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New comment by margaretdouglas in "Oh Shit, Git?"

margaretdouglas — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:04:47 +0000

I force pushed over origin/master from a very not-up-to-date feature branch and don't have the remote history I overwrote fetched locally.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires"

margaretdouglas — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:37:45 +0000

Why does the most attractive male face appear suspiciously similar to Zuck?

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:36:53 +0000

There was some blog post on HN the other day where someone said they don't do chaos monkey anymore... Even then, how do you chaos test a novel event ahead of time?

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:34:19 +0000

Isn't the scale a bit different though? Surely this event was an order of magnitude more concurrent viewers than some NFL game.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:22:56 +0000

I wouldn't say it's a solved problem, how many other companies are pulling off those numbers? Isn't that the current record for concurrent streams? And wasn't it mostly to mobile devices?

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:18:00 +0000

Doesn't twitch almost fall over (other non-massive streams impacted) when anyone gets close to 4-5m concurrent viewers? I remember last time it happened everything started falling over, even for smaller streams. Even if Netflix struggled with the event, streaming other content worked just fine for me.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:34:19 +0000

Wasn't that the biggest concurrent stream ever?

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:30:53 +0000

Has there ever been a 300m concurrent live stream? I thought Disney+ had the record at something like 60m.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly)"

margaretdouglas — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:44:37 +0000

I made it about 20% before having a panic attack... formatting seems adversarial

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:30:26 +0000

A misconfigured or naively implemented spice rack never provided an entry point to leverage your infrastructure to engage in illegal activity and resources at your expense.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

margaretdouglas — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 16:20:22 +0000

The issue is fundamentally that releasing a single game for a single fee yields linear growth, which is to say the amount your growing by is stagnant. Stagnant growth, to an investor, is essentially a signal that your company is currently failing. So unless you can grow your growth, you fail, and the only way to continue growing your growth is if new products remain cash generating indefinitely.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 14 May 2022 16:32:12 +0000

I wish more people would watch Dark. Horrendously underrated.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit"

margaretdouglas — Sat, 14 May 2022 16:31:33 +0000

The marketing material for the movie was absolute dog water. I agree with your position there, but wish you'd take other sources and allow them to add color to your reaction to something you have only a single perspective on. Perhaps they could in form you that your reaction, based on bad information, is inaccurate. Perhaps you could use that realization as an opportunity to view the film yourself and come to your own conclusion based on the new information that your initial reaction was heavily biased based on an inaccurate portrayal of the material.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video"

margaretdouglas — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:31:35 +0000

I feel like I'd find this comment more humorous if it wasn't a parody of what is actually happening.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video"

margaretdouglas — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:30:40 +0000

The issue isn't that the testing is challenging. The ask here is Netflix covers all third-party Chrome plugins that manipulate the playback experience. Is it really Netflix's job to ensure all changes are compatible with third party tools like the one linked here, or others like Language Reactor?

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

margaretdouglas — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:08:59 +0000

> which happened to be on different channels because physics.

So why do we see wars for who gets to stream Friends/Seinfeld/The Office/etc now? The networks don't own that content, it was just physics?

> Let each channel decide if they want to buy a given show at a given price.

That's not how this works now, nor has it ever worked this way. If Network A is paying for the exclusive broadcast rights, then Network B doesn't also have an equal Right to also purchase the exclusive broadcast rights. This has always worked this way. If Disney produces Disney Mouse Club Cartoon it has no obligation to allow any network purchase the exclusive rights to broadcast that show because it already purchased them in the form of owning the original production, and therefore copyright, from its inception.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

margaretdouglas — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:03:29 +0000

Why do you need cable/satellite if you're playing the a la carte game of streaming? I feel like the world where you have cable and streaming services is ending and you either live in a world with cable and maybe or two streaming services; similar to paying extra for HBO and Cinemax with your cable service in the past, or you cut the cord and manage bundling the "networks" yourself. Netflix+Hulu+HBOMax+Sports/Local News subscriptions all tally to less than cable used to, you get more content, and all that content is on demand and free of commercials. This notion that service has backpedaled is nonsense. It baffles me why people still cling to their cable service and then expect "premium" channels be free and also share their content with one another. Which cable networks did that? When new episodes of Seinfeld were airing which networks could you watch them on? Just one? So unfair! I prefer the commercials on ABC! Perhaps you felt differently because you had no alternative to buying all the "streaming services of the day" under a single bundle. Now you do. You don't like TNT? Don't pay for it. ESPN never get turned on? Now you can drop it from your bill.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

margaretdouglas — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:52:37 +0000

What do you think cable networks were in the 90s? If you weren't paying a middle-man to aggregate them onto a single monopolized access point in your house you'd be paying NBC/ABC/CBS/etc individually. Think about how premium channels worked at the time; you'd pay for HBO or Cinemax on top of your monthly cable bill. It's not as though those premium channels were significantly cheaper than HBOMax or Netflix, and they didn't offer a fraction of the content you could consume at any given time.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

margaretdouglas — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:45:42 +0000

Cable providers were charging you $80/mo for commercial laden network aggregation. You cut that cord and complain when paying less for more content, without commercials, and is on demand, because it is unbundled and you need to manage each $5-15 "network" fee individually, instead of a single itemized bill.

This is like complaining you have to pay for NBC to watch Friends when you'd much prefer to watch it on ABC so you can avoid paying for both.

New comment by margaretdouglas in "Feds asks Tesla to recall vehicles over failing touchscreen displays"

margaretdouglas — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:27:35 +0000

That's how Crew Dragon works, I wish Elon would apply that process to his cars.