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I wonder the same; often I look up programming things and the first links are videos. So I try to watch one and immediately I think; how can anyone anyone do work like this? I needed a flag for ls and was too lazy to read the man page; the result was already put in 1 line on top by Google. Of course I needed only 5 chars only. Then I clicked the video that answered the question for fun; I will try to find it but I think it was 15 minutes of drivel… I just don’t get it. I mean sure I understand why the video makers do it, but who consumes this crap? And why? And it is getting worse; I like watching live streams of programming, but when you actually want to learn something and therefor need to enter code yourself, there is nothing more inefficient medium than video imho.



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