monk_e_boy

I worked in SEO for ages, and it's shady as f. You can buy links from anyone, the BBC the guardian, the times... It just costs money. You can ask/force people to take links down (copyright scare, sue, threaten). Fake blogs, we used to run a bunch, some became so popular they became actual blogs on that subject. We'd get money from competitor SEO companies for links on it. There are tons of niche subjects with no info on the internet. We'd often put it up for SEO purposes. Wikipedia was started by an SEO company. The rumour was that Wales started it as a cheap way to get high page rank links to sites he owned. But the rewards were huge. Get a struggling car insurance site from position 11 in Google to position 2 or 1 and their profits would be 10x. They would show us numbers from each advertising sector, SEO, radio, TV, newspapers, etc. Super interesting. Break that down by age / gender ... Very interesting. No wonder the internet is a shit show. So much money involved and zero regulation.

In the Uk I expect they will shut down hard, then after the NHS recovers a little we'll get a little holiday from the shut down to spread the infection a little.

I guess they will do this in phases (e.g. some shops will be opened for a weekend) over the spring/summer and then we'll all go back to school next academic year.

How am I getting downvoted? How can satellites reflect the sun when they are in shadow?

And who is pointing their telescope up at sunrise? No one!

They are mostly a problem at sunrise and sunset when they catch the sun and reflect it. Astronomy isn't much good then anyway.

Most UK supermarkets offer this service. You need a store scanner that you pick up with the trolly. Scan everything, then pay and leave. You'll get stopped very occasionally for staff to check you aren't stealing. But they don't do much other than make you pay for things you haven't scanned. "Oh the kids put it in there without me noticing."

Glass and metal are a nightmare on the beach and in parks. Plastic sucks bad, but going back to glass isn't much better.

Vallies. Villages. Beaches.... Has this person never traveled?

Per KG of stuff moved it's pretty good.

I think Blue Origin will explode into the space race. Bezos is a smart fellow and his number one passion is space. I think competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin is happening right now and is fierce. I'm sure Musk knows what Bezos is up to and that's why he's driving the development of StartShip so hard (and StarLink)

This year is going to be interesting.

When we go to the beach twice a day for a surf - who can afford to pay for parking? Plus the jog to the beach is good for you.

And some people what to look like a surfer. I am a surfer who wants to look like a normal person.

Who buys a new board if they don't have to? Madness. I choose my equipment carefully, it has to match my style. Standing on some clever foam out in the middle of the ocean is tricky and very personal.

I wouldn't say it's part of the culture, it's just being normal. I don't upgrade my PC to stay on trend. I don't upgrade my surfboard to stay on trend. They are tools.

Maybe not cult, but 'trendy' for sure. It was skateboarding, windsurfing, surfing etc .... trends come and go.

Yeah, it's a nightmare when my kids are browing using my account -- tons of 18+ horror gets shown in amongst cartoons. It's such a dumb system.

Yes, we have more than one account. Mistakes happen.

Google search was curated by humans for a long time. Last guy I met who was doing it, now works for an SEO firm. Things like house insurance, medical insurance etc is highly hand tweaked.

I often wonder how Tesla will make use of Starlink. Such a huge data stream up and down will enable all sorts of interesting things. Maybe each car won't need a brain, maybe one huge brain will drive all cars. Sync all the cars up, make them act like a single giant distributed being.

You should throw it up on https://www.drivethrurpg.com/ and https://www.dmsguild.com/ that's where I tend to look for modules.

I was at the beach today (UK) and there was more net than I could carry. It was in about 100 bits that I tied together into a giant ball. There were around 60 plastic bottles, a few big plastic cans (oil) and lots of micro plastic.

Yep. We send drone deep into the ocean. To an Orca this is magical technology that isn't trying to cloak it's self.

Maybe they don't care if we see them?

A dungeon mapper, open source, it saves maps to the URL so no signup needed and they are easy to share with players.

https://monk-e-boy.github.io/dungeon-mapper/

Very simple to share parts of a dungeon and as the players explore reveal more of it by msg-ing them the new URL

Multi user dungeon

These skills are not hard. 3 months of apprenticeship, 1 day in college, 4 days in a job.

Just start building one, learn as you do it. All I do is insist that the students do it. They're all like you, "Oh I don't know if I can." .. I just force them to do it.

Another bunch of non-coders - first assignment is to send a waether balloon up (50,000 ft) and take picture. You've just got to want to do it. Posting on HN isn't enough. Start typing in code. Don't stop until you are an expert.

My students do three:

Reddit clone

Food bank organisation, shops submit out of date food. People want food. You organise this, facebook like interface.

MUD clone

Code these three. Put on github.

I have a num pad separate to my keyboard so I can move it around.

It also saves macros to keys, so I can hit a key and deploy my project. Also, cut, copy and paste are now one key press - take that RSI! Basically, anything that is uncomfortable for my hands to do, I macro and put on a key.

One day in the future I hope to turn up at 9am, click one key and my days work will play out as a sequence of macros as I drink cups of tea and earn the big bucks.

Couple this with repl.it and some examples to work through. Some hints on how to debug it, etc.

I'm not asking for anything magic, just the glue that sticks all these bits together.

I still want to see the mill cpu in silicon. It sounds too good to be true.

It's crazy that N64 games (e.g. mario) have really interesting menu screens, with nice animations, an interesting background, menu items that pop and jiggle... all pretty much impossible in HTML for someone like me.

A simple BOT that a student could ask for advice "I don't understand Python WHILE loops" and it pointed them to a YouTube video coupled with some easy examples.

I see that is almost possible now.

Oh wow, thanks for that link. I've been wanting my users to be able to save data and share links for ages.

The degree covers a lot of ground. Different languages, AI, robotics, people management, teams, etc etc

Mostly it informs the student of their current level of understanding. 70% of lecturing is marking assignments. That’s what you don’t get when you teach yourself.

Well, Bostrom states that there will be more ideas in the future that may change the simulation theory. It's the latest most plausable theory.