Hamilton gave his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Red Bull's bib "trick"
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    3d ago 100%

    But this sort of adjustment is very strictly against the rules, it was just another clever trick to work around the rules that were clarified as being illegal. We've had all sorts that are clearly against the intent of a rule while not always againstthe letterof the rule, and this is a big part of the fun with the engineering part of the sport. Taking that away and you lose a big part of the sport.

    Only reason RB aren't completely in the shit is it's impossible to prove if they did actually use it. From the description, it seems possible to change it on the grid if you take the nose off and another cover. I would be surprised if they never used it tbh.

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  • Hamilton gave his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Red Bull's bib "trick"
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    tankplanker
    3d ago 100%

    Of this was used its enabling a setup change from qualy to race, which can be enormously beneficial if its ride height like this due to fuel load differences. Setup changes like this are banned to make teams compromise between qualy and race trim or accept performance losses for one or the other. It's meant as a small balancing measure for team performance and a reduction in costs .

    In the old days, we had qualifying engines (not modes, entire single session engines), so it used to be full on extreme changes, I'm glad we don't anymore.

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  • Alternatives to Kodi or ways to make it work properly
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    tankplanker
    4d ago 100%

    Long time Kodi user, since it first came out on the original xbox.

    Assuming you are a watch and delete person then for films you really do not need more that a seperate folder than you dump films AND only films into and make sure that the film name is correct AND it includes the accurate year for the film. Vast majority of downloads will already have this in place, I never have to bother to rename or move films about as they just go straight into my download folder that Kodi is looking for my watch and delete films. Older versions of Kodi used to be much more annoying for film scanning requiring proper spacing and so on. However its very very important that only films go into this directory otherwise it will fuck up if you start dumping TV programs into here.

    TV is much more complex if Kodi is doing the metadata scanning as it normally relies on the top level folder name, and a proper season and episode numbering scheme. If you watching TV I would just switch to a managed downloader like sonarr, its a PITA to manually manage weekly show downloads anyway and sonarr will sort everything out for you.

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  • Smart gardening firm’s shutdown a reminder of Internet of Things’ fickle nature
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    tankplanker
    6d ago 100%

    Which bit of it are you particularly interested in? The app connectivity? Basic dumb all in ones are available on Amazon are more than good enough for growing the simple stuff like peppers and lettuce. None of the all in ones are bullet proof in terms of reliability, they are pretty disposable and I would not count on them lasting years.

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  • Elon Musk shows off two-seat robotaxi
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    tankplanker
    6d ago 100%

    The more I think about the 2 seater taxi that they showed off at this event, the more I think that was originally one of the prototypes for the affordable car.

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  • Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight
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    tankplanker
    1w ago 100%

    Didn't it also used to be noticeably slower than apt installed apps? This was one of the reasons I got rid of it at the time, Ive heard it has better performance now but not tried it.

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  • Captain Marvel set for major role in MCU's next two Avengers movies
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    1w ago 33%

    And then Rogers became the ultimate Jock, that's kind of the central point of his character, nerd becomes jock, wish fulfillment for the audience. That story is only really present for a small part of the first film, hes a an out and out jock for all most all of the rest of his screen time.

    Its almost the reverse for Thor, he is relatable for part of Ragnarok, then all of that character development is undone for Love and Thunder, as they tried to turn him into a copy of Quill. Quill is an arrogant buffoon who is as often wrong as he is right, and only works in some of the films where it has actually decent writing. Even in those films he only works because of the supporting cast, which is missing in Love and Thunder.

    Rest of Thors time, he is just a plain Jock , especially in Endgame, where is he a plain old jock but with a Rocky training montage.

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    tankplanker
    1w ago 50%

    Really? So nobody likes jocks like Steve Rogers or Thor?

    Whole point of Ragnarok was Thor learning not to be so arrogant and rely on others, its why it is so good as it offers real peril and a lesson to learn for him. He doesn't even beat the villain head on, he cheats and gets someone else to do it, at great cost to him and his people.

    Too often modern heroes want to be Superman, but without what makes Superman even remotely relatable, weakness to kryptonite or a stronger villain that offers actual risk to him.

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  • Captain Marvel set for major role in MCU's next two Avengers movies
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    1w ago 100%

    If you think Ripley is a jock least of all an arrogant jock it shows how little you understand her character. Jesus's, what part of her character in alien screams jock? She's not even listened to until it's too late, it's like the polar opposite of a do all never wrong Captain Marvel in MCU. Have you even watched alien?

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  • Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
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    1w ago 100%

    Worth noting that lower UK production, either caused by climate change such as the article talks about, or farmers either turning over fields to non farming uses such as solar or housing as farming is no longer profitable for them, means increased inflation for food. It also means we are less resilient to further food inflation if other countries have their own climate changed farming issues as we saw a little while ago.

    Failure to invest in farming now means small savings today but higher food prices tomorrow.

