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Crossing my fingers that Norris gains a spot or two at the start and doesn’t have to deal with Verstappen on track.

The current rules are just a complete and utter disaster. Instead of leaving a car’s width, it’s the car ahead at the apex that gets the corner.

The main problem is that there is no clear idea where exactly the apex is, and which line to draw from that apex. And then you get different rulings for similar actions. See for example Piastri, who got 5 seconds for forcing Gasly off track.

I hate the whole situation. The only way to overtake Verstappen is to not be near him, because he understands the rules best and uses them to his advantage. It’s been like this for years and it’s toxic for good racing.

Yeah what happened to leaving a car’s width?

Yeah, so happy they apparently learned how to count.

And Piastri isn’t doing the team a favor by squeezing his teammate so hard he loses two places.

I just don’t understand McLaren. Remember the drama in Hungary, where Norris had to give up his position to Piastri? But now, papaya rules?

Somehow, Piastri seems bent on not being #2 and it looks like he’s got the team behind him. And Norris is such a nice guy he’ll just fold and play along.

Piastri is ruthless enough to be WDC, but his racecraft is erratic. Norris is a better allround, quick and can keep his cool. But he’s too fucking diplomatic. They need each other to maximize points and not squeeze each other out of the way.

Didn’t really understand why it took so long for McLaren to pit Piastri. They could have had a double podium.

But there was a post here a few days ago that RB had a brake bias valve that would apply more brake to the rear inner wheel, which was banned. That fits perfectly to Max’ statements.

The inside rear wheel is braked harder, which pulls the car into the curve, helping it rotate better while braking.

I have no idea what an inertia valve could be, but I’m guessing it might be similar to McLarens second brake pedal they had in the MP4/12. Applying more brake pressure to the inner rear wheel allows easier rotation at low speeds.

Andrea Stella has warned Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri of their F1 futures at the team if they disobey team orders.

OMG, such drama. Constructors is a priority, understandable. But how about they give Speedy Norris some more support, because he actually has a chance to win the WDC?

The radio messages were really weird. Like mentioning all the Sunday meetings, and “I’ve done all I can, Lando”. Somehow I’ve got a feeling that there’s a power play in McLaren for driver #1 and that they’re not fully committed to Lando despite him being ahead in points.

Just like Red Bull lose their shit when not winning, McLaren have to get their shit together as long as they are ahead.

This race I was surprised by two things: how easily Max lost his chill and that this incident wasn’t punished.

I things keep going like this, the constructors might be in danger, but Max himself is comfortably ahead. But if he always removed around and damages morale like that the moment he’s not ahead, that will drag the team down.

And how TF could a dive bomb with contact like that go unpunished? At first I thought Max was out to get Lewis - it looked more like a soccer tackle than an attempt to navigate the corner. Is this really how we’re racing in the fastest series? Crazy.

The EU is a relatively large market, and it wouldn’t make economic sense to develop and produce EU-specific devices. I’m pretty sure you’ll also be seeing replaceable batteries.

If you haven’t published a few papers then your preference in acronyms is irrelevant.

AI comprises everything from pattern recognition like OCR and speech recognition to the complex transformers we know now. All of these are specialized in that they can only accomplish a single task. Such as recognizing graffiti or generating graffiti. AGI, artificial general intelligence, would be flexible enough to do all the things and is currently considered the holy grail of ai.

I’ve been manually reencoding to h265 l, and while the space savings are significant, the pain is also. Especially if you mess up the audio or subs!

Will definitely look into that!

It’s easy for you and me. But imagine you’re Joe Everyman. First off, you need to know about F-Droid and where to download it. Then confirm that the browser can install software. And this is where I would imagine many users second-guessing if everything’s legit. And after it’s installed, you’ve got two separate app-stores to deal with. You need to know what you can install where.

If I extrapolate from my mother-in-law, who still can’t wrap her head around the concept of an app-store, let alone alternative browsers, that’s just too much hassle for most people.

As an OSS advocate, I fully agree. Sadly, OSS alternatives have to compete with easily accessible, slick and well-integrated products that are aggressively positioned. Just imagine all the steps you need to go through, just to install Fennec from F-Droid.

I was wondering if all Alphabet employees aren’t allowed to use ad blockers. Do they really believe that the internet without adblockers is a sane experience?

Highly doubt it. So many other browsers on so many platforms (mobile, tv, Auto,…) are built on Chrome and will have this by extension.