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Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by sakjur »

slingnow wrote: post #26
atticora wrote: post #23

I saw a YouTube video by a guy who specializes in building D&D characters. He spends twenty minutes going into detail on each one, and then makes the pitch for subscribing to his Patreon account with something like "members get all the details in a convenient list so that you don't have to keep going back to this video." So he's using the same bit of friction that this article is trying to solve, to fill his rice bow…

Maybe if your business model includes putting things in an inconvenient format that could best be replaced by a bulleted list, you should rethink your business model.

If that's truly what you're doing, sure. If you can reduce a movie to its screenplay without losing value, that's probably what you should be doing. A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified.

I wish we'd go the other way, where free text content is complemented by paid-for audio or video commentary. But it has to be a very dull video for a bullet list to be a good replacement (and a bad bullet list to be able to capture what a good video production can convey).

Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by BizarroLand »

dheera wrote: post #30
quartz wrote: post #22

Definitely would use this. Instructional video instead of step-by-step text is a personal pet peeve. I know it's a lot easier to just record a video to show something like "how to replace the battery on a cordless vacuum" or "removing a sink basin nut" but it's often such a painful experience for consumption (watch a moment, pause, scrub back and watch again, pause, continue, pause, all with potentially gloved hands…

Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns: - Big white page not showing any text or images until the entire page and its assets are downloaded, which means if you accidentally click something and go back you have to wait another several seconds for everything to load again - Pop up GDPR popup while hands are covered in flour and eggs - Pop up "would you li…

Don't forget the lazy-loading pages that don't properly set their flex box positions so that when you go to click on something a new link pops in at the place you were just about to click that takes you to a different page.

I'm tempted to say that this is a dark pattern because when it happens to me is is almost always a "subscribe", "purchase", or "login" button.

Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by dheera »

goda90 wrote: post #12
zoomablemind wrote: post #7

If the main challenge was 'not having the smartphone in the kitchen', then one possible solution could have been getting another screen dedicated to the kitchen. A tablet, a laptop, a small TV+Google Cast or such combination. It seems to be a proper media for 'printing' a video. Of course, choosing challenges and finding solutions is what drives fun.

I device I think would be great for the kitchen is a large wrist-mounted, waterproof e-ink screen, curved to wrap around the wrist, with two large scroll buttons. The recipe could be loaded up via a linked smartphone or something, but then you have a device that you can touch with food covered hands and then wash it right alongside your hands later. Big screen so you don't have to squint or scroll frequently like you…

Honestly large 10-13 inch e-Ink tablets already work well for this as long as you're opening a PDF that stays put. Much like a physical book that doesn't move.

Live web pages suck because they pop up annoyances every 5 seconds that you have to deal with while your hands are messy, and the scrolling jumps around against your will.

Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by xg15 »

sakjur wrote: post #31
slingnow wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe if your business model includes putting things in an inconvenient format that could best be replaced by a bulleted list, you should rethink your business model.

If that's truly what you're doing, sure. If you can reduce a movie to its screenplay without losing value, that's probably what you should be doing. A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified. I wish we'd go the other way, where free text content is complemented by paid-for audio or video commentary. But it has to be a very dull…

Yeah no. There are probably amazing and insightful cooking videos out there, but the moment you intentionally withold the recipe unless people pay, you're using a disadvantage of the medium for rent-seeking.

Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by chedabob »

dheera wrote: post #30
quartz wrote: post #22

Definitely would use this. Instructional video instead of step-by-step text is a personal pet peeve. I know it's a lot easier to just record a video to show something like "how to replace the battery on a cordless vacuum" or "removing a sink basin nut" but it's often such a painful experience for consumption (watch a moment, pause, scrub back and watch again, pause, continue, pause, all with potentially gloved hands…

Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns: - Big white page not showing any text or images until the entire page and its assets are downloaded, which means if you accidentally click something and go back you have to wait another several seconds for everything to load again - Pop up GDPR popup while hands are covered in flour and eggs - Pop up "would you li…

I've started copying these recipes into Crouton https://crouton.app/

It does a remarkable job at extracting the recipes, and the end result is a consistent experience no matter the source.

Re: Now I can just print that video

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Post by beepbooptheory »

Closi wrote: post #15
kevincox wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking the same thing. Extraction and basic formatting of information from human language is something that LLMs excel at. Especially if the result is being shown to a human so small mistakes can be tolerated.

It could also dramatically increase quality, look at the below from the example PDF from the page: > Garlic balsamic chicken, you'll be making over and over. By sear your chicken. I resin wine. Grab yourself a nice large bowl, extra virgin and olive oil. Balsamic glaze. Tomato paste. Honey, fresh lemon juice, garlic, Oregano fresh thyme, coat my chicken with this beautiful balsamic, no balsamic, left behind. Don't yo…

It's a little confused about it though.. It's not clear in the gpt version that "balsamic glaze" is what you are making by mixing the ingredients together, and makes it sound rather like some other ingredient you are mixing in. Granted, we have to decipher that a little bit in the first one too, but its not nearly as bad.
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