That reminds me of the old story where they positioned a PC opposite from the server and taped a pen to the CD drive so that opening the CD tray presses the reset button of the server. The PC would automatically detect when the server freezes and open the CD tray. Probably just a legend but still a great example for how a silly and simple solution that just works can often times be as good if not better than a sophisticated but over engineered solution

You must put the limit somewhere. If you add a tolerance and allow for 60.1 km/h, the teams will try to hit 60.1 km/h instead. All that changes is that the speed limit is now 0.1 km/h faster and someone going 60.2 km/h will get punished for going just 0.1 km/h over the limit just the same.

No, it’s really not. You have the most controversial set of new technical regulations in a long time so the tension is already on. Now you have a cleat best team, a clear second best team, the defending world champion team couldn’t start any car in the second race and a team that can’t finish races. 1-2 and 3-4 are fought out by two team mates each and we can consider ourselves lucky that at least the Ferraris show us some wheel to wheel action, otherwise nothing would happen in the front of the race. Two of the next races have been cancelled for being in an active war zone, leaving a huge gap in the calender. And to top it all off, the most dominant driver of the last 5 years is quite vocal about his discontent with the new rules and cars.

Mercedes might be happy with being the fastest team once more, but they and all the other teams must know that the current state is not healthy nor sustainable for the Formula 1. And while allowing Aston an exemption wouldn’t magically fix every issue, it would be a hell lot better than seeing them double DNF every race weekend for the next 3 months. So yes, I do truly believe it’s in the best interest of everyone involved in F1

Those pit stops may be fast, but McLaren finished all their pit stops combined in even less time. Practically no time you could say

Couldn’t they get an exemption? If can’t fix this, this would mean they won’t finish any race untill June and that can’t be in anyone’s best interest.

To be fair, the fuel used by the cars is only a small fraction of the overall fuel and energy usage of F1. The far bigger share is logistics

While it’s true that F1 originally left South Africa because of apartheid, they did return to South Africa for three seasons in the 90s after apartheid ended. Ultimately it (again) came down to hosting a F1 race being fucking expensive, not apartheid

Shouldn’t a used car sale platform be pretty indifferent about fossil fuels vs electric? Whatever cars are built and sold new today, electric or not, will be the used cars of tomorrow.

Doesn’t that baby have birthright citizenship, being born in the US?

There are 15.43 million artist on spotify, so they’d get about $836,000 each.

I never tried this but your comment made me wonder: there are probably some programs that run better using WINE in WSL than running them directly in Windows 11.

To be fair, that’s an issue for both torrent and usenet. If it’s popular enough, you will still find seeder or reupload 15 years later but if it’s not, you may be out of luck either way

I assume this is purely a result of the specific map projection used here. On an actual globe those lines are most likely neither straight nor parallel.

Technically that was BMW-Sauber which is often considered a distinct entity by Sauber itself. If you don’t cound the singular BMW-Sauber race win, they were entirely winless.

There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it’s tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.

If your drivers since 2008 included Räikkönen, Alsono, Vettel and Hamilton, yet no one could win a WDC, you should assume the drivers aren’t the issue.

To be fair, Norris is now leading the WDC standings, even if just by a single point, so naturally he has the best position to win the WDC. That said, it’s still all but decided. A single DNF and everything is turned on its head

That is one terribly stupid election system if I’ve ever seen one. Unless of course you’re already in control and want to ensure it stays this way, then it’s genius.

For me it’s the GPU prices, stagnation of the technology (most performance gains come at the cost of stupid power draw) and importantly being fed up with AAA games. Most games I played recently were a couple years old, indie titles or a couple years old indie titles. And I don’t need a high powered graphics card for that. I’ve been playing far more on my steam deck than my desktop PC, despite the latter having significantly more powerful hardware. You can’t force fun through sheer hardware performance

In terms of memory usage it’s a waste. But in terms of performance you’re absolutely correct. It’s generally far more efficient to check is a word is 0 than to check if a single bit is zero.