Engineering is a form of art where the engineer makes many decisions, large and small, where optimality cannot be proven. Taste most certainly plays a role, and there are engineering products that clearly show good or poor taste.

Unfortunately this particular art form requires fluency in mathematics and the sciences/computers, so it’s very inaccessible.

Regarding the Vim macro that ends by going to the next line to be "replayable": You can also use the following command to run the macro once per line:

        :%norm @q

Can this be used to enable the HEVC extension without a M$ account? It's so frustrating they can't license the patents as a lump sum.

One of the things I’ve successfully used YouTube for was video storage of my security camera system. Unlimited video storage with a simple app to watch them in case I need to check something out!

And it’s simple: camera uploads automatically via FTP, inotifywait script uploads to google!