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With the enormous amount of time we all waste in cheap entertainment this days, I think the willingness to spend as much time digging and tweaking and hacking i
by protontorpedo 5y ago
With the enormous amount of time we all waste in cheap entertainment this days, I think the willingness to spend as much time digging and tweaking and hacking is to be celebrated.
- reaperducer 5y agoSome people binge 200 hours of so-called reality TV a week. Others dig into the code of dead operating systems. I would think that on HN one of these would automatically be considered more worthy of one's time than the other.
- msl 5y agoYeah, figuring out how to fit 200 hours of anything into 168 hours seems like a worthy endeavor indeed.
- drewzero1 5y agoYou could just squeak by if you watched it on 1.25s speed. You'd even have 8 hours to nap or go to the bathroom!
- slightwinder 5y agoI watch most videos on 1.5 - 1.8, and sometimes even run some parallel. That's pretty normal these days with all that low quality-content around. But even then, watching 200h in a week is pretty awful. And for high quality content I usually take a bit more time, after all it's worth it.
- ALittleLight 5y agoYou could increase your throughput with multiple monitors to simultaneously view multiple episodes. A bit of gaze detection and audio could switch to whichever feed your eyes focused on.
- openknot 5y agoOne of the most hardworking people I know, who is academically accomplished and had an extraordinarily high amount of research experience as an undergraduate, spent most of his free time on mindless reality TV. He told me that the idea was to 'shut his brain off' from his day-to-day work, while other more intensive hobbies would drain him further.
- protontorpedo 5y agoThat's absolutely fair and I'm not trying to imply that cheap entertainment is all bad. It was more of a reaction to the parent comment, which seemeed to imply that the endeavour wasn't worth it.
- jatone 5y agobut i do both simultaneously.... the tv is background noise.