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Software engineer: just turn it off and on again.
docker system prune -a docker compose up —buildThe “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” approach.
And then go get some coffee while my containers rebuild
SO true lmao
It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning
Mate, you can just put your finger over the solar panel until it slowly gets strangled
edging the calcy
Hhhhyeah baby let’s multiply
Now we know the C stands for Cum and CE for Cum Edging
What are you, my local DMV?
I discovered that hitting something like C, CE and 0 simultaneously for some reason worked as an instant power off for my school calculator. Do calculators have such hidden off-buttons? Because I have discovered other calculators with other combinations.
There’s actually a neat reason for this! The way that simple keys work, like those in a calculator, is by connecting a circuit and letting a small amount of voltage through. This is usually fine because the keypad is broken up into different rollover zones, which is how multi-key input works. But if you find and press keys that are all in the same zone, their voltages add up and can actually overwhelm the little cpu in there. Really old calculators were really easy to break because designers never thought users would need to press keys like division, multiplication, subtract, add, square and square root all at once, which as you can imagine, caused a massive power spike.
Now, is any of this true? I have no idea dude, you’re calculator was probably fucking haunted or something. I’d have taken that thing to a seance with a ouija board immediately.
Now, is any of this true?
Not really, since keys work by shorting the circuit. That’s why pressing multiple keys at once on your keyboard doesn’t cause it to blow up. It would just assume the button with the shortest circuit was pressed, and ignore the rest.
It might cause weird things to happen with a mechanical or electromechanical calculator, since there were physical mechanisms engaged and disnegaged for each function, and might break/jam those, but not an electronic, and especially not a transistorised one.
It’s more likely that hitting them all confused the CPU, or dropped the voltage down enough that it reset, just in case something strange happened, or to try and fix any bug that might have caused it to register all the buttons being pressed.
I love that you bring a great technical and insightful answer and then just leave with that my calculator is probably posessed.
I do try.
Not very hard, but still.
I think this is actually still an issue. On PCs the space bar + up + left arrow keys conflicts on some keyboards. Try it: open Notepad, press two arrow keys and then space. Most of them works but if you hold up and left, it will not make a space.
This is annoying in racing games, when you want to accelerate, turn left and use the hand brake at the same time.
I don’t know the specifics, but there is such a thing as keyboard rollover. MOST KEYBOARDS—whoa, sorry. Most keyboards support up to 6 keys at once, but it might be that they’re still divided into sections with lower rollover numbers, such as the arrow keys and space. Some “gaming” keyboards support up to 25 though, so your best bet if this bothers you is just upgrading to a spiffier typer.
huhuhuhh, i do thaaat.
I actually did laugh out loud at this though.
Press both simultaneously, while twisting the joystick in a “C” motion, to launch a fireball.
It’s amazing how much better this game looks than a bunch of games that came out years after it.
That’s ki, not fire. 🤓
There sure is a lot of overlap with people criticizing the technical interface of a calculator and nerds, wonder why that is? Oh well glad I’m not one of those nerds, now back to the clear button being so obtuse.
They should have gone with Clear Line instead of Clear Entry, because CE could also be Clear Everything… which is what clear does.
C = clear
CE = clear everything
That’s how it works on the adding machine I use at work. That might not be universal, but if I input something wrong I press C and retype it, meanwhile if I need to reset it all I press CE.
Clear and Clear Entry.
The better option is to use an RPN calculator as Hewlett-Packard used to make. Then the back arrow button just eliminates one digit at a time.
Is that true though? We’ll never know. One of the great mysteries
I thought it was the other way around and CE was clear entry, C was clear.
That’s only of you have it set to Wumbo
I am fairly confident it was a joke.
C = Cthulhu
CE = Cthulhu Evermore
What does that mean? It just sounds like fish noises if I sound it out. Are you ok?
So it’s not just me who’s wrong! Good good. See you in math hell
The calculator on my phone has an “AC” button, further confusing the situation.
The AC button cools the air around you.
No, i used it immediately when i was arriving to an answer it heated me up
Oh yeah, that’s for calculating your armor class.
That’s so you can run it off the mains.
I think AC stands for All Clear
CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.
C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.
Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.
And in my mind “CE” is “Clear everything”. I’m keeping OP’s method
doesn’t everyone know it stands for Celery Endives?
That’s why it never worked for me. I assumed CE was Clear Everything.
I thought it was “Clear Eggs”. Always cleared my eggs… 🤷♂️
Oh my God. Me too!
We three were on the same page.
Should be replaced with a backspace icon and a trash can icon
But sometimes CE is “Clear Everything” and it works exactly the opposite way.
