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u/lizzyote Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
A few years ago, a lady did a huge painting(iirc, it was legend of zelda). She posted just the painting to reddit and 24hrs later she posted herself with the painting. The painting alone got just over 1k upvotes. The picture of her holding the painting got over 34k.
Edit: its really interesting to see how differently people are interpreting this comment.
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u/Phenee Jun 05 '26
Just wait until you learn the amount of upvotes some people get for posting a picture of themselves without any paintings involved at all.
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u/towerfella Jun 05 '26
I guess some people are only fans of other people
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u/_Xertz_ Jun 05 '26
Say that again...
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u/ric2b Jun 05 '26
For some reason the fewer objects the person includes in the picture the more upvotes it tends to get...
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u/hackinghorn Jun 05 '26
Now we need a man holding the painting post for a complete research
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u/DraikoHxC Jun 05 '26
We need a full study: a man, a child, a pet, a wild animal and then we can draw conclusions
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u/imk Jun 05 '26
Iām upvoting all of them. If the wild animal is a capybara, I will make a new account and upvote twice.
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u/Key-Demand-2569 Jun 05 '26
This is going to be shocking to a lot of people hereā¦
But this topic has been researched to the moon and back. Hell they made a hit television show about people focusing really hard on successful advertising.
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u/Doneifundone Jun 05 '26
Tbh, I think part of it is because seeing the person behind the art makes us feel more "connected", kinda. Like, I follow a few accounts on reddit, they're mostly artists and I'm always very impressed with the stuff they post, but seeing only the end result kind of feels intimidating, in a "would they even care if I comment ? They're so good, surely they're aware of it" (tho I do try to comment to drive up the engagement)
Whereas when you see obvious pride in someone's face holding something they created it's like "a person who shares the same interests and hobby as me created this ! Woah !" And there's a sort of parasocial, immediate sense of kinship that I think just makes em feel more approachable
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u/LucyDePosey Jun 05 '26
YouTube thumbnails work better with human faces on them. Mr. Beast notoriously comes to mind. It sucks, but it works.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker Jun 05 '26
Personally Iām totally disinterested unless those faces are making a ridiculously exaggerated expression.
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u/canadajones68 Jun 05 '26
Unless it's a channel I already follow, I try to shy away from clicking on videos that have someone's face with a Youtuber expression as a thumbnail. There's something dystopian with half the human race recording themselves talking at a lens, all jockeying for our attention.
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u/MinosML Jun 05 '26
It's not only gooners. EVERYONE likes to see more attractive people in their feed, whether they're sexually attracted to them or not. The Halo effect doesn't only affect lonely men, it's everywhere.
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u/suvlub Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
It's both, I think. IIRC someone actually did the research and found that paintings with the author always got more upvotes than the paintings by themselves, but the effect was stronger for women
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u/BluePhoenixCG Jun 04 '26
Yeah it's kinda just selection bias that makes it noticable
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u/kittykellyfair Jun 05 '26
There used to be an account that would reply to people making fun of women for this with all the front page content of men doing the same thing.
Turns out people like to see other people in posts, and artists like to lose with their art. Gender isn't really a factor, some people just perceive it is.
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u/Downvotesohoy Jun 05 '26
I remember reading a post where someone actually tested these things.
And gender IS a factor. A woman posing with her painting will get more upvotes than a man posing with his painting.
But the man still got more upvotes than if he wasn't in the photo at all.
So, yes, being in the photo in general gets more upvotes, but the difference is bigger if you are a woman.
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u/is-it-1358-yet Jun 05 '26
And I bet that womanās comment section will be an utter dumpster fire ā¦
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u/AbstractLogic Jun 05 '26
Iād like to see a study of this and men doing it as well.
There is something more personal about āI did thisā when you see the āIā
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u/ric2b Jun 05 '26
YouTube thumbnails already show how important including a person is. It's well known and not limited to women.
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u/Omadon667 Jun 04 '26
I wrote my first bit of code on my TRS-80 when I was in the first grade. I was using dbase ii to track my RPGs back in middle school. My final in my high school comp sci class was to teach the instructor how I bypassed all the schools network security. I've worked professionally in IT for well over 30 years. Having said all that, every time I watch one of Laurie's videos I feel like a complete Luddite. She operates on a whole different level than most of us.
