winterayars

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[–] winterayars 1 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, the powerful have the power so they're arranging my life too. To the best of their ability, at least.

You're right that we should not confuse their values for our own, however.

[–] winterayars 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't need to go that far, i think. If you had your extension hash some piece of each keyframe (basically: tokenize some IDs for each keyframe) and submit them to a database you could then see which parts were shown to everyone vs only to some people and only display those. Basically similar to how sponsorblock crowd sources its sponsor segment detection but automated. Some people would see the ads but then you'd know what the og video was unless it gets edited.

This is assuming they're not reencoding the video for each advertisement, which they probably aren't. If they are it probably gets easier, actually. Sponsorblock could do that.

[–] winterayars 4 points 4 months ago

Compared to the cost of reencoding the video (or even segments of it) it would be basically nothing, though.

[–] winterayars 37 points 4 months ago (6 children)

"Line go up" is the animating force of the age, the critical philosophical principal around which our entire society is arranged.

Gives me a fucking headache.

[–] winterayars 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm...

(Edit: Though that may not actually work considering this is apparently fully server side. Gonna have to get clever...)

[–] winterayars 6 points 4 months ago

Communal housing world solve many problems.

[–] winterayars 8 points 4 months ago

One of the originators of the idea of "planned obsolescence". Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.

[–] winterayars 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They've been sabotaged by design. LEDs should last 10+ years if built even half away reasonably, but unfortunately the manufacturers basically got together and agreed to build them in such a way they would fail. Same as regular light bulbs, they just have to work harder.

I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market--old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks. They've been running for like 15 years now and not a one of them has failed. I spent several hundred USD replacing all my bulbs with those back in the day and they've done me well.

Modern bulbs are trash by comparison. Not because the technology is limited in some way but because they refuse to make anything to that quality anymore.

We need an alternate solution to this planned obsolescence bullshit. Light bulbs hit 50k rated hours long ago and they were talking about making ones that went 100k+ but these days you can't find anything above 25k. And that's setting aside the fact that a lot of these rely on apps that could be dropped at a moment's notice.

[–] winterayars 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's still actually pretty sketchy, depending on exactly what you want to do. Strict regex still won't be able to match correctly if you want to match what an HTML parser considers the opening tag, though fancier regex will. If you're just looking for the tags in the HTML document as a flat document it's doable, though. (Mostly.)

[–] winterayars 10 points 4 months ago

I would say it's more like: "How can I do X?" "Here are some reasons you can't do Y."

The answers should have been "Here are some reasons doing X is hard, but here's an attempt at it anyway and also some more robust alternatives to doing X." That would have been an excellent answer. (If you go down far enough you do start to see things like this but they're hindered by people still responding that you can't do Y or downvoting because they don't understand what's happening.)

[–] winterayars 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it also makes 50 less horsepower (but more torque!) than the s2000 engines and that power has to come from somewhere. Ironically, the cars with the F20C tend to do a little better than the cars with the F22C, probably down to the gear ratios being shorter for the latter cars (in the US at least). That said, the difference in engines is probably not as relevant as the difference in weight. It's crazy how light the Elise is.

ND Miatas are getting there. The new engine is 180 bhp and revs to 7500 (i think?), combined with its light weight that puts it at a similar performance level to the S2000. Obviously i'm not rushing to trade mine in any time soon but the fact that Mazda is still willing (and able) to make a car like that is really impressive imo.

[–] winterayars 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The S2k is just in a weird spot due to the engine being so crazy. The 2005 EPA rating was 17/23 for example. It's a combination of high revving engine (you seriously drive in the 3-5k rev range in normal traffic), short gear ratios, and more weight than either an MX-5 or Elise. The thing is a legend but it's far from perfect! Or perhaps, it's a legend because of the imperfections the engineers gave it.

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