deadvoid

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by deadvoid 1y ago
i'm in post-production so lots of color spaces & monitorings. colorimeters drifted with age/usage, so annual check for the first two years or so is good enough but then gradually afterwards it's good practice to calibrate
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by deadvoid 1y ago
jesus fuck the whole discussion here is ptsd inducing... you need at least color accurate monitoring (including $25-30K calibrated monitor if you want to discuss rec2020-beyond) before judging if the output color looks "correct",
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by deadvoid 1y ago
as post production guy living outside US/EU, a decade or so ago i was surprised that colorimeter was supposed to be regularly calibrated by another, more expensive, device.
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by deadvoid 3y ago
> Interestingly, this led to a convergence with certain principles of modern web design. For instance, I counted out the total characters in a few full lines from the first edition of Hortus. They average roughly 35 to 45 characters acro
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by deadvoid 5y ago
Is it dying? I genuinely don't know.
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by deadvoid 5y ago
I just had a flash of epiphany, I think the main reason for Medium's popularity is it's viewed as just another social network, so a perception that if you use it then you'll have much (readily available) bigger audience than
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by deadvoid 5y ago
That is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.
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by deadvoid 5y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium. When it comes to the purpose of understanding why Medium is popular or why it haven't been replaced yet, imho the question tha
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by deadvoid 5y ago
No, I mean killer. An obvious, popular choice for replacing whatever Medium offered.
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by deadvoid 5y ago
> Does there need to be? Result from https://hn.algolia.com/?q=medium seems like a _yes_ to me. I also notice that lots of data science people for example is still oblivious that many despises Medium, so they continue to
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Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
27 points by deadvoid 5y ago|33 comments