not the first instance.

This was 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E&t=19s

A dude in the usa was arrested in a casino by police because the casino's facial recognition software said he had been trespassed before. He hadn't. I think there was height differences and eye colour difference. The police still arrested him, booked him. I think the prosecutors took it to trial.

It‘s capable enough not to be viewed as a Thin Client. Nor do I think many people want one.

Why would it be the end of traditional home PCs? If you can buy this much compute power for $600, who would pay a subscription for another computer?

Because AI needs so much more power and in particular RAM.

Doesn't the word "coincidental" imply Vince Gilligan is OK with the anti AI take? He's not denying it's there, he's saying it's not intentional, it's coincidental.

I agree with "art isn't a one way street". But, it's also up to the artist whether people's interpretation is "right" or "wrong". Some artists love when people find meaning in their work that wasn't intentional, and some don't.

One story that's burnt into my brain, is about Ray Bradbury giving a guest lecture. This is meant to be a quote from Bradbury. It's hard to know what's real these days.

From "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews"

"Weller: have you encounted academic misinterpretation of your work?

Bradbury: I was lecturing at Cal Fullerton once and they misinterpreted Fahrenheit 451, and after about half an hour of arguing with them, telling them that they were wrong, I said, “Fuck you.” I've never used that word before, and I left the classroom.'"

I think it's fine to read Fahenheit 451 and have your own opinions about its main theme, but, it's another thing to get into an argument with the author about it.

Bradbury said Fahenheit 451 is about the effect of mass media on society, if it was written today, it might be about the effect of AI on society.

In australia, big corp donate a few thousand and give cushy "advisory role" jobs to politicians after they leave office in exchange for contracts to build, own and run private toll roads.

It has been proven many times it's cheaper for the government, and therefore tax payers, for the government to get a loan and build public highways themselves. yet, all new highways are private.

big corp get given the land for the roads and have builtin toll price increases. One company raises prices 4% every 6 months. According to google, that means the toll doubles every 9 years.

For me to drive 22km to the CBD via toll roads costs $25 one way, and I save 10 minutes most time of the day. In 10 years time, it will probably be around $40 one way.

big corp make a billion or two in profit every year.

i don't know if braking performance is the main reason for disk brakes.

I suspect the biggest benefit is bike makers get to sell new bikes to people who don't need new bikes.

For professional riders who don't buy their own bikes, it's probably more about areo, and maybe weight, as the rims don't need a braking surface. They have more creativity with the shape and material. They only brake for emergencies and going into a corner on a downhill. A tiny fraction of a stage. The areo benefit is for the full length of the stage.

I don't know much about physics but even if the weight of the disks is more than rims brakes, the weight being closer to the centre of the wheel might be a benefit. I suspect in terms of performance, aero is the biggest benefit, though.

even the 12 speed cassettes, from what I've read, accelerating smoothly isn't the main point. for a professional rider, they spend a lot more time at the same speed than they do accelerating. so being able to dial in the perfect gear for the speed, wind and gradient is more important than being able to accelerate smoothly.

Aero matters a lot, even for enthusiastic amateurs. You're spot on about wheel shape being more flexible with disc brakes vs. rim. Materials matter here, too -- early carbon wheels were crap at stopping vs alloy because the rim brake tracks were iffy on the carbon, and if you let them get too hot on a descent you'd ruin the wheel. But carbon wheels are an ENORMOUS upgrade over alloy in terms of weight, and in terms of aerodynamics, so the desire for carbon helped fuel the shift to disc braking.

Discs are also absolutely better at stopping the bike, especially if it's hilly and SUPER especially if it's wet (or muddy, which is why off road bikes took to disc first).

Even in a flat place like Houston where we never would've gone to disc in the absence of market forces, we all realized quickly how much nicer they were. It's a definite upgrade.

You're also right about the cassette. More cogs mean we can have a wider range AND preserve the small steps between them, which is great for finding the right cadence in a paceline just as it is for accelerating.

Aero doesn’t really matter until you are riding at like 25+ mph. Internal cables are like a couple watt reduction at high speeds. Sure it matters for pros when a race is determined by seconds or less and that makes or breaks your career. For commuters and people riding for fitness though? Absolutely not. If you are riding for fitness wouldn’t you actually want a bike with more drag like all those people running with weighted vests and parachutes?

You gain different rim designs sure. But you also lose out on fork innovation as the disk side of the fork is now particularly strengthened. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some pro rider who would still ride rims if their sponsors allowed for it.

I don't know if this is a big factor, but, kids for the last 10 years have had access to really good training techniques for free via youtube. Every kid has the opportunity to use the same training techniques as the professionals.

By the time they get serious and have access to professional coaches, they've had maybe 5 years of good quality training.

As well as bikes have improved a lot. Clothes have improved a bit. But the biggest factor of all are the drugs. I mean I don't know. I'm just cynical.

I think it's a level playing field, though. I think it was a level playing field during the armstrong era.

Maybe armstrong had better drugs, better doctors, but it's not like the other riders were clean.

This brings back memories of Regium. A kickstarter scam 5 years ago that used realistic 3d animation videos of an automated chessboard to trick people out of their cash.

chess.com happily took regium's money to advertise their scam to their audience.

It eventually got kicked off kickstarter, and then kicked off some other kickstarter clones before self hosting their own kickstarter clone website. That was a wide ride. searching youtube for "regium chess board" will get a few hits.

Pi board looks like a fun project that I'm sure will be refined over the years.

> The only X factor here is the impact of the client lieing about its latency to the server, perhaps that could have an impact, not sure.

on lichess it does have an impact. lichess has a thing they call lag compensation where the server can add time to a player's clock after the server receives their move.

The goal is to make it fair for someone with high lag playing someone with low lag.

I don't know the exact cheating method used. I'll have a guess, though. What if someone spent a few seconds looking at the board before making their move, and then adding (edit: oops, subtracting) a few seconds to their clock in their response packet. The server would see the client made their move instantly based on the time in the response packet, but it took a few seconds for the server to receive the packet. i.e. lag. So it might add time to compensate for the perceived lag.

Lag compensation cheating is a frequent topic on the lichess forums.

I'm also not a lawyer, pleased to meet you.

> I sort of directionally think that if WPE had a strong case here, their opening bid wouldn't be a C&D

I believe, as a non lawyer, in some places to be able to sue for defamation you must first contact the defamer and demand they take it down.

I have no idea and no opinion if there is a case. If there is a case a C&D might be a necessary step.

Thank you for saying this. Trying to get this out there too. When people say "building a case", this is part of what they mean.

Creating a track record/evidence. Or the opportunity. My only practical experience is trying to get a restraining order. It's harder than you might think. Legal system demands work to work.

years ago I did the same, I vaguely remember following a blog post to do it. I put the scripts on github and some people found it useful. There's a deb package now that does it called overlayroot.