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       This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
        
       Author : mritzmann
       Score  : 824 points
       Date   : 2021-07-12 19:34 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (fxip.as203478.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (fxip.as203478.net)
        
       | the_third_wave wrote:
       | Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for
       | school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA
       | batteries and communicates with the outside world through a
       | serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility
       | of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment,
       | hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the
       | calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that way voiding the
       | whole reason of using these ancient beasts in the first place. I
       | won't do this of course - she's there to learn other things
       | besides refining the art of cheating [1] - but it would be a
       | tempting hack. An even more elaborate hack would be to replace
       | the guts of the thing with a Zero running a TI emulator as well
       | as some more useful stuff like ssh. The possibilities are
       | endless... so endless in fact that I'm fairly certain this has
       | been done already, somewhere.
       | 
       | [1] which in my days at school consisted of writing the
       | translated works of Homer on a 10x10cm piece of paper, a good way
       | to a) learn to write incredibly small and b) get those words to
       | stick inside your head long enough so you don't actually need to
       | consult the cheat "sheet" during the test.
        
         | tyingq wrote:
         | Here someone figured out how to drive the LCD screen from one.
         | https://ripitapart.com/2013/03/02/making-use-of-an-old-ti-83...
        
         | herbst wrote:
         | I cheatet so much with my TI. In every class we were allowed to
         | use a calculator I would literally code everything relevant for
         | the test into this small thingy. I still think I better
         | memorized some of the things as my class mates.
         | 
         | Also I loved how it doesn't really communicate except with a
         | cable no one had. So nobody expected me to share my 'cheats'
        
           | Spare_account wrote:
           | You accidentally prepared for the test while thinking that
           | you were cheating.
        
             | herbst wrote:
             | I did both I guess. And because I could not share it,
             | teachers never bothered.
        
               | Spare_account wrote:
               | This gives me food for thought. I have young children,
               | all under 10. The challenge is learning how to inspire
               | them; you found a crutch that made learning less of a
               | chore: converting the syllabus into chunks of code.
               | 
               | I can already see that the my two eldest will both need
               | very different answers, but if I can figure out what
               | theirs is, I can hopefully help them focus where my
               | childhood mind would wander during study sessions.
        
               | herbst wrote:
               | You sound like a good parent. For me finding these small
               | ways to cope with the boring reality of schooling really
               | made the difference
        
         | shakna wrote:
         | The ESP-01 is smaller, cheaper, less battery heavy, and already
         | speaks serial so it wouldn't be hard to integrate it, just for
         | the WiFi... And at a quick look there's a bunch of TI<->Arduino
         | stuff out there in the wild it should be easy.
        
           | the_third_wave wrote:
           | There are many ways to flay this hog, this is more of a
           | thought experiment than a recipe for a TI-CH337. The ultimate
           | hack would be to use a more modern version (with "high-res"
           | screen) and replace/amend the guts with something which
           | emulates the calculator - wabbitemu seems to work just fine
           | [1] - but can also function in other ways. Add some key
           | combination to switch functions and you have a mean lean
           | cheatin' machine.
           | 
           | [1] http://wabbitemu.org/
        
         | danmur wrote:
         | My school let you have two calculators so you could have notes
         | on one of them and use the other. I don't really understand
         | why, I'd rather just have paper notes. Fun things to play with
         | though, the HP38G's we had had a nifty infrared communication
         | thing so you could trade stuff with other people.
        
         | lifeisstillgood wrote:
         | "I cheated in the finals of my metaphysics exam. I looked into
         | the soul of the boy sitting next to me"
         | 
         | -- Woody Allen
         | 
         | Just reminded me.
        
         | DrSiemer wrote:
         | One of my proudest cheats was cramming the keywords of an
         | entire presentation in French on a tiny round piece of paper,
         | stuck to the glass of my wrist watch, so I could literally
         | cheat while the whole class and teacher were watching me.
         | Somehow I actually got away with multiple glances, only
         | receiving a single remark about "being a bit too focused on the
         | duration of my presentation".
         | 
         | My cousin, who has always did have good entrepreneurial
         | instincts, actually managed to turn a decent profit selling
         | highly detailed printouts of micro cheatsheets at school.
        
           | tener wrote:
           | How is having the transcript of the presentation cheating and
           | not just being prepared?
        
             | ben_w wrote:
             | In the same way that my ability to use WolframAlpha to
             | answer physics questions in no way qualifies me to say
             | "black holes don't sound like they could work, surely the
             | way the in-falling particles get an increasingly well
             | defined velocity as they reach the event horizon causes
             | their position to become increasingly undefined until they
             | are almost certainly nowhere near the black hole?", which
             | is the kind of thing I tend to say because I don't have a
             | physics degree, and given how physicists generally respond
             | when I say stuff like this there's a 5% chance I've said
             | something interesting and a 95% chance I'm as wrong as 90s
             | Hollywood script writers were about computers.
        
               | cgio wrote:
               | I searched WolframAalpha and I can tell you you are
               | partially right. The universe macroscopically is flat so
               | they remain in proximity to the black hole on the x,y
               | dimensions but move arbitrarily far on the z dimension,
               | which is how they bend spacetime and why they attract
               | everything around them like if they have gravity. :-)
        
               | thewakalix wrote:
               | That's interesting but I don't understand how it's at all
               | similar.
        
               | ben_w wrote:
               | With sufficient preparation I could pass any physics test
               | without actually understanding physics. A Chinese room
               | within the mind, if you prefer a philosophy reference.
               | 
               | Thinking about it, I really should've gone with that
               | analogy first -- it keeps this in the category of
               | languages.
        
               | IIAOPSW wrote:
               | I know you pulled it out of your ass, but your thought on
               | the uncertainty principle and black holes is actually
               | intriguing. A wave function that is fully localized in
               | momentum space (as in has one definite momentum) has to
               | be maximally spread in position space (as in its possible
               | positions are diluted to the point of being everywhere so
               | the odds of observing it anywhere are effectively zero).
               | 
               | IIRC some quantum properties like uncertainty have funny
               | ways of being preserved in relativity. They pop out of
               | the equations as unexpectedly nice coincidences, but they
               | feel to good to be true. Like they clearly hint at some
               | profound truth, but its on the tip of everyone's tongue
               | yet no one can grab it.
               | 
               | I vaguely recall certain types of entanglement change in
               | an interesting way under the Lorentz transform (don't
               | hold me to that).
        
             | [deleted]
        
             | draugadrotten wrote:
             | It's because school is preparing students for life, where
             | it would be outrageous to have written notes while
             | presenting or speaking. What's next, someone else writing
             | the words for you?
        
               | tener wrote:
               | How exactly is it outrageous? You are there to deliver
               | the message in a meaningful way, not to recite such
               | message from memory. This is no theater or the cinema
               | where you are playing a role and must be entirely
               | authentic as a result.
               | 
               | Sure, literally reading entire thing from your notes in
               | front of your audience is bad form as it fails to build
               | the captivating presentation. It is just distracting for
               | those listening.
               | 
               | But damn if this cannot ever work for the online
               | presentation where the speaker isn't visible.
        
