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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 canucker2016 »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #377
canucker2016 wrote: post #324

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Acording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Calculator#Windows_9x_... , the Win98 version of calc.exe got an arbitrary-precision math library for basic math functionality to fix this sort of problem. also mentioned by Raymond Chen, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39... : "Today, Calc’s internal computations are done with infinite precision for basic operations (addition, subtraction, m…

Can this be true? Does the calculator have any irrational number? What if I enter PI * 2? Infinite precision, wouldn't that mean running until your RAM is full? Or would it simply work, because no irrational number is calculated to infinite (as many as the device could) digits and is therefore finite and can easily be multiplied? Or another even simpler case: If division is infinite precision, and I enter (2/3) * X,…

For PI, calc.exe, in scientific mode, returns 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 which is 32 digits of precision (33 chars if you include the decimal pt).

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

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Post by mrob »

IWeldMelons wrote: post #400
mrob wrote: post #396

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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.

Outdoor daylight typically has more blue light in it than indoor light, yet outdoor light appears to be protective. So yes, "unclear" is accurate.

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Post by neop1x »

mjlee wrote: post #118
darkwater wrote: post #40

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> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH) If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.

I use linux on the desktop, but I still run a MacBook for my laptop. Nobody else offers the same combination of battery life to performance/weight, build quality, keyboard, trackpad, and screen. Of course it's not perfect for everbody and you might have different priorities but I think the MacBook gets most of them right for most people. Some come close on a few of those points but if you want official linux support…

>> Nobody else offers the same combination of battery life to performance/weight, build quality, keyboard, trackpad, and screen.

Exactly this. And also a decent sound. I would definitely want to have a linux laptop again as OSX s*cks in many ways but Macbooks with M chips are still far superior so I keep monitoring the situation and waiting...

It is not a problem to find a laptop with high specs but then battery su*ks, it's made of creaking plastic, has a plastic clickpad hard to click, bad key travel and response or audio sounds like a 5y old cheap smartphone. This is something I am not willing to spend money on and torture myself at the same time.

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

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Post by bqmjjx0kac »

diggan wrote: post #280
oluminate wrote: post #258

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You can use Siri Search on iOS as a calculator, which works the same way as Finder on a Mac — this keeps track of the entire expression when you’re doing it

> You can use Siri Search on iOS as a calculator With the added benefit of having to press not just one, but two buttons in order to add a "+" sign. First press "123", then press "#+=" and now you can add your complex mathematical characters :)

I'm with you.

If I have to use the default keyboard to enter arithmetic expressions, I'd rather SSH to my own server. I'm not exactly sure of the privacy implications of typing things into Siri.

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

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Post by moritzwarhier »

tolmasky wrote: post #232
moritzwarhier wrote: post #226

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Yes, but I feel this is totally Ok here? I think it would slow me down even more if it didn't have this behavior, because of typing in extra unintended numbers? I don't have any issues with typing my passcode in quickly, and tbh hadn't noticed the tweak with the immediate feedback on "tapdown" (and the possibility of the number disappearing). Would have to try, but I still feel I prefer the current behavior to what y…

Your comment implied that this was following the traditional pattern where moving away cancels an action before it takes place. I hope we at minimum agree that the Lock Screen uses a unique behavior that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the UI. I really think you’re just confusing this third interaction mode we’re describing with the traditional mouseup mode that has existed for 3 decades everywhere else. The simplest…

No, I didn't think of that Code entry character "preview" before in any way. Especially since it's only a dot appearing in practise.

It's just that I usually attempt to enter that code quickly if I have to, so I never consciously noticed it.

It seems great to me because when I enter my code slowly, I'm probably having input problems anyway (e.g. rain, thin gloves, tiredness).

And in these situations, the behavior felt so natural to me that I only now notice it.

I agree it may seem weird from a coherence standpoint, but the character appearing on keydown like it does just felt natural to me, just like a Win98 native button-down state.

These buttons don't behave like physical push-button phone buttons.

Regarding the calculator, the use case is the exact opposite, and I wasn't arguing against this regular "keypress" behavior anyway, just against the original suggested "keydown" behavior, which I'd consider a nightmare when used for tapping an on-screen keyboard.

The "bastardized" version on the iOS lock screen just has suited me well for this use case, especially when talking about numeric lock codes

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

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Post by IWeldMelons »

mrob wrote: post #402
IWeldMelons wrote: post #400

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It happens in primates, blue light causes problems. So yeah very much relevant. Stop cherrypicking.

Outdoor daylight typically has more blue light in it than indoor light, yet outdoor light appears to be protective. So yes, "unclear" is accurate.

No this is incorrect. Spectrally, LED light has far "bluer" spectrum, with a very sharp peak at 450nm. Sunlight has its blue part smeared all over the range, with the most energy in cyan 500 area .

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

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Post by fragmede »

IWeldMelons wrote: post #406
mrob wrote: post #402

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Outdoor daylight typically has more blue light in it than indoor light, yet outdoor light appears to be protective. So yes, "unclear" is accurate.

No this is incorrect. Spectrally, LED light has far "bluer" spectrum, with a very sharp peak at 450nm. Sunlight has its blue part smeared all over the range, with the most energy in cyan 500 area .

Depends on the LEDs. High CRI LEDs are available for those that want light closer to sunlight.

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

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Post by fferen »

qingcharles wrote: post #248
fferen wrote: post #241

On the topic of calculator font bugs, Google's calculator randomly switches between two fonts: https://pasteboard.co/lmbr4iE6BJej.png https://pasteboard.co/sU3GA5psIaT0.png

The first one is worse because the 0 looks more like an O. What platform?

Edge on Mac, but IIRC it happens on Windows as well. Just checked in firefox/mac and seems OK.
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