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by sharkdp 9y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I'm open for any syntax suggestions.
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Thank you very much for the feedback! This is on purpose (see operator precedence rules: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect#reference ). Implicit multiplication (without an explicit multiplication operator) has a higher
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Thank you for the feedback! > Is there any way I can save a list of variables to file and then reload hem? Not yet, no - thank you for the suggestion. The command-line version can read from a file, though ( https://github.com&#
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Hi, thank you very much for the feedback. Actually, autocompletion should work already?
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Yes. The underlying unit-conversion library is called https://github.com/sharkdp/purescript-quantities It does not have a (nice) JavaScript API, so far, as it is written in PureScript - like Insect.
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Thank you very much for the feedback!
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by sharkdp 9y ago
Hi HN! This has been posted a few months ago (by someone else), but it wasn't really finished back then. The feedback I got here last time has helped a lot to improve all sorts of things. Looking forward to your comments! Old discussio
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Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units(insect.sh)
354 points by sharkdp 9y ago|195 comments
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by sharkdp 10y ago
When I wrote that, I thought of wolfram alpha....
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by sharkdp 10y ago
> It seems as though the "h/s" should be resolved and that the result should instead be "4.05Gb" Yes, thank you. This is already tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues&#x
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by sharkdp 10y ago
I see, thanks for the clarification
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! This is not really a bug, but I agree that it looks quite weird right now. Explanation in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918393
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by sharkdp 10y ago
There is: Currently, "b", "byte" and "bytes" is for bytes and "bit", "bits" is for bits.
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! > It's great that you use significant digits, but then you have to be explicit about it, and display exactly that many digits, in this case all the zeros (1,00000). Yes, I completely agree from a statisti
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Absolutely agreed. This is on my priority list and there is already an open issue which is tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/37
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Ctrl-L is used to clear the screen (same as in terminals, apparently it does not work for you?), but I agree... I also use Ctrl-L to change the URL. I'll see if I can change it (this is not really part of in
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by sharkdp 10y ago
The output is currently rounded to six significant digits. In this case, the result is 1,000004.., which is rounded to 1,00000 and displayed as 1. I'm not sure what the best default behaviour would be. Typically, I would say that six s
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by sharkdp 10y ago
You are absolutely right. I am afraid there is no good solution for the problem except for performing symbolic calculations or simplifications. A hacky solution could be to round the output of sin(x) to a given internal precision. This woul
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Done, thanks!
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback. You can use `ans` to refer to the last result: > 5+20 25 > ans+10 35
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I will try to fix this.
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback. I'm going to work on this. It is already addressed here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/30
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I have a german keyboard and haven't really considered this. I will try to improve the examples. Edit: should be fixed now.
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Author here, thank you for the feedback! I will try to add these. Tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Here's a hint (SPOILER, obviously): https://gist.github.com/sharkdp/47f62f3fe6870c51b510cc912960...
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. Already working on new puzzles...
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Show HN: CuriositY(shark.fish)
20 points by sharkdp 10y ago|13 comments
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Very nice game! I've written a similar game a while back (single player, though): http://david-peter.de/quizzity/
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by sharkdp 10y ago
Interesting, thank you for the information!
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by sharkdp 10y ago
That's probably it. I was trying to figure out if anacron could really handle file system changes ;-). Thanks for the link. It looks like it is bit more complicated to set up and rather suited for permanently running tasks.

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