certainly, but also strategy & problem solving, math, imagination, empathy/social interaction....What an incredible gift it was to have grown up in a time when graphics were worse and our brains weren't completely hacked yet.

New comment by roelmore in "The kids with phones are alright"

roelmore — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:19:20 +0000

Forgive me if I am misinterpreting or getting in the way of your primary point -- but I think it is relatively well recognized that, though cyberbullying might not be objectively worse than analog bullying (obviously direct physical abuse/altercations cant happen electronically....yet), the 24/7 pervasiveness, anonymity, lack of emotional feedback for the bully, reach, and permanence of cyberbullying has had a meaningful impact on the state of the bullying game and the impacts it has on children.

That doesn't mean I agree with the general thrust of taking technology away from kids and young adults....I don't. But I do think we should probably understand the bad that we are taking with the good.

New comment by roelmore in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

roelmore — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:31:13 +0000

Smart money would be on the first person who realized that the expertise required to understand the technical details had grown beyond that possessed by 51%+ of stock investing (trading?) population as weighted by transaction volume.

New comment by roelmore in "A Love Story"

roelmore — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:36:55 +0000

I found it to be kind of an softer, engaging presentation which is kind of nice given the subject matter....Kind of gimmicky but its a little Saturday scroll!

At the bottom of the article they have linked the dataset and a couple analyses more traditionally presented.

New comment by roelmore in "Ten Basic Clouds"

roelmore — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:44:35 +0000

In opus 4.8 they can

New comment by roelmore in "How inevitable is the concept of numbers? (2021)"

roelmore — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:41:03 +0000

This is a wonderful illustration of how dumb I am, I think.

New comment by roelmore in "Jimmy Wales’ Final Email"

roelmore — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:44:25 +0000

They just do what works. Is this what 'ends justify the means'....means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

New comment by roelmore in "Stripe Reader"

roelmore — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:04:54 +0000

Totally see the rationale for annexing this profit pool (offline / card-present transactions)....but this doesn't feel to me like it is aligned with "increasing the GDP of the internet" -- unless I am missing something. And I'd love to be missing something, because thinking about Stripe and their strategy is very fun.