oh and about ergonomics: it's fine. it's a little heavy/thick for a phone, a little light/thin for a tablet. neither was noticeable enough for me to go "wow," and i had to consciously remember to notice the weight.
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(i only briefly tried the cameras and they seemed fine enough to me for phone cameras, but then again i don't really use mine, because i carry a mirrorless everywhere, so everything is markedly worse than that to me)
the matte display drastically diminishes contrast and color saturation compared to a glossy screen like an iPad mini or iPhone 14 pro. unfortunately there's no option to get a glossy inner screen, because of that dang crease.
the good: the displays are a lot brighter. very readable in the shaded sun of the apple store. (i wasn't able to get any direct sunlight, so difficult to say if it's as good for that as an e-ink display.) looking forward to the oled iPad mini.
verdict: not worth $2000.
the cool thing about software maps is you can reproject it every time you move the map so that the part you’re looking at is accurate in direction, shape, and size. it doesn’t have to be static like on paper
omfg the diplomat season 4 is out and i only just noticed
www.anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.
wait…does trump think “super intelligence” is about espionage https://www.npr.org/2026/10/04/nx-s1-5990781/jay-clayton-ai-czar-trump
they renamed Simulator to Device Hub? a) why, and b) where are the Device Spokes
i really hate that apple didn’t just make iPhone duo a squat iPhone when closed and an iPad mini when unfolded, using swiftUI’s dynamic resizing, instead opting to make it a special class of app that needs special intervention by app devs, many of whom will take a very long time to respond
i might not even get that one. summer’s over, the next beach reading season is a long way away, and all my current devices are fine. really the mac is the one that most urgently needs replacing, and it’s not even that urgent, just coming up on the end of macOS support
iPhone duo reviews are kinda brutal. $2000 for a polished prototype? really looking forward to that iPad mini event next week lol
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www.unpopularfront.newsYou Can’t Know EverythingNathan Fielder and Psychoanalysis
one obvious way llms introduce a flood of bug reports is bots flooding an open source project with fake bug reports. another is tricking an llm-friendly maintainer into thinking they’re being immensely productive while also introducing a plethora of legitimate bugs, which real users then report
myanmar was meta’s practice run
hot take: atproto is the new blockchain