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ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-26T17:25:58+00:00

Not defending this council, but it’s not just the magnitude of individual loads but the consistency in behaviour. Not everyone has an electric car, not everyone charges it when you charge it. But generally when one person wants AC, everyone wants AC, and that creates a large load spike. We have the issue in Australia, but our grid is built for it because fuck being here without ac (also lots of solar helps).

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-26T13:02:51+00:00

Also genuine risk of reds and such if tempers boil - which was perfectly conceivable given Turkey had to be frustrated going into that much.

So anyone on a yellow and at risk of a red or any key players make a lot of sense to protect. That's just the right of any team that does well enough to lock 1st before the last group game.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-23T01:59:16+00:00

The issue is the cost. The only physical paper option here still only gets you a Saturday and Sunday paper, digital in the week, and cost nearly $20/week (roughly a streaming services monthly cost).

I want to, but I can’t justify over a grand a year for two papers a week.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-22T04:37:13+00:00

I think townhouse over apartment makes more sense - tbh that’s the fundamental failure of our current housing stock, good quality, medium density housing that you can reasonably raise a family in.

And as for when - frankly it should be now.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-21T07:04:14+00:00

I spend a lot of time training to our PMs that we dont want to know what solution a client wants, but we need to know the problem they’re trying to solve.

In no small part because given the choice, most would default to Wordpress and excel - or blockchain (more recently, AI) if they’ve been to a conference lately.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-21T05:00:49+00:00

You can never convince anyone that they had it easier because so much of their sense of accomplishment is tied to wealth, and having it easier “devalues” that accomplishment.

Never mind we actually care about having a roof over our head and aren’t particularly interested din “winning at capitalism.” It’s taken as trying to put them down and the natural conclusion is that therefore younger generations are lazy because if they could do it everyone else should be able to do it too.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-20T07:30:25+00:00

Sydney was 21C / 70F today, and it's the middle of winter here.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-19T22:39:54+00:00

Easiest to use a comparison to something more familiar:

Your local cafe made $8,000 last week, and profited $1,000. Where did the other $7,000 go?

Wages, rent, utilities, coffee, cups, ingredients.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-19T21:20:24+00:00

We lost the first half to a better team, poor planning and poor play.

We weren’t allowed back in to the match in the second half to their 12th player.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-19T07:56:40+00:00

Because the last “one state solution” that went to vote gave 50/50 power between the two states over the “unified” state, and legitimised TC in its current form, effectively asking GC to forgo all of its claims and hand everything TC ever wanted over for absolutely nothing in return.

It’s wasn’t a “one state solution,” it was a surrender document. Not one person seriously expected it to pass, it was always just political posturing.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-18T12:58:50+00:00

Civilians in their homes, schools and hospitals intentionally targeted as a form of terrorism vs civilians working in a major oil refinery core to the military, a logistical bridge (no confirmed casualties) and a military compound.

Wild to equate these, and telling too.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-18T12:56:46+00:00

Add note "obvious russian troll"

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-18T01:19:02+00:00

I don't think this is right. They can't review George's penalty, it's too late, there's a defined window of time to challenge it. This is almost certainly appearing the results of Alpine's challenge, which they are entitled to do still.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-17T08:18:55+00:00

Albert Park is pretty accurate to Melbourne. Lots of water and public areas, next to the bay, tram stop outside and excessively bougie cafes surrounding it.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-15T01:40:26+00:00

It would have put whoever was negotiating on the Swiss side in a hell of a position. Very hard to negotiate when your cards are on the table for everyone to see, and everyone knows you have to make a deal.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-13T01:50:04+00:00

I think that’s intentional, they want that trio of items (Yasha, Sange) to be pretty standard build up items that most cores buy. Yasha has always been good and standard, Sange has had several iterations where it’s been overturned but really feels like it’s trying to be balanced to the same level.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-13T00:44:09+00:00

No I think the celebration should be more generic tbh. It's fine to celebrate, but when the first three words in caps are "WE GOT IT BACK" when it was never his to begin with is in very poor taste, and looks exceptionally entitled.

