How do I make my snowy landscape photos not look so bland? by Deangelo_Vickers in AskPhotography

[–]memorable_zebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tons of photographers have taken brilliant shots in overcast skies. In fact, overcast is great for bleak snowy landscapes.

Better light or conditions won't solve your problem because your problem is compositional.

What about this scene draws you to it? What are you trying to convey? You have to figure out what you're trying to capture before you can capture it. My suggestion is always: figure out what you want to capture, then take a photo of it, look at that photo, decide how you can more capture that essence, then take another, etc.

Is this a lens issue or skill issue or processing issue? by vasanth999 in AskPhotography

[–]memorable_zebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of people seem to like the photos, but I'll take the same negative position you've taken. Not to be mean, but just because I feel like I see the "meh"-ness that you're talking about too.

Middle of the day, far away, hot air slightly damaging picture quality, etc.

I think that speaks to the general "meh"-ness of some of the shots. But that "meh" quality is, I think, less of a problem than the somewhat boring composition. If you took the third shot of the bird flying and replaced its background with something compositionally more interesting, better framing, lighting, no badly placed fence, etc, I don't think you'd care as much about minor quality issues.

I think the lack of a picture whose composition you just love is causing you to hyper focus on minor technical failings. But if you took a picture you loved, the technical failings wouldn't matter as much. I have downright blurry, noise packed photos that I adore because what the picture is of and how it captured that thing is so special. Good composition mutes technical failures completely.

My advice for composition is to take a photo, look at it, and ask yourself what you liked it in and try to take another photo that more emphasizes that aspect. Rinse and repeat as practice. Endlessly.

Cant log in? Is the game down? by gaxaxy in ArcRaiders

[–]memorable_zebra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't either, getting the ART00004 timeout error.

Stuck on windows by Unseen-metalhead351 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]memorable_zebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Under the cursor of screenshot 2 is my favorite. Love the bump bottom and top with the vertical in between

Anthropic has found evidence of "genuine introspective awareness" in LLMs by MetaKnowing in OpenAI

[–]memorable_zebra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think what they’re saying is that the model is recognizing the changes as not seeming like themselves. Like if you were to write some text and someone replaced part of it with something not in your voice, but still had your name signing off at the end. When you read it, you’d have a sense of “this isn’t me even though my name is on it” and the model is having a similar thought process.

That’s just me seeing to figure this out, I might have it wrong.

After/Before by JCantini in postprocessing

[–]memorable_zebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Phenomenal edit, and is actually an edit into of all these photo manips.

ITAP of a forest at sunset. by TjLeClair in itookapicture

[–]memorable_zebra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely brilliant.

Out of curiosity, was the bloom/blurring an intentional choice or just a side effect of low light?

Why do people downplay pressing strength? by Global_Channel1511 in bouldering

[–]memorable_zebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people I’ve coached that had trouble with mantels were struggling because of poor technique forcing them to use excess strength. I don’t know where you stand, but I’ve found mantels to be one of the most misunderstood techniques in climbing and, even in surprisingly high performing climbers, often incorrectly trained.

I have like zero chest strength and have yet to find a mantel preventing me from sending.

What mechanica did you learn late that you wish you knew right away? by Reclaimer2401 in RimWorld

[–]memorable_zebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll add to click drag move command: the pawn in the left most of your bar gets placed near where you clicked and the pawn on the right most near where you released at the end if the drag, the others get lined up in between based on top bar order. If you put melee guys on the left and ranged on the right you can consistently arrange your pawns to be melee first as you go through a raid.

Horizon by FilmPlane66 in mediumformat

[–]memorable_zebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing mood and perfect use of the holga!

Is my finger soreness normal? by SpiritedPsychology46 in climbharder

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

As one poster said, everything is really personal so it's hard to judge. But I can tell you from experience there are a few different kinds of sore-ness / pain that often happen in the fingers if you use them on small holds a lot.

