There's a bittersweet naiveté to those thinking PhD government will do a better job. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest

The F-105W is the F-91W perfected.

I have both and I thought so too at first, but compared to the F-91 the F-105 has significantly lower contrast display (darker background) and is harder to read in daylight. The F-91 has slightly larger numerals too.

I've come to the conclusion that the F-91 is better for urban conditions where there's always light and/or a cell phone available, but the F-105 is probably better for going off-grid.

(some context for bystanders: the F-105 is the "illuminator" version of the F-91, so the light feature works much better.)

I have an F-105 and love it. For me it fixes the one complaint I had about the F-91W which is the light. It's amazing on the 105

“Best” center depends on the cancer. The list is longer than MD Anderson and MSK.

Fine for bread, but I don't think most customers are interested in the artisanal aspects of business operations.

Oracular! Prolix! Sesquipedalian!

> I'm not really sure that contemporary CGI will really age as well.

Because today the film is subordinate to the CGI. In the early days, as is apparent in this oral history, CGI usage was deliberate and each shot received unusual scrutiny, time, and senior talent. And the technology simply wasn't used when the illusion didn't work; the imagery really had to blend with the physical footage. Today, obviously, the same considerations don't apply.

Tolerance is all the author is entitled to and the rest is on them to figure out. Expecting compatibility is ignorant.

Sneakers are fashion, and Allbirds underestimated how quickly trends shift. They made other mistakes, but none more fatal than selling a product that still looks like 2016.

Forgive me, I don’t know anything about shoe fashion. Are you saying the shoes look outdated by a decade?

> usb-c is too unstable

Would you share more? I've never had an issue with a USB-C cable. Helps to buy well constructed ones with legit specs.

I'm talking about this specific context, rather than in general. I find that for usb-c earphones and small dongles/dacs, they disconnect more when I'm walking around with phone in pocket. They also tend to wear down with use much faster than normal aux cables. Usually, they last a few months for me before I start having issues.

And when usb-c phones disconnect just a little, usually the phone will pause the music completely and disconnect, whereas the aux headphones will just keep playing. So if the connection isn't perfect, the usb-c cable becomes unlistenable because I can't walk 20 steps without it pausing.

edit: I've tried many cables and dongles, so if you don't have this problem, it might be just that I move around more? Biggest problem for me is commutes and walking around.

That problem might be considered a software problem, not a hardware or physical problem. The instant pausing of the music is the real problem. Software developers probably don't move around as much as you do, and I'd bet if they did, this problem would be fixed quickly with a simple timeout setting or something.

Same issue with the lightning to 3.5 dongle. Plus the phone sometimes takes like 10s to recognize it.

I gave up on USBC headphones because if your port becomes full of lint (say by being in your pocket all day), it doesn’t take much to disturb a USBC connection and cause it to go through the whole handshake all over again for a few seconds.

Compared to 3.5mm where the frustrations I remember were usually limited to sometimes getting a bit of a crackle or one of the audio channels dropping out and worst case scenario you just unplugged it and put it back in and it usually worked. With USBC you have to wait to see.

LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.