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There is an accompanying YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY Grady makes great civil enginee

There is an accompanying YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY Grady makes great civil engineering videos.

ternaryoperator 5y ago
That's got to be one of the finest tutorial videos I've ever watched (and I watch a lot)!
- geerlingguy 5y ago
  He didn't even build any special contraptions for this video; his little acrylic demonstrators explain complex processes in a very easy to understand way.
dylan604 5y ago
You say accompanying video, and I say this post is a transcript of that video. Subtle, but still different.
- croes 5y ago
  Sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249325
- wink 5y ago
  I also didn't see the video and just read (and enjoyed) the text. (Of course you are right, but I'm just saying it is kinda meaningless which came first or which is supposed to be the important one, different audiences :P)
- jliptzin 5y ago
  Thank you, I felt like I was reading a transcript the whole time, I would have preferred to just watch the video
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Any time you read "Hi, my name is ____ and this is _____" you know it's a transcript. Nobody (hopefully) writes like that for reading consumption. It's just so awkard when read. There was another one of these here just the other day about processing cocoa from bean to chocolate. The written text kept saying things that implied a visual reference, but no images to support it. It wasn't until the end of the transcript before the video itself was embedded.
  - jhugo 5y ago
    It's great that the transcript exists though. I never would have watched the video (video is my least favourite format for information of any kind) so I would have missed out. More YouTubers should do transcripts!
    - mercutio2 5y ago
      I will basically never watch a video unless it’s the only possible source of information for something I desperately need about how to repair something (which is becoming more often, unfortunately). It amazes me that ANYONE would prefer to watch a video over reading, I literally cannot understand why that would be the case. It would be great if prefer-video people could write something up for video-never people like me on why they prefer it! Then I could try to make a truly terrible video explaining my perspective. ;)
- oh_sigh 5y ago
  You say transcript, and I say this post is the script of that video. Subtle, but different.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Have you ever seen a script? This is not formatted as a script in the least bit. Nobody that knows anything about scripts would ever call this a script. It is a transcript.
    - oh_sigh 5y ago
      It's not formatted as a script, but it is a script. This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text. A transcript, while definitionally broad, is commonly used with the implication that someone has spoken in free-form (ie not reading from a script), and the transcript is the writing down of their speech.
      - dylan604 5y ago
        >This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text. You know this how?
        oh_sigh 5y ago
        I direct messaged grady via youtube and that was his response
pockettanyas 5y ago
The image at the top of the link is actually an embedded video
- dylan604 5y ago
  totally missed the play button. it hides pretty well under that arrow.
bambax 5y ago
Thanks for the video. I missed it and it's better than the transcript because it has schemas (the current solution is hard to understand without them). I'm surprised the piles don't break due to the sinking on only one side? Can it not happen?

There is an accompanying YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY Grady makes great civil engineering videos.

ternaryoperator 5y ago

That's got to be one of the finest tutorial videos I've ever watched (and I watch a lot)!

geerlingguy 5y ago
He didn't even build any special contraptions for this video; his little acrylic demonstrators explain complex processes in a very easy to understand way.

dylan604 5y ago

You say accompanying video, and I say this post is a transcript of that video. Subtle, but still different.

croes 5y ago
Sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249325
wink 5y ago
I also didn't see the video and just read (and enjoyed) the text. (Of course you are right, but I'm just saying it is kinda meaningless which came first or which is supposed to be the important one, different audiences :P)
jliptzin 5y ago
Thank you, I felt like I was reading a transcript the whole time, I would have preferred to just watch the video
- dylan604 5y ago
  Any time you read "Hi, my name is ____ and this is _____" you know it's a transcript. Nobody (hopefully) writes like that for reading consumption. It's just so awkard when read. There was another one of these here just the other day about processing cocoa from bean to chocolate. The written text kept saying things that implied a visual reference, but no images to support it. It wasn't until the end of the transcript before the video itself was embedded.
- jhugo 5y ago
  It's great that the transcript exists though. I never would have watched the video (video is my least favourite format for information of any kind) so I would have missed out. More YouTubers should do transcripts!
  - mercutio2 5y ago
    I will basically never watch a video unless it’s the only possible source of information for something I desperately need about how to repair something (which is becoming more often, unfortunately). It amazes me that ANYONE would prefer to watch a video over reading, I literally cannot understand why that would be the case. It would be great if prefer-video people could write something up for video-never people like me on why they prefer it! Then I could try to make a truly terrible video explaining my perspective. ;)
oh_sigh 5y ago
You say transcript, and I say this post is the script of that video. Subtle, but different.
- dylan604 5y ago
  Have you ever seen a script? This is not formatted as a script in the least bit. Nobody that knows anything about scripts would ever call this a script. It is a transcript.
  - oh_sigh 5y ago
    It's not formatted as a script, but it is a script. This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text. A transcript, while definitionally broad, is commonly used with the implication that someone has spoken in free-form (ie not reading from a script), and the transcript is the writing down of their speech.
    - dylan604 5y ago
      >This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text. You know this how?
      - oh_sigh 5y ago
        I direct messaged grady via youtube and that was his response

pockettanyas 5y ago

The image at the top of the link is actually an embedded video

dylan604 5y ago
totally missed the play button. it hides pretty well under that arrow.

bambax 5y ago

Thanks for the video. I missed it and it's better than the transcript because it has schemas (the current solution is hard to understand without them). I'm surprised the piles don't break due to the sinking on only one side? Can it not happen?