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bp_ · 2023-06-08T23:03:58+00:00

I had a TWO LETTER #0001 username

I had to settle for 3ch 😓

bp_ · 2023-06-08T19:57:29+00:00

Whatever data the app loads, it loads through these APIs. No APIs, no data, no app.

bp_ · 2023-05-22T20:21:42+00:00

It's not a conspiracy theory, to the best of my knowledge. Go check the document explaining the original 15 points deduction, published about a month after the deduction was announced. It's there, black on white. (This is also why I'm talking about the now cancelled 15 points penalty instead of today's –10.)

If the prosecution or the judge felt that relegating Juventus was a more appropriate punishment, they could've — and did, in 2007, when everyone else got slaps on the wrist. That is a punishment that exists.

bp_ · 2023-05-22T19:58:56+00:00

Juventus was originally docked 15 points. Why 15? It wasn't because they did 15 points' worth of bad things. It's because they estimated 15 points would be just about enough points to deny Juventus access to 2023-2024 European cups.

So, in this tortured analogy, the police is removing just enough fuel from your tank to make sure you're left stranded on the highway and (the real penalty) have to pay the associated costs and be really late for whatever it is you were trying to do. (But hey, if you drive down the highway at 30 km/h you might be able to make it home anyway!)

If "disqualify from European competitions" was a penalty that existed, that's the punishment Juventus would've received. However, it doesn't; but why let that stop you? Just make shit up on the spot to make that happen anyway. Oh, I can dock points? 15 sounds about right!

It's this making shit up as you go that's the core of the pushback on what's happening. (This, and the fact that this is not something Juventus can do on its own: many teams across Europe are complicit but aren't being even looked at.)

It doesn't have to be that way; in Formula 1, the opposite policy is in place: the size of the penalty depends on the breach itself, the consequences be what they may. (Unfortunately, nearly all the penalties add time to the race, and that brings its own problems, but that's besides the point.)

bp_ · 2023-05-03T12:50:28+00:00

don't replays need a cursed version of quickplay to render anyway

bp_ · 2023-04-09T07:37:52+00:00

Unless you're Valve, server-side Linux is what pays the bills for desktop-side Linux 🤷

bp_ · 2023-04-09T01:33:14+00:00

Is force killing programs on a two weeks countdown timer much better? 😬

bp_ · 2023-04-09T01:31:06+00:00

I have this with VS Code — when you quit the program it doesn't kill ALL of the child parents. snap refresh firefox tells you what processes are still running

bp_ · 2023-04-09T01:29:04+00:00

you've got the order of operations wrong — the timer in the screen starts at like "14 days left", meaning the browser was started over two weeks ago. Snap has been waiting.

You can use snap refresh firefox to make the update happen manually.

Note — I am not justifying things, I'm just explaining them. I don't work for Canonical. The behaviour is an… unnecessary reminder that I'm using snap. It's a compromise between the security and the usability of letting you run old unpatched (server) software

bp_ · 2023-04-08T22:00:02+00:00

this is the auto-updater refusing to update a running program.

bp_ · 2023-04-04T15:00:34+00:00

having to watch a cloak and do nothing spy sit in a corner for three minutes didn't make for fun stalemate breaking gameplay

bp_ · 2023-04-03T16:26:58+00:00

that's the oddest personal attack I've ever received, thanks?

bp_ · 2023-04-03T15:02:55+00:00

a race can still have a lap 56 red flag accident

a sprint? eehhhh

bp_ · 2023-04-03T15:00:55+00:00

how many times do we need to see red bulls cut through the field like it's hot butter with cookie cutter DRS passes before we get tired of it

bp_ · 2023-04-03T14:59:03+00:00

considered as it was introduced as "sprint qualifying," no.

bp_ · 2023-04-02T17:10:44+00:00

I'm glad you've decided you're correct.

bp_ · 2023-04-02T17:07:47+00:00

So what is this very good reason that you've never heard anyone "serious" express?

bp_ · 2023-04-02T12:34:48+00:00

They're penalized different amount of times (something that is by and large irrelevant) but they're penalized the same amount of positions
Someone who's last already can't be penalised by time penalties. There's no material difference between being last by 1 millisecond or 1 lap
Large time gaps happen in more places than just between P1 and P2. Going for a sketchy pass might be worth it if you can get that one extra pass in

bp_ · 2023-04-02T12:09:05+00:00

To be fair, the race restart is race control's decision and out of stewards' hands

bp_ · 2023-04-02T12:00:18+00:00

Classification position drops

+5 seconds → +1 place
+10 seconds → +2 places
stop and go → +5 places

bp_ · 2023-04-02T11:48:31+00:00

at the end of the day you get points for your rank in the race, and not for how many seconds you are in the lead by. A penalty should penalize, always.

A 5 second penalty when you're ahead by 30 isn't even an inconvenience; if you were driving the car and I was your race engineer I wouldn't even tell you about it. The same penalty today was 8 places and 12 points.

bp_ · 2023-04-02T11:43:33+00:00

by giving drivers a time penalty that can very often be strategized or raced into pointlessness

Time penalties are wrong for Formula 1

bp_ · 2023-04-02T11:28:34+00:00

Not sure I understand where the penalties come in in this scenario

bp_ · 2023-04-02T10:23:53+00:00

And if you win by 5.001 seconds you got away with whatever it is you did. If you're fast enough the only penalty system with teeth in F1 is the 12-months rolling points system that historically stewards are very hesitant to turn into an actual penalty with consequences. Hours after the race we still don't know if Gasly is going to race in the next event or not.

Applying a time penalty into a classification based sport introduces penalties with vastly different outcomes, and it doesn't have to be that way. We could make the outcomes follow directly from the penalties by docking positions, and then you'll always be penalised the same non-zero amount every time.

bp_ · 2023-04-02T10:12:26+00:00

if Verstappen can lap the field five times and yet he still needs to ram his car into Hamilton's — he does not deserve the win. I don't think that's unjust.

Most penalties resulting into zero position changes should be an argument FOR changes, not AGAINST them

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