<story><title>Dave Cutler on Windows [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.&lt;p&gt;The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.&lt;p&gt;Worth digging around in the muck a little to watch something as great as this Dave Cutler interview, though.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I&amp;#x27;m used to, he speaks warmly about his job, co-workers and Microsoft, while acknowledging much of the weirdness going on in Redmond.&lt;p&gt;Only problem is that watching is channel will trigger something in the YouTube algorithm and flood your feed with videos on ADHD. Presumably it has to do with his videos on autism and ADHD, but I feel like YouTube should be smart enough to notice that I didn&amp;#x27;t watch to videos, only those on coding and Microsoft history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jorvi</author><text>&amp;gt; YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful&lt;p&gt;This is what surprised me a lot. A friend of mine made me install TikTok (after me disparaging it a lot). I made an account for it with a dummy address, went off to the races, and after a couple of days I suddenly caught myself having been scrolling my feed for ~1h10m minutes without realizing it. I literally recoiled and dropped my phone, after which I uninstalled TikTok immediately.&lt;p&gt;YouTube has never had that kind of grip on my dopamine receptors. There are a great many (longform) edifying videos on there. And sure, there are interesting videos, and it is good at recommending a few adjacent videos to those. But the algorithm is not nearly as good as TikTok, I can recognize that immediately.&lt;p&gt;Aside from how horrifically good TikTok is at hooking your dopamine receptors, another thing I have to give it credit for is how egalitarian it is. YouTube is all about subscribers and network reach. On TikTok it’s the content that goes viral, not the creator.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dave Cutler on Windows [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.&lt;p&gt;The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.&lt;p&gt;Worth digging around in the muck a little to watch something as great as this Dave Cutler interview, though.</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I&amp;#x27;m used to, he speaks warmly about his job, co-workers and Microsoft, while acknowledging much of the weirdness going on in Redmond.&lt;p&gt;Only problem is that watching is channel will trigger something in the YouTube algorithm and flood your feed with videos on ADHD. Presumably it has to do with his videos on autism and ADHD, but I feel like YouTube should be smart enough to notice that I didn&amp;#x27;t watch to videos, only those on coding and Microsoft history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>there is enough really great stuff on YouTube that I do not feel bad paying for YouTube Premium.&lt;p&gt;I never see an ad on YouTube and I use ublock origin everywhere.</text></comment>