               | Paraesthetic wrote:
               | Whats next, paying someone in a poorer country to write
               | your things for you while you 'work from home'
        
               | xnzakg wrote:
               | Yeeeah that's already being done for a a bunch of IT
               | courses. Check out some of those "freelance work" sites,
               | it's fairly obvious a bunch of those are someone's
               | homework...
        
               | grishka wrote:
               | It's because school is preparing students for life, where
               | they would never have any chance to look anything up, and
               | could thus only use their own memory.
               | 
               | And that "you won't always have a calculator with you"
               | thing math teachers loved so much? Yeah that didn't age
               | well.
        
         | db48x wrote:
         | Reminds me of when I was in high school. I found a terminal
         | emulator for my HP48G, built a serial cable to connect it to my
         | 2400 baud modem. I was able to use it to check my email in
         | physics class. Of course I was only able to do that once; the
         | modem was three or four times the size of the calculator with
         | lots of blinkenlights on it, and trailing a phone cable half
         | way across the classroom isn't very subtle.
        
         | IIAOPSW wrote:
         | There's enough hacks you can do on the 83/84 without hardware
         | gutting tricks. Even in plain old TI Basic. You can easily
         | automate most of a HS curriculum and make an unbeatable tic tac
         | toe program, no internet needed. Its honestly the first coding
         | experience I ever had.
        
         | ornornor wrote:
         | One of my university teachers allowed us a double sided letter
         | sized piece of paper during the exam and we could put whatever
         | we felt like on it.
         | 
         | This was brilliant because 1. In real life, you don't memorize
         | random facts. That's what reference books and the internet is
         | for. 2. Making the cheat sheet actually forced us to understand
         | the material so they we could sum it up and for it on the page.
         | By the time we were done writing the sheet, we had memorized
         | most of it anyway.
         | 
         | Yet another demonstration how school is completely out of touch
         | with the jobs they're claiming to be preparing you for.
        
           | grishka wrote:
           | A university teacher allowed us to use everything during the
           | exam, including a laptop with an internet connection. The
           | only rule was that you weren't allowed to use any
           | communication with other people, like messaging someone or
           | asking questions on forums. Needless to say, everyone passed
           | that exam.
           | 
           | For myself, the most-hated part of every exam session was
           | having to memorize everything. That's what made me fail every
           | single exam I've ever failed. I just can't bring myself to
           | stuff information into my head and then give it back later.
           | It's not a storage device. Yet most other teachers insisted
           | that I need to do everything from memory. 95% of my school
           | and university "education" was to memorize something, then
           | recite it, and then forget it forever.
        
             | professoretc wrote:
             | I've done open-everything exams (just no collaboration) and
             | my experience was that it didn't change the _mean_ grade,
             | but it did increase the standard deviation. Students who
             | were already mostly on top of the material could look
             | things up and double-check their work, so their scores
             | improved. Meanwhile, students who didn 't really know what
             | they needed to spent the whole time trying to find "the
             | answer" in the book or online (and that's not the way
             | programming tests work!), so in the end they either left
             | the answer blank or put something totally nonsensical,
             | copy-pasted off the internet. In a closed-book test, they
             | would have at least _tried_ to figure it out on their own,
             | and maybe gotten a few partial-credit points.
        
           | fatnoah wrote:
           | I had a couple teachers that allowed the cheat sheet, and it
           | worked so well that I made them for every test, whether I
           | could actually use them on the test or not. As you noted,
           | it's such a great forcing function to identify and understand
           | the most important bits.
        
           | pmorici wrote:
           | I had an Econ teacher that did something similar but it was a
           | note card. Thing was she reused the same bank of questions
           | every semester and provided a study packet of sample
           | questions that was a super set of the questions on the final.
           | Some kids got wind of this and encoded the answers to the
           | study packet on the index card. They were bizarrely accused
           | of cheating.
        
         | jrmann100 wrote:
         | I found it a lot of fun to interface with the TI calculators
         | directly using the wonderful ArTICL Arduino library[0]. You can
         | cobble together a link cable to imitate another calculator and
         | hook it up to your microcontroller of choice.
         | 
         | I enjoyed making a QWERTY keyboard and news app over WiFi using
         | the tiny ESP-01 (as, coincidentally, @shakna suggested in this
         | thread).
         | 
         | 0: https://github.com/KermMartian/ArTICL
        
         | punnerud wrote:
         | And if IT use the Cisco management console, they get the
         | location down to 3-7m diameter of every WiFi, Bluetooth,
         | Microwave ++ that is using the same band as WiFi.
         | 
         | I was earlier in a startup that made an indoor navigation map,
         | where you could get the blue dot without installing anything,
         | by using this Cisco feature: https://use.mazemap.com
        
           | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
           | What is maze map showing me? What is this?
        
           | javindo wrote:
           | Feels incredibly strange that anyone can publicly view all
           | these office layouts, down to very specific
           | room/corridor/stair layouts, occupancy status, of random
           | private office and university buildings...
        
       | fouc wrote:
       | Now I want to see a website hosted by my favorite graphing
       | calculator, the one that comes with the best UX for operating on
       | numbers - RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). HP-48G
        
         | ronyeh wrote:
         | Thanks for reminding me that I used to play Columns and other
         | games on my HP during math class.
        
       | halotrope wrote:
       | Correction: was hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator.
        
       | nikeee wrote:
       | They also built a serial adapter that connects to a dial-up
       | modem: https://youtu.be/epFX8K0dhdY
       | 
       | And an IRC client: https://youtu.be/afkrucsMMrc
        
       | blhack wrote:
       | How long until this is available as an AWS image?
        
       | normac2 wrote:
       | Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with
       | demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect.
       | 
       | Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing
       | code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of
       | course).
        
         | mvanaltvorst wrote:
         | > Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by
         | writing code sensibly in a native language (and native
         | libs/tools, of course).
         | 
         | Personally, I find this a far less impressive demo of the
         | SuperH SH-4 CPU than, say, Doom running on a graphical
         | calculator. A http server (not https) simply opens sockets,
         | writes a string, and closes the socket, a task which is usually
         | purely I/O bound. Implement something basic like HTTPS
         | (introduced in 1994) and watch this CPU grind to a halt.
        
           | Uberphallus wrote:
           | I agree with the feeling, it's not really that impressive,
           | but the HTTPS mention isn't accurate. Performance would be
           | certainly lower, but remember the SH-4 was in the Dreamcast.
           | 
           | You can buy some niche boards[0] with SH-4, and I assure you,
           | they can run Debian and they do SSL just fine.
           | 
           | [0]https://www.apnet.co.jp/product/superh/
        
         | Cullinet wrote:
         | C isn't in my mind close to the metal but potentially lets you
         | be more sympathetic to the metal. Thanks for your drawing
         | attention to this, I'm looking forward to reading.
        
           | normac2 wrote:
           | Well, at the very least it's close in that it's native
           | compiled (and not in a very abstracted way like JIT languages
           | mostly are).
        
