Calculator-as-a-service
When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.
It costs less than a Stabucks coffee every 5 minutes.
I wouldn’t know. I can’t check.
Adless addition is easily worth it
The secret to selling the calculator subscription is to use the smallest possible time base for the quoted price since the potential clients can’t use the calculator to figure out the yearly cost of the subscription.
Yeah, but if you sign up for a year up front you get an additional 15 parentheses a month.
Addition = 1 mathgem.
Subtraction = 2 mathgems.
Multiplication = 3 mathgems.
Division = 5 math gems.
Square root = 10 mathgems.
100 math gems = £1.99.
1,000 math gems = £15.99.
10,000 math gems = £129.99. BEST VALUE
There’s a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the
fridgefringe edges of space. They’re like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It’s a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk… the moldy leftovers!
What a bizarre idea. Thanks for the rec!
Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
That sounds amazing. I’ll give that a read, thanks mate
My library has it thanks!!
Awesome my library app has it, thanks! Sounds right up my alley!
First time seeing them mentioned online, Charles Stross is great
the Laundry Files
Sweet, Thanks.
I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library’s e-book program.
I’m looking forward to reading this.
I’d like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They’re a very fun series (I’ve “only” been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)
Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks a ton the last few years, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you’re doing menial tasks that aren’t mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping… audiobook.
I’ve been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that’s also weird as hell. Weirder even than the Laundry Files by far. A half naked protagonist fighting for his life with his girlfriend’s cat in tow, meth head llamas, and a dungeon-controlling AI with a thing for feet, just to name a few things from early in the first book. And the narrator for Carl sounds a lot like Patrick Warburton. Thoroughly recommend if that sounds like your kind of thing.
I’ll definitely give them a listen!
I also need to recommend, as you seem to be a brid of my feather, using audible and a kindle together to trade off between daytime story listening and nighttime reading in bed. I know Amazon is evil, and there are a lot of issues in particular with audible’s payment structure towards indie authors, but God damn do they offer a compelling service. I picked up a new-gen Paperwhite last prime day and my bedtime routine and travel bag has been irrepreably changed.
I’d love to hear more about what you’ve been listing to!
Edit: I didn’t make it clear above but Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.
Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.
I did not know that. That is actually a nice feature. I used to jump back and forth between ebook and audiobook on my phone but it was a pain to find your spot again when you swap if you didnt do it at a chapter change.
I was looking as a Kindle the other day for night time reading but wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it or not. I dont know if i can trust it to just be an ereader. I bought a cheap fire tablet for my wife a few years ago and found out too late that it was a cheap vehicle for ads. Apparently I bought the wrong one. They have a more expensive model that is ad free, but I didn’t know about it at the time.
I’m jaded about buying amazon tech now. Not just for anti-competitive, anti-union stuff (which unfortunately is not just an Amazon problem), but the products themselves not just being a product you buy and own. They make their product into a tool to inundate you with ads and get you to consume more. Feels like you are getting tricked. Do you have ads on your paperwhite?
Also, since you asked, I’ve been on a LitRPG kick lately. Two series in particular. Well… two authors/settings in particular. The first is He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon. An aussie nihilist smart-ass finds himself naked and hairless in a new world that operates on RPG rules, gains abilities, saves some people, joins an adventuring party and guild, pisses a lot of people in power off, and has to constantly grow stronger to keep those people in power from controlling or destroying him. I like the world, there is a lot of laughs, fantastically descriptive fights, epic world-ending stakes and even some really deeply emotional stuff in later books. He publishes the stories chapter by chapter on a website, then compiles them into books, then they get recorded into audiobooks. As a result, there are a few times where the story was noticably disjointed or retreads the same point a bit that I think is due to these chapter releases and disconnected edits. But I love the characters, even if the protagonist is an ass with plot armor sometimes. Good dumb fun.
