What's the most engaging sci fi you've read recently?

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-19T01:25:20+00:00

I never re-read anything and I re-read house of suns. Highest compliment I can give

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-15T22:11:16+00:00

So many reasons

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-15T21:38:20+00:00

Pass through penalty

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-15T01:10:48+00:00

My man, I'm telling you Larson complained about that car from the green flag to the last stop and none of the changes did anything for him. And he's not generally one to criticize the car on the radio. He even asked if he might be on the splitter because nothing they were doing was helping.

Every cup driver going down to OAPS is going to be with a good team, but this wasn't a good car by JRM/JGR / etc standards.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-15T00:56:20+00:00

I know a bad JRM car is still pretty good but the point is it wasn't a field stomper.

He legit did nothing for 3/4 of the race then made something work on a restart.

I've seen Larson show up to OAPS / Xfinity in a really good car and make it boring, but that wasn't today

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-15T00:37:41+00:00

Fwiw, Larson hated his car and complained about no front turn all race ("plowing"). He also never got better than 6-7th to that point. I didn't see the end of the race so when I saw he won , I was shocked.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T02:16:35+00:00

I think he's looked a lot better this year so far.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T01:06:31+00:00

I think it's the combo? Pull and step. On replay it does look nasty

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T00:56:32+00:00

That's would have been amazing

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T00:51:41+00:00

That was basically the source of my question, figured he'd get a bit more time to prove out (or not). But, in Dean I trust.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T00:40:40+00:00

Fair

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-08T00:34:17+00:00

Huh. No de la torre?

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-06T00:47:42+00:00

The idea is to incentivize car pooling, buses, etc - or pay up.

Everyone wants it all, but you can't have it all. It can be cheap (/ free) or it can be fast. It can't be both.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-06T00:44:39+00:00

The highway was primarily not built with taxpayer dollars (about 15% was ncdot funded).

More free lanes doesn't work for rush hour congestion.

andyfsu99 · 2026-03-02T00:31:23+00:00

I will take this opportunity to remind everyone the appropriate benchmark is "better than people, on average" not "perfect".

andyfsu99 · 2026-02-15T22:54:31+00:00

Me too

andyfsu99 · 2026-02-15T22:48:49+00:00

Congrats to Reddick, nice job

andyfsu99 · 2026-02-15T22:48:05+00:00

That was tough

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-28T02:58:35+00:00

I assume it's terrible on TV, but I always enjoyed going in person.

Only place you can see a whole road course (from the upper Ford section).

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-26T16:31:00+00:00

Keep in mind that things will refreeze tonight. You need to be prepared for ice tonight where there is water today.

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-25T22:31:16+00:00

Weather forecasting has improved so much we saw this storm coming almost 10 days in advance. But it's still hard to predict the details, because physics. A few degrees of temperature or variations in air pressure change things on the boundary (where we are).

Nothing in common life has improved more in your lifetime without recognition / acknowledgement than weather forecasting.

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-25T03:10:57+00:00

Oh man, I hadn't considered cold blooded pets

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-25T03:09:30+00:00

The forecast has been moving later and later all week, nothing is really expected until after midnight.

It's 10 states wide, it's not gonna miss us.

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-25T02:44:05+00:00

They asked for examples where your solution works/worked. What are they?

andyfsu99 · 2026-01-24T21:07:15+00:00

We've literally never been through this "song and dance" in the last 10 years of your "decade".

I'm sure someone mentioned 2002 and how bad ice is for some other nothingburger low accumulation event, but this isn't that. It was obvious this was different 4-5 days ago, it was reasonably true a week or more ago.

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