             | pjmlp wrote:
             | C like any other language, also has JITs and scripting
             | implementations to chose from.
             | 
             | WASM, MSIL, Tendra, TIMI are all examples of JIT/AOT
             | implementation that have C (or C++) as part of their source
             | languages.
        
         | veltas wrote:
         | My experience in 8-bit is you can write 80% in C and then just
         | focus and optimise the bits that need it in assembly. The rule
         | is the same as ever, don't prematurely optimise (i.e. by
         | writing everything in assembly), but the amount that needs
         | optimisation is a bit bigger.
        
       | pryelluw wrote:
       | I keep eyeing these calculators but can't really find an excuse
       | to buy it. But now . . .
        
       | chefkoch wrote:
       | no https?
        
         | z3t4 wrote:
         | https is complicated and resource heavy (relative to plain http
         | 1x).
        
         | arthurcolle wrote:
         | Savage
        
         | eric__cartman wrote:
         | you need at least an HP Prime for that
        
       | baybal2 wrote:
       | 8 years ago I worked for an LED lights company which had a bright
       | idea to put whole ucLinux + webserver to be ran on a
       | microcontroller on an LED light to put a claim on just how smart
       | they are, and that now they are "an Internet company" like as if
       | the dotcom bubble hasn't happened.
       | 
       | So it was a $1 LED light board + $32 some old, and exotic MCU
       | setup with own external memory, power supply, etc (even by 2013,
       | ucLinux was already "very dead" without any new MCU support for
       | 8-7 years.)
       | 
       | Aside from most extreme size limitations for the HTML UI, I was
       | genuinely surprised just how snappy it was.
        
       | vletal wrote:
       | According to timestamps of comments here I came approx 12 minutes
       | late. RIP Casio
        
         | alias_neo wrote:
         | Loaded for me just now.
        
       | andrewmcwatters wrote:
       | This is really cool, but these days I prefer to host on
       | virtualized Casios so I can scale up if I need Casio FX perf or
       | down if I need Casio Databank perf.
        
         | akouri wrote:
         | Needed this today, thank you.
        
       | tvirosi wrote:
       | Funny that it seems to not have been affected at all by HN's hug
       | of death.
        
       | recursivedoubts wrote:
       | this is like firing the death star at a plucky little pod racer
        
         | ASalazarMX wrote:
         | "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of
         | voices suddenly cried out in curiosity and one was suddenly
         | silenced."
        
       | nudpiedo wrote:
       | That makes me think that a solar interntet is possible, perhaps
       | routers and less intensive webpages may start moving if there was
       | a value proposition for their owners. Sure it's not a whole
       | solution just yet, but it's a start.
        
         | buu709 wrote:
         | Lowtech Magazine has a mirror of their site hosted on a laptop
         | and fully powered by solar that's been running for a few years
         | now.
        
       | lovetocode wrote:
       | Next post: how I burned my Casio calculator.
        
       | ghalvatzakis wrote:
       | Casio is on fire!!
        
       | andrewmcwatters wrote:
       | Better response times than other websites I browse... maybe they
       | should upgrade to Casios.
        
         | asmos7 wrote:
         | down for me.
        
         | laurent92 wrote:
         | I wonder whether it would be fast if it ran some ancient web
         | technology, such as CGI, .Net frameworks for the web or
         | Filemaker web.
        
           | munk-a wrote:
           | I strongly suspect the webpage is entirely static and trying
           | to run any sort of modern serverside framework would make it
           | wail in protest - some simple dynamic elements using the
           | native script might be doable though. It'd be neat to see if
           | they could get a page counter up - just a dumb one that
           | blindly increments the counter whenever any visit occurs.
        
         | fsiefken wrote:
         | we should all upgrade to gemini on casios, not sure if the
         | processor is powerful enough to run the opentls encryption.
         | perhaps a beowulf cluster can be made
        
         | arkitaip wrote:
         | Maybe we should all skip cloud platfoms and CDNs and buy a
         | bunch of Casios instead.
        
           | [deleted]
        
           | andrewmcwatters wrote:
           | How many Casios can you fit in a U1 rack?
        
             | Johnny555 wrote:
             | The calculator's dimensions are: 21.3 x 87.5 x 180.5mm
             | 
             | A 1U rack comes in various depths, let's assume 1m
             | (1000mm), and the width between rails is about 450mm. 1U is
             | around 44mm in height.
             | 
             | So in 1U, you could stack them 2 high, 5 wide, and 5 deep
             | (this leaves a little wiggle room for cables and such), or
             | 50 per 1U, or 2100 in a 42U full rack.
        
               | andrewmcwatters wrote:
               | Hah! That's production ready if you ask me.
        
       | James-Livesey wrote:
       | Shame, because I only have an fx-970G Plus which can't run custom
       | code besides BASIC. Otherwise I'd join you in this calculator-
       | net! Awesome project, though
        
       | 29athrowaway wrote:
       | When I got my TI-89 long time ago, I remember that the TI
       | programming scene was very vibrant back then. Many game ports and
       | all of sorts of interesting software.
        
       | valvar wrote:
       | Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?
        
         | normac2 wrote:
         | Still hanging in there so far! Bit slow, but still faster than
         | cnn.com for me.
        
         | Firerouge wrote:
         | Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of
         | casios to handle global load balancing
        
           | midasuni wrote:
           | Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits
           | serving Natalie Portman pictures
        
             | fouc wrote:
             | Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How
             | come we never hear about them anymore?
        
               | psyc wrote:
               | I'm guessing because recurring one-liners don't do as
               | well here as they did on SlashDot.
        
               | stjohnswarts wrote:
               | Because now they're just clusters. Lots of people make
               | hobby ones out of rpi's to tinker with
        
               | UncleSlacky wrote:
               | Those are Brambles: https://elinux.org/Bramble
        
               | floren wrote:
               | "Running MPI programs on a cluster of commodity hardware"
               | was perhaps a sufficiently novel idea to warrant a unique
               | name back in the 90s, but these days it's more or less
               | the standard for all but the most exotic and expensive of
               | scientific computing... and even those expensive custom
               | supercomputers tend to still be x86 processors running
               | MPI code.
               | 
               | Basically you don't hear about them any more because it's
               | _all_ Beowulf clusters now.
        
               | lupire wrote:
               | I think the "Beowulf" name (the name of the first well
               | known computer cluster) was mostly a Slashdot meme. As
               | Slashdot faded, so did the name "Beowulf".
        
             | dotancohen wrote:
             | I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to
             | your newsletter.
        
           | juanitolol wrote:
           | lol
        
             | marianov wrote:
             | AWS Casio as a service.
        
           | pletnes wrote:
           | c4s?
        
             | to11mtm wrote:
             | Nawww, You'd want to call it Casiopeia (sic).
        
           | nyadesu wrote:
           | op just need to add some cache servers in front of it and
           | it'll be fine, impressive
        
           | TypeCaste wrote:
           | Perhaps vertically scaling this on a Casio FX-CG50PRIZM is an
           | option?
        
