> one has more horsepower, you would want the one with fewer?
Not necessarily, I would choose using other factors. I argue we should rely less on rarely practical characteristics (maximum power / brigthness) and add more day-to-day aspects into reviews and search filters.
There are few qualities usually mentioned along side displays: size, technology, resolution, colour rating, contrast ratio, and max brightness. I think brightness matters less past some point and we really should focus more on traits listed by @boplicity and @dijit (there's got to be more).
Similarly with cars: I don't care about top speed as long as it goes upto the motorway limit, I don't care about engine power as long as car feels nice in real life; I pay attention to size (will it be comfortable in the city and in my tight parking lot?), fuel consumption, interior quality, luggage space, steering sensations.
> Just like if a MacBook Pro came in either 1600nits or 400nits, you’d pick 400?
Well, if the 400 nits one has an advantage (for example it has OLED, so only the letters will burn my eyes in the evenings, not the whole area of the screen) then I would pick that one.
As a student myself I’d appreciate all those recipe sites to have a filter by appliances. Seems half of recipes involving meat requires a stove I don’t have.
Doesn’t that happen because shows are mastered for 5.1 systems and the dialogs are put in the centre channel, whereas most of us are watching in stereo with poorly setup automatic remixing?
This HDR QR code currently (AFAIK) only works on Apple platforms, where a user already has an option to long-press a QR code in place. Maybe going forward we should spread easy in place interactions instead of spreading a different feature (HDR) and then abusing it?
If so, why have teachers at all? Give those freshmen adults a syllabus in the beginning of the semester and conduct exams at the end.
”Those who are smart and motivated will get it, and heck with the rest.”