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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 docfort »

xp84 wrote: post #327
diggan wrote: post #169

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> Apple's greatest weakness is that many of it's fans and I'd assume people in house assume they are the epitome of UI design when actually it's not. Which led to people like me making a fool out of themselves. Always been using Android, and listened to iPhone users singing the praise of the amazing UI and UX of iOS. Well, eventually iPhone 12 Mini released so I figured, "why not give it a try, can't be worse than my…

The egregious amount of time wasted playing the animations is really the worst. For a great demo of how bad it is, even on my 15 Pro Max — try this: go into a Messages conversation and hit the + next to the text entry field. An ugly, blur-filled animation has to play for about 1000ms EVERY TIME you open this menu up, which is now the way you have to add a photo to the conversation. Heck, I don’t even want the menu, I…

I take your overall point, but for this specific complaint, there’s a shortcut: long press on the “+” button to take you directly to the photo pocket in Messages.

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

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Post by rgovostes »

rgovostes wrote: post #321
FabHK wrote: post #308

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Coming up in iOS 18.

Unless I missed something, they’ve added a handwriting mode, which is cool but not necessarily an improvement over something like Mathematica. I don’t want to have to carry an Apple Pencil with me and write long hand every time I want to solve an equation.

I did miss something, you can type in Math Notes in iOS 18. It’s a little glitchy in the betas though.

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

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Post by supportengineer »

rgovostes wrote: post #290

A friend doing homework for a university assignment, circa Leopard or Snow Leopard, noticed that Calculator produced negative values when raising a negative number to an even power. The bug turned out to be in CFNumber, in Core Foundation. CFNumber does a lot of fiddly stuff at the bit level for performance, and one of their optimizations for exponentiation was incorrect. Somehow it was never found by tests or due to…

There must be a way to do a mash-up between a spreadsheet and other languages like FORTRAN. Perhaps the language could be pluggable. You could mix and match and the spreadsheet formulas are the glue. Cell values abstract away the details of how that value got there. But, it accepts a refresh request.

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

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Post by OldGuyInTheClub »

Aloisius wrote: post #336
OldGuyInTheClub wrote: post #299

I like Apple's hardware and underlying OS enough to shell out for MacBook Pros but, man, their homebuilt applications are a PITA. The RPN calculator on my high powered new MBP doesn't have a scientific or engineering notation option. Same on my old MBP as well. I guess it is a feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3527779?sortBy=rank

Sequoia's calculator has RPN with scientific notation now.

Thanks! Look forward to getting it when it is released.

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Post by concinds »

talldayo wrote: post #338
FabHK wrote: post #306

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> Apple products are designed from the ground-up as ad-watching appliances. That’s funny. I have virtually no ads on my Apple devices. I associate ads with Windows and Android. And I have several browsers on my iPad, one reason being avoiding ads.

> I have virtually no ads on my Apple devices. Virtually . It's great when you log into iCloud and only have to deal with the App Store's "Suggested Content" and the Google suggested results in Spotlight Search and the misery of the default YouTube client running 30s midroll ads. Then you can make the little storage nag go away with a convenient $2.99/month payment addressable to Apple Inc. Oh, you wanted sideloading…

Sideloading is free (no need for a developer program subscription) and cloud storage isn't a "basic feature of the phone you bought".

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Post by wave100 »

Angostura wrote: post #229
diggan wrote: post #213

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> CarPlay is a thing because carmakers just can't seem to make a decent "radio" with a touchscreen no matter how they try But CarPlay is 100x worse than Android Auto, even though Apple is supposed to excel at UI and UX, this was the point I was trying to make, not that car makers such at UI/UX.

Having used both, I disagree. What do you prefer with AA?

The biggest shock for me moving from Android Auto to Carplay was the complete lack of multi touch support in Apple's offering. Worked perfectly on Android.

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

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Post by Aerbil313 »

Once I had downloaded a HN thread for later reading, on my iPhone with Safari's built-in Download Linked File feature. When I opened it and was reading it (HN renders fine with just the HTML), I noticed a single line looking a bit off. Took my glasses off to take a closer look. I don't remember the specifics, but I think the spacing with the line above was slightly less than usual. Took screenshots and it was clearly visible zoomed in. Happened twice that day and never before, never after. I believe I witnessed a cosmic ray induced bit flip.

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Post by Larrikin »

FabHK wrote: post #306
talldayo wrote: post #244

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The older I get, the more certain I am that Apple products are designed from the ground-up as ad-watching appliances. On iPad, you're restricted to a sandboxed environment where you are not encouraged (or in many cases, allowed) to do anything other than watch ads. You cannot sideload apps that are Open Source. You cannot install emulators or fullspeed VM software. You cannot switch the browser out for one you would…

> Apple products are designed from the ground-up as ad-watching appliances. That’s funny. I have virtually no ads on my Apple devices. I associate ads with Windows and Android. And I have several browsers on my iPad, one reason being avoiding ads.

On Android you install Firefox, have real ad blockers and have effectively the same system as any desktop computer.

On iOS you install a variety of shady ad blocking browsers because the Safari system of extensions doesn't really let the ad blocker extensions block what is needed. You are also trapped in Safari, which is not a good browser, just something that prevents Chrome from ruining everything.

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Post by secondcoming »

FabHK wrote: post #297
rgovostes wrote: post #290

A friend doing homework for a university assignment, circa Leopard or Snow Leopard, noticed that Calculator produced negative values when raising a negative number to an even power. The bug turned out to be in CFNumber, in Core Foundation. CFNumber does a lot of fiddly stuff at the bit level for performance, and one of their optimizations for exponentiation was incorrect. Somehow it was never found by tests or due to…

In Excel (and some other languages), unary minus has higher precedence than exponentiation, so that -x^2 = (-x)^2 = x^2. That can bite you (for example when calculating the normal probability density function “manually”).

Are there languages where this isn’t the case?
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