         | kevincox wrote:
         | In case it completely dies there are archives now available:
         | 
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as2034...
         | 
         | https://archive.is/5a44i
         | 
         | Or the whole thing is small enough to fit in a comment:
         | > GET / HTTP/1.1       > Host: fxip.as203478.net       > User-
         | Agent: curl/7.76.1       > Accept: */*       >        * Mark
         | bundle as not supporting multiuse       * HTTP 1.0, assume
         | close after body       < HTTP/1.0 200 OK       < Server:
         | uIP/1.0 http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/       < Connection: close
         | < Content-type: text/html       <        <!DOCTYPE html>
         | <html>       <head>        <title>Casio fx-9750GII
         | Webserver</title>        <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.c
         | om/css2?family=Lato&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
         | <style type="text/css">         * {          margin: 0;
         | padding: 0;          }                *:focus          {
         | outline: none;          }                *::-moz-focus-inner
         | {          border: 0;          }                body          {
         | background: #fafafa;          font-family: "Lato", sans-serif;
         | font-size: 100%;           text-align: center;         }
         | a          {          color: #0075BF; }
         | a:not(:hover):not(:focus):not(:active) {          text-
         | decoration: none;         }              </style>       </head>
         | <body>        <br>        <h1>Casio fx-9750GII
         | Webserver</h1><br>        Welcome!         This page is hosted
         | on an Casio fx-9750GII graphical calculator, running a SuperH
         | SH4 processor.<br>        It's running a port of the uIP TCP/IP
         | stack, using SLIP over the 3pin 2.5mm serial port.<br>
         | <br>        <a href="https://github.com/Manawyrm/fxIP"
         | target="_blank">Firmware (uIP port, webserver
         | implementation)</a>        <br><br>        <img
         | src="https://screenshot.tbspace.de/vfscewyjzir.jpg"
         | style="width: 700px;"><br>        <img
         | src="https://screenshot.tbspace.de/ijlnydgsvkw.jpg"
         | style="width: 700px;"><br>        <i>(these pictures are not
         | hosted on the calculator.)</i>        <br><br>       </body>
         | </html
        
           | amelius wrote:
           | So most of the content (images, font) is hosted elsewhere ...
        
             | stjohnswarts wrote:
             | of course just like with most places using content
             | providers :) . It would take forever (relatively)to pull
             | those off the casio vs the html text for the page.
        
               | [deleted]
        
           | forgotmypw17 wrote:
           | *:focus          {          outline: none;          }
           | *::-moz-focus-inner          {          border: 0;          }
           | 
           | Wow, the equivalent of having a building with existing
           | wheelchair ramps and ripping them out because they're
           | "unsightly".
           | 
           | I guess it's a valid decision decision, but pretty crappy for
           | anyone who needs them.
        
             | busymom0 wrote:
             | is that to imply that focus outline is meant for
             | accessibility purposes?
        
               | forgotmypw17 wrote:
               | Yes, focus rectangles are an essential component of
               | navigating the interface with the keyboard.
        
               | busymom0 wrote:
               | Fair. But if a user has accessibility enabled, that
               | should override the css itself no?
               | 
               | Also even with the focus outline disabled on other sites,
               | I am able to navigate with the keyboard to text input
               | fields. OP's site doesn't have any input fields so not
               | sure why they have that CSS in place as I don't think
               | it's doing anything.
        
               | forgotmypw17 wrote:
               | You are making the assumption that the user has some
               | modicum of control over the browser's configuration.
        
               | busymom0 wrote:
               | No I am not. Users who require accessibility have it
               | setup in their MacOS/Windows settings. It's a global
               | setting for them. It's not website specific.
        
               | Someone wrote:
               | Users may access the site through a third-party device
               | that they cannot configure, for example in a kiosk
               | setting.
        
               | busymom0 wrote:
               | I mean we are talking about a demo project on hosting a
               | tiny site on a calculator. Don't think anyone is trying
               | to access it from a kiosk.
               | 
               | But if your comment is a general opinion of websites in
               | general, then yea, I see what you mean.
        
               | tqx wrote:
               | No, it will not override the CSS (not sure what you mean
               | by "accessibility enabled" exactly).
               | 
               | > even with the focus outline disabled on other sites, I
               | am able to navigate with the keyboard to text input
               | fields
               | 
               | Correct, but for a user with vision problems, the focus
               | outline lets them _see_ what has focus. CSS doesn 't stop
               | them from inputting values.
               | 
               | Focus styles are essential and should not be removed as a
               | best practice (in general, this is a very small site).
        
           | luke2m wrote:
           | Thanks.
        
       | bguberfain wrote:
       | Not anymore
        
       | publicola1990 wrote:
       | Its a great mystery to me why American students have to buy
       | expensive programmable calculators for course work. I vaguely
       | remember reading that it is the result of lobbying by calculator
       | manufacturers.
       | 
       | In my country even undergraduate science/engineering students
       | dont need a programmable calculator. Some undergraduate programs
       | like CS don't need any type of calculator.
        
         | sgt wrote:
         | They are not expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-
         | fx-9750GII-Graphing-Calculator-...
        
           | publicola1990 wrote:
           | More than the quantum of the expense, I am questioning the
           | need. Couple of hundred dollars on an unnecessary expense is
           | still wastage.
        
             | sgt wrote:
             | But for Calculus (part of CS) you need a graphing
             | calculator.
        
               | Jolter wrote:
               | You don't, unless the teaching staff decide to include a
               | lot of numerical work in exams. Which I don't know why
               | they would do. I would presume that a calculus course
               | would teach you algebraic methods that you work out on
               | paper.
               | 
               | In Swedish engineering schools, graphing calculators are
               | banned from exams in almost all subject.
        
               | ithinkso wrote:
               | Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no
               | one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what
               | you would need one for, can you give me an example
               | (seriously curious)
               | 
               | The only time I remember needing a calculator in my
               | entire education was some circuit theory because those
               | Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even
               | then you only need +,-,*,/)
        
               | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
               | This is not calculus specific, but how did you look up
               | logarithms? With printed tables??
        
               | ithinkso wrote:
               | The same way as pi, e and other constants, log(17) is
               | just that. I never had to convert them to some decimal
               | approximation in calculus classes
               | 
               | Edit: Ok, I remember now there was a statistics exam when
               | we had something like Student's t-distribution tabulated
               | on the exam sheet but I had to scrape my brain to find an
               | example, it does happen though
        
               | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
               | > The only time I remember needing a calculator in my
               | entire education
               | 
               | I'm not asking about calculus classes. You specifically
               | said "my entire education"
               | 
               | So you never needed to convert log(17) to decimal in your
               | entire education? Or you just converted it by hand like
               | the Neanderthals did?
        
               | publicola1990 wrote:
               | You don't need a 100+PS programmable calculator for
               | calculating log(17).
        
               | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
               | He didn't mention 100+PS or any price. He said he never
               | used a calculator in college -- even a 5PS calculator.
        
