Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread
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@remi said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@JBert I have absolutely no experience with any kind of visual work, but somehow I feel this isn't where you're supposed to put your camera when using those lights? (I love that the caption at this point says "try to avoid shadows")
Bonus portrait-in-landscape-in-portrait-in-... chain!
I mean: the camera mount is even visible in the picture.
ETA:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK7vS2CHC8
Not a timelapse.
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@Zecc And of course there's an argument in the comments on whether it can really be called an eclipse or just a transit. We're not the only s in town.
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People who are very good at doing a job I wouldn't want:
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Guy drives a piano on a wheeled cart around an actual mall, while playing the iconic Coconut Mall theme music from Mario Kart.
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Jazz song from the 1970s that appears to have made a big impression on Nintendo composer and noted jazz-lover Koji Kondo.
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@topspin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
Veritasium has posted a followup video, trying to better explain the lesson he was trying to impart- that electric fields drive circuits, not electrons physically moving inside wires. I don't have enough background in physics etc. to know for sure if he did a better job. At least he was part of a scaled down version of the thought experiment, with just a resistor instead of a light bulb since people (rightly) did not like the ill-defined-ness of lighting the bulb.
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Sound is only some reggae-like music, so it's safe to watch it muted.
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An 11kW electric motor gets rebuilt. By a Chinese girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWJnC9Ype8
(Hope one of these links previews correctly.)
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@acrow said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
An 11kW electric motor gets rebuilt. By a Chinese girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWJnC9Ype8
(Hope one of these links previews correctly.)
lol nope!
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@HardwareGeek Do we have instructions posted anywhere on how to do it correctly?
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@acrow What we need is instructions for YouTube to provide the info the plug-in needs, or something like that.
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@HardwareGeek So, what do I have to do (or even can do) to make the videos show preview?
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@acrow Pray? Seriously, it's outside our control. Most likely, they'll embed correctly later today, or tomorrow, then disappear again, and maybe reappear later. What you posted is fine, but YT and the embed plug-in aren't playing nice together. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.
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Itâs using Iframely, right? Do it need a bigger $$$ plan to do the needful?
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@Arantor I think there's also a custom NodeBB plugin for pulling title and duration? One of the @boomzilla alts should have better deets.
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@acrow said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@HardwareGeek Do we have instructions posted anywhere on how to do it correctly?
Hope that Youtube's API response doesn't time out. We use a custom plugin along with an API key. I've switched back to iFramely and we get the same spotty results. I haven't dug into it but I think the requests are timing out or something.
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@acrow said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
(Hope one of these links previews correctly.)
As of 7:21am PDT on 2022-5-6, they're both displaying for me...
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@boomzilla said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
I think the requests are timing out or something.
YT's API has been infected with .
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@dcon said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@acrow said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
(Hope one of these links previews correctly.)
As of 7:21am PDT on 2022-5-6, they're both displaying for me...
Just wait. They'll break again randomly in a few hours.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@dcon said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@acrow said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
(Hope one of these links previews correctly.)
As of 7:21am PDT on 2022-5-6, they're both displaying for me...
Just wait. They'll break again randomly in a few hours.
This will not be the case, as their breakage will have been predicted.
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"The Greatest Shot In Television"
Impeccable timing and a bit of luck yielded this footage:
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Supposedly about metro but maybe actually about b****n politics.
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A divorced couple that for some reason still lives in
divorcing is expensive ... co-existing is cheaper
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This guy seems to like B*****m...
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Filed under: Giant butt tentacles
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@JBert Nice, but it's slightly over-complicating () the left/right thing.
Trams almost always (AFAIK?) run on the same side as cars, so right on mainland Europe etc. because that's far easier to integrate them in the standard road network in this way.
Trains, on the other hand, usually run on the left in several countries such as France or Germany. There's about as much reason for that as to why cars run on one side or the other (i.e. essentially, a mix of "old habits", "urban legends" and "no one really knows"). For France, the most widely cited argument is that the first trains copied what the English (who had the very first trains) did, which isn't much of an argument. A slightly more credible is that running on the left allows the driver to lean out (to monitor things) while keeping the right hand on controls, which seems credible but could also very well be an urban legend (especially since many other countries are perfectly fine with trains running on the right!).
