This is eerily similar to the marching soldiers' bridge collapse - Broughton Bridge in 1831, often misattributed to Napoleon but happened after his reign.

Lessons weren't learned 180 years later either, for the Milllennium Suspension Bridge, which I happened to work next to at the time and watched the construction and failure unfold. People tend to walk in sync. When things happen in sync, a resonant pattern emerges. It's true for people crossing bridges. It's true for people synchronising machines to exact clocks and nice rounded-off times as well.

One possible trigger was in a short seller report published back in May of this year.

https://daringfireball.net/lin...

The other possibility is someone in the food chain wanted to do some blackmail and in trying to get ahead of that, Nvidia had to out themselves.

The other possibility is that someone already was getting ready to put together a shareholder lawsuit, or an expose and was asking inconvenient questions of some of the parties that were effectively facilitating his infidelities. In order to not be seen as complicit, they had to throw him under the bus.

I imagine we'll find out sooner or later what the chain of circumstances were.

It happened in classic Who as well. To Tom Baker I believe, though I might be misremembering the "why don't you follow me up these stairs?" scene. Could have been McCoy. Either way - the line was..."Elevate!".

Yes.

Whether I especially want this however, that's a different matter. But for those that do - yes, support efforts have been stepped up recently.

Running a bank is already a license to print money.

But no, making money by arbitraging the difference between deposits and loans wasn't good enough, they had to go ahead and give "free" money to themselves via dodgy loans.

The consequence? Death penalty for the bank, since it was no longer financially sound.

Definitely falls under the column of killing the golden goose.

Hah - used one for a while quite some time ago. With enough willpower and sufficient hatred of the task at hand, a Corby Trouser Press can also be made to double as a shirt ironer.

People can still attack such a system..
Photo IDs can and have been forged, or can just be stolen and reused if someone looks similar enough - an exact match is impossible because you need to factor in age, lighting, appearance changes like a lack of shaving etc.
The account numbers can easily be discovered, and lists of them often leak.
A signature is totally worthless as a form of authentication, there are plenty of places you could copy it from or you can just do something random and noone will check it anyway.

The biggest security aspect of the traditional cashier withdrawal system was familiarity - people regularly visited their local bank and knew the staff.

Precisely this, people vote against whoever seems to be the worst at the time, doesn't mean they support the opposition policies just that they consider them the lesser of two evils.
It's the democrats pushing things too far which caused people to vote for trump in the first place.

Hosting your own web server at home has become a problem because ISPs and other orgs have not gotten off their asses to upgrade to IPv6. Instead lots of places are stuck with CGNAT and other kludges to keep the experimental legacy IPv4 limping along so you simply can't host as you don't have a proper connection. They don't need to explicitly block anything, you just don't have the ability to self host anything at all.

Plus going back the other way the prevalence of CGNAT and resale of legacy IPv4 space makes it extremely difficult to block malicious traffic without cutting off real users too.

For me the robotics vs laundry issue is ironing, not folding. It might be different in the US but I don't do a lot of laundry folding here in the UK - I just hang them up in the wardrobe or put them in drawers. Towels and spare sheets maybe? Not much.

But an ironing robot - yes, that one I would interested in. It needn't be some humanoid thing that stands by an ironing board and moves a traditional steam iron up and down - could be a static cupboard for all I care. There was a spate of announcements about 10 years ago but nothing came of them, only these blow-up air pressure ones that don't really work at all on work-style clothing. Ironing robots please.

Point me to the 'same grade' CPU equivalent of the M5 Pro and M6?

I mean, they literally show the use case for it on some of their the videos. It's not a general purpose one by any means, but this one is an actual Pro box, not a "I'm a consumer and just want the name Pro on my device" box.

The current use case is music production. Logic Pro. I have an Akai MPC Gen 2, with a touch screen for moving around the DAW and manipulating the virtual instruments. Logic Pro with the same level of interactivity would be fantastic, and no the iPad version doesn't cut it. I'm actually very interested in it for this specific reason.

Price? Well, I paid around £4k for my Intel 4Tb beast in 2019 to store all the sample-based instrument libraries I have. It's not a "let's buy this to look cool at the coffee shop" machine, although I'm sure some people will. I'm actually very interested in it for a serious step up in the way music production works.

"I'll tell you the experience. It's pissing me off!"

I log in to read, but I regularly open threads by right-clicking and open in a different tab. Since I mostly use private browsing (Safari or Firefox) to stop advert tracking, this means that one tab is logged in but most of the ones I open to read later are not logged in. So now that pattern is dead? Then there's the "site:reddit.com" searches I do on topics that I just need an answer for rather than ever wanting to participate in. Again, same pattern - I use private browsing and I usually right click and open multiple tabs on several likely looking search results before then starting to read each tab to see if anything useful turned up. That pattern gone as well?

The summary touches on this next bit too - I'm wondering what will happen when I send a link to someone else, some of whom don't have and will likely never have Reddit accounts. Are they now simply unable to see it? Even Facebook isn't that harsh, and it's the perfect example too. I do not have nor will I ever have a Facebook account, but I'm sent the odd link now and again which I do open and look at without needing an account. A world where Facebook is more open than Reddit is just...odd.

I get their dilemma, but this seems a bit too far to me.

Farewell, mon capitaine. See you out there.

Millions of users don't have proper connectivity, they are stuck behind CGNAT and cannot self host or p2p. They are dependent on those walled gardens hosted by someone else.