               | ithinkso wrote:
               | Not on a piece of paper, no.
               | 
               | Of course I had to at some point but in those instances I
               | was at a computer anyway so I just used
               | excel/python/matlab what have you, not a calculator like
               | a Neanderthal
        
               | publicola1990 wrote:
               | Why? Calculus is primarily used and taught analytically
               | in maths & cs courses in my country.
        
         | knolax wrote:
         | I got mine for 25 cents. They're fun.
        
       | nsxwolf wrote:
       | Doesn't this run on one of the CPUs Sega used in the Saturn or
       | Dreamcast?
        
         | whizzter wrote:
         | Same as in the Dreamcast yes, albeit the Casio seems to be
         | clocked far lower (29mhz in Casio vs 200mhz for DC). Also the
         | memory seems a bit anemic at 60ish-kb vs 16mb main for the DC
         | (+8mb videomem and 2mb audiomem).
         | 
         | It was a fine CPU for the era with parallel instructions but
         | also a fairly deep pipe compared to other contemporaries so it
         | did best with a bit of hand tuning. (We worked on a DC game and
         | Transform&Lighting loops needed hand optimizations iirc)
        
           | xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote:
           | >29mhz in Casio
           | 
           | It's _extremely_ overclockable, though:
           | http://pm.matrix.jp/ftune2e.html
        
         | opencl wrote:
         | Not quite the same CPU but they're all based on the SuperH ISA.
         | The 32X and Saturn both had dual SH-2s, Dreamcast had an SH-4,
         | and Casio uses SH-3 and SH-4. The Dreamcast SH-4 has an FPU but
         | the Casio one doesn't.
        
       | H8crilA wrote:
       | It's not any more. Please update the title.
        
       | Cullinet wrote:
       | reason why we link bonuses to documentation weighted for
       | responsibilities for business continuity. but we make junior devs
       | break the back of the writing (long form not code comments)
       | precisely to develop understanding and appreciation for the scope
       | of inadvertent misunderstanding and errors. we paid overtime
       | rates for sick days used to produce documentation until it was
       | rather taken advantage of by post commit blow out hangovers
       | leveraging the difficulty with getting really hard problems out
       | of one's head following a real impasse - this encouraged a post
       | mortem culture of celebration of heroic failures of increasingly
       | marginal prowess, although I would have liked to keep the
       | practice with a little bit more review or limit.
        
         | noitpmeder wrote:
         | Does this account just spew text? All of your prior comments
         | are a mix of word soup and technical jargon.
        
           | ant6n wrote:
           | Bot got 172 karma somehow
        
             | noitpmeder wrote:
             | other bots?
        
         | a1369209993 wrote:
         | Reminder: when operating a bot, the profile about field needs
         | to contain contact information, not more bot spew.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | SirOibaf wrote:
       | Looks like the Casio is not web scale :)
        
         | literallyaduck wrote:
         | They just need to add a casio load balancer.
        
       | literallyaduck wrote:
       | In 2030 I look forward to renting a casio for a web server
       | instead and being happy about it.
        
         | ajsnigrutin wrote:
         | By then, the screen will have almost 20% more pixels, the
         | number of variables will be upgraded from 28 to 32, memory will
         | be upgraded from 62kilobytes to 94kilobytes, and adjusted for
         | inflation, it will still be the same price!
        
       | carrja99 wrote:
       | Not anymore.
        
       | aftbit wrote:
       | The author's blog has a lot of interesting projects, though I did
       | not find a writeup on this one. https://tbspace.de/
        
       | xwdv wrote:
       | Would an Apple Watch be a better place to host a website than a
       | Casio?
        
       | m2com wrote:
       | Slow load, but after a minute it worked for me. Pretty cool!
        
         | tarkin2 wrote:
         | Yeah. I assumed it was hugged to death. But it does load.
         | Albeit slowly.
        
           | sjsotelo wrote:
           | One of the few hn times when I try and load it still actually
           | works, impressive little thing!
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | rs999gti wrote:
       | I subscribed it to an uptime monitor -
       | https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/fxip.as203478.net.html
        
       | sleepy_keita wrote:
       | The author seems to have their own AS for "experimentation
       | purposes" https://tbspace.de/as203478tbspacenetworks.html
       | 
       | https://bgp.he.net/AS203478
       | 
       | https://www.peeringdb.com/net/10981
       | 
       | I've always been interested in doing something like this,
       | although it's prohibitively expensive for me, even for IPv6-only.
        
         | tiernano wrote:
         | i got my V6 and V4 space, along with my ASN though Hostus.us
         | (https://my.hostus.us/cart.php?gid=55). I use Vultr and a few
         | other providers. For V6 only, you can get the ASN and V6 space
         | for around $50 per year, and the vultr server is around $5 per
         | month... my own ASN is under https://as204994.net with links to
         | some providers and details...
        
           | sleepy_keita wrote:
           | I never would have come across this myself when doing very
           | cursory research. One step closer... Thanks!
        
         | iancarroll wrote:
         | I walked through doing this with my AS (AS398328) in the US
         | (ARIN), both for fun and for security research. Happy to chat
         | with anyone who wants to go through the process, it was
         | probably $1-2k in total for ARIN fees to get the AS and v4/v6
         | space. Real transit is a lot worse though.
        
           | dng88 wrote:
           | 1-2k is a bit tough for testing the water. But above there is
           | another $50 one. One wonder what is the difference as $50 is
           | very manageable!
        
             | tiernano wrote:
             | going direct to ARIN/RIPE/APNIC etc have some stricter
             | rules (IIRC, in RIPE you need a company or possibly
             | business, plus a bank account in that name). by going for
             | somone like HostUs, they are sponsoring the account, so
             | they need to verify you and ask questions, then setup the
             | ASN, etc. Also, going direct will provide you with V4/V6
             | space allocations. They might charge a yearly fee (IIRC,
             | its like 50 per allocation) but v6 is "practally" free but
             | V4 will be a in a wait list... Finally, going direct, there
             | is some sort of "kick back"... if the RIR makes more money
             | than it cost to run the place, they reallocate fees back to
             | the LIRs... so, you some times get money back... I have
             | been tempted, but for RIPE, its 1400 per year, plus 2k
             | setup... ouch...
             | 
             | [EDIT] bit more on the RIPE fees:
             | https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-
             | support/payment/ripe...
        
               | rayhaanj wrote:
               | I have my personal LIR with RIPE and they do allow
               | signing up as an LIR without being a company. As an
               | individual you need to provide proof of identity via
               | government issued ID and pay 17% Dutch VAT.
               | 
               | When I signed up I got a /22 of V4 space and /29 of v6
               | space, although for new signups I believe there's now a
               | wait list to get a /24 and that's it for V4.
        
               | iancarroll wrote:
               | Yeah, AFAIK the LIR model is specific to RIPE. The ARIN
               | team does seem to put a decent amount of work into
               | vetting and support/etc with pleasant interactions, so I
               | don't think the fees are too unreasonable (but maybe not
               | the best idea as an individual).
        
