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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by dustincoates »

trilbyglens wrote: post #22
dylan-m wrote: post #14

One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular kind of screen and possibly wearing glasses, that little X kind of wanders around in the button, appearing just slightly off center in a maddening way. Made only more maddening by…

This is not a software bug, but rather an optical phenomenon called "chromatic aberration". What's happening is that your glasses are bending light at different angles depending on the wavelength, to the red and blue and green are landing at slightly different places on your retina. It's a hard problem to solve optically and requires specially shaped lens. It's a common issue in telescopes, with higher end expensive…

Is this why, when I'm reading text on a dark background, red will appear on a different plane than white? I was just wondering the reason last night.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by kalleboo »

wruza wrote: post #24
galad87 wrote: post #6

macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.

I’ve used fullhd imac/osx for many years until around 2018 and never noticed anything like that. Easier to call it “low dpi issues” now that they destroyed it, I guess ;)

2018 was about when they stopped selling the last Mac with a non-Retina display, so that would make sense for when they stopped testing for it.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by galad87 »

wruza wrote: post #24
galad87 wrote: post #6

macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.

I’ve used fullhd imac/osx for many years until around 2018 and never noticed anything like that. Easier to call it “low dpi issues” now that they destroyed it, I guess ;)

6 years is a long time ;)

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by djbusby »

Maybe now is a good time to remind everyone: your vision will deteriorate. Keep this in mind when designing.

When I first came to HN it wasn't an issue. Now I have to use my own app for it so the font (and some other things) are workable.

According to my eye doctor the screen time is causing eyesight issues earlier. We're not designed to stare at a bright light 40cm away all day.

May want to look at some eye exercises - or at least something far away.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by almostnormal »

trilbyglens wrote: post #22
dylan-m wrote: post #14

One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular kind of screen and possibly wearing glasses, that little X kind of wanders around in the button, appearing just slightly off center in a maddening way. Made only more maddening by…

This is not a software bug, but rather an optical phenomenon called "chromatic aberration". What's happening is that your glasses are bending light at different angles depending on the wavelength, to the red and blue and green are landing at slightly different places on your retina. It's a hard problem to solve optically and requires specially shaped lens. It's a common issue in telescopes, with higher end expensive…

Chromatic aberration is mostly relevant further away from the center of vision. If there is an icon (or text) visually inspected carefully it is at the center where chromatic aberration matters least.

The icon is mis-aligned, or its the different color subpixels of the screen that are not produced at the same place. Tradidionally, red is to the left.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by rv3392 »

quink wrote: post #7

Starting to see this with view counts on YouTube in Firefox after some recent UI updates.

Oh that's what that is. I saw this on YouTube in Firefox the other day and thought YouTube was just A/B testing a quirky new way to display view counts.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by darkwater »

tanelpoder wrote: post #4

Haha, off-by-one pixel error! I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps. I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most impo…

> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH)

If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.

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