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Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types
Apparently this replaces https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
- Insect – high precision scientific calculator with support for physical units
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What projects do you wish there was a self hosted version of
You might like https://insect.sh/ ;)
- Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
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ka: a calculator language for the command line
For the record I use insect.
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Looking to build a plugin for logseq. Your problems needed!
https://github.com/sharkdp/insect seems to be somewhat similar, but it's mostly for physical units. However, it's the only opensource one that is embeddable.
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Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why?
Insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
It is a bit slow but has decent features, including some physical units support.
I set up Tilda (or another Guake equivalent; I tried a bunch of them and can’t remember on which I settled in the end) to run it automatically when a terminal is opened, when pressing Scroll Lock. It’s quite neat: when I need to do a quick calculation, I just hit Scroll Lock, which spawns a drop down terminal with the focus; then type whatever I want to calculate; then control-D to dismiss the drop down terminal and I am back in whatever I was doing without moving either hand off the keyboard.
I do more or less the same thing on my Mac with Alfred.
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Kagi Search – Public Beta
I'm in the same boat and will pay for Kagi, though I have a different interaction with a search engine and thought you might like the counterpoint. Notably, I don't use Google for most of what you described:
Translation: I use DeepL instead (google is doing poorly on Asian languages)
Conversion: not having much need for imperial but I use this for all unit conversion (though usually directly in my terminal): https://insect.sh/
Wikipedia: if I type Wikipedia+something my browser automatically use the wiki engine (chrome can do that too)
Word definition: on OSX I long press on the trackpad and the definition pops up (across languages, translation too for single words)
Lyrics: Spotify show them now! (admittedly that's a recent feature)
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anyone know a calculator that can count to unreasonably high numbers? I'm talking x*10^1000 and stuff??
insect.sh goes up to about 109 × 1015.
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Whatever Happened to Wolfram Alpha?
you might want to try units(1).
https://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
the input language is less flexible than wolframalpha/google, but i quickly got used to it. it's nice to have something local and reliable. you can also define custom units.
i prefer using it in terse mode:
$ units -t 0.03$/hr*1month
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Rates - currency rates in your terminal
Yes, units must not be used for currencies, it relies on hardcoded conversion rates. The latest version uses prices from FloatRates (2020-11-15) for most currencies and services.packetizer.com/btc for bitcoin. So while units is very very good for units conversion, it's no good for currencies unless you don't need more than a crude rule of thumb.
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GNU Units
Does the GNU projet makes it repositories available online ?
I'd like to have a look at the code but all I found is an outdated mirror : https://github.com/ryantenney/gnu-units
What are some alternatives?
kalk - Scientific calculator with math syntax that supports user-defined variables and functions, complex numbers, and estimation of derivatives and integrals
rate.sx - :moneybag: curl cryptocurrencies exchange rates
TRex - Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.
Unitful.jl - Physical quantities with arbitrary units
uom - Units of measurement -- type-safe zero-cost dimensional analysis
UnitSystems.jl - Physical unit systems (Metric, English, Natural, etc...)
Copyfish - Copy, paste and translate text from images, videos and PDFs with this free Chrome extension
Ruby Units - A unit handling library for ruby
macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
bubbleos
calc - C-style arbitrary precision calculator
rates - Currency exchange rates in your terminal 🇺🇦