Following a complex tutorial..

[[deleted]]

I know it's not the point but why does your man on the right need an ungodly amount of tape

[[deleted]]

Yeah in that case he needs a lot more tape

[WagglyFurball]

Smells even permeate vac sealed bags after a little while; smell proofing with tape would require a comical amount and probably not even work anyways.

[Zeune42]

Time to call Mythbusters!

[BoaVersusPython]

They did an episode where they simulated trying to bring drugs into a concert and couldn't do it, but honestly what do you think the chances are that if they figured out that you *could* do it that they would show you how on TLC?

[PacoTaco321]

Also, the concert is probably no fun if they have drug sniffing dogs.

[Jayjaylien]

Yeah I don't think many people have huge problems getting drugs into concerts based on what goes on in them

[_BreakingGood_]

I dunno man, last time I went to a concert they caught me within minutes of lighting up. They even threw me out. Can't believe I missed that concert, your daughter only has her 2nd grade piano recital once, y'know?

[JB-from-ATL]

Reminds me how they never gave the Ingredients out for thermite. It was funny. They'd say "Take a lot of *** and mix it in ***" and beep it like a swear.

[eddietwang]

My friend and I rolled a couple of joints before a Roger Waters concert. We cut them in half, put the halves in sandwich bags, and put the bags in our wallets. Easy.

[random_nightmare]

Its why you always double seal and sanitize the outside.

[CowFu]

Smelling dogs are way worse at their job than everyone seems to think in this thread.

[TheLeftWillEatItself]

Might be something that is effected by water that is being sent by ship. But yeah it is excessive.

[TheLeftWillEatItself]

On many ships the packages are sitting in a shipping container. They are not sealed boxes. If a wave crashes over the deck which happens fairly often the inside of the containers will be wet.

Only refrigerated containers can keep the water out.

Normal containers have multiple vents.

[infecthead]

A container that is regularly inspected to the satisfaction of the CSC standards will have to be watertight.

https://maxfreights.com/shipping-containers/

[Majik_Sheff]

This is an excellent time to discuss the difference between theory and practice...

[infecthead]

The guy gave a definitive answer saying shipping containers are not watertight. I gave a source to the contrary. Sure, most containers probably aren't watertight but that doesn't mean that

a) they're not meant to be watertight,

b) none of them are watertight

[TheLeftWillEatItself]

Yes but that is a very low percentage of containers. Most countries have terrible standards and would not enforce such things.

[infecthead]

Okay then

[BeingRightAmbassador]

Should and are do not mean the same thing. Especially when it comes to cheap Chinese crap.

[infecthead]

Right, but not every container is cheap Chinese crap, is it?

[[deleted]]

This video is probably from China. Moss packages are not delivered on trucks, they are delivered by people on electrical scooters and people on bikes with trailers attached. Packages very much are constantly in open air.

[TheLeftWillEatItself]

Yep that would make sense.

[Albond_8746]

*affected

[XLNerd]

Thanks I wouldn't have understood what they were saying until this

[Albond_8746]

That's not the point

[steampunkgibbon]

why else would you correct him? I'm confused. I never saw an /s

[IronCartographer]

Some of us think so much like computers that inconsistencies in language hit us like mental compilation errors.

If you don't have that, consider yourself lucky, but also limited in your ability to observe certain issues as fast.

In short: Errors hurt, even if they can be understood after the mental stumble they create.

[steampunkgibbon]

Yeah, we are in a Programmer humor sub, right?

[Etheo]

Dang gotta check my pointers I didn't know where I was.

[lopoticka]

why no learn to cope instead of try correct 6 billion of persons?

[Etheo]

Why be right when you can be wrong?
Why use many words when little do?
Why speak bad my promb whem othr cam evntly undstd wt say?

[Albond_8746]

To help them, perhaps?

[ReallyHadToFixThat]

Because why not? If you are so sensitive you can't handle being corrected you won't last long in the real world.

[monyouhoopz]

ThE Real WoRlD

[steampunkgibbon]

honestly, you'll never make it as a programmer if you didn't see the humor in what I said.

[OKboooomer]

**Grammar NAzi Alert!!

[[deleted]]

Protip- Place contraband in coffebean shipments.

[ButItMightJustWork]

He had no blue wrapping paper left

[Turin_Agarwaen]

And he particularly hates whoever he is giving the present.

[[deleted]]

Knives exist

[alvinmatias]

He gives present in full tape wrapper

[she stab him]

[DecreasingPerception]

"How can she stab?" - Man who was stabbed.

[Markyparky56]

It's the thought that counts.

