• @[email protected]
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    335 hours ago

    Calculators just have a bad user interface in general. It’s pretty amazing that the UI was established in 1970 and was never changed after that.

  • @WhatYouNeed
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    446 hours ago

    Press both simultaneously, while twisting the joystick in a “C” motion, to launch a fireball.

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      117 minutes ago

      It’s amazing how much better this game looks than a bunch of games that came out years after it.

      • @stupidcasey
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        75 hours ago

        There sure is a lot of overlap with people criticizing the technical interface of a calculator and nerds, wonder why that is? Oh well glad I’m not one of those nerds, now back to the clear button being so obtuse.

  • @kopasz7
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    105 hours ago

    Software engineer: just turn it off and on again.

  • @whotookkarl
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    9311 hours ago

    It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning

    • @pretzelz
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      4910 hours ago

      Mate, you can just put your finger over the solar panel until it slowly gets strangled

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      I discovered that hitting something like C, CE and 0 simultaneously for some reason worked as an instant power off for my school calculator. Do calculators have such hidden off-buttons? Because I have discovered other calculators with other combinations.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 hour ago

        There’s actually a neat reason for this! The way that simple keys work, like those in a calculator, is by connecting a circuit and letting a small amount of voltage through. This is usually fine because the keypad is broken up into different rollover zones, which is how multi-key input works. But if you find and press keys that are all in the same zone, their voltages add up and can actually overwhelm the little cpu in there. Really old calculators were really easy to break because designers never thought users would need to press keys like division, multiplication, subtract, add, square and square root all at once, which as you can imagine, caused a massive power spike.

        Now, is any of this true? I have no idea dude, you’re calculator was probably fucking haunted or something. I’d have taken that thing to a seance with a ouija board immediately.

  • themeatbridge
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    CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.

    C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.

    Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.

    • @youstolemyname
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      53 hours ago

      Should be replaced with a backspace icon and a trash can icon

    • @RustyNova
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      And in my mind “CE” is “Clear everything”. I’m keeping OP’s method

      • @tpihkal
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        8012 hours ago

        Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game. You always restart from the beginning.

        • teft
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          Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game.

          If that were true then mashing buttons on your calculator would prevent any inputs from being processed for a few seconds.

          Fromsoft believes in punishing button-mashers.

          • @Xanis
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            Unless it’s Dark Souls 2 wherein you mash a couple buttons after being knocked down or rolling and manage to queue up your binoculars perfectly. This, in turn, allows you to get a really splendid look at your enemy’s grimacing face as he shoves a rather vicious and often seriously pointy metal object up your ass. All the while you’re frantically trying to roll away and accidentally toss back a flask. This manages to save you from an untimely demise until you notice that you backed up a little too much and that dude waiting to ambush took one last drag from his cigarette, flicked it away, and proceeded to club your head like he was Babe Ruth after a particularly hearty breakfast.

            Then on the way back to your souls some asshole named “Forsworn” gets in your way. God only knows what his problem is.

        • Sabata
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          49 hours ago

          …and may end with a shattered calculator.

    • @[email protected]
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      4111 hours ago

      Problem is on some calculators C is clear all and CE is clear entry, on some C is clear entry and AC is clear all, and some have a C/AC or CE/C button where it’s press once to clear entry and press twice to clear all.

      So it’s safest to mash unless you really know your calculator, because the industry can’t get its shit together, and that’s the sole reason it died (I’m assuming.)

      • @[email protected]
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        46 hours ago

        Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.

        I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.

      • Rhaedas
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        Why didn’t they just make one Clear and make another Backspace? The concept of erasing the last character had been in typewriters for a while by then, and this is far more obvious. Maybe erasing a single digit in earlier software/hardware was much harder than just clearing it all?

        • @RememberTheApollo_
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          Some do that, too. Unfortunately the weight of tradition seems to enforce the C/CE/AC key preference.

          Even the iphone built in OS calculator has the “AC” button unless you manually tap the entry window, then you get a backspace.

    • geogle
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      That’s why it never worked for me. I assumed CE was Clear Everything.

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 hours ago

      You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.

    • @chiliedogg
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      510 hours ago

      But sometimes CE is “Clear Everything” and it works exactly the opposite way.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      And it all depends on the calculator. The one right next to me only has a CE button and it acts as a C button. So not even the people making them know what they do sometimes.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 hours ago

      Shit. I thought it was clear and clear everything. I guess this is why I also push both buttons rapidly and make sure to just retype everything

  • @aeronmelon
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    6212 hours ago

    Same energy as me holding Ctrl and pressing S seven times just to make sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 hours ago

      I don’t think anyone’s ever been punished for saving twice. Right?

      This is where people give me examples where people have been prove me wrong. Please I want to know the sadness of others sadness give give sadness. Give give now sadness give

      • @[email protected]
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        Once I was working on some music and got so excited about how it turned out I hit ctrl S like 5 times, it corrupted the project and I lost it 😭

        • Thassodar
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          Similarly I was working on a track and doing something super experimental that I was going to revert and accidentally hit CTRL S instead of CTRL A (automation), saving all the weird shit.

          Luckily I didn’t lose it, but CTRL Z-ing back to what I was doing prior was annoying because I did some things I wanted to keep on other channels

          (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

  • walden
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    3012 hours ago

    The calculator on my phone has an “AC” button, further confusing the situation.

  • @JimVanDeventer
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    I am using and loving Solve by Pomegranate Apps. Multiple workspaces and advanced functions available a swipe away. It doesn’t seem to be available anymore, and it looked like the company was hitting hard times when they dumped things like Trump quotes and other shit apps into the store. So, apprehensive to recommend because of weirdness but best calculator ever.

    Edit: down arrows barely meant anything on Reddit and they mean literally nothing here. Fuck you and your annoying orange. Peace out, hugs and kisses.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      My favorite was MathAlly. I still have it through some built-in android backwards compatibility emulator, but once it goes, it goes. They haven’t been on the app store for years.

  • @[email protected]
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    I do it a bunch of times for the same reason I also CTRL+C a bunch of times when I need to copy on windows.

    • HubertManne
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      I mean that I get since it seems to ignore a single ctrl+c on windows regularly.

  • @marcos
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    412 hours ago

    I just noticed I don’t have a hardware calculator…

    And the software one I remember about is translated.

      • snooggums
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        212 hours ago

        I am fairly confident it was a joke.

      • @Skanky
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        110 hours ago

        That’s only of you have it set to Wumbo

    • @[email protected]
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      48 hours ago

      Clear and Clear Entry.

      The better option is to use an RPN calculator as Hewlett-Packard used to make. Then the back arrow button just eliminates one digit at a time.

    • @HootinNHollerinOP
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      Is that true though? We’ll never know. One of the great mysteries

    • CornflakeDog
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      That’s how it works on the adding machine I use at work. That might not be universal, but if I input something wrong I press C and retype it, meanwhile if I need to reset it all I press CE.