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 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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I think you're creating a false dichotomy/limitation here. Something can be simple and optimized for X but also more/less capable at Y and Z. For instance, ~all forks are great stabby-scoopers, but they have more variability in their capability to whisk.
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I use a whisk for whisking
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