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New comment by sm0olr in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

sm0olr — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:51:16 +0000

You’re unlikely to convince an adult of that age who has willingly spent 10s of thousands of dollars on a children’s game that they maybe shouldn’t be playing it.

New comment by sm0olr in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

sm0olr — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:30:41 +0000

Haha, getting on the same page was easy for us cause I’m a light sleeper and our little dude was waking up every ~1 hr for weeks during the night so I’d wake up when my wife fed him. We hit our breaking point when we were both so tired we couldn’t set up a pack and play after about 30 mins of trying.

New comment by sm0olr in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

sm0olr — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:35:23 +0000

My wife and I have a 7 month old and have learned that other parents do not like hearing about babies who sleep well. We don’t bring it up deliberately, but it comes up in conversation naturally sometimes. I have a lot of friends who say their 2+ year olds still don’t sleep through the night and say we’re lucky.

The luck attribution really downplays the rigidity of the schedule and routines my wife and I have kept for the little dude for MONTHS. It is the same schedule every single evening barring extenuating circumstances. But nobody wants to accept that we actually put effort in day after day to protect and foster the sleep schedule.

New comment by sm0olr in "Ask.com has closed"

sm0olr — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:09:16 +0000

I worked for MapQuest in 2021 as an engineer. It’s pretty weird. I led a rebuild from Angular to React. Backend was all Scala. Really fun job and I worked with some excellent engineers. But the future, despite what leadership wanted us to think, was very clear in that it was a dying product with no real way back.