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by dbspin 4mo ago
> IBM controlled 70% of the computer market at the time. The computer market was microscopic at the time. > Can you give me a concrete example that’s relevant to the deployment of computers? Nvidia. 92% of domestic GPU market, 85% of
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by dbspin 4mo ago
Agree with most of this, it's well articulated and captures how we react to change. However - 'Humans species perhaps 300,000 years, we are essentially the same' is an enormous misconception. That fact that we lack gross anat
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by dbspin 4mo ago
It's not driverless unless it doesn't have a driver. Some poor guy in hydrobad 'monitoring' (read frequently taking over from) ten cars at a time, while being paid a statistically insignificant portion of a western taxi
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by dbspin 4mo ago
Irish person here... Ireland is a real country, with a wide diversity of human temperaments. Culture doesn't override greed, nor does it impart 'morality'. Moreover, Ireland is perhaps the most Americanised EU nation. Decades
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by dbspin 4mo ago
For some context, messenger (originally FB chat) didn't launch until 2008. A year later in 2009 FB started sorting posts by popularity, by 2011 they'd switched the newsfeed to a blogspam / advertising feed, burying your frien
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by dbspin 4mo ago
In practice people are never equally committed to multiple partners, if nothing else the longevity of a relationship changes feelings. As it should! It normal and healthy that feelings and commitments deepen over time. There's an idea
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by dbspin 4mo ago
This is a recipe for perhaps the most unhappy society imaginable. Without such outmoded ideas as 'commitment', and 'through thick and thin' relationships become subject to the immediate barometer of personal happiness. I
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by dbspin 4mo ago
Hard disagree. We only discovered the role that glial cells play in processing around 2014. We're still uncertain how patterns of activation consolidate through long term potentiation, let alone how signaling encodes information. We un
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by dbspin 6mo ago
Shoot at a higher fstop with a sensor with a high native ISO, like 12,800.
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by dbspin 6mo ago
Boy do you need to look in a mirror.
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by dbspin 6mo ago
Steve Yedlin uses Nuke exclusively for grading. AFAIK lots of high end cinematographers and colourists do. I'm a DaVinci man myself, nuke is intimidating.
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by dbspin 6mo ago
Sure. It's a very broad question but... Learn to shoot static first. Biggest mistake I see people make when they move from photo to video is moving the camera without intention. Master the basic size of shots - wide, mid, closeup - wit
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by dbspin 6mo ago
Fundamental misunderstanding of the market dynamics here. There are at least an order of magnitude more people making a professional salary as photographers (ie.: enough to justify a software purchase) than professional videographers. Outsi
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by dbspin 7mo ago
Unfortunately what you're describing is precisely the opposite of the meaning of 'democratised'. A more accurate term would be commoditised. In this case the capacity to manipulate events becomes as tied to wealth as it is to
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by dbspin 7mo ago
They may have dropped from the level of death during the war itself. A transnational conflict that involved every continent on earth. But I'd be shocked if the numbers dead from war in the post war period did not exceed the median numb
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by dbspin 7mo ago
It's literally called aesthetics, the philosophical approach is the original meaning of the word - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics Properly, focusing on aesthetics as an ethic would be practicing the phil
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by dbspin 7mo ago
For set related jobs, the hours are the shoot. If the shoot runs long, everybody's on set. It's an exploitative - and in my view, completely unnecessary - culture. The marriages, parental relationships and health costs cannot be j
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by dbspin 7mo ago
Isn't it obvious why? We contact support services to fix material problems. 'This booking is wrong.' 'I want a refund for that.' AI systems aren't empowered to solve these problems. At best they can provide inf
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by dbspin 7mo ago
One hundred percent. I work in film, and recently had an argument with a friend around this point. He's incredibly healthy, and frequently works a large number of unsociable hours. I was pointing out that filmmaking hours make no conce
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by dbspin 7mo ago
Counterpoint, I very much enjoyed the sequels (all but the last). They added three dimensional characters, especially women and explored a variety of aspects of first contact. They're a believable examination of how humans recreate the
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by dbspin 8mo ago
> Truth is, once youth passes, over time people become increasingly disinterested in others. I find almost exactly the opposite is true. As you age your perceived value lessens, while you find the nuances of human behaviour ever more fas
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by dbspin 8mo ago
That's factually wrong - extrinsic demands decrease intrinsic motivation. There's a tonne of research on this. Similarly negative conditioning is less effective than positive.
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by dbspin 8mo ago
> People don't value what they get for free No education is free, it's paid in time and effort. I value my degree because it was difficult, not because it had a cost attached. One that could be purchased without effort would ha
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by dbspin 8mo ago
A liberal education serves a social function. It makes human beings. There's a student loan crisis because US education is dominated by for profit colleges (in start contrast to most other countries) and because student loans lack ordi
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by dbspin 8mo ago
Great example of narrow rationality. Huge amount of Americas current problems can be traced back to a poorly educated population. Universal access to third level education, combined with a school system designed to educate - in direct oppos
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by dbspin 8mo ago
You've missed my point... Those allowances and subsidies don't remotely cover the cost of having children. Especially in the US with the wild costs of hospital childbirth itself.
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by dbspin 8mo ago
I don't think there's a country in Europe that funds childcare remotely to the level of cost. The most generous I'm aware of is certain states / cities in Germany that provide free 'Kita', essentially Kindergar
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by dbspin 8mo ago
I think you missed the sarcasm.
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by dbspin 8mo ago
Sortation.
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by dbspin 9mo ago
The only time I tried one of these it locked my credit card, while visiting the US. Not a fun time.

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