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I tried doing meetings with it, but ended up getting a lot of inane comments about it, particularly as the microphone is in frame. Personally, I don't want to draw attention to myself in a meeting, so I've ended up going back to using a terrible webcam for work, like everyone else.
Smartphones have fully taken over the light/compact segment, they're better at it, you always have it with you and they've gotten good enough that for anything 'happy snap', a smartphone will do the job fine.
The professional/high end hobbyist segment is still going strong, and I think is growing steadily. The appeal, for me at least, is a lot about the creative control. I'm the one creating the image, not the device I'm using. There are computational tools I can use, but I'd want to do anything like that after the fact, and Photoshop has added some tools pushing this forward, but I do think there's a lot of room for a more ML focused editing experience.
There is a certain amount of push for computational features that help with taking a photo, like fast autofocus that can see a face and focus on the eyes.
When it comes to actually generating or modifying the image, I think this is a line that most photographers don't want to cross.
It doesn't need to be taken to that extreme. I find it hard to believe that the idea that work must take up all of your time, and any less means you're going to starve is this pervasive.
It is not unimaginable that we can improve things. We're constantly making improvements to efficiency, productivity, sustainability. We get more done in our time now than at any point in history. The same will be true tomorrow.
Why then, are so many still working such grueling hours?
In this country, and many others, the share of productivity gains has increasingly gone to capital rather than labor. Although I think that this is only part of it. Part of it is cultural, this ideology that work gives life meaning, and to reject it can mean losing a lot.
I'm pretty lucky myself, my job doesn't stress me out, it pays the bills and leaves me with some disposable income. A lot of people would describe me as unambitious, not driven, etc. I'd say I have it made.
The main one that jumps out for me is power, and influence. As an example, it doesn't really matter if I can donate $100 to the EFF instead of $50 when a billionaire can outspend me 1,000,000:1 without even flinching.
It really shouldn't be surprising that the incumbent party benefits from this attitude, yet I get the same look from likely just as many people.
2PP has Labor winning the next election. Some key figures in the Liberal party (Frydenberg, Hunt) have some tough campaigns ahead of them after the massive bias against their home state that's been on display.
Then there's the whole friendlyjordies thing, which I've heard commentary about in circles where I would have never expected it.
I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.
Unwavering, unconditional support for an idea - any idea - seems like it could result in a bad time.
Personally, I'm not sure where I sit on this one, and I think there's a valuable, good-faith discussion to be had on whether free speech as we see it today, is actually a net good or not. It's an inherently complex question worthy of debate.
I'm a Victorian, and I've heard this claim before. I assume it's referring to the newborns in Adelaide that died after not receiving critical heart surgery.
The article that I read[1] (from The Daily Mail, no less) had claimed that under normal circumstances, these cases would be airlifted to Melbourne which has the facilities necessary to treat them, but the Victorian lockdown prevented them from doing so.
This is misinformation. Emergency care was an exception to the rules throughout the entire lockdown. Dan Andrews was asked to clarify this on the following day the article was published, and said exactly as above - there is no reason that they could not have been airlifted.
It was down to individual clinical decisions at the hospital in question, and had nothing to do with the lockdown restrictions.
I realise that I'm critiquing a single claim in what was a torrent of falsehoods, but this one was particularly offensive. Using the death of babies as political fodder is notably egregious in what was an unending campaign against one of the few political leaders that listened to science, and successfully suppressed a second wave.
1: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/why-victorias-lockd...
The following day, it came back. It turns out you have to remove both Microsoft Teams and something I think was called "Teams Machine-Wide Installer." Only then would it stay removed.
Just as one example, in a lot of posts and commentary I've seen, is that hooks are replacements for both HoCs and render props.
Admittedly, I haven't yet tried to do any actual development with hooks, but I can't even figure out how to solve the problem in the example in docs for HoCs[0].
Do you pass in a hook as a prop? That doesn't seem wise. A custom hook for each data source still has the same code duplication.