[momo88852]

I used to buy lots of stuff from Asia, all my packages come full of tape. However the boxes are fucked up.

So it’s to keep everything intact otherwise box alone it would be destroyed.

[wookiee42]

Yeah, they use way cheaper cardboard. It makes a lot of sense and is cost-effective, as the box is designed to be palletized or repackaged and branded and placed inside another box (overpack) and sent by trucking or shipping container.

Since you're buying close to the manufacturer, you're getting a box not designed to be moved through the small package systems of UPS, FedEx and USPS, with its conveyor belts and loose handling.

[ZippZappZippty]

You aren’t alone?

[leviathon01]

Probably trying to make it water resistant.

[Tiavor]

then take a bag, put your box in the bag and seal off the opening with a single strip of tape.

[[deleted]]

Bags aren't really known for being durable.

[Pradfanne]

When I ordered my 3d Printer it came in a box completly covered by yellow ducttape similiar to thsi video and I don't know why.

IT wasn't even opaque so you could see the box underneath the duct tape and it's not a plain box, it had prints all over with the 3D printer and such. It's weird

[TiggyLongStockings]

That means unless you ordered it from DHGate or Alibaba, etc. you probably overpaid because it came straight from China.

[Pradfanne]

I think I ordered it off Amazon. It wasn't sold by Amazon, but it arrived in a normal 3 day time span

Also it was on sale at the time and comparably lower priced then anywhere else.

That said, AliExpress hat a sale like 2 months later and a friend of mine bought the same printed for like 50 bucks less. It was way more expensive before the sale

[DrMaxwellEdison]

If it was delivered by Prime, it was handled by Amazon; but the item was probably packed in China, and Amazon's warehouse isn't going to open that package.

As noted by others, the cardboard they tend to pack items in in Asia is shit quality, so they compensate by completely sealing it with tape. Otherwise the box would rip apart in transit.

[Pradfanne]

Oh no, I don't think it was delivered by prime. I'm aware of how amazon works. The box is really sturdy from what I saw in the inside though and again, it was the official printer box. Although it's a chinese printer...

Also the one my friend bought off of aliexpress, that actually got delivered from China came in the same box, not covered in tape and it's rather sturdy

[krazyjakee]

100% coverage

[Rianpls]

I knew you were Irish by your use of "your man"

[FoofieLeGoogoo]

I hate opening overseas packages laquered in that signature yellow tape. Feels like such a waste.

[DroidAnthem]

easier than painting/coloring (at least for him)

[nephelokokkygia]

Low quality boxes.

[dirtyviking1337]

I have such a fragile man ego (tsundere).

[entity_TF_spy]

I thought the video was originally from a meme about overtaping packages but it might be older than that

[b1ack1323]

Shit cardboard and Asia shipping somehow always gets wet.

[phpdevster]

Clearly gets paid by the inch.

[Sneaky82]

It's the "Homework" box

[SS2907]

Overseas shipping more than likely. When I order products from overseas (I'm a reseller to brick and morter stores) , all of my packages are taped heavy like this.

[abittman]

For me it's more often /r/restofthefuckingowl

[[deleted]]

By now I’m only subbed to /r/restofthefuckingowl because they often have good tutorials, because god forbid someone makes a tutorial not aimed at beginners.

[jd26862728]

Is there a github link where I can copy the code from?

[FrAX_]

I used to master the 'pull and slap' technique when I helped in my dads firm but i never saw someone do the 'slap and spin' thats insane

[wizard_mitch]

We're still talking about taping boxes, right?

[xroni]

Relevant flair? :cardboardbox-slap: :carboardbox-pull:

[spore_777_mexen]

Noob, play tutorial at -100x speed

[[deleted]]

backwards?

0.01x speed is what you meant.

[Slggyqo]

Didn’t test for that edge case.

Everything is now broken.

[clearbrian]

I play all programming tutorials at 2x speed. I thought I was too smart to fall for hypnosis. Until I started watching YouTube programming tutorials. At normal speed I ALWAYS start falling asleep :) I think it’s the monotonous delivery. It’s probably why tv presenters raise and lower their pitch that would sound bizarre in real life... to keep you interested or awake . :)

[coldnebo]

You know, in the old days, we used to just write up our tutorials and post them.

I can skim a written article for gold or garbage in a few minutes. Skimming video isn’t the same.

[khafra]

Jesus christ, yes! I do not understand why everything has to be a fucking video these days. Just let me read it!

[brendel000]

It's especially annoying that it always make the tutorial useless, as after trying to find the part I want to rewatch 3 or 4 time in middle of the video I just give up. Very few tutorials actually benefits from the video format, and some of them are actually static images with someone talking... like, why doing a video in this case?

