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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      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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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      im assuming the dumb ones are better im pretty sure of it in fact. cant explain this but it seems like an area where digital is just gonna be vastly sub performant

      14 replies 0 retweets 48 likes
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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      eigenrobot Retweeted Southrop Frye

      im becoming this guy i have an aesthetic Opinion it turns outhttps://twitter.com/FryeSouthrop/status/1384358652996329475?s=19 …

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      Southrop Frye @FryeSouthrop
      Replying to @eigenrobot
      Imagine being the one guy with very strong bathroom scale opinions and waiting his whole life for you to ask this
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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      eigenrobot Retweeted Willet Templeton

      i got a healthometer my preference for tools is the following: 1. do one thing, 2. in the simplest way possiblehttps://twitter.com/wrycountenance/status/1384363821033136129?s=19 …

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      Willet Templeton @wrycountenance
      Replying to @eigenrobot
      bought a health o meter balance beam like you find in your doctor's office for this very reason and lived happily ever after
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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      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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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      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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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      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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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19

      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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    9. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Apr 19
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      in addition to storage costs, inconvenience, and intellectual overhead there's the additional potential problem of depreciation via improving tech. if you get all-in-ones that are regularly upgraded you may be less likely to miss out on big improvements that swamp specialization

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 19
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky

      how do you regularly upgrade a swiss army knife or a phone camera or a smart scale? 🤔

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        2. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Apr 19
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          I was thinking mostly about smartphones in that context - upgrade in the sense of replace with a newer model

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        3. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Apr 19
          Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot

          obviously I'm not really waiting for people to deliver big improvements on weighing stuff

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