I strongly suspect Claude’s Mac app is written by Claude. That’s not a compliment. There’s the non-native GUI, though of course that doesn’t tell you much in this day and age. It’s obviously just Chromium or something similar (hell, you can right-click on some things and they still have the “Inspect Element” contextual menu item,… Read more
I’ll cut to the chase: it’s a nice resolution upgrade from an Apple or LG 5k display. But that’s about it – in every other visual respect (brightness, contrast, etc) it’s basically the same or marginally worse (see Matte-ugly). Though the built-in KVM is a nice addition. Resolution The extra resolution is significant – it… Read more
Ugh, this one caused me days of head-scratching. If you run that command sequence, you’ll find that it makes the SSH connection and then exits immediately – and it kills the background job (sleep 15) as it exits. Which I find intuitive if only because that’s obviously how it’s always worked. But now run it… Read more
From the department of “how did I not realise this sooner?!”: Yes, Swift treats the two bytes “\r\n” as a single character. This is actually super convenient a lot of the time, because it means algorithms that look for line breaks with isNewline just work, even on “Windows”-style text. Otherwise, you’d have to explicitly look… Read more
It’s very clear that Apple were going for peak brightness above all else. Nobody else has even tried to make a bright 6k display – in fact, every non-Apple 6k display is outright dim by modern display standards – they’re barely brighter than the original 5k display in the 2015 iMac! For the price of… Read more
Studio Display XDR Pro Display XDR Screen diagonal 69 cm 81 cm (+17%) Resolution 5,120 ⨉ 2,880 6,016 ⨉ 3,384 Pixel count 14,745,600 20,358,144 (+38%) Backlight zones 2,304 (+300%) 576 Pixel density 218 218 Contrast ratio 1,000,000 : 1 1,000,000 : 1 Peak sustained brightness 2,000 (≤25℃) (+25%) 1,600 (≤ 25℃) Display P3 coverage ?… Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a pithy and accurate representation of what it’s like being an Apple Mac & iPhone user these days (well done Nick Hodulik!). The externalities cost estimates might be a little tongue-in-cheek, but honestly, are they all that wrong? One small irritation at the wrong moment can ricochet… Read more