The other ones I ran through recently are all by the same author and in the same setting and even happen (nearly) contemporaneously, but they are 3 separate series. The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and The Grim Guys, all by Eric Ugland. They have some overlapping side characters/events, but they are each largely contained to their own narratives. They are also LitRPG series, so as you would expect, the setting is another world with gods, monsters, and magic that operates on a RPG-like system with character sheets, levels, skills, etc. In The Good Guys, a dude who had lived his life doing awful things gets a second chance in this fantasy world and somewhat reluctantly becomes a hero, a leader, and an overpowered pile of muscle. In The Bad Guys, a serial burgler with a soft spot for kids gets a chance in this new world to make something of himself. Though he planned to be the best rogue he could be, he ends up more along the lines of a Robin-hood figure, using his criminal skills to help others that depend on him. And in The Grim Guys, two best friends and partner ghost hunters are brought to this new world to be monster hunters in service to a patron goddess. They basically become the Winchesters from Supernatural, an observation that is actually made by themselves in the story.
I’m caught up on all those series waiting for more and nearly caught up on the Dungeon Crawler series too. Don’t know yet what I’m picking up after.
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
novel series called the Laundry Files
Thank you i’ll search that 👍
Happy to share. Hope you enjoy.
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
It’s the teachers that said we wouldn’t always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
Yup. If you use your calculator for 5×6 instead of remembering your times tables, they lock you out
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It’s an old code but it checks out
5318008
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You divided by zero didn’t you?
NO CALCULATOR IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN’T DO!
look what you did, now everything is broken
Pssh, I’ll divide by zero all day. You just need -infinity=infinity (think a number circle instead of a number line), and you’re good.
It’s 0/0 where the real crimes begin.
Yep. ∞ is infinitely big in the same way that 0 is infinitely small. -0 = 0 and -∞ = ∞. Opposite ends of the circle. (Or the Riemann sphere if you like complex numbers.)
While this Riemann sphere seems like a useful concept, -∞ = ∞ is an observation that doesn’t seem to hold true outside this spherical model of complex numbers. Just add ∞ to the both sides, and you end up with 0 = ∞ + ∞ which is most certainly not true.
0 = ∞ + ∞ which is most certainly not true.
This is only true if both infinite are the same, but one is negative. As a general statement you’re right, that this is not true.
Well - in the post I replied to there was explicit talk about +∞ and -∞, upon which I believe it is fair to say that ∞ is positive in this example.
Sure. And it also doesn’t help to avoid the problems with division by zero. But lucky we’re posting in the shitpost section, so we don’t have to worry too much about details.
Just add ∞ to the both sides
That’s why ∞ - ∞ is left undefined (same as 0/0 and ∞/∞)
adding ∞ to both sides does not create a ∞ - ∞ situation, though. The substraction is a whole different topic, because it becomes an elimination problem, whereas ∞ + ∞ = ∞
For an easy approximation by this rule, just differentiate both numerator and denominator by the same variable and apply the limits again.
Silly Euclideans
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Legend says he divided by zero
And he even found a value.
howls of discontent
Oops, all numbers are 0 now
I haz a value.
We all have value
iPad users be like
Now only included on Apple One.
You probably did meth
Tried to do the funny “58008” on the display didn’t you?
5318008
55378008
There was 1 girl she was 16, she screwed 69 guys 3x. What’s that make her?
35007
The square root of 69 is 8 something
Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can’t stop me. L’Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
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Huh, I was expecting my phone’s calculator to return i, but it just says it’s undefined. You’d think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don’t?
Lol, the Android calculator says, “Keep it real”.
Oh wow, that’s a nice touch. I love when devs do things like this to amuse themselves.
I mean, it’s kind of funny, but also not a great user experience. If you’re familiar with complex numbers, then you’re left annoyed that it won’t perform the computation. If you’re not familiar with complex numbers, then you don’t get the joke and it’s not a helpful error message.
Yeah, but if you’re familiar with complex numbers, you also will have or know how to get a better calculator.
mine just says can’t divide by zero :(
Iiiiih…
Wall hacks.
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I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn’t know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2sHere is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2s
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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TEACH ME THE DARK EQUATIONS OF OLD
Homie tried to divide by zero.
Homie is chinese
This is what smurfing will get ya
