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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by nunez »

jefftk wrote: post #62
chmod775 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made. Once you also add amenities like photochromic lenses, it quickly adds up.

> A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made. Zenni makes their glasses to order; what do you mean?

if you get the most basic lenses, the glasses are super cheap (since it costs almost nothing to make frames).

if you start adding features (like thinner lenses, or coatings), the price adds up quickly.

i usually spent $60-$120 per pair of glasses on Zenni.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by parentheses »

cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

yep. no more microfiber whatever and no “lens cleaner”. i discovered this a long time ago and i think it’s hilarious that others use such care to clean theirs.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by yesbabyyes »

dont__panic wrote: post #16
mynegation wrote: post #5

I switched to contact lenses (monthlies first and then to dailies) and I do not miss any of these cleaning rituals.

How long have you used contact lenses? I used contacts from 2005-2017 or so, eventually switched away because it was annoying when I couldn't just take a nap easily, my eyes dried out a lot when I use a computer all day for work, and contacts are not very bikepacking compatible. When I first switched to contacts, it was such a breath of fresh air, but I've been back to glasses for years now and have no desire to go b…

Not OP, but another data point. I have been wearing contacts since I was 16, in 1994, most of the time. I keep a pair of glasses and wear them occasionally (perhaps every couple month on average, or more rarely) for a few days or a week. First monthly lenses, then dailies for a long time. I got lazy and started to sleep with them for days/weeks, which is not to be recommended, but it's mostly worked fine. I've had an infection two or three times over the years.

They do get sticky sometimes, and I really have to blink to get started in the morning, or late nights

This summer I tried with contacts made to wear for up to a month without taking them out. When testing them out I learned I have also become astigmatic, which is a new experience; the contacts adjust in the eye to stay in the right angle, which makes mornings harder, as it takes a while for them to adjust. During daytime they mostly work well and I see much clearer now. However, I'm also getting older and these are now adjusted for seeing far, so for reading comfortably I'm going to need reading glasses/terminal glasses.

My old glasses are scratched pretty badly and the various coatings have rubbed off in the middle, which is pretty annoying. I mostly wear them for giving my eyes some rest (I have recently rediscovered how nice it can be too just remove them and not see anything) and because I really like the frames (Shuron Ronsir). They also have great looking clipons making them my favorite sunglasses.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by mmh0000 »

effingwewt wrote: post #105
mmh0000 wrote: post #20

This article describes way too much OCD and wasted time. Here's my solution: * Buy 4x pairs cheapish glasses from Zenni. * Beat the crap out of them. * Replace as needed.

I quite literally just got my first pair of glasses (bi-focals, no less!) yesterday, at the age of 41. This whole article and thread has been super helpful, but I have to say thanks so much for the Zenni tip! I was on that site all of 5 minutes before rushing to make an account. The pages are super easy to read and informative, they tell me instantly whether the frames can go with bifocals and whatnot. It even helped…

I've worn glasses most of my life. Back in my 20s, after I got my first good job, I paid for the $500-super-duper-fancy glasses. And, I can say they were higher quality than the $30 Zenni pair but not better enough to justify a >1000% markup. As someone else said further down, Zenni glasses have more chromatic abrasion; I've noticed this too. However, constantly babysitting glasses and worrying about scratching/breaking them is not worth the effort for slightly improved image quality at the far sides.

With that being said, I do pay for quality sunglasses. In my experience, Zenni sunglasses are lacking.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by Jasper_ »

dang wrote: post #109
teddyh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And sometimes titles are editorialized manually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861&p=2#31397151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638648#31643597

Those titles weren't editorialized. They were edited in keeping with HN's title rule, which calls for editing titles when they are either misleading or clickbait. I realize it's annoying when there's an edit that you don't agree with—and I would never claim that we get every case correct. But HN's overall approach to titles is one of the easiest things to defend about the entire site. It makes an enormous difference…

The title policy is fine, but I find it really weird that it's defended as "not editorializing" -- by your own admission, you edit titles to put your own spin on the article's contents, and focus on something different than what the original title wanted to focus on.

"Why I no longer recommend Julia" is a perfectly good title, it's prompting a question which the article will hopefully answer. Changing it to focus on correctness and composability bugs, rather than the bigger picture of why the author can't recommend the language, is putting your own spin, aka, editorializing. And that's fine! But you really should admit it, rather than crouching behind a weird defense.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dang »

Jasper_ wrote: post #115
dang wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those titles weren't editorialized. They were edited in keeping with HN's title rule, which calls for editing titles when they are either misleading or clickbait. I realize it's annoying when there's an edit that you don't agree with—and I would never claim that we get every case correct. But HN's overall approach to titles is one of the easiest things to defend about the entire site. It makes an enormous difference…

The title policy is fine, but I find it really weird that it's defended as "not editorializing" -- by your own admission, you edit titles to put your own spin on the article's contents, and focus on something different than what the original title wanted to focus on. "Why I no longer recommend Julia" is a perfectly good title, it's prompting a question which the article will hopefully answer. Changing it to focus on…

I'm happy to admit mistakes (and correct them!) but this is inaccurate. We don't edit titles to put our own personal spin on a topic, which is what the word editorializing means. We look closely at the article itself to find what it is actually saying. If we do replace a title, we replace it with representative language from the article itself wherever possible. This has been the case for a long time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

That does involve some interpretive judgment—because why pick one phrase rather than another—but less than you might think, because nearly every article has a point where the author says what they're actually writing about.

We never do this to convey an opinion of our own. We don't much care what people think or what an article says. We care whether the title accurately represents what the article is saying, and does so in a way that isn't baity, because that is the biggest influence on discussion quality.

The submission you guys are bringing up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861) illustrates the point. "Why I no longer recommend Julia" is a baity title, because it doesn't say anything specific about why. It's just a pointer that says "I boo Julia". "Boo $language" is for sure flamebait on this site.

Such titles generate threads that are just generic boo-vs.-yay ventings between people who like $thing and people who don't. The substantive points of the article are lost under such a title. This is not true on the original blog, because there the title is just the first sentence, and any comments show up only at the end. But it's definitely true on an internet forum where the title is the entire representation of the article for most readers and commenters.

For that reason, we chose to change the title, and for that we looked at the article (https://yuri.is/not-julia/) to find where it says what it is actually about—the "representative language" I mentioned above. This was not hard to find—it's in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th paragraphs of the OP. Particularly the 4th, which reads:

My conclusion after using Julia for many years is that there are too many correctness and composability bugs throughout the ecosystem to justify using it in just about any context where correctness matters.

That's the article's own summary of what it says, so we made it the title. Basically we followed the pointer and replaced it with what it points to.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by jsvaughan »

cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

this is it. also needs emphasis on getting a clean tea towel or equivalent out of the drawer, do not be tempted to use anything else.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by ornornor »

cornstalks wrote: post #24

The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…

That’s exactly my technique too. Except I wear rubber gloves because the dish soap makes my hands very dry otherwise.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by gorkish »

These rituals are pretty time consuming compared to my routine:

1) use a kimwipe 2) use another kimwipe if they are still foggy

Beyond this, throw them in an ultrasonic cleaner or the dishwasher if you want them shiny. Buying glasses that do not have an artificially overinflated price is quite liberating.

Edit: Gonna assume the salty downvote is because I said "ritual" isn't it? Heaven forbid that anyone else know about a convenient product purpose built for cleaning optics.

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