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  • Captain Marvel set for major role in MCU's next two Avengers movies
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    1w ago 81%

    This is true, but the level of hate directed at Larrson around how unlikable her character was and the constraints it places on the story of her character arc are all down to that one choice.

    If they made her likeable approaching the level as the big three, far more people would have enjoyed the film, and they would have had far more options when it comes to her character arc that would have improved the story.

    It's sexist, but it is still true that women are not judged the same for men when it comes to displays of overt confidence

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  • Captain Marvel set for major role in MCU's next two Avengers movies
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    1w ago 23%

    They wrote as a male character with a female skin rather than a woman, so she can't pull off the arrogant jock without coming across as unlikeable as its not a widely socially accepted archtype for women. It's hard enough for charismatic male actors to do that successfully, yet alone Larsson who is not the most charismatic of actresses and starting further behind.

    Think about how brash sports women are received (Serena Williams, for example) vs. brash sports men (say any number of them). It's sexist but it is what it is

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  • RoboFlop: Tesla's Cybercab Event Torched By Analysts And Investors
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    1w ago 100%

    Elon normally throws a dead cat like this onto the table every time he plans on either increasing his compensation or he plans on selling a bunch of shares as in the past the dead cat has boosted the share price. Funding Trumps campaign cant be cheap. I'm glad that the market seems to be finally cottoning on to his grifting with this.

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  • Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
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    1w ago 100%

    We need to decide if we are going to give a shit about food security and come up with guidance and funding to sort this out or carry on burying our head in the sand.

    It's all well and good relying primarily on other countries to provide out food, but when they have problems, it causes inflationary pressure due to the food being scarce. This of course, ignores all the farmers going bust, further reducing our long-term food security.

    Save pennies today and spend pounds tomorrow?

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  • 'It's so stupid': Biden shoots down Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiracy theory about controlling the weather
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    1w ago 100%

    Wasting your time explaining this at a low enough grade level that the people who believed it would understand is part of what the likes of MtG want, wasting hours or days of effort to refute a lie made in seconds. You are also reliant on people actually engaging with the content and believing the content when they live in their own alternate information reality divorced from the laws of physics and actual math.

    Whats needed is actual punishments for spreading such bullshit in the first place, stop the source of the disinformation.

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  • Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
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    1w ago 100%

    I greatly prefer Debian and run it on my home servers, but I want something more cutting edge than Debian for my work PCs but not quite as bleeding edge as Arch that I have to pay more attention to for my daily updates in case it breaks. I kind of end stuck at Ubuntu as I don't want something obscure and harder for me to fix due to a smaller user base to crib solutions to common problems from.

    I just use it as a relatively up to date, tested and supported base as I run Sway instead of the packaged Gnome, I disable snaps and all the other Ubuntu pro type garbage, even my Firefox is via PPA. Could I roll my own or use something else? Sure, but would I have the same trust over its reliability on the PCs that I use to pay my bills?

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  • Sebastian Stan Says ‘If Marvel Was Gone’ It’d Leave a ‘Big Hole,’ Tells Off MCU Haters: ‘Don’t Just S— on Something Without Offering Something Better’
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    2w ago 100%

    I don't get how that's our problem, these people were never his customer base for Marvel films, they wouldn't see them even if they were the second coming of Citizen Kane. They don't have magical powers that prevents the majority of his actual customer base from going. He and the rest of the production team have that power, and if they continue to fail to understand why the likes of Thor: Ragnarok is a great film and Thor: Love and Thunder really isn't, then there is no nope for them.

    Its very clearly about money, its the lead quote from him from the OP, and that shows utter contempt from him of his audience.

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  • Sebastian Stan Says ‘If Marvel Was Gone’ It’d Leave a ‘Big Hole,’ Tells Off MCU Haters: ‘Don’t Just S— on Something Without Offering Something Better’
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    2w ago 89%

    Really confused what he expects here, give a free pass to bad films? Go see a film multiple times even if we didn't enjoy it? As it's mass repeat ticket sales that pushes films well over the $1bn mark And that's the expectation here with the bloated budgets of these mid card films. Make out own films with he hundreds of millions we have lying around?

    I get nobody sets out to make a bad big budget film but you have budgets of hundreds of millions, do better. Start employing people for talent rather than who they related to or who they know. Start by not treating your audience with contempt with cookie cutter scripts, lazy characterisation, and more plot holes than plot.

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    Spoiler, its RDT In case people do nto know what RDT is, which they really should if they have been into coffee for a little while as it makes a big difference: RDT is Ross Droplet Technique, which is very much adding water to beans. Named after David Ross who came up with it back in 2005

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    The postman delivered a new to me DF83 Gen 1 with SSP HU burrs. Just had fun dialing it in over lunch for espresso. It is a huge step up from the Niche Zero it replaces for espresso.

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    Very interesting grinder for those that like to experiment with different burrs as it supports both conical and flat burrs. I think only the niche zero with a 3rd party kit did that so far? Can't say it would replace multiple grinders with just one for me as it still takes too long to switch over but I could definitely see myself switching burrs when I change over bags once or twice a month.

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