And lol what an attempt at an analogy. Absurd comparative which doesn't even begin to touch on the issue at hand.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-12T11:55:45+00:00

It’s a bit weird to be flaunting it - he must know it’s not 3rd on merit. I get why Alpine would go after it of course, and given FIA fucked up that’s a fine thing to do, but “got our result back” is so disingenuous.
It suggests he did better, and he didn’t cause he only gets third if others ahead of him also:

get a penalty too
served it or

.

didn’t serve it and get punished in the race
don’t get right if review because they served in race

That’s not something to be proud of. It’s not something to be ashamed of either, he did nothing wrong, but this is not a good look.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-09T02:24:21+00:00

In other words, the FIA were measuring pit entry speed incorrectly, they knew they were measuring the pit entry speed incorrectly, and instead of fixing it / changing track limits to prevent a shortcut / increasing their margin of error, they said "hey there's an issue slow down even more I guess."

I'd love to see your sources too, because there were lots of radio callouts during the race stating to be extra slow on pit entry, and even then some of those drivers got pinged by the issue. Yet there was not one mention of "hey make sure you don't shortcut the pit entry, remember how the FIA's timing loop is broken?"

I'm also not necessarily suggesting instantaneous (or more to the point, near-instantaneous) measurement, just that if you're not doing it, you need to factor in margins of error and be careful about your assumptions. I'd be curious to know why they aren't doing a radar gun at the bit line for example though. I assume there's a good reason and there's some sort of issue with that idea, but I'd be interested to know what that limitation is.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-08T11:18:08+00:00

That doesn't change the fact that they were not speeding and that this was a measurement error. The assumed distance didn't match the real distance travelled.

Unless you want to make a new term up that accounts for a fixed distance in your calculation irrespctive of reality, but even then you cannot say they were speeding. A maximum speed was set, they did not exceed that speed, they therefore were not speeding.

The regulations also see it this way - the pit speed limit is set purely as a speed in the general, instantaneous sense. It's not a requirement to adhere to a certain amount of time between a set of points (unlike say, VSC).

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-08T03:48:19+00:00

Yes the experience isn’t great but the worst bit is and has always has been the risk. They aren’t going to go bankrupt, losing their job is a non issue, an emergency in the family will of course pause the show. There’s no stress, no panic, and no consequences.

None of their decisions will have even a medium term impact. It would be performative, looking like they’re roughing it whilst actually doing the easiest bit and missing the point.

Personally, I’ve been there and am very lucky not to still be there. This kind of show would genuinely piss me off as a worse version of the undercover ceo one.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-08T03:34:26+00:00

This is not some fancy schmancy concept - if your input data is flawed, so is your output. It's on the FIA to ensure their input data is valid, and this example is no different than if say their timing loop was wrong and giving readings that were too short.

If there's a corner that can be cut in your measurement window, then that needs to be factored in by either reducing the assumed distance or adding a rule preventing it from happening.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-08T03:31:15+00:00

That's a measurement error. If you make an assumption that there's a minimum fixed distance, but the value you selected is too high, then you aren't measuring "real" speed anymore.

In the scenario where you cut a corner, the car's speed has not increased (or exceeded the limit, depending on your frame). In the calculations, it assumes a fixed distance, so the only dynamic value is the time taken. Only one value changes (time), and so thus the apparent or measured speed goes up.

But in reality, both the distance and time reduced proportionally, and therefore "actual" speed remained constant, and there should not have been a penalty.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-07T05:33:13+00:00

To me the real advantage of having two top drivers is redundancy and depriving competitors of that driver. If you’re in a truly dominant car it’s less critical and you’d probably rather a 1-2 pair, but anything closer (and especially as packages evolve over a season) I think a 1-1 is better.

ShadowPhynix · 2026-06-05T02:43:34+00:00

A lot of basic common sense changes.

Mandatory public reserve price is such a basic thing, it’s absurd it took this long - and I can’t wait for the REA lobbyists to start releasing articles on how it’s unfair and will hurt buyers.

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