Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread
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@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
wholesale
I've been working too much on e-shop integrations lately.
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@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
wholesale
I've been working too much on e-shop integrations lately.
I was going to say "Translation checks out."
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Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) – 17:26
— 3Blue1BrownPretty cool.
It starts out with a mysterious series of integrals that seem to follow a pattern until it arbitrarily breaks down. Your first reaction is probably "how can this possibly be right?" I think I've actually seen this series before (maybe even on 3b1b's channel?), and concluded I have no idea how this could happen, how you could prove it, or even hope to understand it. Completely out of my reach.
Then, he sets out to explain this in very simple terms. Before he even gets too far into the explanation, at around 5:30, I'm like: "OMG, that's it! I got it. It's just [spoilers]!"
At that point I'm already satisfied while watching to the end. It's apparently the first video of a series (or maybe just two?) of videos. He ends it with:
I recognize that it's maybe a little unsatisfying to end things here by laying down just three magical facts and saying "everything follows from those"
But it wasn't. Just pointing at these was enough to explain everything!
Side note: I just tried to translate a German idiom, I'm wondering how idiomatic this actually is in Englisch use: "the scales fell from my eyes."
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@topspin said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I'm wondering how idiomatic this actually is in Englisch use: "the scales fell from my eyes."
's biblical, and thus idiomatic enough.
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@GOG yes, but is it commonly used / understood? (Guess the answer is also yes)
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It is not a common idiom in my experience.
Trying to think of what I have heard and all that comes to mind right now is: 'it just clicked' (or similar)
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@topspin said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@GOG yes, but is it commonly used / understood? (Guess the answer is also yes)
It's not commonly used IME but I think it's commonly understood
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@topspin said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
terms. Before he even gets too far into the explanation, at around 5:30, I'm like: "OMG, that's it! I got it. It's just [spoilers]!"
From here the minor corrolary towards the less-trivial roots of der Zetafunktion should be obvious
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The Commodordion – 11:27
— lftkryoSkip to 1:30 something to hear its chiptune-y goodness.
Also at 6:09
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How to buy a good trombone
How to Play Test an F-attachment Trombone with Blessing – 04:10
— Sweetwater
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@Gern_Blaanston I'm absolutely certain that my son and my neighbors would all say that no trombone is the right trombone for me. Heck, I'd even say that myself.
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Hacking a weird TV censoring device – 20:59
— Ben EaterThis device censors naughty words from closed captions of a video source. (It may or may not also mute the audio. That's a question he doesn't answer in the video, and to research the device myself.) The YouTuber opened it up and found an EEPROM, from which he extracted the data. He found this contains the search and replacement word lists, as well as a byte or two or three for each search word that describes what to do with it. He was only able to partially reverse-engineer those without extracting and decompiling the PIC firmware, which he didn't attempt (at least not in this video).
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Can you tell the difference between a melody by Mozart and a melody from a Pokémon game?
Is it MOZART or POKÉMON? Composers Take Quiz – 22:14
— Ryan Leach
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston I'm absolutely certain that my son and my neighbors would all say that no trombone is the right trombone for me. Heck, I'd even say that myself.
Played properly, the trombone can be a nice instrument. But that's the problem. Playing it so that it doesn't sound like goose farts on a muggy day, is quite difficult.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Played properly, the trombone can be a nice instrument.
Exactly. I have zero training in how to play it properly.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
It may or may not also mute the audio.
It does.
That's a question he doesn't answer in the video, and to research the device myself.
No need, just watch the original video.
This TV gadget censors bad words with 1980's tech – 24:27
— Technology Connections
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@topspin I suppose it actually would have worked here to a degree, since teletext does get used for closed captions as well (usually, but not always, on page 888). I've never heard of that being included on VHS or similar though.
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@topspin said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
just watch the original video.
I got you to do it for me. Also, what part of
@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:to research the device myself.
did you not understand?
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@HardwareGeek not watching a random but not dumb video by Technology Connections is .
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@topspin I was not previously acquainted with that channel. I have now subscribed, although the last thing I need is even more stuff on my subscription list.
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Everyone's favorite singing physicist deserves a repost.
A Million Miles [music video] – 03:12
— Sabine Hossenfelder
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I had no idea she sang.
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A lock that LPL doesn't even attempt to pick. (It should be fairly easy, but it's an antique, and he doesn't want to risk damaging it.) Nor does he demonstrate the use of the tamper-proof seals, because those are very rare and using one would destroy it.
[1492] The Coolest Lock You’ve Never Heard Of — BIR Seal Lock – 02:48
— LockPickingLawyer
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Nor does he demonstrate the use of the tamper-proof seals, because those are very rare and using one would destroy it.
