JakeSparkleChicken

@ JakeSparkleChicken @midwest.social

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Calculator Community midwest.social

Yes it is! Makes my little nerdy heart glow!

6mo ago

R47 officially goes on sale, early bird discount available here: https://47calc.com/ #calculators #rpn #hp

That is a thing of beauty! Unfortunately, I think I'd need to win the lottery. With the US dollar dropping against the Euro plus the tariffs, that little guy would be pretty damn pricey and only get more expensive as time goes on.

6mo ago

Casio fx-CG100

Calculator Community @midwest.social

I looks and feels great, which makes it all the more frustrating that it is basically a downgrade from the previous model.

JakeSparkleChicken @midwest.social

6mo ago

Casio fx-CG100

6mo ago

Floral grid blocks

That is such a clever way to play with asymmetry on several different levels

7mo ago

What is something in your house (a piece of furniture, a tool or houseware) that is more than 20 years old?

I have several calculators and electronic organizers that are old enough to drink in the US. A few slide rules that are old enough to retire. I might have some weird stuff in the back of the freezer that would qualify, too.

7mo ago

A calculator you would approve of @SmartmanApps ! This might be one of my favourite algebraic #calculators, but then I was always a fan of Sharps.

As far as complex numbers go, the 991CW doesn't add anything that most other flagship scientific calculators can do.

7mo ago

A calculator you would approve of @SmartmanApps ! This might be one of my favourite algebraic #calculators, but then I was always a fan of Sharps.

Sorry about that! I spoke from memory instead of checking my data first. The Trig functions are pretty middle of the pack, it's the integration and the processor speed that are not that great. sum((e^{sin(atan(x)))}(1/3), 1, 1000) takes six minutes to run, but at least it completes. The Casio fx-991CW takes just over on minute, and even the TI-36X Pro only takes four minutes.

7mo ago

A calculator you would approve of @SmartmanApps ! This might be one of my favourite algebraic #calculators, but then I was always a fan of Sharps.

Fountain Pens @lemmy.world

That is a beautiful picture of a beautiful calculator! I love mine, too, but it does fall down rather quickly in some of the trig and differentiation edge cases.

JakeSparkleChicken @midwest.social

8mo ago

My first Pelikan!

8mo ago

GNU Octave

JakeSparkleChicken @midwest.social 8mo ago

SageMath is my go to for heavy math.

9mo ago

Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?

JakeSparkleChicken @midwest.social 9mo ago

Nothing will ever hook me as badly as Kerbal Space Program did. If I wasn't at work, I was playing Kerbal for five years straight. No breaks, didn't play anything else during that time. Once I got RealSolarSystem and RealismOverhaul working, you couldn't pry me away from the computer. I put in aver 10,000 hours, easily.

10mo ago

Estie button piston question

Happy to help!

10mo ago

Estie button piston question

It's a lovely pen, and I just bought one myself! The trick to getting a full-ish fill is to dunk the nib in the ink and rapidly push on the button about eight or nine times. You'll feel a difference in the button action when it gets as full as it is going to. The button will give a bit of resistance at that point. I don't remember if mine got completely full, but I know that it holds a decent amount of ink. I hope that helps!

10mo ago

Angled Desktop Calculator With Brackets?

You can't increase the font size, but it is larger than the HP Prime and TI nspire CXII on large font.

10mo ago

Angled Desktop Calculator With Brackets?

I just dug through the offerings of all of the niche calculator manufacturers I can think of and came up empty handed. What I would recommend in your case is the Casio fx-CG50, though. It has rubber pads on the back of the case and enough heft that it doesn't move when placed on a desk and used one-handed. The screen is easily visible from most angles and it has the largest font of all of my graphing calculators.

10mo ago

Could Venusian greenhouse gas effects keep a TNO like Pluto warm?

Most chemicals that are gasses this close to the sun are solids that far out. Carbon dioxide freezes at just -79 C at one atmosphere of pressure. The energy coming in from the sun would not be enough to keep good greenhouse gasses from precipitating out of the atmosphere.

1y ago

Blue prince - overwhelming good puzzle game, strongly recommended

I'm about 10 hours in and really enjoying it! Did you complete it?

1y ago

Anyone here tried Owncloud?

That's interesting that they refactored it. Maybe there have been some improvements made over the last seven years.

1y ago

Anyone here tried Owncloud?

In the beginning, there was ownCloud. They were a good FLOSS offering that decided to start catering solely to corporate customers in the hopes of juicy support contracts. The community who had been contributing the majority of the code gave them a mighty "Fork you" and created NextCloud.

That was about ten years ago. I haven't looked into ownCloud for the last seven or so, but it had stagnated pretty badly by that point. Maybe they've gotten some fresh blood since then, but you'll likely find it to be quite lacking in features and plugins comparatively.

1y ago

Sharp EL-501V