settings
My settings + prezto for zsh, spf13 for vim, and other dotfiles culled from github (by adamrights)
dotfiles
My dotfiles. (by orlp)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
settings
Posts with mentions or reviews of settings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.
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Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?
No, I use mostly this function, based on bc: https://github.com/adamrights/settings/blob/f0337925391b5ea0...
I am currently trying, however, to fix a broken TI-84 Plus I found on the street.
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.
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Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?
No, I use a Python interpreter that is always open in tmux on the first tab. I have a bunch of predefined functions that I use a lot: https://github.com/orlp/dotfiles/blob/master/pcalc/pcalc
The killer pre-defined functions? copy(x) and paste(). You can guess what they do.
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PCalc, an Origin Story
I have a program always open called pcalc as well, but it's something homebrew and short for Python calculator. It's just a Python repl (enhanced by python-prompt-toolkit) with a bunch of my own pre-defined functions: https://github.com/orlp/dotfiles/blob/master/pcalc/pcalc
I use it all the time, it's so incredibly useful. My most used pre-defined functions are... copy(s) and paste(). E.g. doubling a comma-separated list of numbers is one simple
copy(", ".join(x*2 for x in eval(paste())))
What are some alternatives?
When comparing settings and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:
kalk - Scientific calculator with math syntax that supports user-defined variables and functions, complex numbers, and estimation of derivatives and integrals
free42 - Free42 : An HP-42S Calculator Simulator
numi - Beautiful calculator app for macOS
libqalculate - Qalculate! library and CLI
eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)