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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by sgt »

Groxx wrote: post #328
sgt wrote: post #315

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It's strange. I have a high index but ... seeing rainbows? I can't relate to this. Why is that? For me, only blue LED'e shift slightly,

It's worse with stronger prescriptions, if that explains anything. And it has in general gotten a lot better in the past 10-20 years or so, so if you're looking through a current pair it may be quite different. Currently, if I look at any sharp contrast edge in daylight and turn my head a few degrees, it'll be lightly fringed by either blue or orange. In the dark with a three-color RGB LED projecting "white" (rather…

Have you tried contact lenses? I wouldn't mind, but I can't focus properly and read with contact lenses. With normal glasses that's never an issue.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dang »

teddyh wrote: post #330
dang wrote: post #329

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Sorry for the delay in replying. I think you have a stronger case about that example. Most likely we changed the title to make it less baity—"In Defense of" doesn't really add much information except "Fight", and that's a bad way to prime a thread. Having now read more of the article, though, I agree with you that the title edit changed the focus in a misleading way. I've changed it back now. Maybe "The simplicity of…

> Most likely we changed the title to make it less baity—"In Defense of" doesn't really add much information except "Fight", and that's a bad way to prime a thread. Such words also signals value , since they signal that someone has something significant to contribute to the conversation. For an extensive discussion about how such words signal value, see Larry McEnerney’s lecture The Craft of Writing Effectively : htt…

> The benefits of simplicity in OpenStreetMap's data model

That would have been a great edit. I won't bother doing it now since it's too late to matter, but if you come up with any of those in the future, I'd love to hear about them.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by Groxx »

sgt wrote: post #331
Groxx wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worse with stronger prescriptions, if that explains anything. And it has in general gotten a lot better in the past 10-20 years or so, so if you're looking through a current pair it may be quite different. Currently, if I look at any sharp contrast edge in daylight and turn my head a few degrees, it'll be lightly fringed by either blue or orange. In the dark with a three-color RGB LED projecting "white" (rather…

Have you tried contact lenses? I wouldn't mind, but I can't focus properly and read with contact lenses. With normal glasses that's never an issue.

They consistently glue themselves to my eye if I don't use eye drops literally every single hour. Miss it once and it might take a half hour to loosen and peel them off.

Not really an option unfortunately, my eyes are apparently too dry.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by makach »

lostlogin wrote: post #189
makach wrote: post #188

Don’t ever use any form of paper. I saw my optician get ready to clean my new subscription glasses with the type of paper towel that you use to dry your hands with - I didn’t scream at her, but yelped so that she stopped what she was about to be doing.

> subscription glasses Is this a thing, or a typo of prescription? Subscriptions would be very helpful when you have children with glasses. Probably ludicrously expensive though.

It is a thing. Like with phones you can pay a monthly fee and renew your glasses every year.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by btbuildem »

OP sounds a little.. intense, but hey. As long as they're not hurting anyone.

Since we're talking about eyewear care -- here's my approach. I have spray bottle of water, rubbing alcohol and dish soap (mostly water). This gets off any but the most stubborn grime and grease rainbows. Couple of spritzes then a wipe with a soft clean cloth.

(The original use for the spray bottle was to kill house flies, it's extremely effective)

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