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> *Feature requires 5G Wi-Fi or mobile data and minimum ambient temperature condition of at least 5°C. Performance varies based on user location, device battery, temperature, Internet connectivity and interference from other devices, and many other factors.
Connection is understandable (although in some cases 4G will actually be faster). But that temperature requirement for operation is actually quite strict. Any idea why that might be?
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You can definitely go to a mall and get ray bans with solid barrel hinges
You can't. They were only available on the original Ray-Bans before they sold out to Luxottica.
https://www.ray-ban.com/eu/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20orig...
Don't wear these around me.
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First of all, nobody (certainly not me) is "yelling." I find the way you wrote this response a bit telling, and that sort of thing actually detracts from your ability to persuade. I'd freely grant your point about the zyl. But the rest of your response is somewhat motte-and-bailey fallacy to me. For instance, I never maintained that there are "low quality plastic lens blanks." What I was getting at is that for a lot…
I find both comments pretty insightful and have a hard time disagreeing with either. It's nice that the poster you're replying to has deep knowledge about these glasses, but it doesn't actually change the way you feel about a sturdier-feeling product. And, sure, maybe you treat them really carefully, but the fact that they're 40 years old at least proves SOMETHING about them. Sometimes things that "feel" high-quality…
This is the entire basis of Beats putting chunks of shitty iron in their headphones. It does absolutely nothing for the audio quality, but it makes them feel heavier and therefore people will swear up and down they are of better quality.
Part of being an intelligent person I feel is recognizing your own limitations, biases and failings. I am a very smart person, and I feel most people who know me would agree. But I am smart about particular things. I know a lot about my field of programming and I'm well educated in the software I make, and I know a lot about web development in a bit of an old school way (was educated formally awhile back, and while I can still sling PHP and use SQL with the best, I don't know nearly as much about newer frameworks and ways of doing things.) And while I'm proud of all that, it doesn't mean I know shitfuck about anything else.
I think a good part of what makes people intelligent is knowing what they know, knowing what they don't know, and being open to finding out if they need or want to from people who do know.
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You're missing the point. Corrective lenses have thickness. For the frames that use magnets to add a sunglass layer, they only work because it can go on the outside, with the lens already set in the frame at the right distance from the eyes/lashes. It just wouldn't work in reverse, to take a sunglass lens at the right distance and snap something in behind it. You'd get oily lash streaks all over the corrective layer…
No man. Look. Take a pair of glasses. Attach sunglasses to them. Move the bows from the glasses to the sunglasses. The geometry of the glasses or frames don’t matter, it’s whether there’s enough distance from the eye. My glasses have almost always sat proud of the frames. And there’s plenty of distance behind them. (I’ve had sunglasses that brush my eyelashes though, when I was young and they were cheap, and that bug…
You might have to clip them to the backside to get it all to work out.
And what does "Move the bows from the glasses to the sunglasses" even mean? Bows?
You can't take a glasses frame that is designed to be worn at a normal distance from the eye and then clip something to the back side of it, between the original lens and your eye. There's not enough space to add a corrective lens back there.
Even if there were, it's still unfeasible, because the part you have to take off is the smart part or the tinted part not the prescription part.
Never mind that it's only a rounding error of people who are willing to carry around a clip-on layer either, because it requires nearly as much protection as a full pair of glasses to avoid breaking it.
Making the prescription part the clipping part is inane on every level. Nothing about it works.
> Live-stream* > *Feature requires 5G Wi-Fi or mobile data and minimum ambient temperature condition of at least 5°C. Performance varies based on user location, device battery, temperature, Internet connectivity and interference from other devices, and many other factors. Connection is understandable (although in some cases 4G will actually be faster). But that temperature requirement for operation is actually quite…
Depending on the construction of the device you can rely on the heat from doing that work to warm the battery up so not so bad (think your smart phone, which also spends most of its time in your pocket while outdoors so doesn’t get “that cold” to begin with), these glasses could have their battery further away from the electronics (thinking out loud prob battery in one arm, electronics in the other) and are probably more prone to be uninsulated form the elements while out and about.
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I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…
Now your glasses will be able to get covered in oil and grease!
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As it should be. I am not comfortable with the idea that creeps are just walking around taking photos of me or my family.
Are we forgetting that we live in cities with cameras literally everywhere? Where arguably the real creeps (cops and random security people) are actively watching you all the time. I get it, if a person takes out his phone to do this it feels more intrusive (if it is or not is up for debate), but let's not kid ourselves here: we're already being recorded at almost all times (at least in most cities).
This knee-jerk attempt to annul judgment has been so heavily bred into online discussions, since roughly 2018.
Our current state of recording is not a counter argument to the concept, it's a stating of the facts.
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If I were working for the Zuckborg, I wonder how I could make these things socially acceptable. Host an event with A-list beautiful people and pay them to wear these things and post all over social media, to make the glasses be desirable for the influencable? Though not many celebs might want to be associated with the Zuckborg, nowadays.
Like the college student at open mic night who can't sing but has a gaggle of supportive friends and family who applaud profusely, there's a cult of toxic positivity surrounding him who refuse to be honest, adult supervision.
That said, yes, the first time I met Tony he was sitting at a bar with a meat grinder, yes I spotted him swinging around Slim Jims in a mariachi suit atop a mecha grasshopper shooting flames out its mouth one time, but I guess I don't image he ever killed a mammal for no reason and served it cold to a vegetarian (he loved his llamas! RIP)
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.... somewhat .... In the US specifically, there are protected first amendment rights. However, plenty of people have genuine reason to be concerned. Stalkers. Witness protection. Etc. Having managed large datasets, these things come up fairly often. There's an incredible diversity of potential problems. It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then"
>somewhat Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... without that right we cannot exercise political freedom or our rights as individuals for redress. >It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then" Of course it is. They have equal rights - and equal opportunity, therefore, to express - or not express - th…