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There's all that stuff on other platforms. Reddit subreddit indie games would be neat if I could just open the post and play the game.

I can't imagine I'd use Steam much after that. (And I guess facebook would do the same.)

As for payments, I already pay mostly through Google pay or through paypal. Steam isn't adding a huge amount of value.

I'm in education, teaching post 16 up to adults.

This is an obvious direction teaching is going. During the pandemic while we were all in lockdown, I recorded my lectures as I did them live. Students would then go back and watch them multiple times. It was very interesting to observe this behaviour.

So the next logical step is to keep those lectures online for future students.

And I'm not particularly photogenic, I'm not a trained actor. I'm a coder.

So why not get Brad Pitt to record my lectures, make them entertaining, informative. Make each lecture the perfect lecture.

Then just show these lectures to students.

[edit] mix in some AI to help debug code / mark work. I see someone has commented that we should poll students and get their reaction. I talk to them every day, I've done flipped classroom. I've worked through the pandemic. I'm sure you still learn things, watch YouTube videos on how to do stuff, e.g. DIY or painting or how to code. The future of education is very interesting.

It's so obvious I'm sure there are companies out there doing this at the moment. Then colleges and unis could subscribe to these lecture videos and .... that's the end of qualified lecture staff.

Yes and yes. I expect Blue Origin are playing catch up with star ship. New Glenn could only self land the booster, not the upper stage. There's no way that could compete with star ship, it almost doesn't compete with falcon heavy.

Yeah, these were good as you could filter out the "funny memes"

I was walking with my French girl, I told her that I know these woods like the back of my hand. She said she knew them like the inside of her pocket.

It's an interesting and very clever technique. But those landscapes don't look real in any sense. They look like painted clouds. Uncanny valley? Maybe not even that close to reality.

Stopping people having fun doesn't have anything to do with plastics. So that's a weird argument to have.

Just put a return value on plastic. Have governments pay out for plastics returned to them. £20 a kilo? £200 a kilo? At some point it you can make it worth while taking a ship to sea and fishing plastic out to make money.

Where does the government get the money to pay for plastic recycling? Tax the plastic producers.

There are solutions to most of our problems, it's us not voting in a government that will address these issues.

The story at the moment is a 2 deg c up tick, that sounds pretty fine to me. So we don't get snow so often? OK, but the summers are nicer. All good.

But if the reality is that wild fires burn my house to the ground and snow storms cut me off, freeze my pipes and stop me getting to work - now I'm listening.

I think that's the part people need to hear - we're moving from semi-stable to a more chaotic climate.

The extremes are moving, and it doesn't take many shifts to destroy everything. E.g. dry + fire, or ice + time, or storms + floods, or humidity + time

Naps! Seriously, if you're lying in bed and can't sleep .... you're not sleepy. Get up, do something. (Listen to your body)

Hell, I can go a few days on 2 hours sleep, then sleep like, 8 hours or 12 hours. Or I'll sleep 5 hours (from 5pm to 10pm) then sleep maybe from 4am to 7am ...

There's plenty of chores to do, or a bit of DIY or watching tv...

Get a diary. Write the stuff in there. Next time you wake up, tell your brain, thank you for reminding me, but we already wrote this down - look. And read it aloud. Eventually your brain will get it and stop waking you up (you should read The Chimp Paradox -- about how your brain works)

Naps!

Seriously, listen to your mind and your body. If it needs sleep, give it some. It it requires painting or dancing, do it!

Votes need change from INT to FLOAT, so old people get 0.75 of a vote and young people get 1.5 ... because <lots of reasons>

[edit] downvotes! Why? Is it a crazy idea that young people should have more of a say about their future than old people? Where I live the old generation are fucking over the young generation in a big way.

I do (well to apprentices who are the same age and same level) I teach about 2 hours a week on c++ and they are fine. They pass the cpp institute exams (which are super hard!)

So unless you actually DO teach then don't assume :)

... how will you know? Without measuring "success" (however you define it) you will never know.

It may have already happened and you missed it.

