throw009 (u/throw009)

throw009 commented on Why I stopped using an external monitor bt.ht/monitor/... · Posted by u/glenngillen

trilbyglens · 3 years ago

Any proper mix engineer will do exactly this. They will mix on studio monitors but also shitty laptop speakers, bookshelf speakers, mono Bluetooth speakers etc. You have to design for the medium, and most people have shitty displays. Might look great on a retina screen and have no contrast at all on a $50 LG.

throw009 · 3 years ago

Sure shitty laptop speakers are how most people listen to music, but they each listen on different shitty laptop speakers with completely different sound characteristics. This would be like a cobbler wearing the shoes he makes for his customers but only ever trying on the size 9 shoes, because they are the most common, while having a size 11 foot.

throw009 commented on Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase thetimes.co.uk/article/ro... · Posted by u/nhchris

vkou · 3 years ago

They were, but it's now hip to blame 'wokeness' for the horse bolting out the barndoor, the milk going bad, and other similar calamities, like rains of frogs, poor stock performance relative to the S&P500, and so on, and so forth.

throw009 · 3 years ago

>When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products. Second, we wanted to address those attempting to use D&D in web3, blockchain games, and NFTs by making clear that OGL content is limited to tabletop roleplaying content like campaigns, modules, and supplements. And third, we wanted to ensure that the OGL is for the content creator, the homebrewer, the aspiring designer, our players, and the community—not major corporations to use for their own commercial and promotional purpose.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-g...

In their own words.

Wokeness has reached its due by date. The great washed masses need to find something else to colonize and destroy now.

throw009 commented on Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase thetimes.co.uk/article/ro... · Posted by u/nhchris

Nifty3929 · 3 years ago

No, the motive is ideology, not money. This way ensures almost universal replacement.

The default user action is null. If they had the new one released separately, nobody would have purchased it. By replacing the old one, few will buy the original.

The bleaching will be much more complete this way.

throw009 · 3 years ago

>No, the motive is ideology, not money.

Not any more.

The True Believers of Wokeness^tm are now completely sidelined and we're in the feeding frenzy stage of the fad. Wizards of the Coast cash grab for D&D was the first time that I was someone _completely_ transparently trying to fleece their customers while being draped in a rainbow.

throw009 commented on Ethically Sourced Lena Picture mortenhannemose.github.io... · Posted by u/gumeo

teachrdan · 3 years ago

This is a false equivalence. The reason people make fun of Trump for being ugly is because he himself mocks others based on their appearance -- particularly women. This is akin to queer activists in the 80s outing closeted gay Republicans who were advocating for anti-gay laws.

Turnabout is fair play. If Trump doesn't want people to make fun of him for his physical qualities, he shouldn't do the same for others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-i...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-protest...

throw009 · 3 years ago

If you think that decency is a human right and not a privilege to be given out only the the worthy then you're a hypocrite for treating people the way they treat others.

If on the other hand you think that special grounds deserve special rights then go ahead. I have an apartheid to sell you though.

throw009 commented on Ethically Sourced Lena Picture mortenhannemose.github.io... · Posted by u/gumeo

CharlesW · 3 years ago

This is not how photo licensing works. Photos don't magically become public domain because they've been published. There was never any license for it to be re-published and re-distributed in the context of test imagery.

throw009 · 3 years ago

So you're saying that we must ethically source images because it hurts playboys bottom line.

throw009 commented on Ethically Sourced Lena Picture mortenhannemose.github.io... · Posted by u/gumeo

drabbiticus · 3 years ago

It feels like you and many other commenters have missed the broad general point to focus on the proverbial trees. I am replying to this comment because it is at the top of the HN comments at the time of this reply.

It is a part of computing history that computer scientists at a respected educational institution chose to use a cropped version of a nude Playboy image as part of a test suite for the development of JPEG. Part of that history is that in the 1970s someone felt it was appropriate to openly bring a copy of Playboy into the office and the response to that was to use something from it for an image test suite [1]. You are personally welcome to feel about it however you will.

