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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • An Apple TV actually fits this use case pretty well. Being Apple most providers will have native apps available for the device (they definitely have Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+), it comes with a remote but supports using other infrared remotes (you can train it to recognise specific buttons so doesn’t matter what remote you use), and you can also control it from your phone (it works natively for iOS but there are Android apps that can do it too).

    For casting, if you use Apple devices it’s easy with AirPlay. If you use Android devices there are apps you can get that support Chromecast, however haven’t ever used them personally so can’t comment on their effectiveness.

    And to date Apple haven’t put ads into the tvOS interface. It’s basically a grid of apps and you just open the one you want to watch. It’s been our primary TV device for years now, and is simple enough to use that even my 60 something tech adverse mum likes using it.












  • “I think everything is going have to be done with strategy, because you can’t overtake"

    I still feel this needs addressing. Whether it be through making adjustments to make overtaking feasible (either in the track or the car regulations), adjusting the rules to force more pitstops and therefore provide more opportunities for these strategy calls to play out, or by not racing at tracks that don’t make racing feasible.

    We’ll see how the race actually goes but if you have one of the fastest cars on the track and can’t get through to the front runners because “you can’t overtake” then something is wrong. Hoping Lando is wrong there.

    On the other hand, would be hilarious if Oscar ended up closing the gap to Lando and we’re back to McLaren not sure who they should push.



  • Regardless of the technology, isn’t this essentially creating a facsimile of a game that already exists? So the tech isn’t really about creating a new game, it’s about replicating something that already exists in a fairly inefficient manner. That doesn’t really help you to create something new, like I’m not going to be able to come up with an idea for a new game, throw it at this AI, and get something playable out of it.

    That and the fact it “can be played for up to 20 seconds” before “the model begins to run out of memory” seems like, I don’t know, a fairly major roadblock?