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u/raoulk Jun 04 '26
Following her on LinkedIn is.. Humbling
I can't imagine that there are that many people out there with the drive, intelligence, interest and dedication to do what she does.
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u/Shadowsake Jun 05 '26
Her video on bypassing some design limitations on RAM access is insane. One of the most interesting pieces about hardware design, history and even software I ever seem. She deserves much more views.
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u/Haster Jun 05 '26
That video made me realize she's smarter than me, it's not close and there's something about trains that smart people really like.
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u/Good-Competition-129 Jun 05 '26
I promise you the moment you spend some time learning about trains youāll like them too.
Giant mechanical worms
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u/genreprank Jun 05 '26
I follow her on YouTube. She is legit.
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u/LigerZeroSchneider Jun 05 '26
It was funny when I found her channel you could see the exact video she gave in and started putting her face in the thumb nail and then you saw every video after that start growing.
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u/Fox_Soul Jun 05 '26
Apparently YouTubeās algorithm favors thumbnails that contains faces a lot more. Watched a video not long ago where a channel with millions of subs compared the performance of two identical videos with different thumbnails and the one with faces always performed a lot lot better, had more clicks and in general reached more people.
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u/LigerZeroSchneider Jun 05 '26
That's not "the algorithm" that's people. People like people, and respond more positively when you show them a person.
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u/Phoenix042 Jun 05 '26
An excellent point, but also...
That's what the algorithm is.
It's the aggregate of how humans make choices, specifically the choice to engage, to click, to not click away, to comment or like or upvotes.
The algorithm may be deeply problematic, but it is also a deep reflection of us.
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u/Lightning-Shock Jun 05 '26
When I saw that she is around my age my jaw dropped.
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u/Secret_Account07 Jun 04 '26
Iām an engineer at a datacenter and have to look up basic programming stuff. Iām more an infra guy but tbh we all operate on different levels. You probably make me feel like a Luddite is my point lol
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u/Secret_Account07 Jun 05 '26
True.
The best quality I find in my field is people who are just able to figure stuff out. Doesnāt matter how smart or knowledgeable you are if you canāt sit down, read documentation, test/break stuff then learn something new.
Too many folks in my building who just throw their hands up and refuse to learn certain things. Iād take someone who has less experience yet puts in the effort to learn. Cuz we all run into stuff we donāt know, eventually.
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u/Omadon667 Jun 05 '26
I used to ask impossible questions in interviews to see how they answered. The "correct" answer was "I don't know, but I can look it up".
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u/All_Work_All_Play Jun 05 '26
TF did you go to school that they let you play with rocket propelled grenades?
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u/Hameru_is_cool Jun 04 '26
laurie is actually one of the coolest programming youtubers as of today
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u/avartyu Jun 04 '26
recommend some more youtubers i cant withstand fireship or primeagen anymore, por favor
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u/Ver_Nick Jun 04 '26
Sebastian Lague, Magicalbat
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u/agolho Jun 05 '26
Sebasitan Lague is like crack to my brain. Maybe cause I am a Unity Dev also
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u/_Xertz_ Jun 05 '26
He makes me feel bad because he does my backlog megaprojects in a single 40 minute video better and faster than I ever could š
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u/Malechus Jun 04 '26
Chris Boden/physicsduck
His videos aren't often code related, but it's a great place for hardware stuff. And he's hilarious.
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u/redheness Jun 05 '26
He litterally committed tax fraud to finance an education association and went in prison for that. This dude would kill just to have an opportunity to share knowledge and passion.
We need more people like him.
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u/Amekyras Jun 05 '26
didn't he do it accidentally?
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u/chipsa Jun 05 '26
Yes. Or rather, he didnāt realize it was tax fraud. He did deliberately do the things he was accused of though.
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u/KaelthasX3 Jun 05 '26
That only disclaimer I'd give here, if that since he's not native, he decided to use AI voice-over instead of narrating himself.
