Tamps

However, after 14 years of uninterrupted growth, we are now seeing a decline of unprecedented scale and speed.

So basically, we made a lot of money over a period of 14 years but we don’t have any left to sustain our business model. I wonder where the money went? Business planning? What’s what?!?🤔

Can’t blame TIGA, they’re doing their job as a trade body.

If the government were going to intervene, I’d prefer to see it support indie devs and make that sustainable option for people to try new and interesting things and hone their craft.

When I pressed him to consider the social consequences of his work, he acknowledged that he and his business partners had discussed contingency plans for laid-off workers. Those who are higher-skilled could be used to train the next generation of robots, he said. He did not say how he would deal with lower-skilled workers.

As government subsidies flood the robotics sector, Chen and his peers are bracing for the usual pattern: price wars and cost cutting manoeuvres that leave companies barely able to turn a profit.

I’m curious as to what’s at the end of this race to the bottom. If workers are steadily being excluded from the job market, and even those running the companies are being forced to narrow their profit margins, the implied goal is to make a lot of stuff that nobody has time or money to use. I guess there’s some competitive advantage of economic dominance on the world stage, but it feels like even that is on shaky ground for one reason or another.

Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.

I also wonder what the plan is when the token cost starts going upward. The bill for all this venture capital will come due eventually and someone has to pay for it.

Can confirm this works with Navidrome. I also have Navidrome updating last.fm as well.

This is good news! I quite like the Quest 3 hardware, but I hated having Horizon rammed down my throat through the UI. I guess that’s because they were desperate to drive engagement.

The other thing the helps people get unstuck in games is good game design. 🙃

<sigh> I suppose this is just the equivalent of reading a game guide that someone has written, but this feels like it could remove too much friction. Are you playing the game if everything just becomes a tutorial?

Won’t stop the competition suggesting that Merc should be nerfed mind you. Interesting to hear Lewis mentioning compression ratios in the post qualifying interviews. 😅

I presume Mercs main defence will be that McLaren has the same engine and isn’t as dominant.

Quali should be good if they’re still learning where the limits are.

I thought it might be part of the rear diffuser. Hope they have some spare underfloors given the amount of people going through the gravel. :)

Yes, fair comment. If they have to retire the car because it’s shaking itself and the drivers to the point of failure, questions will be asked. So some of this is getting on the front foot and manage expectations. But I am baffled how how naive AM could be regarding the strength of Honda coming back into the fold as an engine supplier. It’s more likely they were set to struggle than not given they’re essentially in a rebuilding phase having lost personnel to RB.

As you say, the vibration issue is potentially masking any other problems, and Newey seems to think that the chassis is a step ahead of others, but we won’t really know until this is resolved. And the lack of running is doubly punishing in terms of gathering data and insight. I guess I’m just wary because this feels very similar to the McLaren & Honda situation where Honda carried all the blame, only to find that McLaren had other performance issues outside of the PU.

But asked if Aston Martin had been aware of the level of the inexperience shortfall when they signed their Honda deal in May 2023, Newey, who joined Aston Martin from Red Bull last spring, said: "No, we weren’t”

What?! That sounds ridiculous. And it goes on to say that AM only figured this out very recently. Given that RB lured many people away from both Honda and Mercedes to build their powertrain it seems obvious to check who at Honda is left to develop the engine from the original team when signing a large, expensive and important contract.

Whatever the truth of it, AM need to have a good working relationship with Honda and whilst it might be convenient to blame them for their technical difficulties, surely it’s damaging a working relationship that should be very close so that it translates into performance on track.

!next

I wonder if the slightly smaller, lighter cars make Monaco less of a parade lap? I guess we’ll have to wait and what the spread of performance across teams is like by that point, and if it’s any easier to get overtaking done.

This sounds like my thing! Thanks! Added to my ever growing backlog. :)

I appreciate that Aston has a lot of new stuff to grapple with this year (engine, gearbox, new regs etc.) but I’m still slightly surprised they are seemingly so far behind the development curve given they switched to developing the new car pretty early last year.

Will be interesting to see where they are relative to Cadillac.

I wonder how much of this is the big bet that they placed on buying up Activision Blizzard (plus other studios) and not being able to show enough growth on Gamepass?

And now of course, with skyrocketing hardware costs, and the ripple effects of tariffs before that, even putting MS’s preoccupation with cloud services and AI to one side, the console business probably isn’t the money spinner it once was.

Fate simply serves up only five matches at a time – no infinite swiping – and, excruciatingly, forces its users to write an explanation when they reject a potential match.

Why!?! This sounds more like a job interview.

People used to rent their televisions because the technology was too expensive to own outright. It’s weird that this business model is becoming viable again, and specifically for hardware that’s been in circulation for a while. I appreciate that Sony are just looking at ways to expand their player base, and i’d presume some of the economic drivers are out of their control, but I don’t think this should be encouraged or tolerated.

Are we getting rid of wheel covers this year? Are are the teams just not including them because the cars look better without?