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At my local depot they allow you to see what the item is before you decide to pay or not.

Yes they are that expensive (although I didn't pay anything for them). The price you paid is definitely more typical. I adapted to mine quickly too I just don't like them very much.

Progressive's are the highest margin lens for both the retail store and the manufacturers (Essilor, Zeiss, Hoya, Rodenstock, etc). By putting a fancy curve on the back of a lens a $1 piece of plastic is transformed into a $500 piece of plastic. There is a lot of pressure to sell progressives. Without the high margins on progressive lenses many optical retail stores would not make a profit.

Progressives are fine as long as they aren't being sold as a lens for all situations. For example a lens that would be good for driving or playing golf (using mostly distance vision) would be terrible for sitting at a desk (using mostly the reading area). Depending on your lifestyle there may or may not be a design available that is less annoying than just changing glasses. Bifocals are even more limited in this respect. This trade-off is not related at all to the issue of adaptation which is something else.

So the first question you have to ask is if having both a distance and reading Rx in the same lens is something that is better for you compared to separate distance and reading glasses. My monitors are at head height so simple reading glasses are the best solution for me when working at my desk. If I wore progressives with this setup I would have to tilt my head back in order to view my monitors through the reading area of the lens which is at the bottom of the lens. If I instead worked on a notebook computer all day, looking down at a screen, then viewing that screen through the reading area of my glasses wouldn't be a problem.

I'm currently wearing a pair of fancy fully personalised progressives that retail for £2000 a pair but I still use some cheapish reading glasses for working at my desk. However to be fair to the progressives I adapted to them just about instantly; the design just wasn't suited for reading for long periods of time.

The adaptation issue is another issue and another thing you should consider. Adaptation refers to the ability to become accustomed to the distortion that often exists at the edges of progressive lenses. They can make you feel a bit dizzy when you first wear them. The general rule of thumb is that if you have a small "add" then it will be easy to adapt to them but if you have a large add it may be difficult.

If your add is small now and don't see the point of progressives but are thinking of trying them later as your near vision deteriorates you may want to consider starting on them early just to make it easier to adapt to them later. Otherwise you might get stuck with bifocals which make you look old.

Anyway if I had to boil that advice down to just a few quick points I'd say:

- If you're planning on using the glasses just for working at a desk then I would just get reading glasses (that also correct your astigmatism).

- For other situations where you need both distance and reading then progressives can be nice.

- If you're not quite sure about progressives but think you'll definitely want them later in life then it is better to start on them now.

- If you're buying online I would only get single vision lenses. To get a nice fit for progressives you need to get a bunch of stuff measured that doesn't get put on your prescription.

The Mercedes "Smart" car has been around since the late 90's.

>Spain, Italy, Greece are similar to France in that they are condescending towards non-native speakers.

I've spent quite a lot of time in Spain and I've never felt that but it's possible that I just didn't notice. The same in Italy although I've only spent 3 or 4 weeks there in total. However it has never occurred to me to think of Paris as unfriendly either which seems to contradict the experience of most other people, so maybe I'm just oblivious to that sort of thing.

Crying about "whataboutism" is just a cheap rhetorical technique employed to deflect attention away from accusations of hypocrisy. It's the last refuge of the hypocrite especially when it comes to discussing politics. Unfortunately it seems to be a rather effective rhetorical device in that it tends to terminate discussions while allowing the wielder to disappear in a puff of smoke.

Dell G3223Q

32 inch, 4k, 144hz, HDR, HDMI 2.1, About $700. I have one and I'm really happy with it.

I understand your sentiment and I agree with you, but at the same time if we, as a community and as a society, are incapable of caring about the principles and philosophy behind free software because the websites aren't cool enough, then we (as a community or society) will ultimately deserve whatever dystopian fate awaits us.

Try the Rustlings course or the interactive version of the rust book.

https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu

We’ve been using an Epson eco tank at work, daily, for a few years now and it works great. The ink seems to last forever.

Only nuisance is that the nozzles sometimes get a bit clogged up but that’s pretty easily fixed.

Even so I’ll never go back to a normal inkjet ever.

It would have read a lot nicer with the semicolon and also if “that” were changed to “this”

HN, BBC, Guardian, and Zerohedge.

I used to read Stratfor in the late 90’s but thought that the intellectually honesty of the dropped off by the early 2000’s. Anyway I’ll give it another try, it used to be one of my favourite sites.

You misread the comment you responded to; OP agrees with you.

> without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe.

There should be a comma between “fundamentals” and “that”

> If cybersecurity was that easy, we wouldn't have so many examples of businesses getting it wrong.

There are almost no consequences for anyone working at a business that gets it wrong.

