https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive
I can even pause the replay mid-demo, take over, and resume again later. People are always impressed at how flawless my live demos are, and with some judicious audience participation, the illusion is perfect.
Luckily it was a small group of devs and not a large venue. Still embarrassing...
> I prerecord all my live demos
> People are always impressed at how flawless my live demos are
> the i̶l̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ deception is perfect.
Seriously... just call it a demo or pre-recorded. As soon as you call it "live" you've crossed into the territory of fraud.
> What's more, It's a Live is actually running the commands you're typing, so you have full interoperability with other programs.
> I'm not 100% sure
If it is live, it is being done in real time.
If it is pre-recorded it was done previously.
If you call a pre-recorded demo "live" then it is fraud.
What more is there to get?
What more is there to get?
> but the outputs aren't.
> Every time you press a key, It's a Live will write one character from the file into the terminal, making it look like you're typing every single command with the practiced ease of a consummate professional.
Good god, this isn't that hard man. You're fine to lip sync if you call it lip syncing. Just don't claim you're actually singing when you're not and you're all good. Why is this so difficult to grasp?
This is very different from practicing a script and you actually doing all the actions in real time. You're allowed to rehearse for your live performance but unless you're doing it live then it's not live.
People also hate lip syncing because it's a deception of being live.
> And yet, ~all singers lipsync
So the actual 'demo' part is actually live. The only thing that's fake is the typing, which could be replaced honestly with copy & paste without changing anything except how exciting it is to see the speaker pretend to type at 100wpm.
With a teleprompter (or queue cards or notes) you are still speaking the words.
But with this system you are not. So it is more like a slideshow where your voice is pre-recorded per slide and you are pretending to speak.
I would still call a teleprompter a live setting. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck had one. People can still stumble and maneuver and adapt in real time. Just like in a play. Rehearsal does not make the act not live. But if we want to get more fine grained there is a difference between a live demo and an on-the-spot demonstration. Think of it this way, people don't knock politicians for using teleprompters because they are lip syncing the words. They knock them for being overly rehearsed and not off the cusp. The complaint is actually beyond the teleprompter, the teleprompter is just a visual indication of this. But then imagine how people would respond if a politician went up on stage and pretend to actually speak but the words coming out were pre-recorded.
Or maybe we can meet more in the middle with something like autotune? I still don't think it is there because you'll still need to say the right words for autotune to work but even still people generally don't like that and feel like it is deceptive. So I might be being strict here, but we need to at least recognize that all these concerns arise from some form of deception. Where the expectation of what's happening doesn't meet reality.
No one will be upset if they never find out, but the real question is how they respond when they do. Does the person you're demoing to feel cheated, even a little, if you used a tool like this? I'd wager they would because they thought you were doing all the actions there in front of them.
It's like expecting reality shows to be a 100% unfiltered feed of real life. Their purpose is to entertain, not to document.
> Your comment only makes sense if you think that the purpose of the demo
The purpose of a demo is to demonstrate things.
The purpose of a live demo is to demonstrate how things will work in the user's actual experience.
You can have pre-recorded demos and there's nothing wrong with that. The only issue is calling a pre-recorded demo "live". That's when you cross the line into deception.
Or as I said before
>>> Seriously... just call it a demo or pre-recorded. As soon as you call it "live" you've crossed into the territory of fraud.
> Their purpose is to entertain, not to document.
> "live" is showing it while both the demonstrator and the audience is in a room together.
Then that's documentation with extra steps.