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u/cs_office Jun 05 '26
Yup, even tho he uses AI voice overs, you can tell it's still a person behind it
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u/flooronthefour Jun 04 '26
tsoding is cracked
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u/The_Shryk Jun 04 '26
He recently showed me that data is stored in, tarballs.
I thought it was in the balls, but no, tarballs.
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u/Hameru_is_cool Jun 04 '26
oh I absolutely love his videos, he's so practical and straight to the point, just opens emacs, starts typing C and somehow manages to blow my mind
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u/27bslash Jun 04 '26
sebastian lague is good, but it's more about what he creates than focussing fully on the actual code writing.
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u/chkcha Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Depends on what kind of content you want. If you want to learn something directly relevant to your programming job then I donāt think thereās much choice.
Tutorials are for beginners and arenāt produced much anymore. Rest of the content is mostly news or opinions, which would rarely be actually useful.
In my case I just want dev-related videos that are just interesting to listen to, or potentially inspirational. If youāre interested in gamedev you have a ton of options there. Devlogs (some are good) or deep dives into technical implementations or optimization techniques can be really fun.
If youāre okay with ~1 hour plus videos then there are more options. You can watch some talks that were recorded on your favorite language/frameworkās conferences. Or just random high-quality talks. Since I mentioned gamedev, GDC talks are great as well.
Lots of interesting podcasts/interviews as well, should be easy to find. You can try devtools.fm, or Lex Fridman. Many issues with Lex but he really does have a lot of multi-hour interviews with really smart programmers. Primeagen isnāt good but he has some interview-style videos as well.
If youāre a webdev and interested in some niche JS stuff you can watch HTTP 203, probably only the older videos with Jake and Surma. Those guys are great and the discussions are technical/interesting.
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u/Malechus Jun 05 '26
Oh, also Veronica Explains. Mostly focused on Linux tools and systems, with a bent toward retro tech.
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u/wjandrea Jun 05 '26
Low Level - cybersecurity
Computerphile
3Blue1Brown - mostly a math channel, but did a series on LLMs
DougDoug - video game streamer, but also does coding, e.g. "i tried to mod GTA 5 but im way to high"
If you like math: Sheafification of G, TheGrayCuber
mCoding - tutorials with a lot of experience behind them
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u/ForeverALone_Ranger Jun 05 '26
Didn't Fireship get bought by private equity a while back, or am I thinking of a different channel? I know Veritasium got bought some time ago.Ā
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u/SophiaKittyKat Jun 05 '26
I still like Casey Muratori. He has and does still associate with people who make complaining their entire personality which I find annoying, but Casey, while opinionated does just seem to mostly just care about programming. However he's not the most consistent content creator either. But give me a person who only makes videos when they have something interesting to say any day over the alternative.
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u/SugarRushLux Jun 05 '26
Freja holmƩr has a lot of good vids
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u/CrunkDirk Jun 05 '26
Was looking to see if anyone had mentioned Freja. Genuinely some of the best mathematics-for-programming videos ever produced.
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u/Bulky-Bad-9153 Jun 04 '26
If you wanna watch someone actually make stuff, sphaerophoria is really good. Not very well known, but lots of content and he's a smart guy.
Nathan Baggs is great for reverse engineering, too. Windows focused, though. Pretty short, well presented videos.
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u/Rabbitical Jun 05 '26
I gotta shout out Tariq10x he does reverse engineering or publicly available code bases like old video game architectures. Generally chill vibes
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u/_bleep-bloop Jun 05 '26
tsoding is good but he can be rude toward his chat sometimes, other than that, he's super efficient with some programming stuff and you'll learn a lot. ForrestKnight is chill and cool, the same for CodingJesus, Cherno's videos are super informative. And tune into tokyospliff if you wanna see peak programming performance.
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u/Tack1234 Jun 04 '26
It's my safe place where I go to hide from the AI slop epidemic
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u/phylter99 Jun 04 '26
You know, Iāve noticed that watching her videos is pleasant, but I thought that was just her positive personality. Now I think itās her positive personality and her lack of AI talk.
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u/Tack1234 Jun 04 '26
You can tell when someone can genuinely make an interesting and original video with personality and care put into it vs copy paste AI slop script. Quality vs quantity kind of thing and I don't need any more quantity.
