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I also always look for the IRE MUDs :) I played Achaea about 15 years ago; the community of players really makes the game what it is. (If anybody remembers Soludra, that's me!)

I can't speak to "most", but the incredible CrossCode displays the HTML5 shield on startup, so indie games on the web stack do exist and can be amazing.

I think "a week" is slightly optimistic, but I also think "a month" is slightly pessimistic. When I learned hiragana, I spent my free time drilling on RealKana [0]. I'd focus on a …

As you say, projections and rotations are easily accounted for in linear algebra. The issue is that translations are not a linear transformation. For instance, consider f(x) = 2 + …

> It feels like software developers are scientists who study their customers' knowledge domains. I agree so much with this. It's why I feel so stifled when an e.g. product manager …

> I've recently been curious about the abstract machines implied by this process for other kinds of programs. Olivier Danvy's "Rational Reconstruction of the SECD Machine" [0] expl…

An eDSL is an (e)mbedded (D)omain-(S)pecific (L)anguage. In other words, it's a language for describing domain-specific entities and operations, that happens to be embedded into an…

I saw signs of both human and LLM authorship, so it's probably at least not slop . It did take me out of it a bit though, yes.

Yes, this is missing the "pressure" part of "backpressure", where the recipient is able to signal to the producer that they should slow down or stop producing messages. Observabili…

HTML is actually a dialect of SGML. XHTML was an attempt to move to an XML-based foundation, but XML's strictness in parsing worked against it, and eventually folks just standardiz…

Wait, how is Rocket League affected by AI? I play infrequently these days, but I hadn't noticed anything :(

I have a friend who named their custom-built languages "Monica" and "Joe". It's surprisingly common for homegrown languages, I think.

> room designated was meadows and you could find herbs which would replenish over time I'm sure several MUDs did this, but, this sounds an awful lot like my home MUD of Achaea, whi…

I agree in principle, but actually, according to the netcat website [0]: > If netcat is compiled with -DTELNET, the -t argument enables it to respond to telnet option negotiation […

> [...] no, I am not confused, because I was giving an example of why the Telnet-implementation, the program, the client, was so inadequate for playing on MUD servers. Then this is…

As a MUD enthusiast of two decades, this is not accurate. Where are you getting this information? Most MUDs implement RFC 854, and a number of non-standard Telnet option subnegotia…

The difference between "telnet" the program and "telnet" the protocol is especially important in this discussion, I think. A more "proper" tool for that is netcat -- I doubt SMTP s…

> Someone upstream of a significant chunk of the internet’s transit infrastructure apparently decided telnet traffic isn’t worth carrying anymore. That’s probably the right call. D…

Top 0.44% here. Hrm...

I'd just like to invoke the principle to "not judge a book by its cover". The article here is very well written and does a great job of conveying the perspectives and opinions of m…

> I don't understand this urge to demonize the parents, who on top of having lost a child, have to stand these witchtrials. Neither the article nor the commenter you replied to has…

Also relevant to the quote selected by 'steelbrain: > Recently, Parvaz Madadi has undergone a painful process of revisiting her past work and memories. [...] She added that she had…

I am young, but not so young as that. I do have a credit card, I just don't use it for anything except the monthly cost of server hosting (to keep it in use). Despite its disuse, I…

I had this thought as well. I didn't want to raise it myself, because I don't have any personal evidence that this is the case, but of course the "cash back" has to come from somew…

I've heard this, too, and it's a good reason to use a credit card at least for significant purchases. But I'd rather see those same protections extended to debit cards. I wish I un…