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> The principles involved haven't changed much in the intervening decades. My problem with many old-time tutors is that they refuse to recognize that photography has gotten a lot e…

In the mid-2000s, HDR was all about jacking up local contrast, giving you that unique look of gritty skin and halos cropping up all over the place. I'm talking stuff like this: htt…

I think you're debating a strawman, though. Sure, there are delusional / ignorant goldbugs who make stupid arguments, but you can find that in pretty much any domain. There are als…

I don't think that's the entire story. Google actively pushed WebP, for example recommending it to webmasters in their page speed evaluation tools (and site performance, as judged …

I think that's a fair argument, except they almost certainly did not apply the same yardstick to WebP.

Sure, it's easier than ever to break the law, but not sure that's a fair argument. In many parts of Europe - e.g., in Germany and in the UK - the purchase of many common "dangerous…

He frames this as a behavior problem, not content problem. The claim is that your objective as a moderator should to get rid of users or behaviors that are bad for your platform, i…

Strategic disinformation that can be attributed to foreign operations? Maybe, although it would probably be better to expose, not suppress it. Taking down parody accounts and flagg…

What do you mean? The current crop of high-end cameras is absolutely amazing in that respect. Take Canon R5, where usable ISO settings extend at least to 32,000 (and the upper limi…

> questionable to a pure utilitarian. So is most of human existence. "Efficient allocation of all resources" isn't a common life goal...