i would gladly pay $500 for GIMP if i felt their developers would prioritize features that i actually need out of an image manipulation program. they never have and by the looks of things, they never will. it's too bad.
I hate to say it but some of the newer PS features have become indispensable in my usage - mainly smart objects. nondestructive layer effects are a godsend when you want to tweak and retweak stuff that would otherwise require a ton of time and effort to undo/redo or duplicate layers/groups to A/B changes.
Photoshop has that (adjustment layers in adobe world) but smart objects lets you use any layer effect non destructively, not just the predefined adjustment layers (which also apply downward by default, not just as a per-layer thing). It’s like a layer group on steroids. Pretty hard for me to live without now or id just have an intel hackintosh running CS5/CS6 :)
Smart objects and smart filters were present in early CS versions I think. CS5/CS6 had them for sure, though I don't doubt that new filters and features have been added in CC.
> If only Musk didn't turn out to be such a twitt, Tesla was really supposed to be part of the solution but somehow Musk managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
this was never going to happen. the capitalist class are never going to be the ones to get us out of debt; they cause and benefit from it. it's his entire business model.
Not that his own debt isn't going to cause him problems when the TSLA share price stops defying gravity like Wile E. Coyote, it's just that his problems are shaped more like "being a cult leader".
Yep, exactly, but there isn't any. The places saying they serve Thai food serve Indian food. If so, I'll go get my Indian food from where it's actually done well.
Thinking "alright, here's this beautiful screen to brag about, and here's this cutting edge internet connection to feel connected to the progress, nothing can go wrong, it's developed by a well-intentioned for-profit corporation, get lost, tinfoilhats" is enough of a malicious mindset to warrant the blame.
And this is not some fictional attitude, it's the one I heard from a multitude of people on many occasions.
look, i'm not comparing people who buy a stupid fridge with crime victims. but those people are not involved with the ability to push invasive advertising onto the stupid fridge -- it's the profit-motivated assholes who work for the corporation producing the fridge, and the shareholders who let them get away with lying about their intentions.
yes, there's some level of expecting to be screwed by a vendor based on past experience, but we should never shift the blame away from the people actually Doing The Bad Thing and we should always hold their feet to the fire before we say "you should have known better, dummy who needs to keep their food and medicine cold and thinks the shiny screen is neat".
It's not morally or ethically wrong to think the shiny screen is neat.
i feel like i've seen this comparison made before, but LLMs, when used, are best applied like autotune. 99% of vocal recordings released on major (and even indie) labels have some degree of autotune applied. when done correctly, you can't tell (unless you're a grizzled engineer who can hear 1dB of compression or slight EQ changes). it's only when it's cranked up or used lazily that it can detract from the overall product.
i think in this case, if you're at all familiar with what US hospitals charge for the small stuff, it's a safe assumption that when someone says aspirin costs $30 a dose, they're not talking about buying it at a CVS. of many folks on hacker news dot com i trust you to bridge that gap instead of nitpicking!
That's an odd argument to make in this thread, because whatever the drivers of burdensome consumer health spending are, they're not overpriced hospital aspirin.
i think this is a good goal but i question the platform, based on this point.
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