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This is fun, but in some ways it's too good - after a minute playing around with it I went to use command + W to close a terminal window and of course it closed the browser window!

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I did the same. After using the site's Spotlight once, I used Cmd+Space to try it again and was blown away by how complete the app list was. "The attention to detail is incredible," I thought. "These are almost the exact apps I have on my Mac."

Haven't had my Saturday-morning coffee yet, but I think the realism and attention to detail are really impressive. (Check out the Terminal app if you haven't.)

> but in some ways it's too good

Indeed. I typed "rm -rf /" into the "terminal" in the web browser, and it cost me quite some nerve to actually hit Enter.

Ha. I see you too entered the Matrix.

When I was done looking around I tried the litmus test of Ctrl+W (erase word) in a terminal, given that Ctrl+U (erase line) had already worked. And that was the end of that (Linux, Ctrl+W closes the tab). :-)

You meant "too bad", since you'd expect a "too good" implementation to actually close the terminal window?

It was "too good" in the sense that it was realistic enough that they forgot they were in a simulation, and thought the terminal window was a real native macOS window

But a realistic simulation would have closed the terminal window.

You're completely missing the point.

That is always possible but also often far from certain.

It was realistic enough to make them expect that their keyboard shortcut would close the window. It wasn't realistic enough to actually do that. So the visual UI was too realistic for them to not have that expectation, but the behaviour was not realistic enough for it to fulfil the expectation.

That's what seemed confusing to me, since "it was so realistic that it didn't do what I expected when I pressed a certain key combination" seemed like a weird juxtaposition. Maybe it was the dash...

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