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Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

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Post by acqq » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 10:03 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #54

Titanous wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's what they are actually collecting: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...

That's some pretty boring information overall. One which might be cause for concern is LogInvalidInputPasted() specifically because pastedExpression is included in the Telemetry Event. I also have questions on LogConversionResult(). Why is that recording NetworkAccessBehavior or the raw conversion values? Wouldn't knowing the FromUnit/ToUnit be enough to know how much something is being used?

> might be cause for concern

Only "might"? If you just accidentally paste your password to the calculator...

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

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Post by acqq » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 10:23 PM UTC

nimbius wrote: post #32

speaking from experience working in a truck repair shop, I quit using calculator in windows as it was rather unreliable. if im calculating inner diameter or outer diameter for a part, or doing tooth math for machining a new bull gear, ive often encountered wildly different values in calculator from what a machinists handbook tells me. Ive even had an old-timer warn me about different depth and feed rate calculations…

> doing tooth math for machining a new bull gear, ive often encountered wildly different values in calculator from what a machinists handbook tells me

Please some example, I'm curious, as Microsoft claims that they use the "infinite" precision library there.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

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Post by acqq » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 10:35 PM UTC

mihaitodor wrote: post #174

I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 called “Ratpack”: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc... over which they added a whole bunch of enterprise fluff.

> I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95

Why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy

"Internally, both MATLAB and NumPy rely on BLAS and LAPACK for efficient linear algebra computations."

As far as I know BLAS and LAPACK are still based on the decades old FORTRAN code.

Re: Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator

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Post by ggambetta » Fri, Mar 08, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #40

ggambetta wrote: post #14

While I applaud this, and I'm generally positive about Microsoft's new stance regarding open source, I wonder whether they ever have, or ever will, apologise for having made remarks like "Linux is communism". They caused a lot of damage. It feels a bit disingenuous to just pretend now that nothing happened.

I don't know what a single sentence, said in 2000 by a person who has not been at an organization since 2014 has to do with said organization in 2019. Kind of like the people who comment "embrace, extend, extinguish" on every Micro$oft article, forgetting that the one person to who the phrase has been directly attributed (by a third party who was paraphrasing) resigned from Microsoft 19 years ago and when obliquely r…

In the 50s, Alan Turing was convicted for being gay. Much later, in 2013, the UK government issued a posthumous pardon [0]. I'm pretty sure nobody in the 2013 government was in the government in 1950, but AFAIK this was widely seen as a good thing, an admission that what the institution that is the UK government, although not the same people, had made a mistake.

I think this applies in exactly the same way to the wrongs of corporations. Out of decency, if not out of being consistent with the idea of treating them as legal persons.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315