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With a (questionable) W from James Drake, how would you rate season 5 of Fishtank?

  • 1 Star — Absolute disaster. Unwatchable, boring, production fucked it up bad, the fish were lame

    Votes: 56 7.3%
  • 2 Stars — Pretty bad. Some funny moments, dragged, too many vibe repair days. Barely worth checking.

    Votes: 87 11.4%
  • 3 Stars — Average. Solid entertainment in spots, some good chaos and crashouts, but nothing special

    Votes: 169 22.1%
  • 4 Stars — Really good. Lots of hilarious moments, strong fish personalities, solid content and vibes

    Votes: 405 53.0%
  • 5 Stars — Peak Fishtank / Masterpiece. Non-stop insanity, legendary fish and production, pure chaos

    Votes: 47 6.2%

  • Total voters
    764
Did we watch the same thing? These people are all boring as fuck. What premise? Its literally a wannabe big brother except it isnt exciting in the slightest. What execution? It sucks.
It took only a few hours for a contestant to explain the ins and outs of humans fucking horses and 12 hours for a dude with a speech impediment to attempt to redpill the other contestants about Jews. When given a task to write a two minute comedy sketch for an elimination challenge one team immediately decided to wear turbans and waterboard each other, and the other team spent over ten hours rehearsing a seemingly endless sketch about vaccines turning men into women. They spent the first night sorting grains of rice that was thrown on the floor. Every time they try to warm food up they almost start a fire. Jon sits around for hours talking to anyone who will listen, bragging about his accomplishments that never happened and he's so loud you can hear him in every room. He's probably still talking right now. It's only been three days and it will get more intense and interesting as the contestants start having rivalries and truly getting under each other's skin.
 
so you're going to build a server specifically for video streaming and use the CPU for encoding 7 streams to 3 different qualities? or they can just buy a cheap aftermarket GPU and completely free up their CPUs bro!
Just ask him how much he is willing to pay you for a short gig as consultant.
there is nobody more capable at working out this shit on a tiny budget like you and we can have a couple of days of minimal support for the farms if deer leader gets pizza money for a year in return.
 
When given a task to write a two minute comedy sketch for an elimination challenge one team immediately decided to wear turbans and waterboard each other, and the other team spent over ten hours rehearsing a seemingly endless sketch about vaccines turning men into women.
Don’t forget sissfying an autistic, possible homosexual, “””improv””” actor, who they then proceeded to make fun of behind his back.
 
yes dummy which is why it's $10,000 a day. I'm saying if you want to not spend $10,000 a day, you must also pay for the fucking hardware.
This is fair, although there is a benefit to paying Big Cloud which is that they get a CDN without having to buy that bandwidth multiple times in multiple regions. They do have the disadvantage of pumping 10 streams simultaneously to everyone, so it's more like a 20Mbps stream rather than your 8Mbps estimate. Nevertheless, it wasn't their AWS account that was suspended, it was Google Cloud.
This is like the second time in an hour you've tried to one up me on tech shit without reading what I've said.
I'm not trying to one up you though. We can have a civil conversation about the technical aspects of live streaming without having to resort to sperging.
so you're going to build a server specifically for video streaming and use the CPU for encoding 7 streams to 3 different qualities? or they can just buy a cheap aftermarket GPU bro!
The streams were all at a single quality. A 12-core system (for a little headroom, you don't want it to be choked at 100%) such as c7g.4xlarge seems to be $0.5781/hr on AWS. Assuming that they terminate the server after the streams are done, that would be 42 * 24 * 0.5781 = $582.72 for the duration of Fishtank season 1. And even if they went with a G3 instance, that's $0.75 on-demand, which comes out to be $756. In either case bandwidth dominates the cost in a single-user streaming setup as you have demonstrated.
 
Don’t forget sissfying an autistic, possible homosexual, “””improv””” actor, who they then proceeded to make fun of behind his back.
A so-called improv actor who is Chinese and doesn't understand hypotheticals, like the meme about low IQ people but IRL. The girl who is "directing" and psychologically torturing him said his character doesn't pay rent on time he said "but I do pay my rent on time". She said, "ok but pretend like you don't pay your rent on time" and he responded, confused and scared "but I always pay my rent on time."
 
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The streams were all at a single quality. A 12-core system (for a little headroom, you don't want it to be choked at 100%) such as c7g.4xlarge seems to be $0.5781/hr on AWS. Assuming that they terminate the server after the streams are done, that would be 42 * 24 * 0.5781 = $582.72 for the duration of Fishtank season 1. And even if they went with a G3 instance, that's $0.75 on-demand, which comes out to be $756. In either case bandwidth dominates the cost in a single-user streaming setup as you have demonstrated.
>insisting on using cloud computing still when the issue is bandwidth from cloud computing
brain damaged, terminal, suicide is only choice
 
>insisting on using cloud computing still when the issue is bandwidth from cloud computing
brain damaged, terminal, suicide is only choice
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>insisting on using cloud computing still when the issue is bandwidth from cloud computing
brain damaged, terminal, suicide is only choice
There's two ways you go with this kind of setup: Either all-in on a cloud provider and enjoy the free intra-region bandwidth, or a full bare-metal setup like you said. I'm talking about the former; as I've already mentioned, what you said is correct if they were going for a dedicated setup (which they don't seem to be). Mind you, no traffic hits the actual server in the current setup Fishtank has, it all hits Cloudfront (which would be reading from an S3 bucket if they configured it right).

Edit: thought you meant the compute instance (VPS) part only. Cloud in general is expensive yes, so if cost is your only metric you're right; but the CDN bit is important as well.
 
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Regardless of bandwidth and internet the whole thing should have been recorded to a local storage device for after the fact. Hopefully they learned a lesson from this and will continue to record everything to sd cards or whatever until the end of the show.
 
Tbh what I would do is buy a rack or two collocation contract at a tier 1 hub. HE has them. Then I would grab a shitload of used 7xx poweredges and load them with k40s for encoding and streaming. Shove a cutting edge router in front and route based on stream to the 7xxs.
Edit:Not dev ops please no bully.
 
There's two ways you go with this kind of setup: Either all-in on a cloud provider and enjoy the free intra-region bandwidth, or a full bare-metal setup like you said. I'm talking about the former; as I've already mentioned, what you said is correct if they were going for a dedicated setup (which they don't seem to be). Mind you, no traffic hits the actual server in the current setup Fishtank has, it all hits Cloudfront (which would be reading from an S3 bucket if they configured it right).

Edit: thought you meant the compute instance (VPS) part only. Cloud in general is expensive yes, so if cost is your only metric you're right; but the CDN bit is important as well.
Okay genius how about YOU go and fix it, huh?
 
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