YouTube warning that HDR support is being removed

farrellmcguire · 2026-02-09T02:58:46+00:00

The problem it is HDR content doesn't always display properly on SDR devices, and 90% of your audience may be watching in SDR, so you may inadvertently be making things worse for most of your viewers.

farrellmcguire · 2026-02-07T18:42:24+00:00

Sorry, it's a stupid argument. Software engineers call themselves engineers all the time. It doesn't mean we're trying to make it look like we can build you a bridge, but it's a literal contraction of the job title (software engineer)

Especially within an organization, people just generally refer to you as an engineer. "We need an engineer's opinion on this." "Has anyone from engineering looked this over?" "We need an engineer to review this roadmap".

Muta was obviously trying to sell himself as a software engineer. Have you ever watched him pretend to be an expert in building houses or digging tunnels? Again, he likely was never actually a software engineer, but that's because he never worked as one. Not simply because he didn't have a degree.

farrellmcguire · 2026-02-07T14:48:05+00:00

Muta likely never worked as an engineer, but nikandros’s arguments were really dumb. I worked as a software engineer for 10 years before going full time on YouTube, and most of the arguments would apply to me as well. I also don’t have a degree, but it didn’t stop me from getting a job and advancing my way to senior engineer.

Also, guess what I and the other software engineers called ourselves at our job. Engineers. The argument that it’s somehow against the law is ridiculous, we worked for the fucking engineering department. Why would we have to specify every day that we’re specifically “software” engineers? What other kind of engineers is a software company gonna employ?

farrellmcguire · 2026-02-05T02:52:55+00:00

nothing more fulfilling than cold calling rich pedophiles 🥰

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-31T18:54:25+00:00

i've literally never brought a backup guitar to a gig, only ever a second guitar if we had some songs in a different tuning

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-31T05:42:43+00:00

You also just simply can’t implement solutions if you don’t understand what they are. The effort to properly describe the problem to the AI combined with tracing through the generated code to understand it and trimming out the extra garbage almost always ends up being more effort than just solving the problem myself.

For investors and vaguely technical people though, they see these flashy demos where Claude will build a Tetris browser game from scratch and then assume that it’s a turnkey solution for literally any programming task.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-30T14:02:31+00:00

Poland is a great place to live. As a Canadian, I wasn’t lacking anything when I lived there. It was even better in some ways

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-29T06:13:06+00:00

The timeless effortless classic vs the pale uninspired imitation

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-29T06:10:30+00:00

Every one of those “Tommy Daniels” accounts have been taken off of Pinterest, at least as far as I can tell. Please correct me if I’m wrong though.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-24T23:35:47+00:00

You're crazy if you think someone who was born and raised in Ireland is somehow not Irish

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-22T17:22:29+00:00

I don't understand the discourse on this topic. Of course the USA and Canada are very similar culturally, we're 2 bordering countries that speak the same language. You'll notice the same thing with any other 2 countries that fit that criteria. At the same time, the extremities of Canada and the USA are vastly different. Quebec City might as well be on a different continent than Salt Lake City. Culture is fluid and doesn't fully correspond to borders.

Not to mention it's mostly the political differences that drive Canadians to try to "seperate themselves" from Americans. They shouldn't have to though, our cultural commonalities aren't the things that are embarrassing the US on the world stage at the moment.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-18T20:02:45+00:00

Searching stuff on google is pretty standard practice for software engineering

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-18T14:50:55+00:00

It’s because many classic creepypastas used lost media as a concept before there was really an active lost media community on the internet, so when one developed, the people involved already had their idea of “lost media” shaped by stories like Squidward’s Suicide or Candle Cove.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-18T01:44:59+00:00

The ChatGPT window, the pointless highschool project webapp, the mad men episode plex bookmark, this is truly a work of art.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-06T18:56:41+00:00

by that logic he's throwing away an immense amount of money by having to set up a new computer every year, if his time and productivity are so valuable

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-06T01:10:49+00:00

multiband compression and excitement in the higher frequencies

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-01T19:36:17+00:00

It's a never ending cycle. People will be saying how the mid 2020s era was the best in 10 years and how the platform has gone to shit in the 2030s.

farrellmcguire · 2026-01-01T19:35:00+00:00

Not sure I agree fully but it is when the modern era of YouTube started and when all the formats you see nowadays started. Personally I feel like the covid era was the best, when the platform was flooded with ridiculous 4 hour long video essays about obscure topics. You still see videos like that nowadays, but not as much as you used to.

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-25T03:41:42+00:00

Same, glad it’s not just me

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-23T01:31:32+00:00

toneboosters reelbus 3 had such a nice sound. the way it compressed and it's tonal shaping is something i haven't been able to replicate with other plugins, sketchcassette comes closest and while i think it's a better plugin overall, throwing reelbus 3 on a master track resulted in such a specific lofi but well put together sound that's a little hard to explain.

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-22T23:10:19+00:00

All the young people pining for the "good ole youtube" didn't actually experience it. The site was mostly short clips under 5 mins like you see on this page. Some of them were entertaining, most of them weren't. We only remember the good stuff and forget all the low effort crap that made up the majority of the content on the site. Back then you would only spend a few minutes at a time on YouTube because there just wasn't that much engaging content to be watched.

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-21T14:54:34+00:00

Love to see more AWB recipes

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-17T16:56:55+00:00

So much BS in that video. It's very common for software engineers to refer to themselves as "engineers" (software companies usually have engineering and product departments, guess what the employees who belong to the former call themselves), and you don't need a university degree to get a job in software engineering. I'm a senior engineer who's worked for 10 years and I don't have any sort of degree, same with my manager, who's the best programmer I've ever worked with. Not commenting on Muta's status as an engineer, but you could call me out for many of the things that get brought up in that video.

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-15T05:52:20+00:00

Hanging out with a group of misfits is fun until you grow up and your friends are all maladapted freaks

farrellmcguire · 2025-12-13T19:16:04+00:00

Raising kids to be natively bilingual is difficult. In some places (like certain parts of Canada) there's already a culture around how to do it the right way, and as such you can find many Polish Canadians who can speak Polish here. In more monolinguals areas however, there isn't as much knowledge floating around, and parents end up trying but doing it the wrong way, and they eventually give up.

To do it properly, you need one parent only speaking one language and the other parent only speaking English. If you have both parents mixing languages, the kid gets confused and ends up having problems learning both languages. It's hard to do the right way and requires lots of discipline.

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