It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like 10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh and see a correct result
You can use GNU units (copy-pasting your text works).
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#102Why wouldn't I just use something like orgmode?
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#103I personally use Numi, which is very similar. I like the ability to assign variables and reuse them (and change the value of the variable on the fly, instantly redoing all other calculations). https://numi.io/
I use tydig[1] on my iPad which is really nice. Especially being able to drag around results with links pointing back to them and then graphing things as needed.
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#104I wrote https://dedo.io/ as a web version of this, since there's no good equivalent for linux
That's a really nice scripted demo on the site, btw
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#105It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like 10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh and see a correct result
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#106I personally use Numi, which is very similar. I like the ability to assign variables and reuse them (and change the value of the variable on the fly, instantly redoing all other calculations). https://numi.io/
Soulver can do that too.
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#107Soulver is great, but there's one feature that seriously makes me hate using it. I often open up "scratchpad" text documents. I Paste some text, edit it, Select All, then Cut. I press CMD-W to close the window. Because the document is blank, I'm not prompted to save the unsaved File. If I try to do the same thing with Soulver, when I close the (blank) window the app pops up a modal dialog asking me where I want to sa…
Soulver 3 doesn't do that anymore, mainly because everything is synced to icloud, rather than being saved locally.
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#108A paid, Mac only app which could fairly easily be implemented as a plugin to any popular text editor... I'm not sure I understand the appeal - what am I missing here, please? :)
Probably joy of having good looking and easy to use specialized apps. Of course “emasc can do anything” is ages old argument, but should it?
Yes! "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."
I don't care if it's literally Emacs, but I want all my data in one place. Half my programming career was spent taking one dumb format and converting it into another dumb format because the systems were incompatible, and for no good reason.
People complain about needing "dongles" (i.e., adapters) with Apple's new laptops, but there's a simple and obvious fix (buy one), and we can see the endgame (everything USB-C) where even that won't be required.
Programmers spend all day building custom software "dongles", with no end in sight. Why aren't they angry about that?
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#109The problem I have with this type of app is that I am never sure what will work and what will not. It's "natural language" only after you learn which subset of language the app actually understands. I still can't find anything that beats my HP 50g (either physical or running in one of the emulators) for just about any kind of computation involving several pieces of data. For more data, a spreadsheet is really hard to…
Yeah I agree. Instead of learning a new language subset, I just use what's already there.
For me, the go-to for multi-line calculations is Octave. At that point I can annotate to my hearts desire, plus I've always preferred Octave plotting over spreadsheet functions.
The ability to share your calculations nearly universally, though, is the major advantage of spreadsheets.