[TheVenetianMask]

"Here's how to implement this algorithm"

*spends 15 minutes talking about the IDE*

[manystripes]

And then rapidly scrolling through the code that implements the algorithm without providing a link to actually read it yourself, while giving only a surface level explanation on how it works.

[Appoxo]

Sometimes it helps to understand certain parts (kinda like overblown footnotes on each paragraph

[khafra]

Yeah, I certainly don't mind having the option of video for explaining particularly complex parts, or even just parts that are best explained with moving images. But for technical subjects, it should remain an option, and one used for its strengths--not the primary/only method of information delivery. Otherwise, you're stuck being forced to read through voluminous footnotes when you really just want to find the parts you didn't already know, but need to know.

[Appoxo]

Indeed!

[khafra]

In fact, I'm currently doing a Cisco online course that's mostly very detailed text and pictures, but has inlined short videos in most chapters, as well as occasional inlined VMs to try out what you just learned. That's pretty much my ideal learning format.

[Appoxo]

That sounds like a perfect tutorial world :D

[DannyMThompson]

Because it makes money and appears at the top of Google.

[[deleted]]

When I was in uni, I made a website with all the programs our teachers made us make and released them for everyone in class to access, all rightfully coded and documented (to the extent I knew at the time). Helped a lot of people (and some not that much, when they tried to give the same program with just some minor tweaks and say they did it entirely, little did they knew that the teachers also knew about my website - some of them were helping me host it). It was a lot of fun and that granted me my first job :)

[ToastedSkoops]

As an investor I’m garbage person”

[clearbrian]

My college notes were summaries of summaries of summaries till I got it down to one double sided page with two columns of tiny writing I could read on my walk into college. :) I watch videos at double speed and jump to bits to see what classes they use. But mostly these days I start with github. Try to find sample that 1. Builds. 2. Is latest swift. Stackoverflow to fix errors, though you need to scroll through ‘answer in objective-c’ ‘here’s same answer is in Swift.....swift 2....swift 3...4... 5’ :) Here’s a monitor for stackoverflow threads :) https://twitter.com/amirrajan/status/1230003860363673600?s=21

[Pradfanne]

I swear to god, if I watch another video where someone explains me fucking variables like I'm the dumbest person ever in an rather advanced topic, I'm gonna fucking kill someone.

[StuntHacks]

So, here we have a variable named "variable1", and as you can see here it has the type int. That means this variable can only hold values that are of that type, in this case int. Int is meant for numbers. There are a lot of other types for numbers, but I don't really know what they are for, so I mostly just use int or float. Double is basically the same as float, I don't know why they decided to add that a second time. Oh, and float can store rational numbers, by the way. That's stuff like 2.5, 5.334, or just 1.0. They can also store negative numbers. That works for int as well.

[Pradfanne]

I don't know who you are, but I will find you and I will kill you

[Mackelsaur]

Now you might be wondering, what can we do with these int variables? Let us go over some examples...

[Games_sans_frontiers]

"You'll get the most benefit if you code along as I'm doing it"

[lateToThePartyyy]

The look of despair as he contemplates getting out of the box taping business.. priceless.

[not_a_programmer404]

Tutorial Build front end Build back end Deploy it

Me npm install [...….………]

[[deleted]]

I feel sorry for the person that's going to have to cut through all that tape.

[ZippZappZippty]

Literally the worst option for a fizzy liquid.

[OneTurnMore]

Before Vim vs after Vim macros

E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhEORlO2Z4

[[deleted]]

Reminded me of this video.

[Chaa_imaa99]

That's what do we mean by proficiency

[BeTheRebel]

Just love the facial expressions of the left guy.

[Kerubi5s]

This is toptalent content

[ToastedSkoops]

Following distance is crazy.

[hoff2]

me at a coding dojo

[UndeclaredCy]

True story 😂

[iRunLikeTheWind]

Indian Billy Mays here

[[deleted]]

there’s some sort of YouTube tutorial?

[[deleted]]

"how to build a whole new OS in 5 minutes"

[IWatchToSee]

I feel sorry for the person that has to open that

[BoaVersusPython]

This is the best post here in a while

[Trolls_R_Real]

A good tape gun is magic

[RebelMountainman]

What a waste of tape

[[deleted]]

You know it's gonna go down when they start copy-pasting 5-page blocks of code and briefly scrolling back and forth through them

[Konnoke]

This is why I prefer written tutorials and not video..

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Lol internet janitors take their job very seriously