• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I’ll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts

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        3 months ago

        If it’s something like taking apart hardware, videos are great because there are a lot of little details that it’s hard to capture in even a picture.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Sure, video has it’s place. I was just wondering that some people get their info primarily from video. Guess it’s something with abstraction vs. imagination.

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      3 months ago

      I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.

      For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.

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      3 months ago

      i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such

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        Depends on field. Some meth math and programming stuff exists only in PDF. Try find videos on Bounding Interval Hierarchy. At least there are decent videos on BSP trees

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          PDFs break my brain. It’s 2024. Unless you truly intend for something to be primarily and only read in print why use PDF? And I know everybody is able to host HTML because usually everyone is grabbing these PDFs from a webpage.

          Edit: down voters, convince me on valid uses of PDFs for things that aren’t meant to be printed. At least list some. I’m aware this is an extreme opinion. It’s one I’ve thought about a lot, but I just can’t think of any. For things that are meant to be printed then I agree they’re the best. Everything else I think HTML is better for because it can be resized arbitrarily and isn’t bound to a specific layout. Also copying text from PDFs is bonkers.

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            3 months ago

            Unless you want to force readers into reading in browser, you should use PDF.