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Except they want it both ways. I tried Youtube Premium for a few months. Slowly but surely the ads came back, so back to blocking and not paying I went.

I don't know if this is serious or not but I get zero ads with Youtube Premium even on my phone.

Youtube premium can look very different between places/people. Many with premium still see them. Youtube seems to be testing various markets to see how many ads it takes before people cancel their subscriptions. Also, you have to accept google cookies and such for them to identify you as a subscriber, so many privacy-focused users will see ads regardless of premium subscriptions.

I'd love more info about this, because I've been paying for Youtube premium for years and I haven't seen a single ad.

They have "premium lite" as an option for me (US) which says "most videos ad-free*"

what? I don't see ads unless the creator themselves are doing it, and even then it's two clicks on the right arrow button and we move on

Sponsorblock is a god send. It automates all that

No, you didn’t. You fed it into a LLM that does it. Literally the first sentence containing “diving in” gave it away.

Please don’t post “I fed this into chatgpt” comments. Everyone has access to these tools if they want to use them.


Wasn't meant to imply the opposite. The video even has a watermark clearly saying it's generated. I genuinely found the video useful, so decided to share.

also, not everyone has access. I used (afaik) the only "academic paper --> narrated video" converter, and it just went into beta a couple weeks ago

Or you can full real time text, like we all used to have. https://typeto.me

The United States Military (Waterhouse has decided) is first and foremost an unfathomable network of typists and file clerks, secondarily a stupendous mechanism for moving stuff from one part of the world to another, and last and least a fighting organization. —Cryptonomicon

agreed, agreed, … wait what

You never bit on your pen? Especially back in the school days?

Ballpoint pens are the OG stress relief / concentration / "fidget spinner" toys. Except the BIC ones, those would easily shatter; suddenly finding your mouth to be full of sharp, orange or translucent shards of plastic, is the opposite of calm and focus.


I've never done that because pens end up in the dirtiest places. People aren't washing their hands before using them, they gets tossed in a bag and sit in the crevices alongside all sorts of dust and dirt, they get set on dirty desks and will even hit the floor sometimes. All-in-all, super gross.

tell me you didn’t even glance at the article without telling me you didn’t even glance at the article

The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it anyway".

That and they essentially had unlimited money.

And some guys who had previously succeeded at solving difficult problems under time pressure with limited money. Well, the money was more limited on one side of the war.

There's a nice lecture from Dan Gelbart that discusses things that people thought were impossible, until they were invented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeBWJLRXqM Creative solutions to impossible engineering problems


Some airline someday is going to figure out that if you guarantee overhead luggage space, people will pay more to get on the plane last instead of first.

I've long thought this for economy tickets.

But if you really want to pay more, and are flying on higher fares, getting on the plane first turns back into a perk cause you get some free booze. And your seat is now more comfortable than the airport seats (even many airport lounge seats, where the best seats can go quickly when it's busy).


First class effectively has guaranteed overhead space, and you still see them boarding first so they can get champagne.

The only thing stopping a Waymo from doing that is laws.

You can do all that in a Waymo except for the “buy” part. When asked about that Sergey said “why do you want to own a car? You have to maintain it, insure it, park it at home and at work. Don’t you really just want to get where you’re going and have someone else figure out the rest?” This was back before google ate the evil pill. Now their philosophy is more like “don’t fall asleep, we can get a good deal on your kidneys, after that we’ll sell your mom’s kidneys too”

I can't buy a Waymo

The ~10 or 20mA or so one of these things draws would take months to do that.

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