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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by drewzero1 »

Semiapies wrote: post #55
munk-a wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like it may have briefly - but it loaded great for me.

Loaded for me! (Meanwhile, I got a "Can't serve requests that fast" from HN when I first tried to reply.)

Looks like it's time to upgrade to a Casio server!

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by tititititi »

emodendroket wrote: post #65
jhallenworld wrote: post #40

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

TI is pretty clearly just coasting on being the one mandated by a lot of schools; there's no way you can justify them still costing like $100 and having the same capabilities as when I was in high school.

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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by narrator »

I have a soft spot in my heart for underpowered computers, but practically, I know this is kind of an unnatural fetish, and not really a healthy love. The little computer costs way more and consumes way more per watt than modern systems, and any minimal use case is better done via virtualization in a container on a more capable computer. Yet, the fetishism of all manner of obsolete, underpowered and wildly obsolete chip process technology remains!
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