The consequences for being a nonce are quite severe so the motivation to get it right will be quite high.

Apple at one point had a web framework called WebObjects and I think portions of the site still use it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Le...

We had a black bird try this with our cat a few weeks ago to protect a fledgling in our garden.

I would be more inclined to call the behaviour brave and desperate rather than smart because it doesn’t always work out well for the birds.

I think Sublime Text does a good job of being both good and cross platform.

But yes I also remember the days when lots of software just didn’t exist for macOS and I was thankful for a webtech version.

Electron’s bloat and power consumption wouldn’t bother me so much if the performance was actually good on a fast machine. But the experience is awful compared to a native app.

I know but even so to classify it as a cake rather than a crisp is absurd.

P&G was able to argue in court that Pringles are a type of cake rather than a type of potato chip (crisp in the UK) which means VAT doesn’t apply to them. In the UK cake is sold free of VAT.

I guess my point is that there is clearly a precedent for success by doing this sort of thing. Unfortunately.

I’ve had to speak to HMRC quite a lot in the past couple years regarding VAT and PAYE issues and I almost always get through to a knowledgable and helpful person.

The waiting time on hold seems to have gone up since covid though. The last few times I’ve called the wait has been between 30 minutes and an hour when before covid the wait was normally less than five minutes.

I did once speak to someone that was quite hostile and unhelpful but after I finished the call I immediately called back and the person who picked up the phone was much more helpful.

However whenever I’ve had to call for personal matters it’s been a bit more hit and miss.

Alcohol is often lovingly referred to as a social lubricant. While some people (such as yourself apparently) have great social skills out of the box others like myself occasionally require the help of some Dutch courage when acting outside of our comfort zone and I think it is unfair to judge us so harshly for it.

What you need is a freight forwarder. You may not get a particularly good rate or exceptional service for a one time job like this. If you've got any acquaintances that import or export things I would ask them to recommend you a forwarder.

In order to give you a quote they will need the weight and dimensions of what you are shipping, the pickup and delivery address, a packing list, and a commercial invoice stating what each item is and what it's worth. You've also got to think about how you will load everything. Your options are lifting by hand, using a forklift, or you'll need a truck that has a tail-lift. If you've got all this information beforehand it will make things easier.

If you're putting thing's in a crate like another poster suggests then you'll have to make sure the crate is heat-treated and has the appropriate stamp on it.

We just shipped something at work from the UK to the West Coast of the USA (sea-freight) and it cost about US$1700. It was a crate of about 1 cubic meter and weight about 350kg. This was door-to-port not door-to-door though.

>Smartphones existed before the iPhone. PC laptops existed before MacBooks.

You make a good point and I'd like to add to it. What is interesting is that all modern phone design grew out of the designs of the original iPhone and all modern laptops grew out of the design of the original Powerbook. If you scroll down on the second link below you'll see that the Powerbook is the first one that looks like a modern laptop.

https://www.cultofmac.com/145083/what-phones-looked-like-bef...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops

The 3D FaceTime with eye contact could end up being the killer app.

I switched to Colemak "cold turkey" last year and I couldn't be happier now that the transition is complete. I too never got as fast as I did with qwerty but it's so much more comfortable that I don't care.

I probably made a mistake by not practising typing much on places like keybr.com and about three months in I was starting to think that I had made a horrible mistake because at that point I was slow at both qwerty and colemak but by six months I was totally happy that I stuck with it.

I didn't struggle much with keybindings but I did end up creating an alias cs='cd'. In terms of using other computers I got a programmable mechanical keyboard or I just hunt and peck in qwerty now.

I’ve never quite found anything that stuck but I’m having a good run with Emacs and Org.

I’ve bound an AppleScript to f3 that copies a link to the currently selected email in mail.app. Being able to link to mail.app from org is pretty cool. The links still work even if the message gets archived or moved to a different mailbox.

This has allowed me to keep track of everything in org.

However if I’m really busy I just use a sheet of paper and a pen and make a plan for what I want to complete that day.

You regularly attend dinners where alcohol isn’t served?

Or is the bringing something part that contradicts your experience?

As far as I can tell in the latin part of Europe I think it's well understood that if you invite people to a restaurant for dinner it means that you will be paying (especially if the word invite is used).

In the UK it depends on the background of people, and language would also make a difference.

"Do you all want to grab some dinner" is different to "I'd like to invite you all out to dinner"

>But that's still no expected from the host unless explicitly verbalized with the invitation.

In Europe there would definitely be an expectation that alcohol would be provided (although perhaps not all of the alcohol depending on various factors). It would also be expected that guests bring a bottle of wine or flowers or something to that effect. That small gift should be separate to any alcohol brought for the purposes of consumption on the evening.