does anyone have strong opinions about bathroom scales mine sucks and ive decided to find one that doesnt. and it seems tricky
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if you have only one desired use for an object you can optimize for that one outcome, constrained at any point by the cost of manufacturing
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if you want a thing for a dozen distinct purposes you are optimizing on 14 or more different margins and you typically end up with something that manages three things tolerably and nine things barely, if at all
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such tradeoffs can be seen in (eg) prime lenses vs zoom lenses, and again in cameras that can use different lenses vs those that cannot, and then in cameras vs things that have cameras attached as an extra (eg phones and laptops)
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this sort of purchasing does come with a cost of course. you end up with lots of purpose-built stuff that you have to store if you're hiking a swiss army knife often makes more sense than a knife and a saw and a file and a bottle opener and a etc etc
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anyway this is my tool aesthetic. thanks to
@selentelechia for letting me clutter up the storage room even furtherpic.twitter.com/reLdTP7cqg
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So, a measuring tape As long as your waist circumference is less than half your height, you're doing well. Though it shouldnt be less than a third your height; if it is you're doing poorly
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hmmm, I'm not quite sure if this holds for women? Pre preg me almost had a waist circumference a third of my height
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