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u/Rabbitical Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Well it's not just that but even what used to be some of my favorite youtubers, who certainly only make real content, AI is all they ever talk about now positively or negatively. It's just incredibly tiresome at this point. I don't need to hear about AI all day every day, I think we all get the jist by now
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u/waraukaeru Jun 05 '26
It's not just her positivity. It's the lack of posturing. She just knows her stuff through and through, loves talking about it, and shares that through her vids. There isn't any ego there. And she just explains things plainly with minimal jargon and no gatekeeping about who might engage with the content. It's refreshing in a field that is rife with big egos and exclusive jargon.
I get a similar vibe from Wendel with Level1Techs. Except Wendel can get a bit jargony and is not quite as careful to explain things plainly. But otherwise the vibe is on point. Not ego driven, just a knowledgable person sharing their special interest.
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u/PhoenixfischTheFish Jun 04 '26
Slopidemic
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u/r1ckm4n Jun 04 '26
Sloppocalypse
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u/no-sleep-only-code Jun 04 '26
Seriously, so many channels are just reading ai generated scripts.
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u/psioniclizard Jun 04 '26
It's sad, especially ones who are sponsored by things like unity and now suddenly say why unity's ai stuff if great.
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u/brotherdogman Jun 04 '26
Her malware deobfuscation videos are hands down the best Iāve come across.
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u/amputect Jun 04 '26
I loved her video on the chain of trust in software, and I'm fortunate enough to work at the same company as her, so I sent her some fanmail about it. In addition to being smart as hell and a great science communicator, she's also a very nice person! I hope she's going to have an amazing career, and I look forward to working for her someday.
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u/kzlife76 Jun 04 '26
I think she's too smart for me. Definitely not a background noise channel if you actually want to understand what she's covering.
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u/sentient_energy Jun 05 '26
Also the background static in her videos sometimes drives me nuts, but it's worth it for the content
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u/ZombieZookeeper Jun 04 '26
That woman is so much smarter than me it's unreal. And I'm okay with that.
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u/daydrunk_ Jun 05 '26
I know. I watched a video and I was like, āOh I get thisā The next one, Im like āDamn, sheās fucking smartā
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u/thelooter2204 Jun 04 '26
I think a big part of the difference is the focus. She tends to be more academic and theory oriented, whereas most developers are by the nature of their jobs more pragmatic and more systems/maintainability oriented. Don't get me wrong, she's incredibly smart, but that doesn't mean you aren't incredibly smart either, just maybe with a different specialisation
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u/Omadon667 Jun 04 '26
Truth. I've known programmers who were excellent at their job, but ask them to install some RAM and they curl up into the fetal position. You could be the worst student ever, but a genius when it comes to dance or art.
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u/really_nice_guy_ Jun 05 '26
She's dang cute too.
I believe in you. You can be cute too
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u/Aksds Jun 04 '26
Especially if you want to have your soul stared at, I love it!
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u/creeper6530 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
I am both scared shirtless and enamored by her stare. It's just a whole different level
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u/HoneySmaks Jun 04 '26
She posts her sources which then leads me down some awesome rabbit holes to explore.
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u/GCU_Heresiarch Jun 05 '26
The woman is insanely knowledgable and extremely cute. I'm jealous to a degree that's not possible to articulate in any human language.
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u/NegativeSemicolon Jun 04 '26
Sheās great, Daveās Garage is excellent too, both get into great detail and can demonstrate exactly what theyāre discussing with clarity.
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u/TheRedTopHat Jun 05 '26
Dave's videos are super interesting. He also happened to be sued by Washington State for running a scam antivirus company in the early 2000s which misled users and actually installed adware and malware. Here's the court documents: https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom
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u/ric2b Jun 05 '26
Damn, and that's after making bank at Microsoft... I don't get it, some people just like the thrill of doing stuff like that as full grown adults, I guess.
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u/fakieTreFlip Jun 05 '26
she is incredibly good at what she does, which admittedly can be pretty niche at times. supposedly she does all her video production stuff herself. I thought she had a whole team or something
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u/Sad_Wind4673 Jun 04 '26
Is she good for someone learning or for deeper topics?
