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How old are you? I bet you a pound you're 40, or thereabouts. Trust me, your eyesight is becoming worse...

by tom_ 3y ago

tom_ 3y ago
I got a downvote. OK, let's upgrade that to 2 pounds ;) (Of course, that was a lot of money when we were both young...)
- vidanay 3y ago
  I'd down vote you if I could see the damn tiny arrow.
  - tom_ 3y ago
    I gave you an upvote, so it cancels out.
  - worik 3y ago
    I voted. Up. Down. I'm really not sure....
Pannoniae 3y ago
I am 20 years old^^
- tom_ 3y ago
  Actually a mildly interesting response! - thanks. If we ever meet, £2 is yours. When I was 20, the idea that my eyesight might have become meaningfully worse over time never really occurred to me. Fascinating.
  - Pannoniae 3y ago
    You seem like an interesting person^^:)
  - keyringlight 3y ago
    One thing that I've found interesting (in my 40's and slight astigmatism) is how the effects of eyesight show up in interfaces or where there's contrast with brightness/darkness. In the physical world that'd be issues like bright points like car headlamps or street lights having a large corona/starburst, or if you're looking at a bright object against a dark background such as reading a book where it's lit in a darker room the 'bloom' will obscure what's behind it. On a screen with much brightness I'll get similar effects if there's contrast. I've been window shopping for a HDR display for a while now and wondering how much benefit I'd get out of it seeing as the main selling points are the brightness/contrast, especially when you're getting into the various forms of local dimming to present the media at its best.
    - kps 3y ago
      Whatever the monitor, you will want to adjust it after buying. Default ‘showroom’ settings are much too bright unless you're working outdoors. Start with something like https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate or http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test For me, with (mostly-corrected) astigmatism and some (uncorrectable) higher-order aberration, dark on light is the only thing I can read fluently. The worst case is ‘black holes’ on a light page, as are fashionable for illustrating command line examples (and f—ing github's CI log view), especially combined with Las Vegas syntax colouring of varying brightness.
thaumasiotes 3y ago
True, but not relevant and not a contradiction of the comment. Pannoniae says that the empirical decline in usability of software is attributable to changes in the UI and not attributable to changes in his eyes. The fact that changes in his eyes exist is not a refutation.

How old are you? I bet you a pound you're 40, or thereabouts. Trust me, your eyesight is becoming worse...

by tom_ 3y ago

How old are you? I bet you a pound you're 40, or thereabouts. Trust me, your eyesight is becoming worse...

tom_ 3y ago

I got a downvote. OK, let's upgrade that to 2 pounds ;) (Of course, that was a lot of money when we were both young...)

vidanay 3y ago
I'd down vote you if I could see the damn tiny arrow.
- tom_ 3y ago
  I gave you an upvote, so it cancels out.
- worik 3y ago
  I voted. Up. Down. I'm really not sure....

Pannoniae 3y ago

I am 20 years old^^

tom_ 3y ago
Actually a mildly interesting response! - thanks. If we ever meet, £2 is yours. When I was 20, the idea that my eyesight might have become meaningfully worse over time never really occurred to me. Fascinating.
- Pannoniae 3y ago
  You seem like an interesting person^^:)
- keyringlight 3y ago
  One thing that I've found interesting (in my 40's and slight astigmatism) is how the effects of eyesight show up in interfaces or where there's contrast with brightness/darkness. In the physical world that'd be issues like bright points like car headlamps or street lights having a large corona/starburst, or if you're looking at a bright object against a dark background such as reading a book where it's lit in a darker room the 'bloom' will obscure what's behind it. On a screen with much brightness I'll get similar effects if there's contrast. I've been window shopping for a HDR display for a while now and wondering how much benefit I'd get out of it seeing as the main selling points are the brightness/contrast, especially when you're getting into the various forms of local dimming to present the media at its best.
  - kps 3y ago
    Whatever the monitor, you will want to adjust it after buying. Default ‘showroom’ settings are much too bright unless you're working outdoors. Start with something like https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate or http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test For me, with (mostly-corrected) astigmatism and some (uncorrectable) higher-order aberration, dark on light is the only thing I can read fluently. The worst case is ‘black holes’ on a light page, as are fashionable for illustrating command line examples (and f—ing github's CI log view), especially combined with Las Vegas syntax colouring of varying brightness.

thaumasiotes 3y ago

True, but not relevant and not a contradiction of the comment. Pannoniae says that the empirical decline in usability of software is attributable to changes in the UI and not attributable to changes in his eyes. The fact that changes in his eyes exist is not a refutation.