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Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by 082349872349872 »

oarsinsync wrote: post #680
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #620

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Writing APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.

Technically it’s one fewer keystroke (and it’s AAPL). It’s a lot fewer keystrokes for MS (Morgan Stanley), GS (Goldman Sachs) and MSFT (Microsoft) than it is for AAPL, but it’s a force of habit for some. Once you’re used to referring to firms by their ticker symbols, you do it all the time. E.g. an ex trader friend still says “spot” instead of “point” when referring to decimal points, even if talking in other context…

Tangent: Not fewer like F (Ford) or H (Hyatt Hotels). Unfortunately we don't have a full alphabet, missing {I, N, P, Q, Y}.

I guess if we allowed the first two letter ticker symbol for the missing singles, we could send messages by mentioning a bunch of company names.

Eg "Buy: Dominion Energy, Agilent. Hold: Nano Labs. Sell: Genpact." would refer to our esteemed moderator, and "Hyatt Hotels is pleased to announce special corporate rates for Nano Labs bookings" to this site itself.

[maybe it would be better to use the companies where the corporate name and ticker letter don't match? Like US Steel for X and AT&T for T?]

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by al_borland »

al_borland wrote: post #499
cryptozeus wrote: post #447

Everyone here talking like this something unique netflix had to deal with. Hotstar live streamed india va Pakistan cricket match with zero issues with all time high live viewership ever in the history of live telecast. Why would viewers paying $20 month want to think about their technical issues, they dropped the ball pure and simple. Tech already exists for this, it’s been done before even by espn, nothing new here.

The Independent reports 35m viewers of that cricket match [0]. Rolling Stone reported 120m for Tyson and Paul on Netflix [1]. These are very different numbers. 120m is Super Bowl territory. Could Hotstar handle 3-4 of those cricket matches at the same time without issue? [0] https://www.the-independent.com/sport/cricket/india-pakistan... [1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...

Too late for me to edit, but Netflix is now reporting 60m, half of what Rolling Stone said.

https://x.com/netflix/status/1857906492235723244?s=46

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by bombela »

silisili wrote: post #682
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #608

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.

As a counterpoint to some other replies, I do this sometimes, not thinking at all about stocks but instead as a standardized abbreviation of sorts. Ms for example can mean tons of things from a title to multiple sclerosis to milliseconds. MSFT is clear and half the length.

`Ms` would be megaseconds ;)

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by lizknope »

Does anyone remember IP multicast?

I remember a lot of trade magazines in the late 1990's during the dot com boom talked about how important it would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast

I never hear about it anymore. Is that because everyone wants to watch something different at their own time? Or is it actually working just fine now in the background? I see under the "Deployment" section it mentions IPTV in hotel rooms.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by SoftTalker »

dilyevsky wrote: post #543
al_borland wrote: post #499

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Independent reports 35m viewers of that cricket match [0]. Rolling Stone reported 120m for Tyson and Paul on Netflix [1]. These are very different numbers. 120m is Super Bowl territory. Could Hotstar handle 3-4 of those cricket matches at the same time without issue? [0] https://www.the-independent.com/sport/cricket/india-pakistan... [1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...

Majority of superbowl viewers watch it on cable. Streaming gets fewer than 10M concurrents

Do people even have cable TV anymore? I have internet from my "cable" company but I don't have the "cable" connected to anything but the modem. Everything I watch is streamed. The only thing connected to my TV is a Roku.

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by andai »

rconti wrote: post #631
andai wrote: post #570

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great, but what possible counterargument is there? We should prolong indefinitely a spooky ambiguity about whether the system works or not?

The counterargument is obvious for anyone who has been on call or otherwise responsible for system stability. It's very easy to become risk-averse in any realm.

Doesn't ensuring stuff actually works tangibly lower risk?

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by shermantanktop »

Every time a big company screws up, there are two highly informed sets of people who are guaranteed to be lurking, but rarely post, in a thread like this:

1) those directly involved with the incident, or employees of the same company. They have too much to lose by circumventing the PR machine.

2) people at similar companies who operate similar systems with similar scale and risks. Those people know how hard this is and aren’t likely to publicly flog someone doing their same job based on uninformed speculation. They know their own systems are Byzantine and don’t look like what random onlookers think it would look like.

So that leaves the rest, who offer insights based on how stuff works at a small scale, or better yet, pronouncements rooted in “first principles.”

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by mvandermeulen »

mmooss wrote: post #551
ajdude wrote: post #409

It wasn't even just buffering issues, the feed would just stop and never start again until I paused it and then clicked "watch live" with the remote. It was really bad. My Dad has always been a fan of boxing so I came over to watch the whole thing with him. He has his giant inflatable screen and a projector that we hooked up in the front lawn to watch it, But everything kept buffering. We figured it was the Wi-Fi so…

> My Dad has always been a fan of boxing What did your Dad think about the 'boxing'?

Was this necessary? The comment was on a tech forum about the tech issues, do we really need to reprosecute the argument that it wasn’t real boxing here too? There are plenty of other places for those so painfully inclined to do so

Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by abduhl »

silisili wrote: post #682
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #608

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.

As a counterpoint to some other replies, I do this sometimes, not thinking at all about stocks but instead as a standardized abbreviation of sorts. Ms for example can mean tons of things from a title to multiple sclerosis to milliseconds. MSFT is clear and half the length.

Which is why we started calling it M$ in the 2000s, emphasizing its overriding goal of making ca$h off its users
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