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Standard mathematical notation?
It's arguably ambiguous.
Shouldn’t
-3²
0-3²
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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#392Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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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”).
In the UK at least if you don’t put the parentheses you will get flagged for a ‘bidmas error’ because indexes (exponentiation) have higher precedence than multiplication Source: have made this mistake. Have been flagged.
I learnt this in NZ as bedmas.
Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
Bedmas, Christmas in bed!
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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Try a Lenovo (thinkpad or ideapad), or a System76, or Tuxedo. Those are generally the most Linux friendly devices.
It should be noted that the build quality of the ThinkPad are much higher than the IdeaPad. I have both and the IdeaPad is more or less on par with other cheap consumer laptops.
For sure, but they are also much cheaper
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Try a Lenovo (thinkpad or ideapad), or a System76, or Tuxedo. Those are generally the most Linux friendly devices.
Thinkpad P14s series with AMD, they make sure it is fully supported on Linux. I would take the just arrived gen 5 AMD because of the new Zen5 cores. Same perf than with Zen4, but much lower power consumption.
I have a P14s Gen4 AMD that works like a dream with Linux
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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Very few screens are bright enough to compete with the normal brightness of outdoor sunlight. There's no evidence that close focus or looking at bright screens causes eyesight problems. Bright light actually seems to protect against myopia. Here's a good overview: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470669/
From the same article: "In contrast, long-wavelength light is growth-inhibiting and short-wavelength light is growth-promoting in rhesus monkey (57) and tree shrew (58)." Modern monitors have high amount of shortwave spectrum, blue is unusually shortwave.
The "in contrast" is to chickens and guinea pigs, where the opposite occurs. What relevance this has to humans is unclear.
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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…
To be fair: I also can't find the current year on my Pixel 4 (Android 13) in the clock app or the settings. I have to open Google Calendar.
Shocker: you have to use the Calendar app to open the Calendar.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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Try a Lenovo (thinkpad or ideapad), or a System76, or Tuxedo. Those are generally the most Linux friendly devices.
It should be noted that the build quality of the ThinkPad are much higher than the IdeaPad. I have both and the IdeaPad is more or less on par with other cheap consumer laptops.
>It should be noted that the build quality of the ThinkPad are much higher than the IdeaPad.
And still, they've fallen so low in recent years I don't see it being drastically better nowadays. Had a T495 for a while. Worst laptop I've had in a decade.
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It’s really the cross-device stuff that keeps me in Apple’s ecosystem. Taking phone calls on my mac, having recent browser tabs from all devices on every device, etc. of course each individual thing can be done on windows / android / linux, but the out-of-the-box, no-config-required experience is really very good. Even if it is frequently and frustratingly not perfect.
Calls on computer? Like Signal allows? Tabs from other device? Like Firefox offers? The thing is, it is very easy in comparison to offer this cross device functionality, if you lock in your users and can simply make lots of assumptions about what software the user will be using. How much of that cross platform stuff works for non-standard browser or non-standard messenger?
Well the phone calls work on every device. I suppose there’s a case that phone numbers are non-standard, but I think it takes motivated reasoning to get there.
And the cross-device stuff is based on cloudkit, so it’s easy for third parties to adopt and get those benefits using apple id rather than additional signins. Of course that has some lock in, which I recognize is so offensive to some people that the upsides aren’t worth it.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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From the same article: "In contrast, long-wavelength light is growth-inhibiting and short-wavelength light is growth-promoting in rhesus monkey (57) and tree shrew (58)." Modern monitors have high amount of shortwave spectrum, blue is unusually shortwave.
The "in contrast" is to chickens and guinea pigs, where the opposite occurs. What relevance this has to humans is unclear.
It happens in primates, blue light causes problems. So yeah very much relevant. Stop cherrypicking.