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I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way. Like what Apple does with stopwatch. https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displays-fake-time/ https

by alberth 11mo ago

I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way. Like what Apple does with stopwatch. https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displays-fake-time/ https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displa...

happytoexplain 11mo ago
This is just rounding to nearest instead of down or up, not statically adding a whole interval (as the author realizes in an addendum).
- Thorrez 11mo ago
  My oven always rounds up. Until the last minute, when it immediately switches from 2 minutes to 59 seconds.
godelski 11mo ago
It seems easier to use the ceiling
- saghm 11mo ago
  From looking at the bottom of the linked post (which says it was edited, not sure when in relation to your comment), it sounds like they wanted something that worked across arbitrary times split across units (hour/minute/seconds) without having to handle carry-over. I'm not sure I would choose to alter the times themselves over making the math a bit more complex, but the author has obviously thought about this a lot more than me, and it's nice that they at least considered that alternative.
kybernetyk 11mo ago
Heh, funny. I recently implemented a countdown for a teleprompting app and that's exactly what I ended up doing to make the countdown "feel right". The countdown in question doesn't display fractions of a second so it would immediately switch from "5 seconds left" to "4 seconds left" which just doesn't feel right. Adding 0.5s solved the issue.
- fainpul 11mo ago
  Just round up. The countdown is done as soon as 0 appears (0 doesn't linger for 1 second).
- happytoexplain 11mo ago
  To expand a bit on what others have said: If you're counting up, round down. If you're counting down, round up. A human expects the count to finish at precisely the moment we get to the last number in the sequence (zero, for counting down). Do a count in your head to see what I mean. Apple chose a compromise by rounding to nearest, for it to "feel good", but you lose the ability to exactly predict when the timer ends as a human. Typical Apple.
vachina 11mo ago
It is still tracking the actual time though. This signal strength is straight up lying about the actual signal strength

by alberth 11mo ago

happytoexplain 11mo ago

This is just rounding to nearest instead of down or up, not statically adding a whole interval (as the author realizes in an addendum).

Thorrez 11mo ago
My oven always rounds up. Until the last minute, when it immediately switches from 2 minutes to 59 seconds.

godelski 11mo ago

It seems easier to use the ceiling

saghm 11mo ago
From looking at the bottom of the linked post (which says it was edited, not sure when in relation to your comment), it sounds like they wanted something that worked across arbitrary times split across units (hour/minute/seconds) without having to handle carry-over. I'm not sure I would choose to alter the times themselves over making the math a bit more complex, but the author has obviously thought about this a lot more than me, and it's nice that they at least considered that alternative.

kybernetyk 11mo ago

Heh, funny. I recently implemented a countdown for a teleprompting app and that's exactly what I ended up doing to make the countdown "feel right". The countdown in question doesn't display fractions of a second so it would immediately switch from "5 seconds left" to "4 seconds left" which just doesn't feel right. Adding 0.5s solved the issue.

fainpul 11mo ago
Just round up. The countdown is done as soon as 0 appears (0 doesn't linger for 1 second).
happytoexplain 11mo ago
To expand a bit on what others have said: If you're counting up, round down. If you're counting down, round up. A human expects the count to finish at precisely the moment we get to the last number in the sequence (zero, for counting down). Do a count in your head to see what I mean. Apple chose a compromise by rounding to nearest, for it to "feel good", but you lose the ability to exactly predict when the timer ends as a human. Typical Apple.

vachina 11mo ago

It is still tracking the actual time though. This signal strength is straight up lying about the actual signal strength