         | bswinnerton wrote:
         | It can be relatively inexpensive, depending on which RIR you're
         | using. There are providers like [Neptune
         | Networks](https://neptunenetworks.org/) or
         | [Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/) that you can peer with from a
         | VPS so you don't need to get "proper" IP transit in a
         | datacenter.
        
           | sleepy_keita wrote:
           | Oh, interesting -- I assumed you had to have a membership to
           | the RIR directly (APNIC in my case, which would have been
           | upwards of 1000AUD/month). Hmm... Thanks!
        
             | toast0 wrote:
             | APNICs info seems to show AUD 1180/year, not per month?
             | Includes one ASN, one /24 on v4 and a /48 on v6. It's still
             | significant, but not crazy.
        
               | sleepy_keita wrote:
               | Oh, you're right. 1180AUD / year + 500AUD sign-up fee..
               | Still a bit expensive. If I had a business use case for
               | it I'd be able to justify it, but it's too much for a
               | hobby, unfortunately.
        
               | dannyw wrote:
               | This actually doesn't seem that bad for a hobby (I'd be
               | using this almost as a fee to help me learn more about
               | networking).
               | 
               | Does APNIC give out ASes for hobbyist and experimental
               | use?
        
               | numpad0 wrote:
               | There's no hobbyist program but neither is it
               | corporate/for-profit only, from what I see.
               | 
               | There are few people(mostly network engineers or
               | researchers by trade and/or business owners themselves)
               | who are assigned ASN to their homelab gears from JPNIC.
               | Knowing the right doors to knock etc.
        
               | sleepy_keita wrote:
               | Good to know. Thanks
        
               | toast0 wrote:
               | You "just" need to be in their reigon, and have
               | justification. Usual justification is that you have two
               | upstream networks and they'll announce your prefixes
               | (generally with BGP). That's going to cost some more
               | money, but there's specialist VPSes for this these days.
        
         | fgrsnau wrote:
         | Check out the dn42 community if you simply want to play with
         | the tech stack for free. The network uses the private AS range,
         | allocates addresses from the private address ranges and peering
         | happens over point-to-point VPN links.
         | 
         | See https://dn42.eu
        
       | max1cc wrote:
       | In case it goes down: https://archive.is/5a44i
        
       | bydo wrote:
       | Wayback link:
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as203...
        
       | bikamonki wrote:
       | ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
        
         | drexlspivey wrote:
         | hit ctrl + square root to reload
        
       | aaccount wrote:
       | I think you might have killed the calculator by posting it here.
       | LOL
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | pinacarlos90 wrote:
       | This calculator got me through college. I then passed it down to
       | my brother and it lasted him through college also.
        
         | ndesaulniers wrote:
         | Time for your brother to consider setting up a webserver on it!
         | /s
         | 
         | The TI 80 series were more popular in my college days, perhaps
         | these Casio's were more popular in another time or region?
        
           | stordoff wrote:
           | I think Casio calculators are quite popular in the UK - I
           | used an fx570 through secondary school and university. It was
           | the one recommended by my school, and then it was one of the
           | three models (all Casio) allowed by my university[1]. I
           | briefly had a TI83 for A-Level Further Maths, but I didn't
           | use it much.
           | 
           | The fx-9750 would have been usable at secondary school
           | (though it's more powerful than what you really need), but it
           | wasn't on my university's allowed list.
           | 
           | [1] Currently you can use an fx 991, fx 115, or fx 570 for
           | CS, and I pretty sure the list was the same whilst I was
           | there - https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/exams/calculators
        
       | mahathu wrote:
       | Why did I click on this expecting a calculator out of all the
       | possible servers would withstand HN's hug of death? Smart of the
       | commenters here archiving it before it inevitably went down
        
         | markzzerella wrote:
         | Because static pages on a calculator likely to be more reliable
         | and faster than whatever hipster stack is popular running on
         | some VC funded pile of compute power across all of Amazon's
         | datacenters.
        
           | nvader wrote:
           | FWIW I still saw the link at #1, clicked it almost in
           | exasperation after seeing it at the top of HN all day, and
           | was pleasantly surprised to see it load. Bravo, little
           | calculator.
        
       | dleslie wrote:
       | For comparison: the 32X and Saturn used SH2 processors.
        
       | alecakin wrote:
       | Did this get the hug of death?
        
         | munk-a wrote:
         | It looks like it may have briefly - but it loaded great for me.
        
           | Semiapies wrote:
           | Loaded for me!
           | 
           | (Meanwhile, I got a "Can't serve requests that fast" from HN
           | when I first tried to reply.)
        
             | drewzero1 wrote:
             | Looks like it's time to upgrade to a Casio server!
        
               | dlsa wrote:
               | All startups soon learn the importance of running server
               | grade casios in production.
        
         | Threeve303 wrote:
         | The calculator likely exploded
        
           | robohoe wrote:
           | The little engine that could(n't)
        
       | euroderf wrote:
       | Maybe it logs to a daisy wheel printer ?
        
       | mbroncano wrote:
       | It seems to work!
        
       | mmmuhd wrote:
       | This is really inspiring as I have been eyeing my smart electric
       | utility meter as the perfect candidate for running my portofolio
       | website.
        
         | bob1029 wrote:
         | Make sure you set your TTLs high enough to account for the
         | occasional late meter reading.
        
           | cto_of_antifa wrote:
           | Dns record TTLs? Why?
        
       | jhallenworld wrote:
       | Well Casios are better than TI calculators.
       | 
       | My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2
       | 
       | https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi...
       | 
       | I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get
       | (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really
       | nice for a $16 calculator.
       | 
       | Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for
       | school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.com:
       | 
       | https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Listings?st=ti-84%20plus&sg=&c=...
        
         | nvader wrote:
         | I don't know what TI ever did to you, but I know that I would
         | not cross you lightly.
        
           | vanderZwan wrote:
           | They're exploiting an effective monopoly position (through
           | schools mandating their usage). I can see that being enough
           | of a reason to push back against that.
        
         | saagarjha wrote:
         | > Well Casios are better than TI calculators.
         | 
         | For scientific calculators, I would agree. For graphing
         | calculators they _might_ be better on technical merit or cost,
         | but everyone is going to write programs for the TI so you might
         | as well get that one.
        
           | pjmlp wrote:
           | Not everyone, TI seems to be US thing due to the government
           | agreements.
           | 
           | I never owned one, and got three generations of scientific
           | programmable CASIO calculators.
           | 
           | It was either that or HP ones, as TI were pretty much ignored
           | in Portugal.
        
         | parsecs wrote:
         | Cleaned url: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-
         | fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi...
         | 
         | Thank you so much for pointing out fx-115ES PLUS2! I looked for
         | a good hour yesterday trying to find an alternative to the
         | fx-115ES PLUS (first edition) with the same features, after
         | Casio discontinued the original. I'm honestly embarrassed that
         | I had overlooked this...
         | 
         | I do absolutely agree that Casio calculators are just wholly
         | better than TI in general. Their menu driven interface is a
         | game changer for me back in middle school. TI-36X Pro felt
         | cumbersome and confusing, while fx-115ES was much more
         | intuitive.
        
