Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr...
by ikari_pl on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:48AM
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can't agree more; all arguments in this comment are also why I don't understand video and yt popularity at all. I can't do anything to quickly get a grasp of what's in a video, or whether it answers my question. Sometimes even if the question is a yes or no, this sequential format forces me to wait a few minutes to learn the answer. By that time, I'll forget why I wanted it in the first place.
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Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr...
by pmontra on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:09AM
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In my experience, videos about how to cut wood or use tools are infinitely better than reading the equivalent text. Videos about writing software are infinitely worse than text. The difference is that wood and tools are 3D objects, software is text.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr...
by runevault on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:32PM
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I'd say it depends on the software. If you are just writing code that manipulates text, I completely agree. If you're dealing with 3d rendering such as Blender or game engines, if you're dealing with audio like DAWs, etc that have components beyond the raw text, video can have value because just staring at the code or similar doesn't tell you what watching/hearing it in motion will.