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Please read the article, not just comment on the headline.
by maaaats 11y ago
Please read the article, not just comment on the headline.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI've studied special relativity through graduate school at UCSC. While I haven't exactly studied general relativity in a formal way I've attended quite a few talks on it by cosmologists and the like. I was an astronomy major at Caltech, but switched to Physics when I realized I prefer to build telescopes rather than look through them. Astronomers don't build telescopes; Opticians do that. However Physicists commonly build their own experimental apparatus.
- seanhandley 11y agoNot sure how I'd feel if my optician prescribed me a telescope.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoopticians make telescopes. Optometrists write prescriptions for eyeglasses. Optometric opticians make eyeglass lenses. Opthalmologists diagnose and treat disease of the eyes. An optometrist can perform an opthalmological exam but cannot prescribe medicine nor practice eyeball surgery.
- seanhandley 11y agoI'd better tell my optician to change the sign outside the shop then...
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoPardon me while I drop by the chemist's shop to pick up some fuming nitric acid, sulfuric acid and glycerin.
- seanhandley 11y agoGoogle Define: optician ɒpˈtɪʃ(ə)n/Submit nounBRITISH a person qualified to prescribe and dispense glasses and contact lenses, and to detect eye diseases ( ophthalmic optician ) or to make and supply glasses and contact lenses ( dispensing optician ). US a dispensing optician.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoIn my understanding, a dispensing optician is a different thing than either an optometrist or an opthalmologist. There are some good reasons one requires a professional prescription from eyeglasses; if you wear the wrong lenses for any length of time, it can screw up your eyesight. Although the effect is commonly temporary it _can_ be debilitating. So a dispensing optician would be someone who sells eyeglasses, given a prescription from an optometrist or an opthalmologist. It is quite definitely the case that opticians make telescopes. From time to time I call myself an astronomical optician. I don't grind glass much anymore but I am quite good at making astronomical telescope optics.
- maaaats 11y agoSo you still didn't open the article? :/
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoMost web pages work really poorly through my Mom's earthlink dialup. In part that's due to metric fucktons of javascript, in part it's due to some problem with routing. I've spent years trying to diagnose it. I've got some theories but nothing conclusive. It seems to help if I do something like: $ sudo ping -f -c 1000 www.nytimes.com ... then repeat that for several other hosts.
- Crito 11y agoI am sure that in the 21 minutes that elapsed between this comment and the one left by you above it, you could have just hit the page with curl. Stop making embarrassing excuses and just read the article.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI'm having too much fun duking it out with whoever keeps modbombing me.
- Crito 11y ago"Modbombing"? Your comments have been voted down by regular users of HN. You've been here long enough to know how this works.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoIn a different article, someone downvoted a comment in which I requested a reply, rather than a downvote of the parent. Tonight's activity leads me to believe my cyberstalking friend from Kuro5hin has finally turned up. It's hard to say, he's generally anonymous.