           | dng88 wrote:
           | Better as it is solar... can it use similar firmware with
           | similar c and web server?
        
           | saagarjha wrote:
           | I really don't understand why Casio keeps changing the entire
           | design of their calculators, though.
        
             | naikrovek wrote:
             | they don't; they have multiple lines which don't change
             | much generation to generation.
             | 
             | a casual observer might think that they can't pick a
             | design.
        
               | saagarjha wrote:
               | I'm not sure I understand. The calculator linked is the
               | second version of that model, which to my understanding
               | is identical software wise but looks completely
               | different.
        
           | VikingIV wrote:
           | They're amazing little machines. I have a predecessor to that
           | model, whose battery still works since purchased new for my
           | school year starting in 2000. It's not solar-charged, either.
        
         | emodendroket wrote:
         | TI is pretty clearly just coasting on being the one mandated by
         | a lot of schools; there's no way you can justify them still
         | costing like $100 and having the same capabilities as when I
         | was in high school.
        
           | fomine3 wrote:
           | Oppositely here in Japan (where Casio locates), high school
           | students usually don't use calculators on math/physics
           | classes.
        
             | tempodox wrote:
             | That's interesting and somewhat surprising to me. Do they
             | use slide rules and/or function value tables printed on
             | paper?
        
               | ithinkso wrote:
               | Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in
               | problems are either symbolic and you solve it
               | symbolically, or if they are given as values then they
               | are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much
               | of a bother (that actually results in a fun 'sanity
               | check' that if you start getting something waaay crazier
               | than 'normal' you double check if you didn't screw
               | something up somewhere along the way or if there is a
               | better way to solve it).
               | 
               | But everyone is taught to only substitute variables for
               | values at the very, very end so calculators are not
               | needed at all. At some point in education there is no
               | point in testing arithmetic skills over and over again,
               | the problems and the methods of finding out solutions to
               | them are what matters
        
               | fomine3 wrote:
               | Almost same as Japan. If we need calculation (like for
               | some physics exam), we use column method on paper.
        
               | willyt wrote:
               | Exactly, same in the UK. So a typical first question in
               | the maths exam we take at age 14/15 might be 'Factorise
               | the quadratic x2+5x+6'. No calculator needed.
        
               | tempodox wrote:
               | That makes sense. If you used a calculator's computer
               | algebra system (CAS) for the symbolic manipulation, it
               | would certainly count as cheating.
        
               | willyt wrote:
               | We were allowed to use calculators when I took my school
               | exams in the uk. But our exam questions often asked us to
               | give the answers in surds i.e 3/4*[?]2 not as a decimal
               | which our calculators couldn't do then. Our teachers told
               | us there would never be a question where the answer
               | couldn't be expressed cleanly using either fractions or
               | surds, that we should practice doing the maths and show
               | our workings on the exam paper and that if we were using
               | a calculator we were wasting time doing data entry as the
               | actual addition / division / subtraction would never be
               | hard enough to justify it. We memorised a table of surds
               | for 30o 45o and 60o angles but I've forgotten why now.
               | Also they hard reset our calculators as we went into the
               | exam.
        
           | tititititi wrote:
           | Your comment is like the XKCD from a decade ago that says the
           | same thing, except not funny or original
           | 
           | https://xkcd.com/768/
        
           | krallja wrote:
           | The new ones have rechargeable batteries, color screens, USB,
           | and Python. So, only a decade out of date.
        
             | imbuhuo wrote:
             | TI still use really outdated hardware (some ARM9 thing) on
             | their high-end nSpire models.
             | 
             | With the same price even HP Prime G2 has way better
             | hardware (NXP iMX6ULL, Cortex-A7, 256MB DDR3, USB EHCI OTG)
             | and wide software spectrum (no Secure Boot enforced.) I've
             | put full scale Linux and Windows ARM (arm32 IoT) on that
             | platform.
        
               | Thetawaves wrote:
               | Fun Fact: New Arm 9 chips are still coming out to this
               | day. They are the highest performing Arm chips that
               | feature generic external bus interfaces.
        
           | crazygringo wrote:
           | I searched for graphing calculator apps on iOS the other day
           | and found a ton that simply attempt to recreate the TI-84,
           | e.g. [1].
           | 
           | So anyone with high school kids: are they still buying $100
           | physical calculators? Or are they just using free/cheap apps?
           | 
           | [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/graphing-
           | calculator-x84/id1247...
        
             | brarsanmol wrote:
             | Just graduated secondary school in April. Just as a someone
             | said in a reply below, anything other than a physical
             | calculator is still banned during assessments. There are
             | tools like Desmos, GeoGebra, etc... that may be used by the
             | instructor and students during lessons though. Although
             | it's strange, there is no explicit rule provided by our
             | Mathematics faculty that bans higher functioning
             | calculators I've only seen one person carrying one.
        
             | aquova wrote:
             | I'm a few years out of high school, but during my time
             | anything other than physical calculators were explicitly
             | banned due to the potential for kids to be accessing the
             | internet during exams. I even had a friend who won one of
             | TI's higher end calculators at a math competition, only for
             | him to be banned to use it during exams because of its
             | higher capabilities. Perhaps things have changed in the
             | post-Covid world.
        
               | tyre wrote:
               | In my high school physics and math classes, we were
               | allowed to run any programs that we programmed ourselves.
               | This was on Ti-84s so BASIC not Python.
               | 
               | Given the context, it made a lot of sense.
        
               | robohoe wrote:
               | Yeah about the same here. I wrote some programs to handle
               | quadratic formulas. Impressed the Algebra teacher who
               | then let me take AP Computer Science so I can learn to
               | program in Java...which I promptly forgot after
               | graduating HS.
        
               | codetrotter wrote:
               | When I was in HS, at the exams we were expected to use
               | our TI-84+ calculators, but we were not allowed to have
               | any programs of our own, so they made us clear the
               | programs before they handed out the problems.
        
               | feteru wrote:
               | Which you could work around by archiving and then
               | unarchiving the programs. I remember having to do a soft
               | factory reset for one class before exams, rather than
               | just clearing programs. At least they took the policy to
               | its logical extension
        
             | JohnWhigham wrote:
             | That's what I did 10 years ago when my TI-89 broke right
             | before my Linear Algebra final. I somehow convinced my
             | instructor that when I had my phone out, I was actually
             | using the calculator on my phone.
        
             | emodendroket wrote:
             | There's no way they let you take the SAT with your phone
             | out. Acceptable calculators are actually enumerated though
             | there's more than I realized.
             | https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-
             | tes...
        
               | jhallenworld wrote:
               | I'm really surprised that the open source NumWorks
               | calculator is on that list! Also the RadioShack / Casio
               | EC-4033 programmable from the 1980s...
        
         | mmcgaha wrote:
         | Checking in with a TI-30X Pro and get the equivalent
         | (sqrt(6)-sqrt(2))/4 also in mathematical notation. All of my
         | work is saved when I turn the calculator back on. Plus I can
         | just set a flag for imaginary mode without a separate complex
         | app so everything works the same in both modes. The screen is
         | higher resolution and the multi-tap entry is pretty darn sweet.
        