As an educator that uses the free version of your site... A debugger for Python is the killer feature you're missing.

Stepping through code, especially loops for beginners is game changing.

As someone who doesn't code all day any longer, factorio really tickles that part of my brain.

Every problem that needs to be overcome, every obstacle in the path, every idiotic decision I curse is something I did previously just to get things working. Then I run out of space. Or I need to pipe water in. Or a factory is outputting to the left when outputting to the right would be a better decision .... hmm ... do I move 200 componenets or just ... slap a train station in? Or 1,000 belts? ARGH! I've done it again!

This. We teach coding, we start with logic, then move onto functions, then OOP, then patterns, then back to functional. Then it's up to the student or the business to make a choice. Saying that you don't think OOP is as good as functional programming is like, part of the course. Some people like it, some don't, most mix and match. 90% don't care enough to write blog posts.

The blog post feels like a short essay I may get from a student. shrug .... there's lots of nice research on the order in which to teach the elements of programming, lots of people say start with OOP and then do functions, as that's the more natural progression. Personally I disagree and teach it the way I described. But both are valid.

When these get put in phones, people will upgrade far less often... that'll put more pressure on the smaller phone companies. Anecdotal - all my friends upgrade for more batter life or better camera. CPU / OS updates don't really bother them.

Agree, never heard of bees as a service - also live in a farming community. We farm different crops here.

I assume the pilot knows their speed, the wind speed and direction and using radar the objects speed and direction.

Especially for hydrofoils. Makes no sense

They're also used to slow traffic. Because you need to check before entering, all traffic slows, even on unevenly weighted traffic. So still useful.

Although the UK seems to be going towards more lights and fewer larger roundabouts.

Or how wings work.

I wonder if all the people without internet will join the discussion? Oh .... wait ....

Agreed - students have already moved to google docs or MS Word with OneDrive. We are used to giving feedback using these tools, students making changes and getting those signed off by us.

Full history of changes. Full history of lecturer comments. Backed up online. Editable on phones, laptops, PCs...

This is the world they are expecting when they enter employment, or start their own start up.

The teaching facility that I work, just a few days before the lock down it was business as usual. We all knew that we were supposed to distance, but how? The cafe was chock full of students, the libraries full to bursting. All lectures full. Tiny corridoors, limited parking, 20 busses full of students....

And we ALL knew it was crazy.

We can't magic up new buildings, or new classrooms or lecture halls. We lecture 20+ students in rooms that seat .... wait for it .... 20(ish) students. I have no idea how to social distance in there.

Half students in? How do I teach half a class, then the other half? Do they magic up a second Monday for me to teach in? And half students, they are still less than 2m apart.

Outside? Teaching IT and coding? Huh?

Exams?

Busses?

The car park?

Older / elderly lecturers - especially those in management. What do with they then?

A fair few of our students are nurses so they know the risks and are happy to inform everyone.

I think we'll open and just hope for the best. Some people are going to get sick and there's not much we can do to avoid it. Unless we stop education for a year.

He does seem a little petulant. As soon as things don't go his way he stamps his little feet in anger.

But I guess that's part of why he's so successful, he just blasts through any kind of roadblock. Straight to the nuclear option.

If he really believes Corvig-19 is nothing then his actions make sense. But he's a smart guy, and he must understand it's dangerous... maybe he just doesn't care if people die? Or maybe Tesla succeeding and his cars end up saving more lives than a factory shutting down for a few weeks would?

It's an ugly side to him, that's for sure.

[edit] My neighbour works in ICU and we have few cases here. He has now caught Corvid-19 and is really ill. My neighbour is late 40's and is training for an iron man, so he's pretty darn fit. This is a dangerous bug, that's for sure.

I think they are giving all houses a number now, most houses around me (south west uk) have a name and a number now, where they all used to have names.

My house has a number, but for some reason it's listed under the "name" of my house - no end of confusion.

why do they take up slots in your inventory? It's weird. And the blueprint book seems useless -- and I can't google because there are too many "spoilers" associated with blueprints .... I wish there was more help in game