However, many women are stating that the continued inclusion of a Lena image in test suites and as an important part of computing history makes them feel unwelcomed in tech spaces. As a hypothetical, perhaps you are a straight male. Imagine for a moment that computer science was instead historically dominated by gay men, and that they had decided to use images from gay pornography as part of the JPEG test suite. Suppose that gay men continued to be highly represented within the computer science workforce, and that in order to learn about JPEG compression, you also had to be confronted by those images in a computer science lecture hall in 2023 while surrounded as a straight individual by a room full of gay men. Suppose you hear even one classmate who feels comfortable, in this professional setting, commenting that "they could use some company like that around here" and hearing a few classmates chuckle around that.

Computing and computing literacy are such useful skills today. There are a myriad of tasks where even basic programming literacy would allow you to automate things and make you more efficient in your endeavors. More broadly as a society, we are leveraging machine learning models in so many contexts, and these have been shown to encode the societal biases which were present in their training sets. Representation across all axes of identity allow everyone an equal footing to advance in this technical skillset and also increases the chances that we identify when computing technologies are encoding bias in harmful ways. These women are saying that there are many things which can be done to improve the representation of women within tech spaces, and that removing Lena from curriculums and test suites does zero technical harm while increasing inclusivity. That is the ethical judgement at stake - to what extent do our current practices harm inclusivity and affect the likelihood of encoding harmful biases in the technology we develop now and in the future?

[minor point - if you are a legal stickler, use of the Lena image was also done in infringement of copyright. This is such a non-point in the actual discussion of the campaign, but it seems like a lot of comments basically fall along the line of "this is legal so whatever" and if you want to argue on this perceived technicality, it isn't even correct.]

[1] http://www.lenna.org/pcs_mirror/may_june01.pdf

throw009 · 3 years ago

> As a hypothetical, perhaps you are a straight male. Imagine for a moment that computer science was instead historically dominated by gay men, and that they had decided to use images from gay pornography as part of the JPEG test suite.

If a straight man was to complain about too much gayness in the work place it would be a hate crime.

throw009 commented on Ethically Sourced Lena Picture mortenhannemose.github.io... · Posted by u/gumeo

CydeWeys · 3 years ago

Dude, it's literally porn. This is not hard.

throw009 · 3 years ago

What sort of hussy shows her shoulders?

throw009 commented on Ethically Sourced Lena Picture mortenhannemose.github.io... · Posted by u/gumeo

sergiotapia · 3 years ago

"However, 46 years on, Lena is still being used as a test image. According to Creatable and Code Like Girl, this is symbolic of how women were left out and pushed out of the industry."

No comment necessary.

throw009 · 3 years ago

Plenty of comment necessary.

Models give up the rights to their image to be paid for the shoot.

Why is it that a century of legal and moral president needs to be thrown out because someone says they don't like it?

The only person with a leg to stand on here is the photographers whose copyright is being infringed and even that is debatable.

throw009 commented on My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used blog.dijit.sh//that-time-... · Posted by u/mooreds

jiggawatts · 3 years ago

These debates always remind me of this quote (referring to C++) here on HN by another user:

    It seems like grappling with these arcane features feels productive, at first.
    You enter a flow state and after a while, something works that didn’t work before.
    It’s only when you step back and ask what actually got accomplished that you realize it’s time wasted.

That's what Linux feels like to me. People enjoy solving arcane problems, digging through man pages, download esoteric commands. Heck I enjoy this stuff too! Recently I had a lot of fun playing around with parallel compression tools available on Linux.

It's fun... but it's rarely as productive as not having to deal with the challenge in the first place.

throw009 · 3 years ago

There's not much of a debate. Windows as a server is dead outside sme shops. This isn't the 90s anymore. But it is very nostalgic hearing people talk up microsoft. It's not something I'd heard in the last 15 years.

throw009 commented on My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used blog.dijit.sh//that-time-... · Posted by u/mooreds

sshagent · 3 years ago

I'm sorry, but this comes across as exactly the same kind of bias as the author. "my knowledge of windows sysadmin methods means Unix methods are crap".

I'm afraid it's horses for courses, it's always been. We'll all pick our own preferences of course,but let's not assume total superiority over "them".

throw009 · 3 years ago

It's a real throwback to see a Microsoft fanboy. I hadn't seen one since the early 00s.