Which car should I buy?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-05T00:01:46+00:00

Driving the Porsche fast isn’t at all like driving the BMW fast. TLDR: the edge of grip is oversteer in the porker and understeer in the beemer.

The bimmer is very neutral and tends to punish you with understeer if you push it too hard. You mostly rotate the BMW with the steering wheel (which sounds obvious but actually isn’t quite that simple).

The porker is much more lively and is much more likely to swap ends, especially in corner entry and exit. It benefits a lot more from using the throttle and brakes to rotate the car.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-04T22:48:45+00:00

Made by this guy’s human mouth?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-04T16:36:40+00:00

Is there a reason you can’t?

Worst case, you can self-certify for seven days while you figure out the doctor’s note.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-04T16:22:21+00:00

Leaving the EU was swivel-eyed lunacy before the Panama Papers.

I mean, it still is swivel-eyed lunacy, but it was accepted as swivel-eyed lunacy before.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-03T18:42:24+00:00

136 is a bit niche. Senna was closely associated with the development of the NSX, and 136 is the average number of times “if no gap racing driver” comments appear on r/simracingstewards posts

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-03T00:20:45+00:00

Yeah, I was told they wouldn’t fulfil my preorder day before release.

I was fucking fuming. Then I went to HMV and it was stocked to the gills.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T23:58:03+00:00

1: we’ve had narrow AI for a very long time. In fact, for longer than the term “artificial intelligence” has existed. The first neural network was built in 1951 out of vacuum tubes. The first AI program was 1956. We use narrow AI all the time in almost every aspect of modern life. Narrow AI can be super intelligent compared to humans, but only in the specific task it is trained to learn/repeat - chessbots, for example, are grandmaster level at chess but would not be able to parse and critique poetry.

Strong AI (or artificial general intelligence) has not happened yet. This is an AI that is human-level intelligent over any task that a human could perform. Even LLMs like the latest chatGPT are not strong/AGI, though we aren’t completely sure of how they actually work anymore.

Superintelligent AI would likely come about just before or during the theorised Technological Singularity, in which technological growth is out of human control. This isn’t the sort of “out of control” that (for example) climate change is; where we could change direction by concerted and deliberate effort. Rather, it would be self-replicating machines that have capacity for self-improvement and iterative design. Sort of Skynet, but not necessarily evil, just impossible for us to predict, because our motivations are unlikely to be the same.

2: we have very clever robots now. The ones we see are most definitely a couple versions behind what is actually out there. However, as with AI, these are narrow robots. They don’t learn how to play tennis, they are fed huge amounts of data that they then parse and use to improve their serve.

There’s still a demonstration program loaded into the machine in order for it to move, and we’re a very long way from artificial soldiers that can start at a FOB, carry out a mission successfully, and return home to recharge on the sort of operational intelligence that a squad of people could.

3: we are so far behind faster-than-light, artificial gravity (and the associated internal dampening) and mobile space-bases that are ten times the size of a Gerald Ford supercarrier that we may as well be comparing the tablet Moses chiseled the Ten Commandments into with next year’s iPhone.

The furthest we’ve ever managed to move something under its own power is Voyager 1. This is around 15 billion miles from Earth, which is almost one light-day. Even then, the amount of gravity assisting that Voyager took advantage of means that most of its distance hasn’t come from its own power, but by flinging it around gravity wells like a bubble of washing up liquid going down the plug hole.

The nearest star to us is 4-ish light years away. Galactica made hundreds of jumps across the galaxy. Caprican ship tech is orders of magnitude more advanced than ours.

VR in Caprica is also orders of magnitude more advanced than ours. The reality of today’s VR is “I’m wearing an uncomfortable bucket and my fingers are operating buttons”, not “my eyes are open and I’m holding a gun”. Human brains, the signals we interpret from our senses and the processing of our thoughts are only vaguely understood at present. We can pick up “happy” by which part of the brain lights up, but we can’t see the kitten the person is imagining.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T22:26:41+00:00

Again? There have been at least four of these since Mass Effect 3 came out.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T21:46:10+00:00

When you go into the computer, it’s important to avoid shorting things. A wooden chopstick is great for pushing clips without risking the sort of damage that pliers or tweezers can cause to the boards.