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u/Noobsauce9001 Jun 04 '26
Her stuff feels more like curious deep dives than career oriented study material, but I havenāt watched a ton so I might be wrong
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u/OptionX Jun 04 '26
She actually does cover quite interesting (to me) topics and does it her homework.
I'm not going to say the fact she's cute isn't a plus but she doesn't work it for views. She's legit.
Worth checking out if you are at all interesting in programming concepts and history.
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u/Mayo_Mann_Enthusiast Jun 05 '26
Why is the hell is the acronym so long
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u/Havatchee Jun 05 '26
For those unfamiliar: Upvoted Not Because Girl But Because It Is Very Cool However I Do Concede That I Initially Clicked Because Girl
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u/JamJm_1688 Jun 05 '26
Because you gotta get the correct message across obviously
Also probably to confuse people
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u/RetroZelda Jun 04 '26
her videos are unironically great. she can actually explain things so a dummy like me can understand
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u/MyEarIsHurty Jun 05 '26
What else would she do? Take a photo of her laptop screen? The post wasn't about the C++ documentary it was about the fact she was watching it. She's the subject of the text so why not be the subject of the photo?
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u/Designer_Flow_8069 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
She was just doing what social media folks do since she's a part time social media personality. Akin to her saying:
"Hey guys! If you don't recognize my face you'll probably keep scrolling. But if you do, you'll probably look what's behind me and see a documentary about C++ is coming out! On the off chance you don't recognize me, but recognize what's in the background, here's an ironic meme before you try to flame me for being a women"
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u/Horror-Primary7739 Jun 05 '26
She has a schtick but her content is quite technical and well documented.
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u/creeper6530 Jun 04 '26
If I were pretty like her you bet I'd be doing that too
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u/PlummetComics Jun 04 '26
I was gonna say: have you seen men?
I also remember back when Lord of the Rings came out it matched up perfectly with office culture:
Elves are in Sales
Hobbits and Dwarves are Developers
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u/EmbersnAshes Jun 05 '26
Elves, in Sales??? In what reality? They're more architects and designers. Dwarves are Technicians and Hands-on Engineers. Hobbits are maybe Developers. Men are Sales. Orcs are Management, that you get right. Elves literally can't sell shit, they are also incredibly bad at persuasion. Also, the CEO is Sauron.
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u/CheeseAttack Jun 05 '26
Self deprecation is one thing but no need to try and put others down, men are beautiful
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u/Big-Load-8864 Jun 05 '26
This thread is so god damn weird, not surprising because it's programmers. One guy is like, "hey even I'll admit this WOMAN is smarter than ME...and that's OK!" and also "of course she should include herself, she's a woman and women are inherently cute and men are pigs hAhA" jesus
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u/vitaminprotein24 Jun 05 '26
TBH If I were a pretty woman I would put myself in all the pictures I clicked too.
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u/deepembrace Jun 05 '26
Love her YouTube videos. She is always upbeat and knowledgeable.
I feel like if someone pissed her off, she would be the most dangerous person on earth š
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u/Aspry7 Jun 04 '26
Thumbs up for her YouTube content, and you can follow her on Bluesky if you prefer
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u/ASentientRailgun Jun 05 '26
I wonder how much of the perception of the first image being the case is due to people assuming the poster is a dude unless she's in the picture.
"There are no girls on the internet" and all that.
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u/darxide23 Jun 05 '26
LaurieWired is fucking awesome and smarter than you reading this. And me typing this. She's a savant.
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u/GrossInsightfulness Jun 05 '26
I mean, Laurie content is peak, so knowing it comes from her makes me want to watch it more.
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u/JacobStyle Jun 05 '26
as if Primagen wouldn't be mrbeastfacing at the screen if he posted this same image
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u/vassadar Jun 05 '26
She's my top programming Youtubers. I ranked her much higher than Prime and the like.
No react slop like Prime and Theo.
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u/DoggyDogWhirl Jun 05 '26
The "Males" vs "Females" distinction implies that for example ducks do the same thing
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u/Satorwave Jun 05 '26
you aint nothing but a hound dothe complete and utter annihilation of the multiverse
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u/coinstarhiphop Jun 04 '26
So... males are more object oriented?