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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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631 points wojtczyk | 1 comments | 31 Aug 24 04:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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theGeatZhopa ◴[31 Aug 24 07:46 UTC] No.41407194[source]▶
It's font hinting and kerning. But whyyy the heck only in the last few chars?
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1. isametry ◴[31 Aug 24 07:58 UTC] No.41407239[source]▶
Well you’ve just answered your own question: because it’s not just font metrics.

There seems to be more to that custom view than a standard line of text; something about that view is not optimized for low-dpi displays.