• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    1 month ago

    Calculator apps should have achievements, like “Pressed clear 5 times”, and “You could have done this in your head”.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 month ago

        Sometimes I do stuff that torpedoes my confidence so hard that, yes, I need to double check that 2 + 2 really does equal 3.

        ~Today I relearned how bad I am with (de-)soldering, and wasted money on some hall effect joysticks for my now-trashed xbox controller. If you need me, I’ll be in the corner crying.~

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 month ago

    I like to laugh at dumb people as much as the next one. But on a more serious note:

    Brains forget shit. And my unsubstantiated opinion is that that is what makes humans so great. We can learn easily, but on the flipside, anything that isn’t practiced regularly goes down the drain. Calculating things in your head is one of those things you just don’t practice regularly (and why would you?) So draw out your calculator for things like the square root of 1337 and keep your precious cerebral resources for shit that matters, like making furry porn.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 month ago

      I won’t deny I forget shit, as you say, but 99% (hang on, let me check that on my calculator) of why I look stuff up is to double check.

      Most (but definitely not all) of why I use private browsing, for example, is because I’m looking up a tech question to which I know the answer, but about which I want to be certain before I make a git commit.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Wait, you all are naughty too and totally ignore sig figs in your calculations?

    I didn’t know this was such a depraved community…

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    I won a regional high school mathematical competition with items like “21+6” in my calculator history. It really helped to offload numbers to my trusty CASIO fx-85ES Plus and focus on the letters and logic.