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Re: The Worst

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Post by JungleGymSam »

zacharyvoase wrote: post #45

It's really quite something when an author manages to put down in words a thought or a feeling you were hitherto incapable of expressing. Bravo. The dichotomy of best/worst — or, as I often think of it, acceptable versus available — is a tricky one, and it's not one which I feel I've yet solved. But I can certainly see how areas of my life tend towards the latter. Take my dotfiles, for example. I spent ages writing a…

I did the same experiment with Dvorak and had the same experience.

At times my brain got really confused and I would mentally converge the convenient parts of both layouts (which brought up an idea of using predictive typing to use the most comfortable keystrokes of both layouts).

Re: The Worst

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Post by moultano »

graue wrote: post #68
konstruktor wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am actually watching a set of cutlery gradually failing. My company relocated, and after spending lots of money on excellent desks and office chairs, facility management bought the cheapest cutlery they could get. After less than half a year, more and more of the cutlery is getting rusty. It looks gross (is it just rust or dirt?) and makes me wonder: If the quality is so bad, can I trust it to actually be reasonabl…

Wow. I on the other hand have drinking glasses, plates and cutlery I bought from a thrift store for like $20 for the whole set and it's been holding up fine for years. Maybe the lesson here is it's better to buy a decent product for cheap used, than to buy a new product that was cheap from day one.

Thrift stores are great ways to find durable products. If they weren't durable they wouldn't end up in a thrift store in a state anyone would want to buy.

Re: The Worst

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Post by lilsunnybee »

m0nastic wrote: post #38

If forced to decide between Dustin's reality and Moxie's, I think I'd chose Dustin's. A world made up of overly-reviewed, pretentious gadgets slightly edges out a utilitarian, post-apocalyptic, hellscape Bartertown where people scavenge through wreckage looking for makeshift utensils and clothing. I picture oil drum fires. Thankfully, I am not limited by those choices. I can continue to do what I already do, which is…

Who is scavenging through wreckage? Moxie mentioned buying used at a thrift store, which many many people do out of necessity anyways. And believe it or not, oil drum fires are a pretty infrequent occurrence.

Re: The Worst

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Post by lilsunnybee »

arrrg wrote: post #102
Breefield wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the author was suggesting that maybe flatware isn't worth that much. There being a bunch of expensive flatware in existence is just a straw man's rebuttal to the point that affordable flatware works just fine.

Different people have different tastes. Disbelief that others are willing to spend a bit more money on stuff (seriously, $50 for that set isn’t very expensive in the grand scheme of things) is kind of stupid. Who cares, really? You shouldn’t be so judgmental, especially about things like that. (And this also goes in the opposite direction: If you are happy with cheap flatware, nobody should berate you for it.)

What set? It was 50 dollars for 2 forks, 2 spoons, and 1 knife. To get an actual flatware set would cost something like 500 dollars at those rates, which is really an absurd amount to spend on such trivial bullshit.

Re: The Worst

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Post by lilsunnybee »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #15
kryptiskt wrote: post #8

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If you include the time he spent researching flatware in the bill it would be probably hard to find anything more expensive south of diamond-encrusted things for oligarchs without taste.

And he spends an hour or so every day eating stuff with those. Every single day (presumably). If you divide the $500 those flatwares have cost him over that time period (a few thousand days, an hour each day), it turns out it's cost him about 10 cents per hour . And yet, he (again, presumably) has been enjoying it immensely. If you can be happier by spending 10 cents ( per hour ), why not? I'm not a fan of expensive…

Because you can be a lot happier spending a lot less than 10 cents an hour, and not worrying about trivial bullshit like flatware.

Re: The Worst

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Post by lilsunnybee »

cjensen wrote: post #2

The author of this linked article has made an error: he assumes dcurtis' flatware is inordinately expensive. It is not; traditional flatware really is absurdly expensive. Much of the author's article is based on this assumption. I'd suggest he familiarize himself with "wedding gift"-style flatware. Then do a rewrite because I think there is a good argument still to be had.

schraeds you are linkdead, for no good reason as far as i can tell from your history.

Re: The Worst

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Post by ricardobeat »

jaggederest wrote: post #159
ricardobeat wrote: post #125

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Thus resulting in an endless stream of quick-decaying stuff from china to your home. And a hundred round-trips to the department store, if you apply that to everything in your life.

I hate to tell you this, but expensive spoons bend just as easily as inexpensive ones, and cost more to replace. Some things really are consumable items. There's no t-shirt on earth that is going to last beyond about 200 wash cycles.

1. Best doesn't always mean more expensive

2. That's not entirely true. Depending on the material and design some are very, very hard to bend

3. I have a t-shirt I bought in 2006 that is still going strong :)

Re: The Worst

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Post by lilsunnybee »

ricardobeat wrote: post #124

> both ideas and material possessions should be tools that serve us, rather than things we live in service to I think dustin and moxie are talking about different things. For me, the philosophy behind "The best" is exactly that: you don't need to worry that your friends will step on your cutlery, because it's strong enough to not get damaged. You don't worry about replacing it because of rust or wear, etc etc (enough…

Who is using plastic? Not spending obscene amounts of money on things does not mean buying disposable.
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