Art Delano @ardgedee@octodon.social

@photopuck Unfortunately it's not a safe that anybody makes yet. In fact the means to make that metaphorical safe does not exist yet. And there should be concerns that the radical reengineering necessary to create a safe that works as well as the safes we're used to will not themselves have even worse vulnerabilities due to not having a couple decades of progressive hardening engineered in.

@MightyBigCar Now that I have arguably a place of my own, I've slowly been digging through the boxes of parts-of-things that've accumulated, and sorting them into smaller bins, permanently labeled and permanently located.

It's been a great success with everything I haven't needed since moving here. Everything I have needed has been repurchased, of course.

A bag of cheap wristwatch spring bars in different sizes costs more than the exact pair I need, but less than three exact pairs.

Two bags of cheap wristwatch spring bars in different sizes costs more than the lifetime supply of spring bars I am likely to need, but I lost the first bag somehow.

Top things of the year, 2017

Best hobby: Building keyboards kits with circuit boards and arduino microcontrollers, for which keymaps are config files and key activity is managed like shell scripll s456844fuck52

@fobo This is why they still make Pignose amps: Volume is not tone.

@CobaltVelvet Usually format-type matters less to me than information design. Wikis are only useful if you have custodians doing a good job with information hierarchies. Knowledgebases are only useful if custodians are doing a good job with information hierarchies *and* keywording.

Basically, if the info isn't findable, the tool doesn't matter. If the info is findable, problem solved.

"A soft electronic hum still permeates the atmosphere."

This year's Christmas soundtrack:
Low: Christmas
Fuxa: Venoy: Bliss Out v.5
Philip Glass: Einstein On the Beach
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Random Chinese pop music at the Dim Sum place

@photopuck I endorse spending on two pairs of good-looking good-quality frames and getting them re-lensed forever. More money up-front but it's money you never have to spend again.

What constitutes "good-looking" is personal. What constitutes "good-quality" requires more than can fit in the margins of this toot.

@photopuck Some family members developed myopia, cataracts, etc. but only to typical extents and at typical ages. I lost some dice rolls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@photopuck Huh. G4U was the one I had good luck with.

Had to order mineral glass to get my scrip filled by them, maybe that meant a different shop did the grinding.

The frames were amazing, though. High copper or brass content in the metal so they turned green and bloomed everywhere the (very thin) plating wore off, threading for screw holes were smoothed in no time flat; fortunately to the same diameter as paperclip wire.

@photopuck Which disappointing eyeglass company did you use? I'm curious...

I've had good luck with the optics (but not the frames) at one of the Pakistani eyeglass sites, but that was over half a dozen years ago; they're still around but their prices and options have changed a lot, wouldn't be surprised if there's a qualitative shift too.

@photopuck I have no choice w/r/t progressive lenses. Post-cataract surgery, eyeglasses are the only way to control focal depth.

Will get some single-vision lenses for workbench, the only time I'm working exclusively in closeup. Aside from that, even my reading glasses have to be bifocal/progressive from now until forever.

I depend on an optician in town for my primary glasses. Their prices are reasonable for flawless work. But I need a *lot* of glasses and have to save money where I can.

@CobaltVelvet I have to pay bills to a certain utility whose credit card field intercepts arrow key input to increment/decrement the number.

@photopuck All my glasses (incl. reading glasses) have to have progressive lenses, so they cost 5-10x base price at the online stores. My scrip will run over $200 w/coatings at optical4less (I've used them before, they do good work).

At RLE, same scrip and name-brand lenses w/coatings will be $170-ish.

Some Pakistani and Chinese stores will run my scrip in the $80-150 range. Frames are mostly very poor quality. End-of-year BOGO sales tho: I might get some backups and try not to be seen in them

@photopuck fwiw, if you have some favorite old frames that're still in good shape, you can get better bang-for-buck by re-lensing them.

Not necessarily cheaper, but it allows you better-
quality glass for about the price of frames + generic glass elsewhere. This also opens up the options for lens coatings.

I'm thinking of doing this to get photograde lenses, since cheap PG is worse than useless and good PG is 💸💸💸

This site is interesting... there are others, too...
http://www.replacementlensexpress.com/

@thatdawnperson @photopuck Anyway yeah, a sort group of "men", "women", and "child" is not inappropriate, but labeling that group "gender" is very inappropriate.

Or at least it begs the "child" category to be subdivided into "girls" and "boys".

@thatdawnperson @photopuck Nominal "women's" glasses often fit me better than "men's" because I have a narrow head combined with a large-ish Northern European's nose. "Women" and "men" are subjective rather than objective qualities, and should be a search parameter that behaves the same way as color and shape.

I became obsessive about glasses as my eyes got bad enough to limit the types of frames I could wear. I have very strong opinions about eyeglass frames, let me show you them... 👓

Why doesn't genius.com have Einstein At the Beach? I had thought there would be a lot to say about it.

@waider Experienced that many times... when the org has written docs. Usually it's worse: Essential documentation is still assumed to be safest stored in SMEs' heads.

On the upside, within a closed org there is at least an authority reference, albeit in the form of a person available to be bothered.

On the downside: Vacations and layoffs.