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Chemical Wonka @discuss.tchncs.de

3mo ago

hard days

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Return to slide rule. Got us to the moon.
- You learn a lot of interesting things in flight school. One of those things is how to use an E6B "flight computer." Don't let the name fool you, it's not some high-tech device. It's a circular slide rule.
  
  I always start looking into buying one, but remember that I already have one in my pocket and I usually use it to verify simple stuff like that 3+5 does indeed equal 8.

I have an open-source calculator app, OpenCalc, off F-Droid on Android for light stuff.
I use maxima on Android and Linux for heavyweight stuff.
I mean, if you want it, it's there.
- Thanks for your recommendation man but I'm using GrapheneOS
  
  I mean, that's de-Googled Android, which is in significant part what F-Droid is aimed at. Surely F-Droid works on that, and both OpenCalc and maxima are on that.
  kagis
  Yeah:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS
  In March 2022, writing for How-To Geek Joe Fedewa said that Google apps were not included due to concerns over privacy, and GrapheneOS also did not include a default app store. Instead, Fedewa suggested, F-Droid could be used.[5]
  I kind of figured that everyone using the de-Googled Android things was using F-Droid.
  EDIT: Didn't link to the F-Droid maxima page.

Mmm, calcGPT

I find that it's almost equal parts privacy related and just the want to reduce technology in my life now.

I'm fine with actual engineers running tech companies, because most enshittification is done by the business management degree carriers.

???? Wasn't Wolfram alpha one of the first publicly available programs on the Internet using "AI"????
- They kind of legitimately do have a reason to want to do natural language processing of some form, because they've got a lot of useful functionality in Mathematica that you have to have specialized knowledge of syntax to access.
  
  That's what I'm saying it's one of the best uses for AI we have and one of the most long-lasting.
  
  Interesting!
  Suppose computer code of any kind can result in an enjoyable UX. But suppose it’s 95% “AI” bandwagoners aggravatingly cramming it in to check a box, and they ain’t got Apple budgets:
  (Can’t do that automagic handwriting to math w/o some serious… machine learning or whatnot, but more importantly implementation’s thoughtful)

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