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I can see it being used in very high-end, high-touch retail environments. When you spending $75,000 on a new suit, the tailor shouldn't be using a Dollar Store calculator.
So $76,100 for a suit and a calculator. Imagine how many lives could be changed if that cash were used to, say, install toilets in rural India.
This is gorgeous. I’m very afraid if I buy one it will trigger a wave of revulsion for normal everyday products and I’ll become one of these obsessive people who talk about fonts.
It's called "having a style", and there's nothing wrong with it.
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>It is like going from a 2010 LCD to a 2026 OLED screen. Revealing. I'll bet plenty still can't tell the difference (or don't care). I'm one. I've always used low-end laptops, mobiles, clothes, vehicles, anything else you can think of. I care that it functions (so I buy good brands and new) but everything else except price is a very secondary. When I read things like "rich, vivid colors" in a description of a screen,…
> I also don't care about (or even really notice) the taste of tap water Me neither until I moved to west Texas.
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> I also don't care about (or even really notice) the taste of tap water Me neither until I moved to west Texas.
Yeah, try the water in most of Arizona, where it's so hard you could cut diamond with it. Only half-joking. You'll get an appreciation for places where you can't really taste what's in the water.
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Ordinary choices are not between bread and cake. Ordinary choices are between bread and nothing. A $45 keyboard is rounding error on a $500 keyboard if you decide to buy one. And buying and trying the cheap one is how a person gets direct experience to make a well informed decision.
"buy twice" is one of those live advices I heard and adhere to since. It's basically the optimistic interpretation of "buy cheap, buy twice": When I consider getting into something I buy cheap first, the idea being that that is enough to get a feel ... ... then you buy the second time and don't cheap out. But this purchase is more informed and you really get to appreciate it more because you know the step up from the…
But sure, in general if you don't know what you are doing start cheap and treat it like a learning opportunity.
The real danger is in when you use shitty tools and think that because of that you are bad at something, so give up.
My personal story on this was when I hosed a laptop(don't disable usb when there are only usb devices) All the normal ways to fix it were not working so I went way out of my comfort zone and was going to try and reflash it the hard way with a chip programmer(It's already a brick I am not going to break it further) And I bought the cheapest sioc flashing kit I could find. and... nothing was working right, and because I have no idea what I am doing, does it just not work? do I have the wrong programmer? should I desolder the chip from the board? No clue. So it sat on the healing bench for a year. Then I stumbled on a forum thread complaining about cheap sioc clips, gathered my courage and bought a nice clip, tried again and it worked the first time. So on one level thanks Pomona electronics, your sioc clip was amazing, but the bigger lesson, I thought the task was just too unknowable and really I just had bad tools.
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Imagine donating all your money to charity too, do you do that? The thing about comparing spending is that there is always more one can spend, and there is always more one can give away.
Sure. And there is always a better way to spend seventy-six thousand dollars . I suggested what I consider to be a better way. If you think carefully about it, you might even agree.
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- just like how you ll become good at coding if you stopped using an llm (for most of it atleast)
- i am not saying this to trigger anyone. i am speaking from personal experience
- 6 months ago i stopped using calculators to add, subtract, multiply and my abilities have sharpened slowly and steadily
- initially i had trouble adding / subtracting 3 digit numbers
- i have slowly come to the point where i can do 6 digit numbers now without a calculator and pretty fast
- obviously i wont be able to prove that here because people ll think i am using tools to paste the answer but if were to meet in real life like ever, you would be absolutely blown away by how fast i can math
- was at the bank the other day, the bank manager had a mini heart attack when i calculated the 8.5% interest rate on the 1st year precisely before he could use his calculator
- seriously give it a try. start with 2 digit numbers addition / subtraction for the next entire week and slowly up your game. it ll help you immensely
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Sure. And there is always a better way to spend seventy-six thousand dollars . I suggested what I consider to be a better way. If you think carefully about it, you might even agree.
The point is not everyone agrees with you, that's why one shouldn't try to dictate what others do with their money.
This is gorgeous. I’m very afraid if I buy one it will trigger a wave of revulsion for normal everyday products and I’ll become one of these obsessive people who talk about fonts.
Becoming aware of typography practices will drive you insane. The world is full of atrocities. Live in bliss. But still buy the calculator :)
And try to use the em-dash properly these days!