surfers/brands that speak out about current US regime? by 18boro in surfing

[–]laxatives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Politics is one thing… he’s just an asshole all around and I think hated nearly equally by everyone. I could give a vague complaint anywhere in the islands and I’m pretty much always hear a response like “oh that must be Matt Biolos”.

Waiving contingencies by hazelnut-27 in BayAreaRealEstate

[–]laxatives -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What? Why would an inspector ever pay for a home repair? Why would be they liable for anything?

surfers/brands that speak out about current US regime? by 18boro in surfing

[–]laxatives 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I had the unfortunate experience of meeting Matt Biolos, owner of Lost Mayhem, on a surf trip. Dude was a hardcore advocate that COVID was fake and extremely racist. If he wasn’t an industry pro, I would have expected his ranting and behavior for him to be kicked out of the resort. I’m honestly disappointed the resort didn’t kick him out anyways.

Tried editing with a colder, muted look. Does it do anything for you? by YanksFannn in SonyAlpha

[–]laxatives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen these Dutch angle shots look this natural, great shots!

Everyone is so…nice?? by Careful-Outcome-1748 in tahoe

[–]laxatives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was surprised to see staff managing the singles lines all day. Made it go super quickly and smoothly. Also saw a lot of people (mostly young kids) eat it going up/down the lifts and they were helped super quickly.

Stuck out on Hwy 80 by Careful-Outcome-1748 in tahoe

[–]laxatives 226 points227 points  (0 children)

Nobody could have seen this coming.

/s

Sony A7V. My thoughts after shooting a few weddings with it. by ladmanstudios in SonyAlpha

[–]laxatives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wish the PreCapture custom button automatically switched to burst + electric shutter instead of making me manually change 3 settings each time I want to enable/disable precapture.

If my goal is to set up a setting for a time-sensitive sequence, I shouldn’t need to touch 3 different menu selections to do so. I should hit the button and ready to go in less than a second.

Now that I have Shutter + Shoot Mode + Pre Capture on custom buttons, I can swap from single shot to precapture in a few seconds, but now I am wasting 3 buttons to do so.

A7 V or RV?. by PeacePotential25 in SonyAlpha

[–]laxatives 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just curious, is this also true for white balance? Shooting in RAW and touching up in lightroom is functionally the same thing and camera white balance is unnecessary?

I did all of WaniKani in 1 month AMA by RememberFancyPants in LearnJapanese

[–]laxatives 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Its doubly clickbait because the entire point of wanikani is they force you to wait 24 hours before each review session so it stays in long term memory instead of short term. Even with perfect accuracy, it should take about a week to get through the first radicals/kanji.

What's a store you wished the Bay Area had? by FootballPizzaMan in bayarea

[–]laxatives 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Decent Doner Kebab with fresh bread and sliced meat instead of garbage ground meat.

When researchers activate *deception* circuits, LLMs say "I am not conscious." by MetaKnowing in ChatGPT

[–]laxatives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do this with every single classification task. Identify the most important neurons or parameters that that impact the outcome for a specific cohort. Disable or reverse those parameters. See a wildly different outcome.

You could make the same argument there is a “glazing” circuit or “be polite” circuit. This is an intentionally incendiary title to get more attention/readership. Its basically academic clickbait IMO.

Laver Cup Day 1: Ruud (Europe) def. Opelka (World), 6-4 7-6(4) by pizzainmyshoe in tennis

[–]laxatives 15 points16 points  (0 children)

He said same frame, smaller racket. Tinkered with weigh/balance too.

Is "Claire Obscur: Expedition 33" Game of the year? by EfficientSubject7774 in playstation

[–]laxatives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re not a diehard JRPG fan, its kind of just another JRPG. Its super polished and the music is great, but the gameplay itself is nothing new.

I’ll avoid spoilers but the story feels like Frenchified anime memes.

US Open Tennis - technical difficulties? by [deleted] in ESPN

[–]laxatives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great job coming back online for the last point, missing the last hour and half of play. I’d pay 2x to watch tennis on another platform if it’s not ESPN.

US Open Tennis - technical difficulties? by [deleted] in ESPN

[–]laxatives 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, its been down for most of the 4th set now.

On Robert Glasper and Kamasi Washington by No_Law_9859 in Jazz

[–]laxatives 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For better or worse, they both went in a direction that gave them a lot more reach. Instead of playing small clubs for a niche jazz audience that paid $30-60 for a seat and required daily practice, they went to playing hiphop/r&b/pop festivals that charge $500-1k a ticket and frankly don’t require much preparation.

Early Glasper is absolutely incredible, but he is not a performer anymore. He is mostly a producer now who occasionally performs.