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by laumars 4y ago
I don’t think biological realism was the key criteria in 90s computer games.
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by laumars 4y ago
If you’re waiting until a few hundred thousand views before moderating a video then you’re already too late. And if you think ignoring millions of unpopular videos watched by thousands of people (in many cases, each) isn’t risky then you’ve
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by laumars 4y ago
I’m management now and definitely an empathetic one. But there’s plenty of studies about the assumptions people make about their own capabilities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect So the moment some
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by laumars 4y ago
Advertiser have no less of an idea who watches videos on YT than they do on TV. Advertisers choose their slot on TV. They also choose their demographic on YouTube (it’s called “targeted advertising”). Hence why you’re more likely to get ad
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by laumars 4y ago
This is true for how GMail became dominant but most video sharing platforms were already free before YouTube, and still are now. Sure there are some non-free services, but YouTube (even pre-Google) didn’t invent the free video hosting parad
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by laumars 4y ago
> Which uploaders? I gave examples. > Well those aren't going to be monetized or affected by this kind of thing. I’m pretty sure they’ll be affect by their channel getting suspended ;) > And if youtube goes weird they can
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by laumars 4y ago
That’s a fair point. :)
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by laumars 4y ago
> If you're not even getting a thousand views then it's not going to be a big deal if some of your videos get messed with. I don’t think uploaders would agree with that sentiment. For starters not every video uploaded is by onl
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by laumars 4y ago
Even in classical broadcasting in Europe there’s an element outside of the broadcasters control. In the U.K. we have a “watershed” where content gets more adult after 9PM. But kids can watch TV after then and still see adverts for alcohol.
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by laumars 4y ago
I agree it sucks but again, I feel compelled to remind people who YTs customers are. Content creators benefit from YouTubes business model but they are neither YTs customers, employers nor even their intended users (ie the people watching t
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by laumars 4y ago
There have been plenty of video platforms with a great mobile experience that have gone under. And I’d argue that YTs mobile app isn’t even that good. You can’t make technical argument for why something gains traction. Most people don’t cho
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by laumars 4y ago
But this comes back to the point about who the customer is. YT are not harming his customers. They’re harming (from their perspective) those annoying expenses. I don’t think you can equate it to a business relationship because those same re
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by laumars 4y ago
The problem we have is that popular content creators are the most susceptible to the problems caused by YTs moderation. Your solution only reinforces that problem since you’re excluding unpopular content creators. You’re also making the ass
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by laumars 4y ago
I once read a quote from some movie exec that basically said studios turn to old content when the economy is weak because it is lower risk. I find this to be true from a few perspectives, it’s lower risk financially for the studio but it’s
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by laumars 4y ago
How do you define “harm”? And who are YTs customers? The problem here is that “harm” is subjective and YTs customers (advertisers) are not the same as their users (viewers), who are also different from their content creators. I’m not defend
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by laumars 4y ago
You’re making a lot of illogical counter arguments here. > Maybe I have a different understanding of how people use YT… You’re not disagreeing with my point though. Just talking about it from the other end. But the point you’re making
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by laumars 4y ago
> There comes a point where Youtube is not saving money by automating their content moderation but Youtube decides to keep pushing forward. When you deal with the scale that YT are operating at, automating content moderation is the onl
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by laumars 4y ago
Strafing was in Wolf3D too. In fact I think it was intended as the core mechanic for defeating the Episode 1 boss.
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by laumars 4y ago
> I suspect even at the time, the developers of Doom weren't used to strafing either, I don’t know if that’s fair. Doom had a timer in it and was built to have speed running in mind (even if that term hasn’t yet been coined).
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by laumars 4y ago
That was intentional but it’s still a point about atmosphere and not game play. Doom 3 plays very different to Doom 1&2.
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by laumars 4y ago
I remember in one job the company had a set of questions we had to ask candidates on top of the technical questions. One of them was “what would you describe as your biggest weakness?” I always grown when I have to ask that question because
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by laumars 4y ago
Oh wow. That does sound fun. Thanks for the correction.
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by laumars 4y ago
I got that. But the reason it looks different is because it’s literally different APIs drawing the widgets. You cannot “fix” those programs to use the same APIs without access to the source code. And clearly 3rd party desktop shells are not
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by laumars 4y ago
That’s not a KDE thing, it’s a Qt and GTK thing. Those toolkits support themes and all you’re doing in KDE is specifying a two different themes (albeit named the same) that is visually similar. However if you look closer at the widgets you’
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by laumars 4y ago
Similar but not identical. The different Windows UI toolkits have slight nuances that are sometimes only noticeable if you’re looking but sometimes stand out.
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by laumars 4y ago
I was an author for a couple of alternative desktop shells for Windows 9x. I think Windows 95 was the first time I encountered support changing the desktop shell (then via the ‘shell’ property in one of Windows’ ini files). I remember some
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by laumars 4y ago
You cannot change that UI toolkit an existing application uses. Only change the theming if that toolkit supports theming, and change the desktop shell. This is true for Linux as well as Windows.
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by laumars 4y ago
Man that sounds depressing. I didn’t even reformat macOS 8&9 and Windows 9x that frequently, and I consider them the dark times for operating systems.
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by laumars 4y ago
Ahh I see. Thanks for the clarification
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by laumars 4y ago
Regular Meccano could played with this way too. Albeit I don't know if the pieces are shaped right to fit into a plug socket. But I'd wager that's more by accident than design

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