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There is an accompanying YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY

Grady makes great civil engineering videos.

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You say accompanying video, and I say this post is a transcript of that video. Subtle, but still different.

Thank you, I felt like I was reading a transcript the whole time, I would have preferred to just watch the video

Any time you read "Hi, my name is ____ and this is _____" you know it's a transcript. Nobody (hopefully) writes like that for reading consumption. It's just so awkard when read.

There was another one of these here just the other day about processing cocoa from bean to chocolate. The written text kept saying things that implied a visual reference, but no images to support it. It wasn't until the end of the transcript before the video itself was embedded.

It's great that the transcript exists though. I never would have watched the video (video is my least favourite format for information of any kind) so I would have missed out. More YouTubers should do transcripts!

I will basically never watch a video unless it’s the only possible source of information for something I desperately need about how to repair something (which is becoming more often, unfortunately).

It amazes me that ANYONE would prefer to watch a video over reading, I literally cannot understand why that would be the case.

It would be great if prefer-video people could write something up for video-never people like me on why they prefer it! Then I could try to make a truly terrible video explaining my perspective. ;)

Sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249325

You say transcript, and I say this post is the script of that video. Subtle, but different.

Have you ever seen a script? This is not formatted as a script in the least bit. Nobody that knows anything about scripts would ever call this a script. It is a transcript.

It's not formatted as a script, but it is a script. This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text.

A transcript, while definitionally broad, is commonly used with the implication that someone has spoken in free-form (ie not reading from a script), and the transcript is the writing down of their speech.

>This text was written first, and then he made a video where he reads the text.

You know this how?

I direct messaged grady via youtube and that was his response

I also didn't see the video and just read (and enjoyed) the text. (Of course you are right, but I'm just saying it is kinda meaningless which came first or which is supposed to be the important one, different audiences :P)

The image at the top of the link is actually an embedded video

totally missed the play button. it hides pretty well under that arrow.

Thanks for the video. I missed it and it's better than the transcript because it has schemas (the current solution is hard to understand without them).

I'm surprised the piles don't break due to the sinking on only one side? Can it not happen?

That's got to be one of the finest tutorial videos I've ever watched (and I watch a lot)!

He didn't even build any special contraptions for this video; his little acrylic demonstrators explain complex processes in a very easy to understand way.

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