excite1997

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by excite1997 4y ago
> The principles involved haven't changed much in the intervening decades. My problem with many old-time tutors is that they refuse to recognize that photography has gotten a lot easier. We don't need to learn the craft the way
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by excite1997 4y ago
In the mid-2000s, HDR was all about jacking up local contrast, giving you that unique look of gritty skin and halos cropping up all over the place. I'm talking stuff like this: https://digital-photography-school.com/wp-
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Photography for geeks(lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
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Two people receive transfusions of lab-grown blood cells(livescience.com)
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by excite1997 4y ago
I think you're debating a strawman, though. Sure, there are delusional / ignorant goldbugs who make stupid arguments, but you can find that in pretty much any domain. There are also reasonable people, including heterodox economist
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by excite1997 4y ago
I don't think that's the entire story. Google actively pushed WebP, for example recommending it to webmasters in their page speed evaluation tools (and site performance, as judged by Google, is a factor in your search ranking). If
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by excite1997 4y ago
I think that's a fair argument, except they almost certainly did not apply the same yardstick to WebP.
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by excite1997 4y ago
Sure, it's easier than ever to break the law, but not sure that's a fair argument. In many parts of Europe - e.g., in Germany and in the UK - the purchase of many common "dangerous" reagents is regulated and illegal with
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by excite1997 4y ago
He frames this as a behavior problem, not content problem. The claim is that your objective as a moderator should to get rid of users or behaviors that are bad for your platform, in the sense that they may drive users away or make them less
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by excite1997 4y ago
Strategic disinformation that can be attributed to foreign operations? Maybe, although it would probably be better to expose, not suppress it. Taking down parody accounts and flagging people for COVID conspiracy theories, as documented in t
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by excite1997 4y ago
What do you mean? The current crop of high-end cameras is absolutely amazing in that respect. Take Canon R5, where usable ISO settings extend at least to 32,000 (and the upper limit is 102,400).
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by excite1997 4y ago
> questionable to a pure utilitarian. So is most of human existence. "Efficient allocation of all resources" isn't a common life goal...