GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 5 days ago:
Ive thought of it. Probably going to do sunglasses first, t’hough. Or rather second, after my single vision safety glasses.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 5 days ago:
Yeah, but that isn’t a one-time cost, either. That’s a recurring cost, typically on a biannual basis, and usually much higher than the monthly subscription. That said, being able to walk out with something that is going to reliably work for the next couple years definitely has its benefits. Ive just never considered something with a definite lifespan and a requirement to replace as a one-time cost. Kind of like the difference between paying property taxes monthly or yearly - I’m still paying and it isn’t going to stop.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 5 days ago:
21 years with the same frames?
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 5 days ago:
I have a pair on right now. They’re better than not seeing correctly, but only being able to focus on a computer screen with less than a third of your vertical field of view sucks. There are options, but one of the best is having more sets of glasses, which isn’t convenient or cheap. These could solve that. I’m sure Amazon will make it not worth it at some point, though.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 5 days ago:
If you think glasses are a one-time cost, I feel like you’ve never worn glasses. I had 10 years in my life where my vision didn’t change, and now I need bifocals/progressives. Given the nature of the condition, I expect to have to get new prescriptions every 2 to 4 years until I die or go blind.
That said, the rest of your comment is quite likely painfully true, especially if Amazon has their fingers in it.
- Comment on Woops 1 week ago:
English has at least 5 (French, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, doubtless more) and it’s up to the user to know which is used in any given context. Or not. It’s really kind of stupid.
- Comment on I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living. 2 weeks ago:
Not even jeans, or discussing not pooping. Then again, that last one seems to be off base for this sub, too…
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 2 weeks ago:
This was sold by Foveon, which had some interesting differences. The sensors were layered which, among other things, meant that the optical effect of moire patterns didn’t occur on them.
- Comment on We all have those dreams 2 weeks ago:
Did your dream self say, “At least it isn’t InstaCart”?
- Comment on We all have those dreams 2 weeks ago:
Part of how scissors are design is for there to be a natural tendency to pull the blades together when you press with your thumb.
On a reladed note, if you’re left-handed, get a pair of left-handed scissors. There are two reasons for this. First, you will be amazed at how much easier it is to cut with the correct scissors. Second, you can have your friends who don’t think having the correct scissors is a big deal try them and see how wrong they are.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’m in Canada, so the standards are already higher as far as quality goes, and our regulatory agency is still in place for oversight.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Option number 4. The sanitary standards for packaging milk are very high in North America. This drastically reduces the risk of contamination after pasteurization, which allows our milk to last quite a while. It isn’t as sterile as UHT milk, but it tastes more natural.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
They had milk in 1.3 L bags (sold in packs of 3 for 4 L) in Manitoba about 35 or 40 years ago.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t appear to be made by the people from either the Raspberry Pi Foundation or Raspberry Pi Holdings.
- Comment on How much earth would compress and expand if all of it was 50°C 2 weeks ago:
Given the quaint physics of circles, the expansion of a ring of silicate around the earth would be quite noticeable. C = 2×pi×r, which can be converted to r = C/(2×pi). Plugging in those two values gives us
40000/(2×pi) = 6366.1977 km
40008/(2×pi) = 6367.4710 km
So, taking this ring from 0° to 50° would cause it to rise 1.2 km into the air, assuming it kept its integrity.
A simpler way to write this is
(40008 - 40000)/(2×pi) or 4×pi.
A tiny difference, relatively speaking, but a quite notable difference given the context.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia lists about 5 other uses, some of which would probably still be relevant today if we didn’t have cheaper ways to make perfume. Silly wise men, giving expensive, light, easily liquidated assets to people they believed were going to be fugitives. As well as some much heavier, but very easily liquidated assets. Poorest choices imaginable.
- Comment on new trend 3 weeks ago:
And more approachable! All the chimps have access to assholes and grass. No one has to feel left out, as long as they leave it in!
- Comment on Which of frankincense and myhrr is more pricey? What even are they, respectively? 3 weeks ago:
Myhrr was also used in incense, balms, etc. They were great gifts for anyone for the reasons you listed, especially during a time when people of that nationality had been ordered to travel possibly great distances and you believed the people you were giving the gifts to would be fugitives.
