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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by runjake »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

About 3 days ago, I watched a single 10 second Short on a Soufflé from my recommendations page and since then half my recommendations are soufflé videos.

This is not a joke, and “half” is pretty accurate. I’m pretty sure something is broken or YouTube added an LLM to the recommendations engine.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by sebazzz »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

He went from "I'm only here for the subs and likes" to "I'm mostly here for the subs and likes". I wonder what the next step is.

That said, his channel does have much interesting content. I just wish he didn't go into sponsorship-reviews like with (Chinese) Ecoflow like products.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by gozzoo »

huseyinkeles wrote: post #3

Irrelevant link. People just upvoted this to the homepage without checking the video?

I do this sometimes, usually when the topic seems interesting, but I'm not familiar with it, so I don't know if it's worth spending time reading the whole article. By voting up, I hope that it will remain on the home page longer, so that people will notice it and comment on it. Then, if many people comment and if the comments look interesting, I might read the main article.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by EvanAnderson »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

Dave Plummer gave a nice talk at VCF recently too: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_5syuWUh0

I liked seeing him speak extemporaneously more that his produced videos.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by neandrake »

naikrovek wrote: post #14
jotato wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! I didn't know he had adhd. I watched one video of his last week and ever since my feed is all adhd stuff. I was so confused, but now it makes sense.

I feel like no one on the planet understands how YouTube recommendations work. the same for Large Language Models. YouTube keeps a watch history of every user. users can clean up their view of their watch history, but YouTube keeps it all. if you watch any particular video, YouTube will start suggesting videos watched by other people who watched the video you just watched. YouTube does not know or care what the subje…

> there is ZERO intelligence, here

The effect of that is what people are referring to here. How is one supposed to know a tech-based video they watched once is the reason for videos made by someone else entirely on the topic of ADHD being recommended. No one is going to make that connection and clean up their watch history accordingly. Additionally tying recommendations to watch history maybe needs a step removed. What if I like to see the history of everything I watched without it affecting my recommendations?

A few months ago I must’ve been digging into settings and turned off watch history as I get only a blank page with no recommendations. I don’t discover content as much as I used to but it’s been a good change for me - just seeing updates from the channels I subscribe. Stumbling across content is left to sites like HN or other communities.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

justin66 wrote: post #9
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

The ads are awful on purpose, so people buy Premium.

Then, once users pay for Premium, they can do the same as cable TV and _still_ sell ads.

Easy 2x revenue.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by cronix »

brakmic wrote: post #15
justin66 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

How to circumvent youtube's anti-adblock mechanism: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtu...

All I had to do was update the rules for Adblock Plus free version. I'd been getting the warnings for several days, then yesterday it would only let me watch 3 videos. I then updated AB+ rules and nothing pops up and things just play like "normal."

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by throwaway5959 »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #18
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

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Tell us how you really feel. Just because you don’t like the past doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I’m glad someone’s documenting it, at least their perspective of it.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by abdulhaq »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #18
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

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Dave C was a key player in developing Windows NT, which was key to jettisoning the virus-riddled hot mess of Windows prior to that. You're attacking the wrong guy.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by nottheengineer »

jotato wrote: post #12
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

Ha! I didn't know he had adhd. I watched one video of his last week and ever since my feed is all adhd stuff. I was so confused, but now it makes sense.

He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.
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