Given that what was left over from the monthly series was supposed to be destroyed, and LPL has several sheets of unused seals, one has to wonder who did not do their job right...
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@PleegWat
I think not.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I think not.
I started watching it. He ... speaks ... really ... slowly. I made it about 5 minutes (while doing some other things - like reading threads here)
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@dcon said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I think not.
I started watching it. He ... speaks ... really ... slowly. I made it about 5 minutes (while doing some other things - like reading threads here)
Immediately set to 1.75x apeed.
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The Computer History Museum just posted a video of an oral history interview with Turing Award winner Ken Thompson, designer of UNIX, inventor of B (predecessor of C), and co-developer of Go, among other things.
Oral History of Ken Thompson – 1:42:56
— Computer History Museum
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In a class by himself. I give you the inimitable Ray Wallace.
Ray Wallace plays Fender telecaster out of a Victoria 518 amp – 01:29
— Michael Winters
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TIL about the Battle Of Tshushima
The voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet (Second Pacific Squadron) in the Russo-Japanese war is a tale of ridiculous blunder after blunder, a disaster from start to finish. The last ditch effort for Russian naval superiority in the Russo-Japanese war required a voyage never before taken by a coal-powered fleet. To help matters, the fleet was crewed by conscripted peasants who had little to no experience or education when it came to naval operation. Over the 18,000 mile journey, the fleet attacked civilian vessels from multiple global powers, shot at their own ships, killed fellow sailors with negligence of safety standards, destroyed city's communication grids, and so much more.
The Dumbest Russian Voyage Nobody Talks About – 08:46
— BlueJay
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@Zecc I've read "Tsushima" by Alexey Novikov-Priboy (who himself served on one of the big battleships) a long time ago. That's also his only work of note that nevertheless earned him great recognition. Soviets were interested in portraying imperial elites as inept stumblefucks, so literary treatment aside it's not exactly a truthful retelling (). Either way it was a complete shitshow.
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@Zecc they learned so much, so very much indeed, the muchness of the learnings.
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@jinpa said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
In a class by himself. I give you the inimitable Ray Wallace.
Ray Wallace plays Fender telecaster out of a Victoria 518 amp – 01:29
— Michael WintersE_NO_CHICKIN_PICKIN
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@topspin This is a contender for the "Not sure if good, bad or evil" topic ...
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A while back YouTube recommended a Shorts video that had cheerleaders in it. I'm a disgusting pig of a man so of course I clicked on it. I've since watched a shitload more of them but almost entirely because, fucking hell it is amazing what they can do.
https://youtube.com/shorts/iNxeDsITMm0
Props to the male cheerleaders also. I mean, sure, those girls are at most 100lbs soaking wet but they toss them like they're nothing. I'm not a weak guy, I consider myself fairly strong but if I use an 80lb sack of concrete as a comparison there's no way that I could launch one in the air like that. Not a chance. Sure, a sack of concrete is dead weight and I'm sure that the girl is helping with momentum and direction and all that but it is still amazing.
Also, I absolutely lack anywhere near the coordination and balance they show. Even if I could get them in the air she'd be doing a faceplant within seconds.
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@Polygeekery said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
YouTube recommended a Shorts video
Nope thread is . I hate the short format, and I refuse to watch any "short" video, regardless of the content, even if it's by one of my favorite creators.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I hate the short format
#MeToo, and I have the attention span of a methed out ferret.
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@Polygeekery
Squirrel!Also now I'm plagued by YouTube recommendations of a woman playing golf. I still don't like golf.
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@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I had no idea she sang.
Before I knew that she did, I saw a link for one of her videos entitled, "I Can't Forget". I figured it meant she had some neurological condition where she couldn't forget anything.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Nope thread is . I hate the short format, and I refuse to watch any "short" video, regardless of the content, even if it's by one of my favorite creators.
In days of old, a fair percentage of YT regular videos were less than a minute. These were the ones I preferred. I seldom watch videos more than 10 minutes. If I want to watch a half hour or more, that's what TV is for.
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@jinpa It's not the length I object to; it's the "short" format. Portrait orientation. Cannot make it full-screen. Can pause, but cannot rewind; if I want to see a detail I missed, the only way to do that is watch the entire video over and over until I'm able to see the detail I wanted.
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@HardwareGeek If you want to rewind then you can view shorts in the classic UI. Basically copy the video id from the URL and prepend https://youtu.be/
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@JBert I made a userscript to automatically change all
/shorts/id
links on youtube to/watch?v=id
. I also set up the Redirector browser extension to do the same thing because there's no kill like overkill.