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Problem is on some calculators C is clear all and CE is clear entry, on some C is clear entry and AC is clear all, and some have a C/AC or CE/C button where it’s press once to clear entry and press twice to clear all.
So it’s safest to mash unless you really know your calculator, because the industry can’t get its shit together, and that’s the sole reason it died (I’m assuming.)
Why didn’t they just make one Clear and make another Backspace? The concept of erasing the last character had been in typewriters for a while by then, and this is far more obvious. Maybe erasing a single digit in earlier software/hardware was much harder than just clearing it all?
Some do that, too. Unfortunately the weight of tradition seems to enforce the C/CE/AC key preference.
Even the iphone built in OS calculator has the “AC” button unless you manually tap the entry window, then you get a backspace.
Because calculators used to use paper, and clear entry basically invalidated the line.
This kept the same interface for the really old paper calculator users.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226285302528
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/busicom_141-pf.html the granddaddy of calculators, and the one the Intel 4004 processor was designed for.
but we got digital typewriters that still used paper and those added the obvious functions like backspace and actual text editing tools, why didn’t calculators progress the same?
Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.
I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.
Shit. I thought it was clear and clear everything. I guess this is why I also push both buttons rapidly and make sure to just retype everything
So you’re saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?
Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game. You always restart from the beginning.
Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game.
If that were true then mashing buttons on your calculator would prevent any inputs from being processed for a few seconds.
Fromsoft believes in punishing button-mashers.
Unless it’s Dark Souls 2 wherein you mash a couple buttons after being knocked down or rolling and manage to queue up your binoculars perfectly. This, in turn, allows you to get a really splendid look at your enemy’s grimacing face as he shoves a rather vicious and often seriously pointy metal object up your ass. All the while you’re frantically trying to roll away and accidentally toss back a flask. This manages to save you from an untimely demise until you notice that you backed up a little too much and that dude waiting to ambush took one last drag from his cigarette, flicked it away, and proceeded to club your head like he was Babe Ruth after a particularly hearty breakfast.
Then on the way back to your souls some asshole named “Forsworn” gets in your way. God only knows what his problem is.
Oh, yeah I own that calculator. I bought it from amazon, it was an extremely cheap Scientific calculator with a gimmicky writing pad that tricked me into buying it.
That explains so much…
…and may end with a shattered calculator.
You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.
And it all depends on the calculator. The one right next to me only has a CE button and it acts as a C button. So not even the people making them know what they do sometimes.
This person calculates.
I just noticed I don’t have a hardware calculator…
And the software one I remember about is translated.
Same energy as me holding Ctrl and pressing S seven times just to make sure.
Press Ctrl+M+R+S to <Make> <Really> <Sure>
I don’t think anyone’s ever been punished for saving twice. Right?
This is where people give me examples where people have been prove me wrong. Please I want to know the sadness of others sadness give give sadness. Give give now sadness give
Once I was working on some music and got so excited about how it turned out I hit ctrl S like 5 times, it corrupted the project and I lost it 😭
Similarly I was working on a track and doing something super experimental that I was going to revert and accidentally hit CTRL S instead of CTRL A (automation), saving all the weird shit.
Luckily I didn’t lose it, but CTRL Z-ing back to what I was doing prior was annoying because I did some things I wanted to keep on other channels
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
On an editor that auto saved and where Ctrl+S doesn’t do anything, yes been there done that.
C or AC = clear all
CE = clear entry
That said, there are variations based on brand and model.
I’ve definitely seen C and AC on a calculator, where I think the C does what’s supposed to be CE
Yeah, some companies seem to be allergic to standards, hence the need for the final disclaimer.
I always spam that ce button.
Clearly nobody here does any serious calculator based math
Let’s be honest, if you are doing serious math, you’ll have a graphing calculator to do way more stuff, and the controls are much more like a mini computer (with a backspace key, and being able to delete individual lines of history, or all of the history with menus)
RPN gang!
Not if ur university has dumb rules about what calculator u can us in exams.
TI lobbying colleges and exams facilities to force their crap and overpriced calculators down our throat
I mostly use matlab
Ive been forced to use it a bit and it has so many weird quirks that are just messed up. Index start at 1. Sometimes u have to assign some function output to a variable before u can pass it as an argument to another function.
I far prefer to use python with numpy matlab and scipy
Use R
neve!
Or uses a serious calculator.
I do it a bunch of times for the same reason I also CTRL+C a bunch of times when I need to copy on windows.
I mean that I get since it seems to ignore a single ctrl+c on windows regularly.
