I lived in one house that initially had hot water baseboard heat. A hot-air furnace was retrofitted into a closet and got its "fresh air" from a hole in the closet door (i.e. there was no incoming air). During the winter the air would get extremely "stale." Bathroom smells would linger for hours. It was oppressive.
My first development job was as a software developer at Bell Labs in Naperville working on the 5E. I started at the end of 5E4 (the 4th revision) and then worked on 5E5 and 5E6. I went from school writing maybe 1000 line programs to maintaining and enhancing a system comprised of millions of lines of code and hundreds of developers. Most of the code itself was very simple but it was the interactions between modules and switching features that was very complex.
Slightly tangential but I was discussing high-school English book selection with a relatively new English teacher. He was frustrated that his 9th/10th grade students were uninterested in the books. He was hamstrung in book selection by budget (buying new books wasn't an option) and essentially seniority (he couldn't select any books that were read in more advanced classes even though few of his students will take those classes). So the system was unintentionally teaching most kids that reading books was boring.
I skimmed the article and one of the things that occurred to me is that it was lucky that they worked as a busboy for a bit. Lucky in the sense that there was plenty of opportunity to try various social approaches on the many people they encountered each day. Most of us only interact with a few people in total each week and don't get any encounter resets. I remember a few years ago living in a small town and dreading being invited to the rare party. I'd met everyone, had a brief encounter, and neither they nor I had any desire to further the interaction.
I have the same name as a former MLB player. We both use Yahoo Mail. I was there first and use my name without the middle initial as my email address. He uses his middle initial. I've received many emails for him where people have overlooked the use of his middle initial. Sometimes it takes me a second to realize the mistake and I'm wondering WTF is this email on about.
In the 80's I wanted to be a compiler engineer. Got a masters degree in it and published a paper on LR parsing with original research in the Journal of ACM. The opportunities back then were scarce. Over nearly 15 years I found a couple of gigs that consumed a few years. But it was hard and time consuming to develop the knowledge and skills. I used to study the PCC and GCC source code! I worked on GUIs between these gigs and when Java/Swing dropped, I switched full-time to GUIs. There were far more opportunities and I enjoyed developing GUIs for a time so it was a good switch.
"This video explores dishwasher detergent, focusing on a new powder formulation. The creator details the science behind effective dishwashing, including pre-wash cycles and water temperature. Independent testing results comparing the new powder to leading pods are revealed."
The gist you took away is not quite right because of course you didn’t watch it.
Why does everything have to be summarized? If you want to see the content watch the content. Technology Connections videos are interesting, entertaining (to nerds at least) and a lot of effort goes into them.
Watch them at 1.5 speed if you’d like.
Or don’t watch them at all.
But the “give me a transcript because I want to watch but don’t want to watch” thing is so annoying.
YouTube also provides a transcript on the desktop version of the site, by the way. So this entire thread is pointless.
I want my whole life to be optimized, so that I can consume far more but get nothing out of any of my consumption. Anything that requires art, ingenuity, and human effort can be compressed to a simple bullet point summary.
I don't care that Technology Connections is the perfect blend of campy midwestern technical pedantry, substantive detail, great editing, understated humor. It must undergo machine digestion, its humanity stripped, before being fed to me as a flat slurry. This way, I can optimize my consumption of slurry without ever encountering any of that pesky 'human spirit.'
People don't have infinite time. A mindset of never appreciating works on their artistic merits is terrible. But a mindset of appreciating with some works, while for other ones you just want the info please, is a perfectly reasonable way to operate.
Someone that just wants to wash dishes better shouldn't be forced to watch a 40 minute video to learn how. It doesn't mean they want slurry.
Or to put it another way: Imagine you had to watch a video essay to check the weather forecast. It would suck, even if they're good essays. Even moreso if you already have other essays you want to watch.
The moment some long form content comes out we are all TikTok kids who want a five second summary.
Never mind the fact that YouTube provides a compete transcription that you can copy/paste and dump into an LLM, making this entire thread, as I mentioned before, pointless.
The people asking for a summary are lazy people who want to be spoon fed trivia dopamine hits.
To some audiences, sure. Obviously the other guy gets value out of the content of the content, not just 'experiencing it'
That's EXACTLY what he's doing, right? Get the transcript, pipe to an LLM, determine if it's worth his time. You're on HN, we like to use scripts to automate those sorts of things.
Nobody is demanding a summary from the OP. The AUDIENCE MEMBER went out of his way to determine if the content is worth his time. Its no different than checking reviews before you watch a movie
Tangent but it is funny to me that we focus on tiktok but the news is as bad or worse in terms of super fast tidbits interspersed with ads, tragedy, and local weather