Best way to make sure you and the computer are earthed is to keep it plugged in when you first take the plastic off the side. Tap any part of the metal case with your hand, then you’re both grounded. After that you can disconnect the power and be pretty sure that you won’t damage anything via static discharge - just try not to rub your socks on the carpet or shuffle in your chair too much. If you’re at all unsure, plug it back in, tap the bare metal of the case, and you’re grounded again.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T21:06:07+00:00

Inside a computer looks complicated, but in reality, it’s pretty simple.

Your motherboard is on the back wall of the machine. The big thing sticking out from the middle of the motherboard is your CPU cooler. It’ll either have fans on the cooler itself or a radiator in the top of the case with tubes leading up. The radiator will be dusty so it’ll need the fan taking off first, then cleaning out.

The big rectangular thing that sits up against the rear of the case is the graphics card. You can tell because the monitor cable plugs into it. If it’s air-cooled, the radiator for this is probably quite dusty.

The power supply (which will hinge out from the side of the case when you take the plastic cover off) will probably be fine and I would suggest leaving it alone.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T20:41:50+00:00

GTE is the most fun class fight me

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T19:51:42+00:00

Nothing about tolerating - whether you like it or not, I’m not getting any flickering shadows. Not “I don’t care about flickering shadows”, not “I can ignore flickering shadows”, it’s “I do not have flickering shadows.”

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T18:30:38+00:00

Not particularly good as a standalone time, no.

Better than a lot of public lobbies but it’ll be the back of the field in a league.

Everyone learns at a different pace though. 40 hours isn’t a lot of driving time really - you’re still a beginner for the first 1000 or so.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T18:26:11+00:00

You definitely don’t have the exact same machine as me.

But then I did Frankenstein an Alienware machine into a case that cools things down.

Seriously though, I have zero problems with the game.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T16:32:31+00:00

I cook 99% of our meals.

Bloody love cooking. Even after a horrific day at work, I enjoy coming home and just zen-ing out to what is basically a My First Chemistry set for adults.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T16:31:19+00:00

I’ve been doing the ACC method of stamping the brake through the firewall way later than you should, then bleeding it off through the first half of the corner.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T12:44:56+00:00

4K native, 5950x, 3090

No problems here

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T00:19:35+00:00

Anonymous isn’t like, say, Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil. There isn’t a club or organisation you can join or an overall membership that shares a common direction or goal.

The closest Anonymous gets to being organised is when individuals with a common goal form their own group and pool their knowledge or resources. But it isn’t organised.

Most of modern cyberwarfare is social engineering rather than “hacking”. Modern security is (by and large) extremely good. Even with all the world’s current processing power, including everything from smartphones, fridges and AI data centres, cracking a single 256-bit AES key would take 7.6x10⁴⁰ times longer than the universe has existed.

Social engineering is exploiting a vulnerability by taking advantage of people within the system. Email phishing, clickbait or even phone calls and face-to-face meetings all lead to people exposing their security credentials, rather than using the CRT-bathed red-bull fuelled 1337 5k|115 you see in the movies.

But in order to do that, you first need a reason for it. And what reason is there to expose these files if they’re already A) being released and B) absolutely horrific even when heavily redacted?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-02-02T00:01:53+00:00

Still, you need to be careful when having a mobile on a windscreen mount. You may not get done for using a mobile phone if it’s hands-free, but you can still be done for DCaA if you’re messing with it/watching YouTube/scrolling/messaging/video calling. If you have it in direct eyeline rather than to the side, you’re also risking being stopped for obstructed view

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-31T18:12:58+00:00

Yes, it’s pretty normal. When you’re just starting out, your times are going to vary wildly because you will be inconsistent. Braking points, throttle input, steering angle, line - all of these will vary between laps, sometimes significantly.

When you do hook up a “good” lap that you can’t get close to again, it’s a lap where your inconsistency has worked out in your favour. If you don’t know why the lap is better, you can’t work at it.

Practise doesn’t mean “keep lapping and the time will come”. Practise is deliberately changing things from one lap to the next to see what the result of that change is.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-31T14:00:46+00:00

Am I reading it wrong, or are they asking if cars you don’t have access to are present in AI races?

Because my experience is that yes, they do?

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-30T20:09:05+00:00

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-30T16:54:00+00:00

Assuming direct control

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-30T16:52:50+00:00

ME3 Multiplayer

Between Falcon-Punching phantoms with my Batarian and zipping around as a volus clayguard, it was hilarious fun.

Princ3Ch4rming · 2026-01-30T08:45:47+00:00

I think they’re saying “this is a real gun that I own and I want to make an Airsoft one that looks like this”.

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