Maybe the UI isn't as snappy as it could be, but the blame there lies solely on throwing more and more javascript at it to add "features" that end users don't really want.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Aaand artificially slowing down video loading by several seconds, last but not least.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is it tho? Or youtub is just profitable enough to neglect the compute overhead cost?

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

YouTube is surprisingly not very profitable

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Things is you don't crunch numbers in Python code, you do that in libraries called from Python.

It's a few statements of orchestration and any heavy lifting is encapsulated compiled code.

You don't do tight loops on Python, or if you do you're using it wrong.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This was mostly tongue in cheek, probably not very clear 😅

But yeah, fully agree with you.