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    Comment #16363458

    Yes, any operation is easy in 2^(2^n). For instance, take addition of two 128-bit numbers x and y (seen as 64-bit int arrays) on a 64-bit big-endian CPU: sum[1] = x[1] + y[1] sum[0…

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    Comment #16212754

    Why don't you get a passport, government ID, or driver's license? I'm honestly interested, if that's not too personal to ask.

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    Comment #12575079

    He's not using Google CDN, but Google Project Shield: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/ . Project Shield is a free service.

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    Comment #8651670

    We're simply making use of Python's ability to load a module from a zip file [0]. Therefore, the generation[1] is just zipping up all the files and prepending a shebang. [0] http:/…

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    Comment #8649553

    youtube-dl can do that out of the box, try youtube-dl --username pimlottc :ytwatchlater If you get a problem, please file a bug report at https://yt-dl.org/bug . Thanks!

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    Comment #8649533

    Sorry! The problem is that our userbase is split about wanting the playlist or the video. You can create a file ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf with the content --no-playlist so that you…

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    Comment #8649524

    The problem is that this only works for some YouTube videos (for example it will fail for basically all VEVO videos), not to mention maintainability issues.

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    Comment #8649257

    Please don't pass in -citw [0]! I have personally run youtube-dl on android, works fine. (Disclaimer though: I am the current lead developer, so may have missed a pitfall or two). …

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    Comment #8649249

    Hi, I'm the current lead developer. We update extremely frequently because our release model is different from other software; there is usually little fear of regressions (fingers …

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    Comment #8649226

    Thank you for all your contributions! Can you update that article to use video_id = self._match_id(url) and _VALID_URL = 'https?://...' though? We've also added a fair bit of "offi…

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    Comment #8648351

    While -f 141 is of course perfectly fine, may I suggest -f bestaudio ? That should work fine for non-YouTube sites (soundcloud or so), and will get you a better version should YouT…

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    Comment #8648307

    As others have pointed out, you'll need -- in this case. However, there's really no reason why youtube-dl should not detect this common problem (we also try to detect when users fo…