tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
That part is fine, though I have considered that to be just 'image processing'. There is a clear difference between what the iPhone 13 does computationally and what my DSLR body does computationally. The body doesn't claim to
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It manifests as extra detail hidden in the shadow or highlights, which is only exposed when you start messing with color curves or drag shadow or exposure controls way up. I asked a very similar question in another comment thread recently a
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I don't know about the latest versions of lightroom (I still use my perpetual license) but the one I have remains untouched by the icy tendrils of "A.I.", and my output is still worlds better than it
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Ugh, god no. I don't want fancy software trying to think for me. I want raw sensor data captured with as much detail and fidelity as possible that I can feed into my virtual darkroom workflow. The dynamic range thing is frustrating, in
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Stone Brewing does distribution for a lot of smaller local breweries I'd like to think that cutthroat competition is not the only way of doing business
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The ban will, of course, not apply to their psy-ops divisions
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's very difficult to get meaningful action out of people whose paycheck might depend on not acting.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Crypto? Or E-Cash? Electronic money, sure. But from a blockchain?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The value-adds I wrote above are what this data economy is being sold to us as. Where are the consumer-visible benefits of AI? Your "curated" "exclusive" (gag) recommendations "just for you" on Spotify or Netfl
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Good, I hope they tear through this data-mining-gold-rush and set us back 1000 years, and I hope all the wantrepreneurs trying to exploit all of us with this data bullshit end up homeless and poor. I am not a data point, I do not want to be
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I yearn for the days when a policy change was written as a policy change, without looping in as many political dogwhistles as possible
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So then what is the complaint? They are indeed contributing to society. We enjoy the level of technological advancement that we do because our innovators are free to innovate, and not wasting their time on prosaic matters (because the elder
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> forcing young functional people pay rent to you so that you can do nothing but sit on your fat ass and shit in your diaper. They own the house, which they bought and paid for. It is their property to rent or not rent as they see fit. Y
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Among the poverty-striken, sure. But nearly every society has some form of elder care.
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Jesus Christ, work til you die eh? For a lot of people, what is even the point of living if there's no retirement to enjoy? They are an extractive class insofar as their present contributions are net negative. But you are forgetting th
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Copywriters have destroyed the meaning of "beautiful"
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Then can we at least stick to words with precision, and not the thesaurus drivel popularized by marketing people? The other thing is that while "delightful" might be as such to him, I have personally found that my opinions simply
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by tomc1985 5y ago
the "gift" that keeps on giving
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Can we please stop describing technical things using feelings-based words? It's foppish, it makes tech sound really really disingenuous and fake, and it cheapens the words as well. "Clean," "well-organized," "a
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I remember most of me and my friends breathing a collective sigh of relief at how clean Facebook was when it came out, compared to the chaos that was MySpace
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Stop caring about what the kids think! "The kids" have always been (even my generation), and will always be, STUPID
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The story of my career. Literally EVERY good employer I've had suffered some change a year or two into my tenure that turned the place around... into a shithole.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Maybe the earpiece transmits sound conductively? When I go to the ENT's office, the audiologist does some tests on me with conductive headphones and usually the point of contact is my skull an inch or two from my ear
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Do people really believe that? Like, every fourth AskReddit thread seems to ask questions specifically of Americans. Which means someone thinks we're different enough to make a thread about it (over and over again...), ergo we have our
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> I can assure you nothing of what remains in my brain was shaped by society > I lack the words to stress how much this is intimate and personal. Now to each his own brain, some people might have very few emotional attachment, I&#x27
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Stats are showing that women are consuming lots of porn now too. And I always find the 'dehumanizing' argument amusing, it's like saying that Nine Inch Nails represents all industrial music, or that all 90s rock is represente
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How you were programmed to feel, by a society with a vested interest in maintaining a status quo. Personally I wonder what raw human sexuality looks like before society tamed it into what it is today. From an anatomical perspective, there a
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No, it's not. Far more capitalism in many other countries operates with workforces that have been there for generations. We used to offer pensions here in the US, that is still going elsewhere and in government Human capital has value
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Making people fungible dehumanizes them. Personally I hate having to job hop just to get what I wanted from this industry. The business community wants everybody and everything as replaceable and fungible as possible, to its long-term detri
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The only way that will ever happen is if the moralist fascists vying for power in conservative parties win, because getting rid of porn is going to piss off a lot of people.

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