The docs talk a lot about how to build individual components using hooks, but very little about tying them together.
It could be argued that Warren Buffet does exactly this.
My favourite story game, Life is Strange from DONTNOD, literally brought me to tears. Going through the Steam reviews, you'll find this is a common reaction. It was still in my mind weeks after I had completed it. Easily the most compelling piece of entertainment (and yes, Art) that I have ever experienced.
No movie I have ever watched has solicited that response.
Even something like the quest line in Warframe I've found more compelling than most movies (shout out to DE's writers on this one).
It's hard to say for Citizen Kane specifically, but I'd wager more people have seen Avengers: Endgame than any particular contemporary equivalent. Just as more people have played Fortnite than either of the games I've mentioned above.
You can definitely find truly powerful art in the video game medium, if you're willing to look.
I've swapped to Firefox before, but there's always things that annoy me every time I do.
Having things like the Bookmark Manager and the History panels as separate windows seems to get in the way, particularly when the interface is usually worse. I much prefer Chrome's history tab, often for no other reason than it's sorted by date instead of alphabetical. In Firefox, I seem to have to use the separate history window to sort it that way. Even if it is fixable, you would have to spend a few minutes working it out, which is a problem.
Then there's just small stuff that gets in the way. One thing that happened to me recently was that I wanted to look at a background image for a div. You can't right click and open in a new tab for these, so I inspected it in the dev tools, and in the style panel, there's a link there, but you can't click on it. In Chrome, you can right click on it and go "Open in New Tab", in Firefox, the closest option is just "Copy URL" - which means I have to open a new tab and paste it in.
Chrome just in general seems to have a better UI/UX.
I take a tram to work every day, and any underground metro system would take a lot longer (It's a relatively short trip.)
With a goal of 1440p@144hz, and someone who appreciates visual fidelity, I own an RTX 2080 Ti, and there's just far too much of a performance penalty for linux gaming.
The biggest issue is when I have a computer with both integrated graphics, and a dedicated graphics card. I used to disable integrated graphics in the BIOS, but this causes a litany of problems now. Even with integrated disabled, Windows 10 will still try and install the drivers for it, and every time it does this, they seem to take precedence over my dedicated drivers. I ended up giving up and just enabling integrated and leaving the drivers there.
With that said, I never use it. I use TeamSpeak for audio and Discord for persistent chat. My biggest problem, and the reason I think a lot of people are discounting, is purely the aesthetics of the UI - Discord just looks nicer than Mumble. The programmer-art style of user interface seems all too common among open source software, and I don't really understand why.
It may not be perfect, but Nuclear solves a lot of problems.
In terms of the UI however, it's definitely very out of date.
When I upgraded my camera, one of the advertised features of the new one was that they added an extra digit to the internal intervalometer. Instead of being able to go between 0-999, the new one could go from 0-9999.
The fact that this couldn't be a simple software update still astounds me.
In the past decade, we've had parliaments only able to establish a majority by negotiating a deal with a third party or independents.
I definitely think it's in their best interests to open up RTX capabilities as much as possible, and it's not like developers aren't interested.
Until we have a popular means of paying artists directly, or self-publishing, this will continue to be the case.
I'm curious to see an implementation of a variant called 'BeleniosRF'[1], which adds the requirement that voting be receipt-free (RF)
With more complex systems, how much integration/customisation is needed vs building something yourself?
Often I'll look for a library, find a few candidates that don't really suit well and 'resort' to committing to writing something myself. Similar to planning a project, it can take time to work out how much time something is going to take.
Not being able to push a bundle of JS+HTML to the Apple store without a Mac is a completely artificial barrier. Even in regards to the full XCode suite (which I could understand why they wouldn't release for other platforms), the unbelievable lengths that Apple go to to ensure that OS X can't run in a virtual environment is quite frankly ridiculous.
Meanwhile, you're perfectly capable of building both Windows and Android apps on either Mac, Linux or PC.