Comment by matheusmoreira
9 hours ago
The new calculator isn't just slow to open, it seems to have actual input lag too. God I miss the old calculator.
To me it's not sad, it's infuriating. This corporation is worth a trillion dollars. Why can't they do their jobs? I'm sure the old calculator could be maintained and improved without screwing it up beyond belief. Send us some fat stacks and we'll do it.
Its AI and not humans that make up that trillion dollars and its AI enshloppification that created the new calculator. You are not AI - no fat stack for you.
They're not gonna put LLM nonsense in the freaking calculator, right?
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What a time to be alive.
>God I miss the old calculator.
Prayer won't help you now ;)
With numbers >1000 they are of course displayed with thousands separators as 1,000 (text) now like you would see in financial reports, how attractive. Big numbers have a few commas too. No longer displayed as unseparated numerical constants, like you know, computers have always used.
And if you copy the figure from the calculator display, by right-clicking for the context menu or CTRL-C, you get the whole separated text with commas included to paste into where you need it.
So the receiving textbox you pasted to now needs to have the commas manually edited out before you can go forward, unlike any other Windows calculator.
I guess somebody forgot that people might want it to be at least as useful as it was since the 1990's.
You can still paste plain numeric text in without any commas, it just doesn't copy back out in the same usable format like it always did before.
You can't make this up.
A calculator is supposed to be the perfect example of a no-brainer :\
Edit: If you do the math it must have been more than one person who forgot, you have to think, is it even possible for one person alone to be responsible for quality declines like we have seen on their own? If so who would that be?
Wow that's annoying. Just reproduced the issue on my work computer. It's real. It even localizes the commas into periods too which is amazing because it has the potential to be parsed as a floating point number!
Just for the record, I just timed how long it took for the calculator to open. Eleven seconds. That's how long it took for it to display a window on the screen. A useless blue filled window that did nothing. It took a total of 17 seconds for it to show the calculator controls and be usable. This isn't a loaded machine, it's a freshly booted Windows system that's been at rest literally doing nothing for over five minutes. Notepad opened and was usable in less than one second.