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Youtube "how to" videos are mostly useless

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IanB:
Just for fun, here is an example of a short "how to" video with 100% information content, and no fluff:


tggzzz:

--- Quote from: IanB on March 19, 2024, 04:29:08 pm ---Just for fun, here is an example of a short "how to" video with 100% information content, and no fluff:

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Oh, good videos do exist, just as nice opera arias punk songs exist. The problem is finding them amongst the deluge of awful stuff.

BTW: that's not a yooootooob vid, it is a TokTuck vid  >:D

mwb1100:
Just going to throw my 2 cents in:

There is certainly a lot of junk on youtube.  But I have found it to be an amazing resource even more.  When I need to repair something in my home there is often an easily found video explaining and showing exactly how to do it.  And often I'm looking for a repair for a specific appliance or auto part and I can find a video showing how to do the repair not just on a generic dishwasher or car, but my exact model.

Most of the time it's not too difficult to avoid the junk or quickly ignore it since it's usually clear within a few moments that it won't be much use.

On the negative side, there are many tutorials that would be much better in written form than in a video.  But who am I to tell someone how they should offer/present something I'm not paying them for?  I'm not their boss.

It still amazes me how I can go to my computer or phone and ask nearly any question and much more often than not get useful answers immediately. 

It's like I'm living in Star Trek!  Captain Kirk:

--- Quote ---Subject: former governor Kodos of Tarsus IV, also known as Kodos the Executioner.  After that, background on actor Anton Karidian.
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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: mwb1100 on March 19, 2024, 07:16:55 pm ---It's like I'm living in Star Trek!  Captain Kirk:

--- Quote ---Subject: former governor Kodos of Tarsus IV, also known as Kodos the Executioner.  After that, background on actor Anton Karidian.
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That is a decade too late...

Have a look at Arthur C Clarke's "The City and the Stars" (1956), and the earlier variant "Against The Fall of Night"(1948).

Or, if you prefer a version from 1975, "Imperial Earth", which does feature technology like the web - a decade before the internet and two decades before the web.

Clarke was well aware of Vannevar Bush's memex from "As We May Think" (1945).

coppice:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 19, 2024, 07:36:08 pm ---Have a look at Arthur C Clarke's "The City and the Stars" (1956)

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If only we could build those machines that keep everything in pristine condition, matching exactly what the CAD database says things should be like? :)

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