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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 sph »

jahnu wrote: post #68
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…

Another irritating thing that is captured in that image is the single pixel gap between the top of the application window and the menu bar. If the desktop background is bright it is very distracting. Not a mistake like the off centre X but drives me mad, nevertheless.

That gap provides contrast and separation between two similarly-coloured-but-not-quite grey objects. It would look worse without it, though I agree it is silly.

This is the same reason why window gaps are so popular in all tiling window managers. It just looks better.

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

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Post by kibwen »

How would you even tell in the first place? The contrast on those digits is so low and their font weight is so light as to render them essentially invisible.

And as far as bad design goes, why are the bit position indicators on the right (0, 32) center-justified underneath their digits, whereas the ones on the left (31, 63) are left-justified?

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

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Post by herpdyderp »

ilammy wrote: post #130
artursapek wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even if you use Face ID you have to enter the password, instead of your face, regularly

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

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Post by amelius »

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…

Honestly what annoys me most is that it looks like a sideways traffic light.

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

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Post by furyofantares »

DavidPiper wrote: post #104

Comically, 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)

Interesting. I saw the wobbly numbers instantly, but I didn't see any of that, and can't even see the 31/63 issue now.

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

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Post by BoredPositron »

artursapek wrote: post #101
jb1991 wrote: post #96

On 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 have the same problem with the bitwarden macos app. If you start typing directly when it opens it misses keystrokes drives me nuts.

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

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Post by xattt »

agent86 wrote: post #117
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #100

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I can confirm this. I had annoyingly bad chromatic aberration with my previous glasses. I specifically asked for CR-39 lenses for my next set of glasses and now it's barely noticeable at all. I would recommend this to any programmer who uses high-contrast syntax highlighting. To me, it felt fatiguing every time I noticed differently colored words scrolling slight further than other words on a terminal screen on the s…

One thing to keep in mind is that CR-39 is not impact resistant. They will shatter and can do horrible things to your eyes when they do. Kids should always be put in impact resistant lenses. If you’re a desk jockey, or impact resistance is not a concern, CR-39 will give the least aberration with the exception of crown glass. The hidden hack here if you need/want impact resistance is to ask for Trivex lenses. Same imp…

> It’s often overlooked because it costs a little more than polycarbonate and most people don’t complain about the distortion.

I just started wearing glasses. I asked about fringing and they had brushed my concerns off as me being new to glasses.

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

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Post by rustybolt »

> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t

This is infuriating and the same for all the big companies (at least Google, Microsoft, Apple); you have a serious issue and simply no way to talk to a representative. The best you can do is post something on Hacker News and hope it somehow gets picked up.

I worked at a company that paid Microsoft a lot to have a 1-day SLA for support. When I contacted them, I got a reply back weeks later saying "hey sorry I missed your email". About two weeks later (which was the time it took to email back and forth), it was clear that I had to insert another ticket and mark the subject as something else (that was not directly related, but apparently the team responsible for that subject was also working on the functionality I found a bug in. There was no way for me to know this since it was something internal to Microsoft). So, I had to go through the whole procedure again.

Once I did that, the reply was "oh yeah, we dropped that functionality but the documentation doesn't mention it. we recommend you use for this". Where, of course, technology X did not support the feature I was trying to use.

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

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Post by skydhash »

jeffhuys wrote: post #112
jahnu wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another irritating thing that is captured in that image is the single pixel gap between the top of the application window and the menu bar. If the desktop background is bright it is very distracting. Not a mistake like the off centre X but drives me mad, nevertheless.

I knew from the very start of using macOS that it was designed around apps NOT being full-screen. Yeah, they are catering to the full-screen-apps people a little more nowadays, but embracing floating windows everywhere, and making good use of the distinction betweend CMD+Tab and CMD+~ makes it so much more powerful than just tabbing through full-screen apps, or three-finger-swiping. It also makes macOS way more beaut…

It’s quite maddening if you use spaces (as workspaces) and same windows across them. An option like CMD-Tabbing being restricted to only applications with windows in the current space will go a long way.

Power users is an unknown concept at Apple.

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