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Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by jdmichal »

sharkdp wrote: post #78
wotamRobin wrote: post #68

I really like the UI and seeming wealth of different units. It doesn't look like it supports fluid ounces though. I tried "4 tbsp to oz" and it interprets oz as mass instead of volume. Google correctly gives me 2 as the answer.

Thank you for the feedback. I'm not sure how to support this. I would probably have to call it "fluid_ounce" / "fl_oz" or "fl.oz." in order to distinguish it from the unit of mass.

You could try to go the complicated route to disambiguate based on whether the other units present are liquid volume or mass.

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by sharkdp »

Pfhreak wrote: post #80

Great tool. I would love to see computing units -- gb/s, etc.

They are already supported. There is "B" or "byte" for byte and "bit" for bit. SI-prefixes are case-sensitive, so "G" is for giga, "M" for mega, "m" for milli.

  >>> 6 Mbit/s * 1.5 hours to GB

    (6 Mbit / s) × 1.5 h -> GB

     = 4.05 GB

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by franciscop »

nautilus12 wrote: post #72
franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Seriously? Not to be negative but this is even more pedantic than I would expect from hacker news, and thats saying alot.

Ah it was meant to be a fun fact/"were you aware of?" kind of comment, not even criticism (;

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by franciscop »

sharkdp wrote: post #61
franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Oh, I didn't know that :-)... that's interesting. I'm very much open for suggestions on how to improve the logo. I already went through a couple of iterations... https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/blob/master/media/insect.s...

Actually it was just a "did you know?" comment, 99.99% of people don't know/care about it. I'd throw a SVG modification but I won't have my laptop around/time until Monday, when I'd just lower the upper wing a bit.

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by justifier »

nautilus12 wrote: post #72
franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Seriously? Not to be negative but this is even more pedantic than I would expect from hacker news, and thats saying alot.

i'd argue it's more of an hn in joke

if you look at the previous thread(o) i think gp is either directly of indirectly referencing most of the comments therein are of the "now you've watched it you can't unwatch it" variety(i)

now, should a meta joke be the top comment about this tool? i suppose that is for the forum to decide..

but the op may find it useful information.. perhaps thae missed the previous thread

op: awesome tool

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIJ8l3PZ88

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