(the Paris metro also runs on the right, despite operating more like a train than like a tram (its tracks are nowhere in normal streets), with the reason often given being that its creator wanted to "look different" from trains, which isn't a very convincing argument either...)
So anyway, the point is that about anywhere that you get a mix of a network that started as trams (=lines embedded in the middle of streets) with a network that started as trains (=lines running independently of any streets), you will have to switch sides.
And as it affects about everything from the hardware (as pointed out in the video) to signalling, drivers' training, operational procedures... it's not just "companies that are so stupidly bickering that they can't even agree on a side." Although that also plays a role, of course.
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@remi Also consider: In a car, if you are driving on the right-hand side, then the driver will also be seated on the right-hand side.
In a double-tracked train line, signals will be on the outside of the tracks, rather than between them. Thus in a steam locomotive, if the train is driving on the right-hand side, then the driver will also want to be seated on the right-hand side.
If the initial lines were double-tracked, then it makes sense to follow what people are already doing on the road and drive the train on the same side.
However, if the initial lines were single-tracked, then it makes sense to follow what people are already doing on the road and seat the driver on the same side. Then once double tracking does arrive, this may imply driving on the opposite side.
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@PleegWat said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
In a double-tracked train line, signals will be on the outside of the tracks, rather than between them. Thus in a steam locomotive, if the train is driving on the right-hand side, then the driver will also want to be seated on the right-hand side.
Yeah, this is like "why do we drive on the right/left?" There are many ways you can justify either choice (your reasoning justifies right-hand driving, the idea of keeping the right hand on controls in my previous post justifies left-hand driving) but most of them look like post-hoc justifications (or like urban legends or fancy stories, like "keeping your sword arm free").
None of those are actual historical explanations though, and almost all of those fail to explain why different countries picked different standards.
To me the most likely reason is "chance."
I suspect that every fledgling inventor/company picked one side, for whatever random reason happened to be at the time they had to pick, but which might as well be "because the shed where the first engine was built was wonky and it was easier to pick this side rather than that side." Or maybe "the fixed boiler that was used as a starting point to build the first railway engine was such that it was more convenient to sit on the right/left." As things progressively got normalised, one side ended up winning for no particular technical reason.
Because we all like to believe that there is a reason for everything, people are now trying to work out some sort of rational grand scheme to justify all this, whereas it mostly was random chance.
it makes sense to follow what people are already doing on the road and drive the train on the same side.
Trains started before there were motor cars though, and I am not convinced by anything that I've seen that there really was a strong convention for driving on one side or the other on roads before then (I would love to see a proper historical study of that in e.g. 18th century large cities (which might be the only place initially where traffic was large enough to make picking a side useful)). So this doesn't feel like a very strong argument to me.
ETA: the bottom line of all that is that both standards exist, and every time they have to interact it's a mess. Welcome to the Real World!
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@remi Similar story I've read once:
Q: Why are traffic lights red/amber/green?
A: Because those colours worked well for the railroad.
Q: Why are railroad signals red/amber/green?
A: Nobody knows.
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@PleegWat something something a horse's ass width?
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In case you didn't catch the previous reference, this is the urban legend I'm talking about:
Makes for a nice and fun story, but it's just a story, not history.
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How to raise the blood pressure of your favorite spellar/gramming :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCJsgHETLRM
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@remi said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
horse's ass
The word youâre looking for is âmuleâ.
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@PleegWat said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Also consider: In a car, if you are driving on the right-hand side, then the driver will also be seated on the right-hand side.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
How to raise the blood pressure of your favorite spellar/gramming :
I still can't get over 'acknowledgment'.
If you insist it's a valid spelling, you'll get nothing but silent judguhment from me.
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@Zecc there's an e in it.
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@Arantor That's my point. I see 'acknowledgment' and 'judgment' as crimes against language. Not that that ever stopped English.
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@Zecc said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@Arantor That's my point. I see 'acknowledgment' and 'judgment' as crimes against language. Not that that ever stopped American English. Or the Terminator.
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Tilt shift photography is awesome.