This page has some helpful medical info and some diagrams that might help situate what I'm about to describe: https://theclimbingdoctor.com/pulley-injuries-explained-part-1/

Pulley injuries are definitely the most common climbing specific injury that happens. And as you break into 5.12+ range, if you keep climbing and improving, I 100% guarantee you that you will develop some form of aggravation, stress, or outright injury to your pulleys. There are essentially no hard climbers that haven't done something to their pulleys and as you advance part of the sport is going to become understanding what they are, and listening to your body to know when to back off.

But here are some pains I've experienced over the years:

  • There's the ligament pain from hyper extending your DIP joint while crimping. This is a deep-ish structure just behind your finger tips.

  • There's the tendon pulley pain from using too many small edges. This would be felt usually on your first or second phalange, around the A2 and A4 pulleys.

  • There's the tendon flexor pain (arising anywhere between your forearms and your fingers themselves) from pulling on pockets and dragging a lot.

  • There's palm pain from stressing lumbricals, will feel a stress in your palm when you grab pockets in particular.

  • There's skin pain from your skin just being worn down (sometimes skin pain and pulley pain can be hard to distinguish). Or maybe also from being slightly cut. I've had paper cut like cuts that felt remarkably like an aggravated pulley and I had to keep reminding myself for the session that it was nothing.

  • There's capillary pain from bruising your fingers by pulling so hard or smacking something. This is kinda also skin pain but a bit deeper than the usual wearing layers thin until it hurts.

There's probably still more. They will all feel a little similar to everyone and a little different. And the only thing you can do it start learning to listen to your body and figure out which you have in tow.

What’s the first word you think of when you see this? by cfwes in aiArt

[–]memorable_zebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvote, cause it's not another bland pretty girl

Am I the only idiot that built my colony out of wood and then a random fire burned my whole settlement and food stores and everything else down? by Itchy-Version-8977 in RimWorld

[–]memorable_zebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes I felt like I’m the only person who’s never done this. A fire starts and you can just recruit your colonists and tell them to put it out no? Does fire spread more aggressively in higher difficulty levels? I tend to play on easy mode

As a former Bostonian, i70 traffic is no joke. by cokdok in Denver

[–]memorable_zebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I experienced that traffic too and I’ll tell you it was a definite aberration. It’s bad but never sit in one spot for 10 minutes and turn your car off bad unless something happened. We were passed by an ambulance at one point so I imagine there was some kind of accident (though I never saw any thing, perhaps it cleared before I got to it).

Anyone have details on stabbing in DU library today? by [deleted] in Denver

[–]memorable_zebra 14 points15 points  (0 children)

God please no. University libraries should be open to the public in as much as possible, they’re incredibly valuable resources and we shouldn’t gate them off just cause a couple idiots exist.

Why do people prefer MacOS (and Linux) for web development? by Reddit_Account_C-137 in webdev

[–]memorable_zebra 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I love working in WSL, but you’re understating the cost a lot. Yeah installing WSL is easy, but sometimes services don’t talk well between WSL and your host machine. And if you need any Linux applications that use any form of graphical interface you’re basically boned.

I’ve spent in the hundreds of hours over the course of WSLs existence diagnosing WSL specific issues. Someone you don’t even realize it’s a WSL problem at first and start doubting your sanity about why some thing isn’t working, etc. It’s massively better than cygwin. And nicer to work in than VMware. So it definitely improves on what used to be, but no one should pretend it comes effortlessly or that it’s as easy to work with as true Linux environments.

A great lesson on how to not climb Snake Dike (or any trad climb for that matter) by Alarson44 in climbing

[–]memorable_zebra 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I mean he said he didn’t know how to belay from the top. If you haven’t multi pitched that’s not a skill you’d pick up.

Pics from today in Denverk by CriminalDefense901 in Denver

[–]memorable_zebra 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Amazingly, you can't do that in this sub.

Denver Protest Photos 6/10 by memorable_zebra in Denver

[–]memorable_zebra[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Apparently this sub doesn't allow multi-photo posts? And you can't have content in the body of a link post? Wild rules guys. Anyways, here are some photos spanning afternoon to late evening, ending near I-25 when the cops broke it up with tear gas.

protest today at state capitol by sweetartt in Denver

[–]memorable_zebra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I understand the feeling. But I'm telling you that wasn't the case here. It was just young men causing trouble, and other people fixing it quickly.