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by JackCh 8y ago
It's helpful to use -i, --ignore-errors When doing that. By default, if a playlist contains a single video that's no longer available, youtube-dl will stop downloading the playlist when it hits that video. When playing a
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by JackCh 8y ago
I bet most would start doing it with screen capture software/cards. I think many already are.
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Do I have the right to go into peoples homes and root through their archived correspondence to find and burn lengthy personal Christmas letters I once sent them? If instead of writing a letter I made a video and sent them a link, and they
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by JackCh 8y ago
If by "elephant in the room" you mean "something nobody gives a single shit about." Seriously, why should I care? Should File->Save Page As... be considered the "elephant in the room" when Firefox is
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by JackCh 8y ago
Youtube-dl works with nearly everything. It's incredibly versatile.
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by JackCh 8y ago
If you hold down shift, you can drag-and-drop youtube links into a running mpv instance to add those links to the current playlist.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Real audiobooks are fine when available but the selection is very limited. Many books worth reading have never been narrated. There is also the trouble of "A/V sync", wherein you want to mix reading the book with listening t
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by JackCh 8y ago
Sufficiently advanced malice disguises itself as stupidity.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "I read a lot, but have a lot less time for it since I started biking to work instead of taking the train." If you're not adverse to wearing ear buds while biking (I know some people are, for situational awareness reas
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by JackCh 8y ago
Adding qualifications? The context of this discussion was plainly train stations; in fact I explicitly mentioned train stations twice in my original comment. Display technology seems to be something you take very personally, but that&#x
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by JackCh 8y ago
We're talking about train station displays, not arbitrary displays. Nobody has ever done word processing on a split-flap display so obviously I'm talking about a restricted domain. They don't need to display arbitrary infor
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by JackCh 8y ago
The best display technology IMHO is the old electro-mechanical split-flap. They update pretty fast, and they make one hell of a racket when they do so everybody in the train station knows when something updated (this is a feature). They&#
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by JackCh 8y ago
Netflix is no longer competing with traditional television, they're competing with a user-driver modern web. Youtube doesn't allow all kinds of content but even so it has orders of magnitude more coverage than netflix. And for
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I'm not furious about anything, did you notice that I'm not the guy upthread? Though I do find your assumption that I like Friends and Breaking Bad to be strange. Why do you assume that? > "Netflix is providing content
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "When weed is entirely legal, I would not be surprised if there really was an Uber for weed" There was during the gray-market period in Washington, following the legalization vote but before the regulation was finalized. D
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> "I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus." Seriously? They teach this in 5th or 6th grade science classes in American public schools. I'm pretty su
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by JackCh 8y ago
Both are true, depending on the individual. One one end you'll find people who insist on thinking for themselves no matter their environment. On the other end of the scale you'll find people who never think, even when placed in
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by JackCh 8y ago
The harmful social pressure to drink alcohol is no excuse to introduce new social pressures to consume other drugs. On the contrary, it serves as a good example of why that shouldn't be done.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I made a straightforward statement concerning my perception of what is 'cool', of course that statement says something about my concept of 'cool'! What you really wanted to do here was to criticize my concept of coo
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "The goal isn't to produce a speech-to-text system that can recognize a perfectly miked BBC announcer." Wait what? The headline is about text-to-speech aka speech synthesis, not speech recognition (speech-to-text.)
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by JackCh 8y ago
It's probably best for civility's sake if he didn't. Would it really add much to the discussion if he did? I think it should suffice to say that the range of netflix content is far narrower than the ideological range of the
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Weed was cool until The Man started wanting me to smoke it.
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by JackCh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek
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by JackCh 8y ago
If the controls for everything that I need are physical, then I don't need the digital controls.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Are you aware that your website cannot be accessed from many Tor exit nodes without solving a google captcha?
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by JackCh 8y ago
We live in a world where the rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I prefer critical analysis to unthinking yes-men. To the extent that HN administration agrees with me, I appreciate them.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Find reasons in the present to appreciate life. Anticipation of new things shouldn't be your sole source of happiness. Criticism of flashy and ambitious but unworkable ideas shouldn't make you depressed because there should be p
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by JackCh 8y ago
Chinese cars, not built to the safety standards demanded by other nations or built to the bare minimum at best, tend to be man-killers not Tesla-killers.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Most gas stations will realize they have the real estate once they calculate how many additional hotdogs those bored EV drivers will buy while they're waiting for their charge.

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