CWuestefeld

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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
We all love to hate on Adobe. But as a photographer my primary software tool is Lightroom. And I continue to use it despite its $120/year price and less-than-stellar cataloging subsystem because its photo editing features (it's pr
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
The other side of that coin is that someone whose units of labor demand less value can still get into the market.
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
That's a worthwhile observation. It's good that there are lower-quality alternatives available. It means that people who couldn't in the past afford something at all, are now more likely to have some path to getting it. And
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
he was struggling at getting a properly exposed photo with those. he said they were coming out super over exposed. This is exactly what newbies experience when trying to photograph the moon from Earth. It's not intuitively obvious, b
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
But sure everything would be better if any moron was allowed to decide how to keep their own kids safe. Yes, I think that we'd all be better off if every person was allowed to have their own personal values, deciding what's more
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by CWuestefeld 6mo ago
humans are so oblivious to safety It seems that in modern times, humans focus on safety almost to the exclusion of everything else. As much as the more traditional salutations "godspeed" or "have a nice day", we'r
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
I'm waiting for an article that explains what it means for my pants or my belt to be "tactical".
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
That's not a different choice. LVT makes it more expensive to hold land that's less productive than it could be, the result of which is that development is encouraged.
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
I think maybe I did a bad job of explaining. Of course providers have teams to deal with getting approvals from, submitting to, and disputing with, all the various Payers. At this level, we can consider all the Payers roughly equivalent. Bu
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
to handle insurer coding Coding is a different layer. Everything needs coding, whether for gov't or commercial payers. So the folks doing this coding can't be separated out for commercial. In fact, it's kind of the opposi
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
2FTE’s vs what? versus nothing. Hospitals don't have to maintain a whole team for UnitedHealth, or for Anthem, etc. This is my point. Medicare cooks the books to look more efficient by offloading their administrative costs onto provi
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
This isn't even close to true. Keep in mind that Medicare, together with Medicaid (which operates under much of the same administrative rules), account for nearly half of medical spending. So basically, if a provider doesn't want
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
It's not just compression. Rick Beato has talked about this a lot. Popular music no longer has any key changes: From 1960 to 1995, between 20% and 35% of Billboard Hot 100 number one hits in any given year contained a key change. Arou
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
At the margin this is fine. But ensuring that we really understand each other is the most important thing. Especially these days, when polarization is so intense and everyone seems to actively look for faults in what others (seem to) say. W
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
But that makes wildly different incentives to enforce, depending on the target. We all know this stuff is all about revenue enhancement, and in that capacity, the targets will become the whales.
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by CWuestefeld 7mo ago
translate for you - her family was heavily involved in politics, it is just unlucky that her family was not on the winning side, so she hates whatever happened. This is false. When you have no idea at all what you're talking about, y
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
No. But there are actual circumstances here that differ between China's actions and the rest of the planet. Specifically... While the rest of the world was doing stuff like ensuring that as many of its citizens as possible were vaccina
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
I don't recall insisting that no comparison could be relevant. If you have any particular comparison to offer, you should do that, else your criticism is vapor.
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
The fact that the USA and others are also trending authoritarian isn't really relevant. The point I was trying to make is that people have legit fears of the PRC government, enough so that legitimate business like settling a deceased p
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
It's not stated here, but is it implied that app platforms that, themselves, have an "app store", would be required to read this datum and pass it to their app store? For example, I've got a map application on my phone t
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
This is manifestly false. My wife grew up in Shanghai, and you'll have to go quite some distance to find someone more critical of the PRC and CCP than she is. And it's with good reason. She grew up during the cultural revolution,
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
I agree with everything you said, except that #1 is clearly wrong. I can prove it with one word: autotune. At least in popular, mainstream culture, the viewer is heavily invested in the identity of the artist. The quality of the "art
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
What they've chosen as examples to illustrate the strength of the new model surprises me. The "cubism" example seems like it would be a closer fit to something like stained glass or something. I don't think the thing rea
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
I apologise if my comment somehow seemed to defend LLMs having a biological sex No, it didn't seem like that at all. What it seemed to do was to try to turn a technical point into a political conversation, just like I said. And your
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
You appear to have forgotten the existence of differences in sexual development (DSD). Not at all. You apparently have forgotten to read your own link. Nothing in that paper contains the slightest suggestion of non-biological entities hav
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
Saying it's "fully conscious" is silly, and anyone with this background should know better. But saying that it's "female" is just nonsensical, it's a category error. Being female or male is a fact about th
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
Ahem. The line is widely attributed to President Andrew Jackson, usually quoted as: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” He probably didn't say it either, its first appearance is in an 1860s book by Horace Gre
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
The important point is that those doing the boycott have achieved their aim. A-B is no longer marketing in the way that those people disagreed with.
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by CWuestefeld 8mo ago
On the contrary. It appears that Bud Light sales continued to fall. https://sherwood.news/business/beer-bud-light-market-share-b... Budweiser stock did recover, but they haven't (afaik) repeated the behavior that
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by CWuestefeld 9mo ago
I'm wondering why the guy at Microsoft in charge of Windows is still employed. Over the prior weekend my installation of Playnite (a catalog/launcher for my games) was broken by the update, until I moved its data off of OneDrive[1

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