Sounds like you are intentionally switching the discussion topic, to be honest
Readit Newsserko commented on The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open twitter.com/IntelCrab/sta... · Posted by u/dralley
Would you care to explain why you feel like that? Since you are an inhabitant of this planet, your thoughts and actions affect us all. If you hate a country so much we ought to know at least why.
Of course.
Among many, many things, why I think that there should be far fewer Russians in this world, I remember one situation, that I still vividly and unpleasantly see from time to time.
It was in the middle of the night during one of many air, rocket, and shelling attacks. There was a sound and a feeling of rocket strikes, then the air alert signal went off. And I had to run with the child in my arms to the basement of the neighbor's apartment building, hoping that we are lucky enough and fast enough to not get hit, and hoping that if there were a direct missile hit, there would be another exit in this basement. So we would not get trapped there under layers of concrete, as has happened to less fortunate people in my hometown.
Good. Russia should be a wasteland in all possible meanings
As well as thousands of Russians outside of Russia got their banks accounts blocked and sanctions restricted our money to be 100_000 EUR max per person.
Hundreds of years of liberal ideas of individual rights just crushed below collective responsibility idea for some dictator actions.
People moved billions out of Russia with bitcoin and other currencies. They saved their money after sanctions with passports based discrimination and their whole country actions against them. But rich people from first world country will still push these ideas, that's it all scams and casinos.
And the only alternative they provide as "real money" is something like "give all your money to our banks, sign some contract with humiliating visa conditions, pay us 40% taxes and pray we won't take it back". Yeah, sure, thank you very much!
I hardly think you cared about the dictatorship before the "partial" mobilization began.
And if something had collective approval (even through silence), then it must also have collective responsibility.
Don't try to play a victim card here, Russian, we all saw what you did and continue doing. And some of us even experienced it.
The author gave a nice general overview of the topic.
But the thing is, none of these technical things are essential.
Like a lot of people here (me included, but I am actively trying to get rid of it) the author has an engineering mindset, that was built (I am just guessing here) through years and years of engineering work.
And it is really cool and may give an advantage in some professions (and sometimes in life overall), but it is not the best approach to photography or in any other arty topic where one could not objectively measure pleasure and value, and where aesthetic perception is the main definition of something being excellent and desirable.
People often forget that photography is still mostly an art form. And in art, the most important aspect is provoking some kind of emotional response (folks mostly pursue pleasant ones, but it is not limited to that).
To understand lenses, focuses, and shutter speed how much time does one need? A couple of days? Weeks?
It is objectively easy to learn the rule of thirds, focal points, white balance, etc. But which white balance makes beautiful images? Which calculations would make your friends adore their faces in the photo? I have no answer to that, do you?
Should images be dark, moody, and sharp like Roger Dickens's cinematography to be likable? Or dark, blurry, and saturated like Wong Kar-wai movies? Or they should be bright, light, and symmetrical like Wes Anderson's fairytales?? Or grainy and geometrically precise like Henri Cartier-Bresson's works? Or maybe images need to be provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos, fashionable and borderline pornographic like Helmut Newton's works?
There are a lot of cases then some person with a developed sense of beauty creates unimaginably stunning photography by using a smartphone build-in camera, but even more cases when someone with a pricey a-la Hasselblad, titan tripod, cinema-level lenses, 5-point professional lighting, and a long list of detailed photogear videoreviews making the most boring and forgettable images possible.
Feelings > Any technical aspect, rules, or calculations
I am not saying that knowing your tools is not important at all, but it definitely less important than the internet wants it to be. For example, I know a Magnum agency photographer who takes all his photos with any digital SLR in auto mode (p-mode). And he adores Instagram.
So for any person who wants to start into photography (but not photography-related technology), I suggest watching a lot of photo books and cinematographically superior movies (all by critically acclaimed authors), visiting classical art museums, and for all costs avoiding any online photography communities.
And you should take as many photos as possible every day. Not only on vacations or holidays but just as a visual diary with colors that you found beautiful, unusual patterns that you start to see around, and unexpected shapes that things around us are forming.
Aesthetic goes first. It should be like a tingling feeling on the tips of your fingers when you see something interesting. Then from it go lighting, composition, and color. And these three are codependent.
You need to start seeing light, feeling colors, and thinking in shapes. Need to develop your sense of beauty and your watchfulness/visual awareness/contemplation (sorry, I don't know how to translate this properly).
One cannot create beautiful photography if one does not know what beauty is.
serko commented on Ask HN: What is the thing you've did as a manager that you regret the most? · Posted by u/serko
Never managed, but I strongly recommend reading Extreme ownership. It's a very good book.
As someone who's been through a few managers. Please please give feedback, and not that yearly review stuff. Managers have a very hard time doing that, especially when it's needed. If you don't give people feedback, then they can't push back on the feedback (tell you things you don't know or don't know you don't know) or address it. The end result is a loop where they are stressed which harms their ability to work, and then you treat them with increasingly lower levels of respect, which stresses them out more, which makes them less able to function until you get into a situation where you soft fire them (move them to an unimportant team or project) or PIP them.
Also for the love of god, don't talk shit about any employees on any team. It will immediately be assumed that behavior is pervasive which will make a person question who is shit talking about them or if management respects them at all.
Read it, great book
serko commented on Ask HN: What is the thing you've did as a manager that you regret the most? · Posted by u/serko
Avoiding difficult conversations and waiting too long to deal with a people-problem. People-problems are the biggest drain on my energy and enthusiasm for work.
The first time I dealt with one, it was awful. I was close to quitting myself. But once I got through it, it was like night and day how much better things were immediately. Now having been through it more than once, I know what it’s like and how to deal with it and how to get through it and move on to the next thing.
yeah, that's a difficult one, then you are only substituting you don't have to deal with tasks like that
It is a bit puzzling that so many people think that Kaspersky is not connected to the siloviki.
I can recommend reading an investigation by Russian journalists on the subject: "Inside The Fight For The Soul Of Kaspersky Lab" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilyazhegulev/russia-kas...
The original Russian title of the investigation was "Orcs who defeated the techies: How the siloviki infiltrated Kaspersky Lab — and what it led to", you can check this story in Russian here: https://meduza.io/feature/2018/01/22/orki-pobedivshie-tehnar...