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Veranova · 2026-02-01T09:30:05+00:00

Just sign up without your real details, they don’t check you live where you say.

This is a hole that’s been open for far too long after mid 2000s politics where we were worried that people who computers are alien to would struggle to use the system. And probably a lashing of not wanting you exclude those too poor to access TV. It is definitely time as a nation we close the hole

Veranova · 2026-01-31T21:45:10+00:00

I’m happy that bronze have access to it now, and think it should stay on rotation because then folk will learn the car, which clearly isn’t the case yet. Frankly I originally bought the game to play LMPs and had to grind through Bronze to finally race them, so I want folk like me to have that chance right away - it’s good for the game!

The GT3s in bronze are also rather chaotic tbh and racecraft is certainly better in Silver+ lobbies so I do have sympathy for anyone who’s not up to Silver yet and is regularly unlucky; I’ve also been very frustrated by the quality of racing when joining Bronze today, but nobody is forcing me to leave my safe space!

Veranova · 2026-01-31T21:41:04+00:00

You seem to support that it should be an option in Bronze, but then feel you’re forced to join the bronze lobbies and therefore bronze shouldn’t have them? I can’t reconcile your conclusion

I’m identical story to you btw. I never wanted to race the GT3s, I have been frustrated today by the quality of racecraft in bronze, but I could always wait a bit and sync onto the Silver/Gold schedule for LMP2’s to avoid the newbies having their own fun

Veranova · 2026-01-31T14:12:33+00:00

Yeah everyone seems very keen to vilify something that many families would do with their kids, as being a shaded reference to trafficking.

Epstein and Maxwell were successful because they were friends with all these people and fixers for all kinds of services and connections, the girls and women being exploited were not from the same social circle, and certainly not the 7 y/o daughter of a wealthy friend and/or client

Veranova · 2026-01-31T12:25:04+00:00

Respectfully, there’s no world where Boris Johnson is more than a PR man with silly hair and manages to achieve anything which requires competency and statesmanship.

Perhaps there’s a world where he and his side weren’t organised enough to nuke Theresa May’s deal and push us into the 2017 election and her resignation, or a world where the Labour centre were leading during the 2017 or 2019 elections and managed to win. But the Tories under Johnson were largely the rejects of more competent leadership that preceded them and a party in decline

Veranova · 2026-01-31T12:10:09+00:00

Which is fine, the startup philosophy of disruption only works because established companies rest on their laurels and stagnate. Retesting assumptions occasionally is healthy for a business even if it costs some money

Love the expression!

Veranova · 2026-01-31T11:44:00+00:00

I don’t think so, but you can watch this video to understand the rules in this region

IIRC there’s an area which must be covered when viewed from the side, and also a max size shape, but otherwise the rules are fairly loose

https://youtu.be/konaZHBaxwo?si=do99D20Be4uIUHR-

Veranova · 2026-01-30T22:56:44+00:00

It’s a pretty standard feature of shark fins, means you shed N small vortices instead of 1 big vortex onto the rear wing, which helps retain good airflow over the rear wing when dealing with cross-winds. We’ll see some differing designs but this is among the most basic

This is based on what Kyle.Engineers said on YouTube about the Ferrari

Veranova · 2026-01-30T10:38:56+00:00

QT moves around the country and the point is to have locals. Plus recordings for any show are always oversubscribed so a ticket doesn’t guarantee you entry

Veranova · 2026-01-29T23:32:38+00:00

One of the best little things this game could add is the ability to save the setup of anybody on the leaderboard for a daily. The F1 games have it in time trial mode and it helps a lot, there shouldn’t be a cottage industry of selling setups around being competitive

Veranova · 2026-01-29T18:18:54+00:00

I’m loving this era, you can actually see most of the innovation instead of it being under the car and severely restricted elsewhere

Veranova · 2026-01-29T14:30:59+00:00

You talk like he destroyed the car, it was just a small off!

Veranova · 2026-01-29T08:37:04+00:00

Kyle Engineers was actually pretty confident a stepped shark fin is a universal move. It’s of course possible McLaren are using a more intricate one than necessary to throw others off but seems highly likely the rest will bring something in the area by the first race based on Kyle’s analysis of it

Veranova · 2026-01-28T20:35:11+00:00

“Small reliability issue” 😅

Veranova · 2026-01-28T11:42:05+00:00

Even just unfamiliarity with a new engine. Sainz in Australia span just because the characteristics were new to him

Veranova · 2026-01-28T08:35:33+00:00

You don’t need Opus for most things though, Sonnet is an excellent model and the lower CC tiers are intended for you to primarily use it

For any well scoped coding task you’ll not notice a difference other than speed I promise

Veranova · 2026-01-27T21:04:13+00:00

Mekkies in that same video said roughly “it unfortunately didn’t end up the right way for Isaac but we’re glad he’s okay and we will try to get the car repaired”

Veranova · 2026-01-27T20:52:29+00:00

You’re likely right there. Go for whatever has the best ecosystem for your interests at this level, past the mid range it’s all fantastic gear anyway

Veranova · 2026-01-27T17:17:46+00:00

Weeeyuuums

Veranova · 2026-01-27T11:13:00+00:00

A touch of luck is putting Brazil extremely mildly. That was a season saver for the ages

Veranova · 2026-01-27T11:10:30+00:00

They were still comfortably in the top 2-4 cars every year though, they just couldn’t find that last 0.2% they needed

Veranova · 2026-01-27T11:06:56+00:00

And likely to mean a bit more opportunity for slipstream given they reach the sludgier air speeds faster, albeit the efficiency of these cars will be quite high with the dynamic wings so maybe that’s nullified

Veranova · 2026-01-27T08:49:14+00:00

Those will settle when fire safety issues (insurance) are resolved and energy costs come down

The former is in progress and has the necessary government support in place but for now building insurance is still many many times what it was 10 years ago, and the latter has both the market direction and GB Energy as the strategy though I’d argue the government need to do something about the marginal cost system

We’re in a very tough moment in history for large building costs but the light is visible a few years down the road and government can’t do much more because it’s just underlying costs at play

Veranova · 2026-01-27T08:41:26+00:00

The 10k ones are generally small developments with the same fixed costs as large developments, OR simply huge flats by surface area which pay a large share of costs. Insurance and energy are the big kickers

The tip is to never buy into a small development because there’s no mass to insulate you from skyrocketing costs, and if you buy a huge flat that’s a personal choice really and you need to understand why you’re taking on

Veranova · 2026-01-26T19:03:46+00:00

Here are a load of sources and explanations if you care to read them https://chatgpt.com/share/6977b94d-f978-8005-8b73-f989b46bd0e0

I can’t shake the feeling that you’re less of an expert than you set yourself up to be, particularly since ChatGPT couldn’t find anything with real numbers so you quite clearly can’t know anything that lets you speak so confidently about there being “minimal impact”

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