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Dark_Arc

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Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.

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Yeah it definitely sucks… a significant portion of your social status is tied significantly to what you have (via your parents)… Probably because at that age almost nobody has actually done anything yet

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As someone who was in first grade when the towers went down I have to ask, how did the country’s personality change from your view? What was it like before vs now?

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Given that, I would go with the Ender 3 v2.

I’m on a bit of a war path against these Creality recommendations. I got a CR-10, and their software is AWFUL. I don’t know if that’s a universal thing, but I’ve never seen a product that’s as poorly translated, hackishly constructed (the touch screen isn’t even secure, it just hangs there off some screws, and the diagonal supports aren’t even properly sized pieces, they just basically made a giant bolt that’s split in the middle and said “do it yourself”), with such horrid software (the damn thing can’t even connect to WiFi properly or use a freaking Ethernet connection properly), and worst of all, even if you get past all that other stuff it’s extremely unreliable at its most basic function, printing (I’ve still yet to get the dang thing to print something without the print detaching from the base).

Creality is junk, I can only assume Prusa is better because the bar is so low; literally the worst product I’ve bought in years.

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Stay as far away from Creality as you can. I HATE mine despite people recommending their products all over (at the time) Reddit. WireCutter (NYTimes) also recommends against them primarily for setup and maintenance pains.

Just look at this video: youtu.be/ubZMG_1PK20

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You’re pretty misinformed here. EA (or rather the internal studio, Respawn) had to include the EasyAnticheat .so file (which is specifically designed to allow EasyAnticheat to function under Linux – .so files are the Linux equivalent of Windows .dlls) in their Apex Legends builds to begin with. Otherwise, EAC will not run on Linux, period. This developer opted-in to EasyAnticheat running, and has continued to opt-in to this.

This isn’t Valve “tacking on” support, the presence of that file is an explicit “we’re permitting this to work” (even if they don’t “officially” consider it supported).

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Erroneously, or mistakenly might be better words

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You’re missing another important piece. The “winner-take-all” system per state wasn’t intended that way. It was supposed to be proportionate to the votes cast, e.g., you take 50% of Ohio, you get 50% of Ohio’s EC. Unfortunately, states realized “winner-take-all” gets them more attention, and of course once one state does it, you pretty much have to go for it as well.

One of the founders wanted to fix that but died before they could see it through (I think Madison).

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Do you have a receipt for that?

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The optimist in me thinks that if all the free users currently using ad blockers switched to paid users or free users that aren’t using ad blockers, the amount of ads that actually get shown could be lessened… And in an ideal world that’s what would happen. The pessimist in me says Google’s current management is going to keep the ads where they are though.

There may be a market force in play here too though where they went “can we add more ads?” and they saw that if they added any more than they currently have, people just stop using the service. If that’s the case/what they’re bumping into (or what they start to bump into), there could genuinely be a drop in the number of ads after this rolls out.

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You said on your own site. The fact that YouTube exists and makes that easier isn’t the argument against YouTube you think it is…

Nothing about that tag requires the site to be static either, but whatever.

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I disagree with the classification of “rent seeking”. It’s a service, with active expenses that you’re not paying.

If you buy a toaster, the company that made the toaster isn’t paying for the power that made the toast. That’s different from say, a ticket to a zoo, a kayaking trip company, mini-golfing, cable, Internet, phone, or the power bill itself.

They do not give creators anywhere near 100% of the ad revenue.

And nobody could, even if you operated your own site, you’d have operating costs.

Maybe the split is fair but since they have a monopoly, it’s not.

I honestly don’t even think it’s fair to say they have a monopoly. Their service offering is unique, but there are other models that aren’t YouTube clones. Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok, and even “X” have video hosting options in slightly different formats.

The lack of a clone of a literal clone of YouTube is not a lack of competition. Additionally YouTube’s business model is extremely expensive and requires significant investment in storage.

They are the equivalent of pre-capitalist English land barons who added very little (besides maybe some accounting) and took more than their share. YouTube’s profits are a tax on the creator economy in the same way Apple’s App Store tax is terrible for developers. We do not have a moral responsibility to pay taxes to private companies.

IMO, those are some serious mental gymnastics equating renting land you need to survive, that you’re forced to pay to a government entity, or an app store which is the only possible source of apps for an entire operating system vs a website you have the choice to use or not use and that had active and large operating costs because of its extensive catalog of freely uploaded content.

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It’s a fact that YouTube pays out more to creators per view for a subscriber than for an ad user, and in the words of LinusTechTips (despite the current backlash he had literally no reason to lie), it’s “a lot more.”

It may actually be the case that it’s a pool of money that’s distributed based on what parts of the YouTube service you use. So if you watch 100% Mr. Beast, 55% of your subscription goes to Mr. Beast… I really don’t know how that works, it’s not to my knowledge clearly explained.

If you don’t believe Mr. Beast deserves 7.7/mo or so, then you’re welcome to use ads or see if Mr. Beast will upload his content somewhere else.

