Why wouldn't I just use something like orgmode?
I'm also an Emacs user. But there are people who don't use Emacs. Or gasp don't even have it installed! Believe it or not.
Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
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Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#132Why wouldn't I just use something like orgmode?
one does not just dive in to org mode
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#133The problem I have with this type of app is that I am never sure what will work and what will not. It's "natural language" only after you learn which subset of language the app actually understands. I still can't find anything that beats my HP 50g (either physical or running in one of the emulators) for just about any kind of computation involving several pieces of data. For more data, a spreadsheet is really hard to…
I know what you mean, but the grammar feels intuitive and the GUI is really clear, so it's pretty easy to extrapolate once you get a few things. For example, you want to calculate a price for three items at $425 in British pounds:
$425 * 3 in £
Once you've got "in £" you know it's available anywhere. I use it a lot for unit conversion too:
3 inches in mm
The other thing I use a lot is referencing other lines. So this will output £4:
£10 + 2
line1 / 3
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#134I reimplemented a simplified version of it 7 years ago (wow, time flies) and open sourced it, if people are interested. https://github.com/vjeux/soulver.js
Using their trademark as the name seems a little on the nose, but I guess if it's been that for 7 years nobody must be very concerned.
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#135Really like https://calca.io
I'm using Calca since seems like there is no real alternative on Windows.
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#136I reimplemented a simplified version of it 7 years ago (wow, time flies) and open sourced it, if people are interested. https://github.com/vjeux/soulver.js
Watch out: > $22 for lunch + 10% sales tax Displays $32.00 instead of $24.20 or something. Other issues: it does not support units on the right nor euros (€). Nice anyway :-)
To be pedantic, 10% = 0.10, which is has no unit, so it can't be added to a dollar amount.
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#137Eva(luate) https://github.com/NerdyPepper/eva
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#138It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like 10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh and see a correct result
Insect is an open source, high-precision scientific calculator with support for physical units, which I wrote some time ago. There is a version on the web and one for the terminal.
Web version: https://insect.sh/
Your calculation: https://insect.sh/?q=10m%20*%201000kg%20*%209.8m%2Fs%5E2%20t...
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would anyone buy Soulver outside the Mac App Store? Any compelling new features that warrants the higher price and risk?
Because $ brew cask install soulver # is convenient How does Soulver get the data for the USD conversion? There's Alfred workflows for both Soulver and Numi. Soulver even has a CLI version.
> How does Soulver get the data for the USD conversion?
My LittleSnitch rules would suggest it uses https://www.mycurrency.net/