mint_tamas

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There is no lack of competition. They are just bad in obvious ways. I’m not saying it’s easy to take on a giant like Steam, but Epic for example is exactly the kind of company and amount of money that could. They didn’t, and it’s not because of the library effect. They simply went with the seemingly easiest way: pissing money on the problem (securing timed exclusives and free games). There is so much they could do to make the client and their service better, but they don’t. So no, it’s not a monopoly.

Yeah it’s a struggle. But it gets easier. It might help to break the ice if you start asking people for portraits. In general, people might ask where pictures might show up, so it helps if you have a good answer for that (regardless of candid shot or not).

50mm is generally a little tight for classic street photography, but it’s fine to get started (27 to 35mm is the sweet spot). People will argue endlessly what counts as street photography, even though it has a clear definition: candid moments on the street involving people. A cityscape or car is not street. Two people laughing at each other is street. A closeup of an interesting face is street. A person aware of being photographed, posing for the camera, shot with a blurry background is a street portrait. Get close (your 50mm makes this a bit more comfortable, but you get a different look). You generally want at least f/5.6, but ideally tighter aperture so you get most things sharp. Good luck!

on Moans · c/memes · 12 pts · 1y

Have you read the comment you are replying to, be honest

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 19 pts · 1y

The weirdest thing about switching to kagi was learning that the first few results have a good chance of being relevant. I got so used to scrolling down after a search. It was just weird to have the useful results on top. Similarly, learning that search syntax is actually meaningful and respected by the search engine (for the majority of cases).

It is also absolutely 100% BS investor-bait. At this point it should be obvious that we have reached just about the peak of what LLMs can do. And it’s notably not Google’s Gemini even - other models are generally better. For AGI to be feasible, there should be a paradigm shift, which is not a function of more work hours.