The fact of the matter is though, it really isn’t a scam for creators where YouTube just milks them for profits in an unfair exchange. They get an entire professionally hosted platform for free the entire time they grow, they get their old videos hosted indefinitely, and they pay nothing for that service. They could quit tomorrow, start losing YouTube money on heaps of 4k video, and be on the hook $0.

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Which is funny because Vine failed to sufficiently monetize and shut down…

In any case the point is shorts weren’t designed from the ground up as some way for YouTube to squeeze more ads in out of some “diabolical laboratory of Google.” Shorts were designed to compete with an existing product.

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As a professional software engineer with a background in scalable web infrastructure…

The video player is done for you by the browser (unless you insist on dressing it up). Hosting a video is the same as hosting any file. If you’ve already got a website that can host content for billions, there’s not a major problem other than storage and bandwidth costs.

You can say I don’t know what I’m talking about until the cows come home, but all you’ve done is make completely unsubstantiated claims about how you can’t possibly do this yourself, meanwhile I can say for a fact plenty of sites host their own video just fine.

Hosting billions of videos “on your own site” would be a bit silly though.

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🤦‍♂️

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That’s a trick (and a completely different) question from:

If I want to distribute billions of videos to billions of people on my own site, that’d be great, but my options are basically to pay Google, Amazon, or Microsoft for help.

If you assuming this is a load spike well above your maximum throughput, you just fall over. That’s the reason the cloud took off in the first place; if you do it the old fashioned way, you can get overwhelmed and have no recourse but to fall over because you can’t provision servers fast enough.

If this is a “normal” occurrence, you’re probably talking about round-robin’d DNS distributing to (hopefully) the nearest data center where you have a load balancer, then that could hit another layer of load balancing on the machine or directly go to servers on the machine depending on how you have things setup, then that could hit several different designs of web server with their own quirks (asyncio – non-preemptive multitasking --, threaded – preemptive multitasking --, single threaded, or some mix thereof depending on your design – pros and cons to all of them).

Those could do several things depending on how fast your data centers become consistent WRT uploaded videos. We’ll just assume you already have a copy of the video in each regional data center. You fetch from there and serve the file, like any other file.

… or maybe you get really fancy and use WebRTC to get the files from clients already watching the video.

But please, add another surprise requirement and continue to strawman.

EDIT: Oh neat, found out after the fact PeerTube actually does that WebRTC trick docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/architecture#the… :)

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Whatever dude…

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That’s… Not at all right. Pour that bottled water into your well and see what happens.

Putting purified water in a bottle seals it off from contamination. Your well doesn’t have that.

It’s like sterile and sealed medical equipment vs something left out on the table for weeks on end.

I’m no bottled water fanatic, but it’s not magical chemicals keeping the bottled water from growing bacteria.

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I think spring water can technically count as tap water.

healthline.com/…/spring-water-vs-purified-water#s…

Underground aquifers are definitely used as the tap water source in some areas.

The main difference between spring water and tap, is likely that your tap has fluoride and chlorine to A) help with dental health and B) keep the water safe if there’s some kind of contamination on its way to your home.

If you own your home or can install one… I highly recommend just installing a reverse osmosis system for your drinking water. It needs annual service, but it’s a heck of a lot easier and cheaper than buying all your drinking water in bottles.

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Agree with most everything you said, except the Brita part… Those things are kind of a joke, lookup ZeroWater. IMO it’s the best RO alternative you can get (it tests better than RO too in terms of TDS … but it’s way more of a hassle and a few TDS aren’t really an issue).

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waterdefense.org/…/bottled-water-brands-without-c…

The point is the water stays clear (i.e. does not turn brown within a month) not because of chemicals but because it’s been sterilized (and then put in a sealed bottle). If it sterilization didn’t work, distilled water would have some serious issues.

The water stays clean because it is free of bacteria (and also potentially free of the nutrients bacteria need to grow) … unlike well water which is often pulling from shallow wells which are not close to sterile.

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Okay. Just as a friendly option you possibly haven’t considered, I used ZeroWater for a while before I bought a home and could install a reverse osmosis system; it might be a good value for you, and it does a really good job of cleaning up tap.

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Oh sure, they understand logic and their behavior, but they don’t understand what’s they’re saying (particularly the validity of it) arstechnica.com/?p=1961606

They’re like… a story author. They understand the rules of language well enough they can write a story, but they don’t understand the data or reality well enough to know if they’ve told you the truth, told you a lie, or told you something in-between.

i.e. they have no idea if they’ve told you fact or fiction, they just know they’ve done a convincing job of conveying the message based on language patterns, and that is an extremely big problem.

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I’m sorry that happened… but that’s not why she said it. This girl accelerated full speed, without attempting to slow down at all, straight into a brick wall. Those teens probably weren’t trying to hit you, this girl very very very likely was trying to hit that wall and kill everyone in the car.

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All good; just leaving a comment so you know what really happened :)

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