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Why should I go watch this on YouTube? What is the angle that’s interesting?

Since you're not going to watch it, I'll tell you it's about the 12 seconds left on the timer before the bomb goes off, but the Bert & Ernie buddy cop team comes in and disarms the bomb at 1 second, and the older buddy cop says "I'm too old for this" and something about only having two weeks left before his pension.

I asked pretty much the same kind of question in response to another post, and it was recognized as being very valuable.

This one was perceived differently. Based on the unusually high number of downvotes, I have some explanations that may explain them: some people have little awareness / appreciation for (some combination of):

- the importance of signal to noise ratio on HN

- YouTube, for many, is an unwelcome rabbit hole —- and so a lot of people don’t want to go there without good reason

- the value of asking “what do you get out of this” questions

I am genuinely curious about other people’s brains work. I’m also acutely interested in building better awareness and even mechanisms for collaborating and discussing.

As a musician who also works in tech, it’s a little like a post mortem of a particularly novel and elegant architectural response to a challenging use case, a bit like Carmack’s Reverse. Our expectation is that a song in 12 will sound disjoint and clunky, this one is catchy and funky. Masterful!

To phrase my question another way: why is this on-topic?

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The link shared by notamy is part of it, the musicality is phenomenally technical, but also the collaboration and creativity in the production ( the top-of-their-craft musicians and animations ).

Math

If you grew up in the 70's or 80's it is nostalgia porn.

Yes but it makes me mad that Sesame Street is a shadow of what it used to be, and (HBO) Max doesn’t have the old ones to show to my kids.

Sesame Street changed in the early 2000’s . They started to invest in digital animation, the issue I had with it was too much energy was put into the production of the medium and not enough into the quality of the content . The last years of pbs before it went to hbo were odd , but my kids aged out of it then too . But good memories none the less .

Torrent.

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