           | jhallenworld wrote:
           | Annoyingly TI-30X Pro is Europe only (also costs more, but
           | looks better quality and design)... but you are right, it
           | looks pretty good, as does the US-available TI-36X Pro. I
           | will give one a try. My main gripe with TI is the school
           | requirement for the TI-84 series.
        
         | behnamoh wrote:
         | "This website is hosted on a Casio..."
         | 
         | Not anymore it isn't.
        
         | nomel wrote:
         | I really enjoy the HP calculators. RPN is much closer to how my
         | brain perceives the equations.
        
           | abawany wrote:
           | Unfortunately they seem to have abandoned it on their newer
           | models: I recently got a HP Prime and no RPN in sight afaict
           | (https://www.hp.com/us-en/campaigns/prime-graphing-
           | calculator...) .
        
             | mjcohen wrote:
             | Sure there is. Go to Settings and move down to Entry. Hit
             | Enter and you get your choice of Textbook, Algebraic, or
             | RPN. Go down to RPN, press Enter and then Esc.
             | 
             | Presto, RPN.
        
               | abawany wrote:
               | Thank you - I used the calculator more in the last hour
               | after making this change than I had in the past month.
               | I'm ashamed I didn't figure this out - I should have done
               | a better job of RTM.
        
         | j1elo wrote:
         | Must be a market specific model, because that one shows up for
         | me in the .com tld but not in the regional one :-(
         | 
         | But from there I've started digging and they have so many
         | different models with similar appearances... Anyone knows the
         | difference between fx-82ES and fx-82SPXII?
        
           | urutau wrote:
           | FX-115ES Plus-2 is the model for the USA market. For other
           | countries the same device (but in another color) goes by
           | FX-991ES Plus-2.
           | 
           | https://www.casio.com/sg/scientific-
           | calculators/product.FX-9...
        
             | j1elo wrote:
             | Thanks!! The naming is so confusing... How are we supposed
             | to know that "115ES" and "991ES" are in fact the same
             | thing?
        
         | FridayoLeary wrote:
         | >Well Casios are better than TI calculators.
         | 
         | Agreed. For basic maths, the best scientific calculator is the
         | fx83. The ES 115 is based on it. The graphics and controls and
         | navigation is really good. Nothing comes close.
        
       | dng88 wrote:
       | Seems software side quite clear. Not sure the hardware side.
       | 
       | Is the usb power used to communicate with the host and run on
       | that usb power. What is the other cable do? And how network work
       | (other than the domain ... wow)
        
       | pellias wrote:
       | I can imagine if the site own who is stuck in Mars with a Casio
       | fx-9750GII will attempt to use it to host a web page to
       | communicate back to earth or something.
        
       | thereddaikon wrote:
       | Seems the CPU from a Dreamcast is a little overkill for a
       | greyscale graphing calculator isn't it?
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | based on the hostname, although the httpd isn't answering, it
       | makes me wonder if they also made the calculator speak BGP and
       | take a full ipv4/ipv6 BGP table. Somehow with the RAM
       | requirements I doubt it.
        
         | manawyrm wrote:
         | lol! The IP stack does not have forwarding support, but I guess
         | you could implement some rudimentary loopback announcement
         | support.
        
       | quickthrower2 wrote:
       | Impressed the page opened (albeit after 10 seconds) for a high up
       | HN post!
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | I'm kind of amazed that a calculator needs a processor as
       | powerful as a SH4. If you had video out you could run Sega games
       | on that thing.
        
       | carlhjerpe wrote:
       | Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?
        
         | TravisHusky wrote:
         | It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites
         | you barely notice the difference.
        
           | Yhippa wrote:
           | > AWS's Casio as a Service
           | 
           | AWS Cassiopeia
        
           | munk-a wrote:
           | Then again AWS's Casio as a Service is available in a HIPAA
           | compliant form.
           | 
           | Actually, HIPAA auditors would probably love a webserver
           | running on a Casio since the hardware can be closely vetted
           | and won't randomly change.
        
           | aaron-santos wrote:
           | If you use an an alt-CaaS you'll won't benefit from
           | Infinidash integration, but then again you won't have the
           | Infinidash configuration learning curve to deal with so it
           | could still end up a net positive.
        
           | tfehring wrote:
           | Sure, but with fixed hardware resources you risk the site
           | going down with traffic spikes like this, with AWS you have
           | access to calculatorless options that can easily scale to
           | handle increased request volume.
        
             | munk-a wrote:
             | Is that their competing product offering to match
             | virtualizaled calculators delivered by hyperdivisor?
        
             | rzzzt wrote:
             | Pen and paper!
        
         | da_big_ghey wrote:
         | maybe he has reverse proxy to house because no public ip with
         | ports for hosting?
        
           | carlhjerpe wrote:
           | I would argue it's not really hosted on the Casio then, since
           | it's only static content the reverse proxy cache would hit
           | 100% every time, except on TTL.
        
             | gruez wrote:
             | Maybe it's just a forwarding setup with no caching?
        
       | narrator wrote:
       | I have a soft spot in my heart for underpowered computers, but
       | practically, I know this is kind of an unnatural fetish, and not
       | really a healthy love. The little computer costs way more and
       | consumes way more per watt than modern systems, and any minimal
       | use case is better done via virtualization in a container on a
       | more capable computer. Yet, the fetishism of all manner of
       | obsolete, underpowered and wildly obsolete chip process
       | technology remains!
        
         | imoverclocked wrote:
         | I mean, for its normal load it probably consumes far less
         | overall power to service this content than anything else you
         | would replace it with.
         | 
         | From the tech specs: Batteries: 4x AAA Battery life: 230h
         | 
         | From a Google search+answer: Energizer's AAA battery has a
         | capacity of 1250 milliamp hours, or 1.87 watt-hours
         | 
         | So 4 of those can power the device for 230 hours ... that's
         | about 32mW. For reference, a RaspberryPi 2b idles at > 1W.
        
       | Simplicitas wrote:
       | in case??
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Interesting. I still have a Jornada 680, which uses the Hitachi
       | SH3 CPU (compared to this Casio's SH4). It came with Windows CE,
       | but there was a Linux distro for it called Jlime.
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jlime
        
       | t8e56vd4ih wrote:
       | pretty impressive for a guy who uses tabs!
        
       | avgDev wrote:
       | I'm not really proud of this but my 1st step into programming was
       | writing programs to calculate things for me on the TI in high
       | school.
       | 
       | At some point teachers made us delete programs in front of them
       | before major tests.....someone else wrote a program that would
       | simulate deleting programs and showed an empty screen which meant
       | all programs were deleted.
       | 
       | I wasn't a dumb kid but I always felt like why just not program
       | those things and have more free time? I guess I was always a dev.
        
       | munk-a wrote:
       | Assuming Casios can run links or some custom browser - does
       | anyone want to grab a snapshot of this page being rendered on
       | their calculator to complete the circle?
        
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