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Awww I am sorry your piratey romance didn’t work out, people can definitely turn out to be different from their pirates, but I hope Puzzle Pirates (my game) was overall a positive …

The aside about mailing lists is well made: with the exception of SMS, email is the one method of customer contact not mediated by big tech networks (save arguably Gmail) and porta…

The bot 'inhabits' a Reachy Lite Mini and uses a mix of local and frontier models. github: https://github.com/algal/sparky

Not whom you are replying to, nor a rocket hobbyist myself, but yes, they do build and launch rockets for fun, eg VC Steve Jurvetson out at black rock: https://www.flickr.com/photo…

Surely! Too perfect to be accidental. Context: Charles Stross 2005 book Accelerando features simulated Lobsters that achieve consciousness and, with the help of the central charact…

This is common practice in gambling and now games, too: Zynga has 'VIP' teams for high-spending free to play game customers, they would talk on the phone at length, get to know the…

This redistribution of revenues from new to old has also taken place in games: ~90% of time in games on PC is spent in games older than a year, ~50% in games 5+ years old like Fort…

This is my earliest memory. When I was two, and did not yet know how to swim, I was visiting with family who had a place right on the river Thames near Henley. I was running around…

Yes. See 'Thinking in Bets' by Annie Duke for a good summary of why Poker is interesting / useful. World is Casino! Blood on the Clocktower is great! My 15yo son is always trying t…

If you have not, do read Cory Doctorow's 'The Lost Cause': it features a rebuild like this (no robots tho iirc.) You might like his mid-singularity novel Walkaway, too :)

This looks like a great tool and sort of makes me wish I was starting a new game rather than hand-knitting more cruft into our homemade backend. Kudos for open-sourcing it with a p…

This is a short seller trying to profit by shouting 'fire': https://twitter.com/Seonicx/status/1634804400567746560 Bank runs are a tragedy of the commons, trampling people in panic…

My lad has been learning Python in Replit. It looks like they are trying to introduce community feedback loops. For making games, Roblox is perhaps a good choice. You can post a mo…

The choice between mandatory ‘more than half time’ in the office and completely remote (‘with on/offsites!’) is interesting. Swooping through the office for meetings is discouraged…

Leaving aside whether debt is 'fair' (is it fair that productive assets like land are in the hands of a hereditary plutocracy?), there is some evidence that debt forgiveness can wo…

With a scrap of paper holding the PSS codes and login info I was introduced to MUD by 'Innocence the Witch', school computer lab admin by day. I played from 1982-84, usually ~5am-7…