There's a similar bug in the Windows calculator. One of the buttons is about 1 pixel wider than the rest.
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
#122And this on a Mac. :D
That would have never happened under Jobs's watch.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#123On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…
The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
I wouldn’t be surprised it’s using the same UI code as the Calculator app.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#124Earlier 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?
I have an oldish Lenovo Thinkpad T470 which is bulker but it's very good nonetheless and a Dell XPS (4 years old, and the battery sadly is the weak point since I used it 95% of the time connected to an outlet and never cared for battery health)
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#125Maybe 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 exercise…
Doctors would say the stupidest things. We are not “designed” for anything.
You can get grumpy about it, sure. Or you can just accept that any use of "designed to" in respect to humans can be replaced with "adapted for" without loss of meaning.
Most people who say "designed" here aren't ignorant: they don't care about the distinction and say what's idiomatic.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#126Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing: - "Unicode" button label way off center - The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position - The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other - x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)
> "Unicode" button label way off center Its actually the center of the button, I made a video for context: https://imgur.com/a/1Y9O8dS > The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position Might be due to the image compression, it looks fine on my MB.
> Its actually the center of the button
Upvoted for putting in the effort, and because you make a correct point.
But the Unicode button is perceptually off center, because ASCII is a smaller word, and there's no visible boundary between the buttons. This comes up a lot in iconography, the classic example is a play triangle (like the media control) in a circle. Placing the triangle in the geometric center won't look centered, it needs to be a tiny bit to the right of that to account for the shape.
No separation between the buttons means you can't see the bounds which the words are centered in, so it looks off.
The 8 and 10 have the same problem, for the same reason. A visible background-gray line between the buttons would solve this problem, it should be 'squircled' to make it I-shaped and match the outer edges.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every now and then I think about starting a public bug report tracker for Apple bugs since they keep theirs to themselves. The number of maddening but minuscule bugs I run into makes me wish I was using Linux again, where I can fix them myself, or at the very least report them upstream and hope someone else eventually does so. By not having a public record of bugs Apple conveniently hides the sheer number of them and…
There's https://openradar.appspot.com where you can at least share the bugs you file yourself.
Oh, this is great! Not surprising someone already thought of it.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#128Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#129One that Apple seems to ignore. You click on something. And the micro second before it changes the hi, causing you to click something else.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#130On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…
The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.
I'm sure the horrible lock screen UX is simply a dark pattern to nudge users towards Face ID.