Seen it all, miss it dearly. RIP Edd

Source is here if you want it to feel more open source by building it yourself. See if you can do it for cheaper after factoring in your labour time.

They have two EPs right now and I’m quite a fan of both. If you liked that one, definitely check out the rest of their discography

But my electric kettle only cost me $10

Not all plastics are made equal. Two different 1.5 or 1.6 index plastics from different manufacturers will have different scratch resistance as well as different levels of aberration depending on how good their materials science is.

All plastic is softer than glass, yes, which is why any plastic lens you get has a hardcoat to reduce scratching and if it is from a quality lab, a scratch/antireflective coat as well.

If you’ve never had plastic lenses last very long, where you are sourcing them from is using inferior quality plastics with whichever lab partner they use. That or you a) leave them in a hot car and the heat damages them b) constantly leave them lens-face down on the table

But I have had people with very stable prescriptions keep plastic lenses in good condition for 15-20 years in extreme cases.

Laminated glass treatments may be used, but because they cause problems with the cutting machinery it is far more common in optical glass lenses to see chemical or heat treating. If these are done well, they can be quite resistant to shattering. This, however, really comes down to the individual skill of the person treating your lens and I’ve seen enough damaged eyes to be wary of them.

Another reason many labs have moved away from mineral lenses entirely is that they shatter when being cut to shape for your glasses, posing greater risk to the one doing the edging and significantly greater cost to the lab. Depending on the complexity of prescription they may shatter up to 3 or 4 times before one cuts properly into shape.

To add onto this, if you are using progressive glasses, you are certainly getting an inferior product as no lab I’m familiar with puts their new progressive designs into mineral. The majority only have designs from 15-20 years ago with terrible intermediate segments.

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My favourite “obscure” artist right now is a Vancouver band called Slightest Clue. Post/Punk alternative group.

https://youtu.be/i_wSb2B6h-Q

Quality plastic lenses can last that long. Often being able to keep glasses that long depends most on the stability of your prescription, and not going for bottom of the barrel coatings.

Glass lenses are harder to scratch, but are heavier for the same prescription and if you get hit in the face can shatter into shards that are quite damaging to the eyes.

If getting hit in the face is not a risk for you and you dont mind the extra weight go for it, but it’s worth noting there are some downsides as well.

Yeah, AZW3 was the format I was thinking of. For things purchased from the amazon store for the kindle they will be in that format. If you want to move your amazon books library elsewhere you have to use some funky plugins for calibre to convert them to a standard format like mobi or epub

My understanding is they arent mobi files anymore but a proprietary DRM format. That being said, there are many wonderful calibre plugins that break the drm.

All I can think of is the valve staff member who is famous for DOTA 2 balancing goes by the handle IceFrog

Voice & screensharing seems to be the thing holding all of my friends chained to discord

It appears to! I found a review for it on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Controller/comments/1c2gbm8/8bitdo_pro_2_with_hall_effect_detailed_technical/

My current favourite controllers for the price is the 8bitdo Ultimate C2. They come with hall effect joysticks so no drift, theyre light and responsive, and they’re compatible with all consoles and operating systems that I am aware of. The 8bitdo ultimate is xbox-style joystick configuration, but the Pro2 by them is playstation style and to my understanding is of similar quality. Just make sure you get the hall effect variant to avoid potential future stick drift

I will concede that. The original comment was an oversimplification

My mans knife attacks are the primary deadly assault weapon used basically anywhere else on earth that you cant get guns from vending machines. I know that is hyperbole, but only just.

I mean, for discharging your firearm in an enclosed space with tons of people around? Yeah, I definitely would consider the police at fault. Should the guy with the knife have been persued once it was revealed he was armed? Sure, I can accept that. But what I do not accept is that the police seem to, despite the absurd modern toolkit at their disposal, only have two tools they actually use: their taser and their gun.

Why is it that seemingly anywhere else a knife-wielding assailant can be subdued without blood being drawn, but here it results in several people suffering life threatening injuries and one dead?

Kagi actually does an interesting implementation for their search summary and while not perfect, it is miles better than the alternatives in my experience. It uses a combination of anthropic’s claude for language processing as well as incorporates wolfram alpha for stuff that needs numerical accuracy. Compared to google AI or copilot I’ve been seeing good results.

While it isn’t perfect at summarizing, I’ve found their implementation to be “good enough”, and it can summarize pieces near instantly, which I think is the place where it actually becomes useful. Humans may be better, but I dont have the money or time to pay a human to summarize pages for me to see if they’re going to be useful to delve further into.

Look he’s only a dog okay give him a break

My money’s on bigger