waddlesworth
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I definitely could be absolutely wrong about this, but I don't think computational photography will be a huge way forward for these kinds of cameras.
Smartphones have fully taken over the light/compact segment, they're better at it, you always have it with you and they've gotten good enough that for anything 'happy snap', a smartphone will do the job fine.
The professional/high end hobbyist segment is still going strong, and I think is growing steadily. The appeal, for me at least, is a lot about the creative control. I'm the one creating the image, not the device I'm using. There are computational tools I can use, but I'd want to do anything like that after the fact, and Photoshop has added some tools pushing this forward, but I do think there's a lot of room for a more ML focused editing experience.
There is a certain amount of push for computational features that help with taking a photo, like fast autofocus that can see a face and focus on the eyes.
When it comes to actually generating or modifying the image, I think this is a line that most photographers don't want to cross.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't know if it's a travesty, but the website is generally looked down upon by most photographers. The goal seems to be volume of content rather than anything useful, or in many cases, even accurate.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm inclined to agree. Maybe I would have phrased it differently, but the only counter to this I've seen here is "what if society didn't exist?"
It doesn't need to be taken to that extreme. I find it hard to believe that the idea that work must take up all of your time, and any less means you're going to starve is this pervasive.
It is not unimaginable that we can improve things. We're constantly making improvements to efficiency, productivity, sustainability. We get more done in our time now than at any point in history. The same will be true tomorrow.
Why then, are so many still working such grueling hours?
In this country, and many others, the share of productivity gains has increasingly gone to capital rather than labor. Although I think that this is only part of it. Part of it is cultural, this ideology that work gives life meaning, and to reject it can mean losing a lot.
I'm pretty lucky myself, my job doesn't stress me out, it pays the bills and leaves me with some disposable income. A lot of people would describe me as unambitious, not driven, etc. I'd say I have it made.
Comment · 5 years ago
I would argue it does matter. Not to say that absolute position doesn't matter, it does, and probably even more so, but relative position has some very real effects.
The main one that jumps out for me is power, and influence. As an example, it doesn't really matter if I can donate $100 to the EFF instead of $50 when a billionaire can outspend me 1,000,000:1 without even flinching.
Comment · 5 years ago
The "both parties are the same" thing is a meme in some more engaged circles, because it's so obviously false to anyone paying attention.
It really shouldn't be surprising that the incumbent party benefits from this attitude, yet I get the same look from likely just as many people.
Comment · 5 years ago
I absolutely agree with you, although I'm a little more optimistic.
2PP has Labor winning the next election. Some key figures in the Liberal party (Frydenberg, Hunt) have some tough campaigns ahead of them after the massive bias against their home state that's been on display.
Then there's the whole friendlyjordies thing, which I've heard commentary about in circles where I would have never expected it.
I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.
Comment · 5 years ago
No principle is beyond question. How can you be in the wrong for wanting to discuss the value of maintaining a position? Particularly in the face of such tragic circumstances.
Unwavering, unconditional support for an idea - any idea - seems like it could result in a bad time.
Personally, I'm not sure where I sit on this one, and I think there's a valuable, good-faith discussion to be had on whether free speech as we see it today, is actually a net good or not. It's an inherently complex question worthy of debate.
Comment · 6 years ago
> to the point that newborns actually died as a result of movement restrictions
I'm a Victorian, and I've heard this claim before. I assume it's referring to the newborns in Adelaide that died after not receiving critical heart surgery.
The article that I read[1] (from The Daily Mail, no less) had claimed that under normal circumstances, these cases would be airlifted to Melbourne which has the facilities necessary to treat them, but the Victorian lockdown prevented them from doing so.
This is misinformation. Emergency care was an exception to the rules throughout the entire lockdown. Dan Andrews was asked to clarify this on the following day the article was published, and said exactly as above - there is no reason that they could not have been airlifted.
It was down to individual clinical decisions at the hospital in question, and had nothing to do with the lockdown restrictions.
I realise that I'm critiquing a single claim in what was a torrent of falsehoods, but this one was particularly offensive. Using the death of babies as political fodder is notably egregious in what was an unending campaign against one of the few political leaders that listened to science, and successfully suppressed a second wave.
1: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/why-victorias-lockd...
Comment · 6 years ago
For me, Microsoft Teams installed itself one day, unprompted. In order to remove it, I uninstalled it.
The following day, it came back. It turns out you have to remove both Microsoft Teams and something I think was called "Teams Machine-Wide Installer." Only then would it stay removed.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've read about Hooks for awhile, but they still confuse me. Maybe it's largely because I haven't experienced any of the pain points that are described as the motivation for their development, but I've used a number of state-management libraries that handle state.
Just as one example, in a lot of posts and commentary I've seen, is that hooks are replacements for both HoCs and render props.
Admittedly, I haven't yet tried to do any actual development with hooks, but I can't even figure out how to solve the problem in the example in docs for HoCs[0].
Do you pass in a hook as a prop? That doesn't seem wise. A custom hook for each data source still has the same code duplication.
The docs talk a lot about how to build individual components using hooks, but very little about tying them together.
Comment · 6 years ago
Appreciate your luck, not your ego, you won't make as many stupid decisions that way.
It could be argued that Warren Buffet does exactly this.
Comment · 6 years ago
Even in the same tax bracket, your effective tax rate will go down (because less of your income is in that bracket.)
Comment · 6 years ago
It's funny because all over the Discord documentation, the "servers" are referred to as "guilds". I'm fairly certain this was the intent in the beginning. But because gamers are used to joining a server to play a game, it became synonymous.
Comment · 6 years ago
I definitely disagree with this, it sounds like you're only taking into account the big budget titles that the media talks (and complains) about.
My favourite story game, Life is Strange from DONTNOD, literally brought me to tears. Going through the Steam reviews, you'll find this is a common reaction. It was still in my mind weeks after I had completed it. Easily the most compelling piece of entertainment (and yes, Art) that I have ever experienced.
No movie I have ever watched has solicited that response.
Even something like the quest line in Warframe I've found more compelling than most movies (shout out to DE's writers on this one).
It's hard to say for Citizen Kane specifically, but I'd wager more people have seen Avengers: Endgame than any particular contemporary equivalent. Just as more people have played Fortnite than either of the games I've mentioned above.
You can definitely find truly powerful art in the video game medium, if you're willing to look.
I tried doing meetings with it, but ended up getting a lot of inane comments about it, particularly as the microphone is in frame. Personally, I don't want to draw attention to myself in a meeting, so I've ended up going back to using a terrible webcam for work, like everyone else.