A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit

Post by davidandgoliath » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

periheli0n wrote: post #94

closeparen wrote: post #91

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A lot of serious, famous people live in grand, nice houses in older neighborhoods with hopelessly oversubscribed Comcast. The CEO of my Fortune 500 company presented at a remote all-hands at about 0.25 frames/second. Now at that level, maybe you can spend the $10 million it would take to pull fiber to your house. But we’re not taking about buying some prosumer electronics here, we’re talking years of permitting and d…

I find it shocking that bad uplink in private homes is still a problem in the US. In times where a good proportion of public life happens on the web, most of shopping is done online, and media are dominated by streaming, why do people not run rampant against the lack of a decent wired uplink?

Post by ghaff » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

thinkmassive wrote: post #35

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I was an organizer for a major ACM conference last year, and I really struggled with my home video streaming setup. A lot of equipment was sold out last year. I followed the recommendation of some YouTubers and realized that this is not as simple as it seems. Despite realizing the importance of a live stream setup and investing in it, I'm pretty unhappy with the results. Thankfully we are out of the worst of the pand…

For the glasses glare I found a few things that help: - Turn down display brightness - Dark mode everywhere possible - Block direct sunlight (blinds/curtains or rotate desk) - Illuminate the rest of your face to reduce the contrast from glasses If you use a terminal for most things, including notes, one thing that helps a lot is to use a semi-transparent black background and position the terminal window over the meet…

Post by rkk3 » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

handrous wrote: post #87

bluefirebrand wrote: post #82

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Yes. So placing higher value on people based on how they dress is a garbage practice used to profile people with poorer backgrounds and limit their social mobility, keep them out of better jobs, keep them out of upwardly mobile roles like management. It's "learn to play the fashion game or get fucked" We would be so much better off without that crap.

Sure, but we the same applies to any other skill or practice. Like learning to program. Or bathing. Or showing up to work on time (a much, much bigger problem than, say, not owning a suit, for the actually-poor—ask them, or their employers, and you'll get an earful). In the case of management, specifically, I'd think if someone's reached the point where they have a realistic shot at a management position, but haven't…

Post by jborichevskiy » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #106

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Yeah. People with a spare room can spend thousands of dollars decking out a studio just so. But a lot of that money is pretty much wasted if they have glitchy Internet and there's not much they can do about other than renting a private office that has good Internet (which is probably an OK option for mid-tier famous people if they live near a city or other area with good network infrastructure).

This seems like a sort of roundabout reinvention of the television network. There are already buildings in every population center where famous people go to make their broadcast appearances.

Post by crazygringo » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

xwdv wrote: post #15

I write off anyone who video conferences with a bookshelf behind them as a fool trying to pass off as more intelligent than they actually are. It’s so cringey because of how blatantly manipulative it is.