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d hope ancient enmities wouldn’t lead to modern problems, but it’s funny watching some people treating the indigenous people’s like a single entity, or like there weren’t fights between groups.
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 3 weeks ago:
…that will start some fights…
- Comment on What adult dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair? 3 weeks ago:
I doubt I’ll ever be bald, although I expect I’ll be pretty thin in my 70s and later, and I haven’t really cared one way or another about baldness. I got my first grey hair in my teens and it hasn’t stopped, and I don’t care too much about that, either (it was cool when I had the flashes of grey above my ears like Reed Richards in the old comics, which I thought looked so fake). My beard is shit, and I don’t care. I shave because it looks like shit, tho. It’s great if we can accept what we are.
I’m glad you’re happy with your skullet and epic beard.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Bad setup isn’t a reason why something is a bad idea. Whatever your opinions of cars are, talking about how bad they would be if everyone drove drunk doesn’t really prove your point.
In any security system, and this should also apply to home automation, one of the things you have to account for is failure. If you don’t have a graceful failure mode, you will have a bad time. And context matters. If my security system fails at home, defaulting to unlocked doors makes sense, especially if it’s due to an emergency like a fire. If the security system in a virology lab fails, you probably don’t want all the doors unlocked, and you may decide to have none of the doors unlocked, because the consequences of having the doors unlocked is greater than having them locked. Likewise, but of a much less serious nature, if your home automation fails, you should have some way of controlling the lights. If you don’t, again, it hasn’t failed gracefully.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 3 weeks ago:
You’re still not getting it. A proper smart home will know when you want certain things. You’re going into the bathroom to get ready for work, the lights are programmed for full intensity. In the middle of your sleep period, they go to the pre-programmed dim mode. And most rooms will be used in certain ways, as defined by you. If you’re in the living room and turn the TV on the lights dim, because that’s what you told it to do. You have an EV to charge, it knows how much time your EV needs to charge and how much electricity costs you during certain periods. So you plug the car in and it charges it when you want it to so you are ready when it’s time to go to work. This is where smart homes start to shine - they do all the usual things you would do if they weren’t so complicated and all the default things you would normally do, and you just live your life and deal with the exceptions as needed. If you use a room 3 different ways, you set up those 3 different ways and make the typical one your default. Now you’re back to exceptions. And the more rules you have to how you do things, the better it works for you. And most people have a preferred way they want things, modified by how much it takes to get there and other circumstances. With the right sensors, timers, etc., most of those can be accounted for.
So maybe you start with lights turning on when you enter the room, but if you do it right you get to the point where you barely think about lights at all - they’re just how you want them to be. Why would you not want that? However little effort lights take to manage, why do you want them to take any effort at all? And there are many more things than lights, some of which just make life easier, or more comfortable, or cheaper, all of which are good reasons to want this.
- Comment on How do I deal with the outside world when I have germaphobia and don't really like outside? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact, copper, brass, and silver are anti-microbial, so a lot of old-time door handles were anti-microbial. Odd coincidence, isn’t it?
- Comment on Jealous much? 3 weeks ago:
Quality post!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
😅 All good. About 10% of people think cilantro tastes weird, and describe it differently from those who like it, often saying it tastes like soap. I’m in that category, and it’s probably genetic.
I was a little surprised by the down votes, and honestly don’t care if other people like it (don’t really care about the downvotes, either). I’m more concerned about the people who say it tastes like soap and still want to eat it. And I miss the fuck cilantro subreddit.
- Comment on Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con — As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in advance to event 3 weeks ago:
If they ramp up production and the bottom falls out of AI, they could be left with large product reserves, and people may still be reluctant to buy. One way to increase demand is to lower prices. Now, if they are the only company in this position, things may not change much. But if more than one are, the other can supply the market at a price that’s acceptable to them and the consumers.
Or those companies can collude and just completely fuck over customers. But that would never happen, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I can’t think of a better reason to not like something than a genetic quirk, but apparently others disagree. That’s okay, I can accept that the majority is wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Looks okay, but #FuckCilantro
- Comment on Beans aswell 3 weeks ago:
Voyager needs to support this. It will be beautiful.
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