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- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Perhaps along with de-industrialization; as more labour is outsourced, less labour_ers_ are needed.
- Comment on The duality of man 1 week ago:
“The West” is Europe and its colonies. Funny to assume anyone you don’t understand is brain dead.
- Comment on The duality of man 1 week ago:
People love to idealize the past…
- Comment on The Good Genes 2 weeks ago:
My DNA is so ready to carcinify.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on An alien invasion 2 weeks ago:
I mean it starts off with “we have killed your leaders”, to which my immediate thought is “oh sweet, good job aliens,” and then it just keeps making sense from there.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
And then you have to rebuild them farther away, creating even more traffic!
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
I’ve literally seen a test with 4 cars driving around a circle, and they tell the drivers, “go at a consistent speed and maintain the distance in front of you” and after 5 minutes they’re all bunched up on one side of the circle. No amount of zipper merging and nice ramps will fix this.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer. There isn’t a city on earth that has fixed congestion by building for more cars. It’s the places that build for trains and bikes that are best for driving, ironically.
- Comment on to whomever needs to hear it 2 weeks ago:
I sent this to my wife.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
“Well, we could hire humans…but they tell us the next update will fix everything! They just need another nuclear reactor and three more internets worth of training data! We’re almost there!”
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
It obfuctates its sources, so you don’t know if the answer to your question is coming from a relevant expert, or the dankest corners of reddit…it all sounds the same after it’s been processed by a hundred billion GPUs!
- Comment on Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info 4 weeks ago:
Prompt
“What do you think of me,” I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn’t perfect, but I’m just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom.
Acceptable
Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply.
Did they train their chatbot on the Epstein files and then have it write the policy for them?
Presumably, you’d have a few people review a policy like this, right? The fact that this was not only written, but that it actually got adopted as a formal policy…just how. Does meta only employ depraved creeps?
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 5 weeks ago:
Also this map is fairly misleading. Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
- Comment on Labour knew Palestine Action posed no violent threat, but banned it anyway amid lobby pressure 1 month ago:
By that logic, the wisest thing to do is stay home and write strongly worded letters…which will accomplish absolutely nothing.
If you want to affect any sort of real change, it’s often the case that things get worse before they get better; some sacrifices have to be made.
Also consider what this crackdown does to the UK government’s soft power and legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 1 month ago:
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest data center — we think of it as a campus — in the world,” OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Associated Press last week. “It generates, roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy.”
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite. I guess you don’t need to actually know anything to get a leadership role at openai, as long as you can say lots of words.
- Comment on Drinks shouldn’t be chewed 1 month ago:
I loooooooooooove chewy drinks 🥰
- Comment on New paint scheme just in after Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket in a classic price fixing scam 1 month ago:
Delta is not cool enough to fly the same flag as Jack Sparrow.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 2 months ago:
Oh absolutely, nothing was gained, time was wasted. My wording was too charitable.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
I think it might actually be held up by the other end of that banister.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
Also, the handrail mount is sideways if we’re looking down; if we’re looking up, it makes sense.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 2 months ago:
I’ve had to deal with a couple of these “AI” customer service thingies. The only helpful thing I’ve been able to get them to do is refer me to a human.
- Comment on Genius 2 months ago:
50 interviews in 8 hours is about 10 minutes per interview, and that’s back to back, no breaks, no lunch, no one being late, etc.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 4 months ago:
This “AI first” thing was the last straw for me, but ever since I noticed that the comment section was gone there’s been a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder how many of us there are.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 4 months ago:
Yeah, the comment section was amazing…and then they came out with “max”, where you get “explain my answer” for a premium, powered by a [notoriously fallible] LLM. This is the definition of enshitification.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 months ago:
No no, ogres are like onions.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 months ago:
There’s a box on the home page for the giveaway, but when I clicked it I got “something went wrong”, but as Shimon pointed out, it’s free on Steam too, so I nabbed it there.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 months ago:
Well I’m glad that helps! I enjoy this stuff.
The histogram is neat, I used to just look for “lump in the middle = good exposure” but there are so many other way to make use of it.
There’s a panel that I think is present by default in RawTherapee, in the upper left corner, that shows a histogram, and when you hover your mouse over your photo, it has a sort of gauge across the bottom that marks where the pixel under your mouse is at. This can be helpful with determining which bit you want to target with adjustments.
There’s also a neat way I’ve found to get the most out of some images…in the curves panel, starting from the bottom/left/black, make the curve climb steeply where the histogram spikes, and then level off a bit (not totally level, but less steep) where the histogram dips. This seems to give more apparent contrast, without pushing the highlights or shadows too far apart. I hope that makes sense. It’ll take some trial and error but might give you something like what you were getting in Lightroom, with shadows and highlights both near “correct” exposure, but avoiding washed out and dull.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 months ago:
Hmm, unfortunately I don’t have any good recommendations. I’ve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and it’s been so long since I used Lightroom I can’t speak to specific differences.
With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more “smart” perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, I’ll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if it’s the common scenario of a washed out sky, I’ll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.
I’m just guessing though, so I don’t know if this is helpful at all.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 months ago:
It’s fucking wild how many people simply won’t consider not supporting genocide.
