HF can reflect off the antarctic, which can be heard as a kind of warbling effect when communicating over the pole between US and Australia for example.
This is not how artists work at all. I don't think any school of art has done that, other than for very rough composition (where objects go in space). Most schools of art from deep history all the way to today train with copying/sketching from life (training the eye to go where you want it), while also teaching general truths about light, color, proportion and anatomy.
People who draw out of thin air usually have these trained references in mind, so when they draw a pose they're not so much simply copying from their imagination, but from facts and past experience, about knowing about anatomy, light, and proportion. You draw as you go and see what's on the page, and you can build out a world that didn't exist, but not so much from mind's eye, but somewhere in-between the page and prior experience.
None of the above training or sketching would be needed by someone with a photographic memory or an imagination that can hold that level of mass detail (they'd only need to know practical techniques their medium depends on). There have been people like that such as Austin Osman Spare, but in the main the vast development in art has to do with learning about anatomy, proportion, light, color, and technique as taught by all the great masters.
Cartoons are a good example how a style comes not so much from the imagination, but how one very naively and simply draws characters and then builds off that natural style into something refined. This comes from playing on the page, not imagining what one wants. If you copy other people's cartoons you can also learn different lessons, and that has to do with training the eye and technique.
If this were true all siblings would have similar anxiety issues, but I'm willing to bet this is not really the case. IMHO most mental illness is genetic, or at least the predisposition is, which can than be triggered by upbringing, but it can also be triggered at every other point in your life so... I mean... And Kids will spend a lot of that time in school; parents have to be pretty darn overbearing to get to the level of school-like schedule and behavior control, so again, all very dubious this is all down to parenting.
Yep, this. It cannot just be situational because of what you say. And I think the strongest evidence for it being genetic is what the article touches on - how drugs that target people’s seratonin and dopamine levels work.
The Harman targets are averages, and useful reference points. If you know that you want a q 2.0 -4.5dB at 3KHz, you can start by adjusting any system to the Harman target curve and then applying your own preference -- and this will be much easier than developing your own complete target curve.
It's got nothing to do with netflix. Digital is not to blame either, but it's certainly a catalyst.
It mostly has to do with insecurity surrounding digital and the bizarre idea that saturation is trying to 'emulate' film, (when color timing films was always just been about trying to emulate reality).
You can correct most of this problem with a decent media player. Just play a film in VLC and touch up the saturation and possibly the contrast in the effects settings.
It really doesn't take much adjustment to makes a film that once had a depressing palette suddenly half decent. I can't tolerate watching films through sunglasses so do this pretty often.
It really is a fashion. I've seen an advert for grading software that had a famous photographer casually showing the viewer how he ruins his pictures with this process of desaturation. I've no why people think this looks good, but it is deliberate.
I asked the cinematography reddit once why people do this and got a lot of incoherent responses about how saturation is just trying to emulate film and that it's just how 'new' things should look. Apparently many new filmmakers experience of reality has been through tea-shades on an overcast day. It beggars belief.
Colors, yes - but the article discusses more than just grading, it's the entire visual language that is optimized and inevitably lacks individuality. I don't think it's just fashion, more likely it's the result of convergence in a mature industry under market pressure. The same trend is also clearly visible in everything visual in the recent two decades, not just cinematography.
Have you any idea what it takes simply to maintain a machine such as twitter, let alone make even minor alterations? There was a recent telling interview by someone who used to work there who thought it wouldn't be long until the whole thing collapses on its own because there were huge teams dedicated to simply keeping the thing running.
A billion users, each tweeting once an hour with 140 characters. That's 38.147 Megabytes/s. My laptop could handle that raw volume. Increase it by an order of magnitude for all the network nonsense and it can still run on my 4 year old desktop.
Twitter is not some hypertech company, it shouldn't need more than a hundred engineers to run. I imagine that's the bet Musk is making too.
What a terribly dishonest and overly-simplistic way of modeling of a distributed system much less a simple web service.
found the engineer who, in their own words, “couldn’t code their way out of paper bag.”
In the same vein, look at how Plenty of Fish has a huge customer base, and runs on very skimpy hardware. Back in 2006 it had 45M visitors a month, served up over 1B page views a month, all running off three database servers and two load balanced webservers. Guess how many employees? One, Markus Frind[1].
Twitter has about 10x that monthly visitor number just in mDAU. And pof has scaled 100x! (To 100 employees — that seems pretty insane relative the traffic they have going by this weird metric of “amount of data served should roughly equal the number of employees by some ratio”). Comparison also seems a bit lacking given the difference in magnitude also the engineering problems involved (e.g. moderation, botting etc.) Guessing also that creating a dating site is not an exercise in needing a lot of skilled engineering work given it’s been a solved set of problems since the late 90s. Hey Verizon has 132,000 employees — I guess they should only need a fraction of that right since consumer cellular has 2,400?
It’s pretty laughable you believe your own “math.”
I guess even serving an actual front end doesn’t factor into your calculations. Hey go build something and you might find out what it actually takes to build/maintain a system of any real consequence instead of doing leet code exercises and smelling your own brain farts.
1. Having failed to recognize that mutual aid is an objective truth of evolutionary successful behavior in social animals and is absolutely rational behavior and that so-called self-interested behavior (at the expense of other people) is in fact not really self-interested because we live in groups, and is irrational behavior in social animals...
2. ... that therefore 'social justice' is relativistic and arbitrary, when in social animals, it most certainly is anything but.
Lithium is still the fallback drug of choice with the best track record. In some countries it's as much as 50% of patients.
I was first put on lamotrogine and it's mental side effects were far more debilitating than lithium's physical side effects. Lamotrogine destroyed my working memory to the point I'd consistently leave food on the stove and just forget about it. Lithium also works better for me. It is also dirt cheap compared to alternatives which don't work as well for many people.
Other forms of Lithium also have potential for future treatments, with Lithium Orotate being considered for trials recently (few side effects, safer, crosses blood brain barrier more effectively, but was mischaracterized in the 70s and largely ignored until now).
A friend of mine was bipolar and died of lithium toxicity. Bipolar is a challenging disease to treat, and the treatments don't work for everyone. We can't get better treatments and ways to figure out which treatment will work for a given patient soon enough.
I was also on lamotrogine for a period of time and the cognitive decline was real. Not only was memory affect I also suffered from severe brain fog. Years later I still feel as if I haven't recovered completely from it.
Lithium works great but it's not a good long term solution as years of use is terrible for the kidneys.
