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Tildes Video Thread
So, quite a few people don't like/watch video content, and don't like seeing the homepage filled with videos. Let's try something new, see if it sticks.
What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?
The recent Technology Connections video about Betacam was an awesome one.
I know @mycketforvirrad makes it sound that way but he's still copypasting the content of the original thread I created like months ago, might be time to change it eh :P This is a recurring thread now!
I dunno. It's all Tildes cultural heritage at this point. ♥ But seriously, if you have a good blurb idea, I'll happily sub it in for next time...
Hm, sure:
Or if you think that's too much, how about this:
Maybe add in a bit that higher profile submissions can still done top-level, this one is just meant to be a catch-all for lower effort / smaller audience video traffic.
You'll just have to wait and see which I pick... 😉
Yeha, you know, either one's good.
This episode of Technology Connections really cooled my enthusiasm for his channel. Pun not intended.
More than anything I've just gotten kind of annoyed at how longwinded his videos have become. I don't think that this video needed to be this long and I would have preferred if he did a little bit more research because I don't think his conclusions are entirely correct.
I may be remembering things a bit wrong because it's been more than a week since I watched this, but he concludes that the problem with the fridge is that the bulb is in a bad position. He's somewhat correct, but not entirely. The real issue with the fridge is that there's only one thermostat in it. Instead of measuring the actual temperature in the fridge, it's actually acting as a limiting sensor. Things that heat or cool need to have a temperature sensor to make sure that the temperatures don't get too high or low. In a heat pump, you need to make sure that the refrigerant doesn't freeze because it can cause damage if it were to reach that point. This is why you generally have one that acts as a safety switch and another that measures the temperature of the thing being cooled/heated so it knows when to stop trying anymore. If it had that it would make the fridge more efficient and better at keeping a set temperature, but it likely would not stop the temperature yo-yoing when dealing with big thermal loads like he was testing.
I actually find it mildly annoying that Greg has become nicer in the later seasons. He's best when being an arbitrary authoritarian. But it's not something I'd bother complaining about.
The bulb he's referring to is the bulb of the thermostat, which is located in a thermowell that is presumably touching the condenser (or whatever it's called - I don't know the terminology that well either but I mean the thing that gets cold).
I hate mechanical temperature switches. I know a digital system would probably cost more but they're just so much better.
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/5-levels-zero-knowledge-proof
This was one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time. Proof is a major part of my work, and zero-knowledge proof is something I hadn’t even considered. In math, you usually like
profsproofs more if they deepen your understanding of the topic. Here, they hope to not even hint at the topic!A friend of mine just started working on zero knowledge proof FPGAs. I’ll send this to him. Thanks!
What Happens To Lost Containers?
YouTube – Casual Navigation – 7th July 2023
Cool video! I like the animations. Imagine diving one day and seeing a car at the bottom of the sea… would be a bizarre sight.
The video talks a bit about the dangers of other boats hitting containers floating at the surface. I wonder how many times that has happened. The ocean is so big that I can’t imagine collisions with fallen containers are a common occurrence.
Game Changer is a game show by College Humor, and it's the best game show I've ever seen. The contestants don't know the rules when the game starts and they have to figure it out as they go. Some episodes (and tons of clips) are available on YouTube, but the rest is on Dropout, their paid streaming service.
Part of the fun as a viewer is trying to learn the rules along with the players.
Episodes vary from Improve Karaoke to Dirty Santa where you steal prizes or punishments, sight unseen.
This is about tulou, a classical style of Chinese communal dwelling. Basically what you converge to if you tried to build a village as a (relatively) compact small fort:
https://youtu.be/0nZue4_ceSY
The follow-up Q&A is also informative:
https://youtu.be/5KvnTYRlUqw
This is a really amazing documentary about a Japanese stone mason who builds castle walls by family trade. He is hired to build a castle wall for some random rich dudes museum in Dallas TX and it goes about how you would expect but its still a happy ending!
https://youtu.be/f9wGOXXoCuY
I'm binge watching a channel that reviews bad MMO games and got to this video that explains in depth what went wrong with video gaming in the past few years. It dives into the whole idea of micro transactions but in a smart way.
https://youtu.be/g16heGLKlTA
This is not what you're asking for, but I have to jump in and complain that "videos" has become a synonym for YouTube, which is a functional but enthusiastically unpleasant place to watch videos.
I've instead been exploring what's at:
• Internet Archive, and
• PeerTube
and having lots of fun with the explorations. :)
I'm following a weekly movie event on Mastadon called #Monsterdon and get news about it via #MonsterdonAlert
There's a community poll where people vote on the movie and then it plays on the weekend evenings. The last movie we watched was The Tingler : A creature that lives in your spine and kills you if you are afraid and you don't scream. The week before it was Godzilla vs. Destroyah. We set a start time and start at the same time. People usually riff on it under the #Monsterdon hashtag and it's hilarious. Feel free to join!
from Let's Game It Out: I Turned This Entire Game Into a Glitchy Pain Paradise - The Coin Game
as someone who used to work in software testing, I love Josh's combo of a Let's Play combined with finding interesting bugs and glitches