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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 baq »

darkwater wrote: post #40
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.

Which Linux laptop do you recommend?

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

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Post by gield »

Bondi_Blue wrote: post #30

You can try submitting a bug report with Feedback Assistant.app or apple.com/feedback, but there’s no guarantee they will see it.

Someone will definitely see it, but maybe not take action on it. Now that it's on HN, it will definitely get more traction.

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

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Post by leereeves »

dustincoates wrote: post #31
trilbyglens wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A different plane?

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

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Post by baq »

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.

It’s crazy that I had to buy BetterDisplay (great tool btw) just to get fonts from incomprehensible to merely ugly on a 25x16 monitor via a fake 2x scaled one. Windows renders razor sharp even without gfx drivers.

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

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Post by isametry »

jfoutz wrote: post #19
teo_zero wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't kerning about left-right and not up-down, though?

I think ascents and descents fall under keming. You don’t want a j to bump into a b on the next line. So you have short letters from time to time. But that might be an archaic usage, or I’m wrong.

You mean another, more compact version of `j` with a shorter descender? Well that’s called an alternate glyph.

Kerning is strictly about the relative spacing between two adjacent glyphs. The only case that would ever be vertical is if you’re writing vertical lines (such as in Chinese or Japanese).

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

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Post by haskman »

baq wrote: post #51
darkwater wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Which Linux laptop do you recommend?

Try a Lenovo (thinkpad or ideapad), or a System76, or Tuxedo. Those are generally the most Linux friendly devices.

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

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Post by theGeatZhopa »

baq wrote: post #51
darkwater wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Which Linux laptop do you recommend?

Huawei mate book 14 (2024) the grey one (800 bucks) or the green (1200). The mate book pro is superb too but to expensive.

You'll love the OLED screen and it's ratio 3:2! What a beautiful thing.

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

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Post by _ph_ »

almostnormal wrote: post #36
trilbyglens wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be precise: chromatic abberation is lowest at the center of the lens. But with glasses we often don't look through the lens center even if we have something in the center of our vision.

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

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Post by amiga »

leereeves wrote: post #54
dustincoates wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A different plane?

The red text seems to be closer than the other text. As if it were floating above the other text.
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