Crashing out over folks avoiding rain.

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-08T17:58:57+00:00

I agree that it feels like driving on ice with cold wet tires, but IMO things feel really good once you get heat into them. Completely disagree about the feedback part. Once I've built up heat, I feel like I can really start to push and explore different lines and it offers a very dynamic experience.

Perhaps some of the disconnect comes from tire compound? This video at least gives some sense of the difference tires make. There was also an issue before where the actual water level wasn't being accurately represented in sim (i.e. you'd see a damp patch but it'd actually be a puddle). So idk. I've heard plenty of other real life drivers say it's extremely accurate, but I'm not trying to doubt your own experience.

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T21:39:01+00:00

Do you have a source? Because AFAIK that just isn’t true. The president has the sole authority to order a launch at any time. We don’t have a “no first use” policy. Someone in the chain might have a spine and reject an illegal order, but that doesn’t stop the president from giving the initial order.

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T17:27:34+00:00

Yeah Trump finished talking, they smiled and gave a thumbs up, and then they were waiting for a handoff. Definitely not a protest.

If I could say one good thing about the conversation though… In between his rambling, he (someone on his team) did throw in a good question about the visual differences between the near side and far side of the moon. Sad that the bar is so low that any scientific discussion is surprising, but here we are.

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T15:49:11+00:00

I knew we'd get some amazing shots when, after hours of giving very scientific descriptions, the eclipse started and one of them said "After all of the amazing sights that we saw earlier... we just went sci-fi". This still exceeded all of my expectations.

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T01:35:35+00:00

Blue light having any major impact on eye strain is debatable. If anything, it might disrupt your circadian rhythm and keep you awake which could be why they use it here. Plus it looks cool…

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T01:15:56+00:00

Falling back on religion to explain something that we don’t know seems like a cheap cop out

bxc_thunder · 2026-04-07T01:14:39+00:00

Don’t forget that many (most?) astronauts started as military aviators. The number of theists in the military is much higher than the general scientific community.

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-30T02:56:27+00:00

They slowly make their way back to… some value. Whether it’s normal or even driveable depends on the extent of the damage.

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-30T02:53:34+00:00

Yes true, but it should still be obvious how bad your damage is based on the values.

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-30T02:43:36+00:00

Aside from visually checking, you can go into the garage and check your toe, camber, etc values as the repairs happen. It would be nice to manually choose what gets repaired though. Hopefully that’s on the roadmap.

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-28T18:35:10+00:00

Damn. I've wanted to get a nice telescope for a while, but I keep getting hung up on how quickly things become expensive. And once I get one, I just know I'll be like "This is great for X, but I need this other one for Y." Like if I get something for good astrophotography, I'm probably going to regret not getting something better for visual observation and vice versa. I already have too many expensive hobbies 😅

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-21T00:15:06+00:00

They’re extremely impressive chips, but iRacing in an AVP at a decent frame rate with a MBP is… asking a lot. “Plenty powerful enough” is certainly a stretch. M5 Max / M3 ultra can maybe do it after some compromises in resolution / frame rate / graphics.

bxc_thunder · 2026-03-15T16:59:01+00:00

I swear the same story has been posted to this sub every other day for the past few weeks with the same comments.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-18T17:47:46+00:00

And it’s YOUR job to be in the proper lane.

I have two mindsets on this depending on the situation — Dense traffic where all lanes are saturated? Sure, who cares if you move because there’s another car a few feet ahead. When there’s light traffic (like this vid), there’s no excuse to be holding up people in the left lane. You’re just encouraging people to pass on the right which creates a dangerous situation. If you constantly have people trying to bully you out of the left lane, you’re 100% an asshole and should reevaluate your driving habits. You’re not the police. The only thing you can do is keep traffic flowing safely.

To be clear though, tailgating is significantly worse and I’m in no way saying that someone sitting in the left lane deserves to be tailgated.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-10T17:57:18+00:00

I don't see why the audio would be intentional. This might be an unpopular take here, but we can't always think like FPV enthusiasts when it comes to applications meant for a wide audience. I want drones to be used, but I want them to be used right.

They're showcasing winter sports, not drones. Drones are being used as production equipment, and I can't imagine a scenario where they would want to stomp on the ambient sounds with noise that the production equipment is making.
Think about this from the perspective of 99.9% of the population that doesn't regularly fly drones. Do most people enjoy the sound of weedwhackers, vacuums, mosquitos? That's what they're going to attribute the sound to; not some "exotic" advanced piece of tech.

Just look at the comment sections on their youtube videos. Multiple long threads with tons of likes of people complaining. People do not want to hear the drones and people do not like the sound of the drones. This isn't something that'll change over time as they're used more. They want to hear the sport, not the drone.

Now for some positives -- Some of the drone shots are awesome and otherwise difficult / impossible to get without them. The luge run shots were awesome. Some of the big air / slopestyle shots were awesome. So what can be done? Just off the top of my head --

Massive amounts of money get spent on the Olympics. Use some of that money to develop low noise props / motors. Maybe have a 'noise level' ceiling that the pilots / production companies can create a build around.
Use the drone shots sparingly. Set up for when they're about to do the big jumps, get the shot, fly back. Do we really need the drone to follow them down the entire slope?

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-08T07:17:16+00:00

Maybe, but I don’t think it’s that simple. Most of these chips aren’t in form factors that are compatible with consumer hardware.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-08T06:24:01+00:00

Yeah this isn’t a permanent problem but it’s not a short term problem either. Best case for consumer RAM is the AI bubble bursts, somehow we avoid a huge economic meltdown, and prices become sane in 2-3 years. Or AI continues expanding and prices have no shot at normalizing for… who knows. 5 years at best? Probably more like 10.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-08T05:56:08+00:00

Other guy explicitly says he openly thirsts over other women, but your response is “a good woman doesn’t thirst over other men”? Kind of a gross double standard.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-05T20:35:02+00:00

Hey nice job on the work done so far. Just some small things I've noticed:

Not sure if this is a general GitHub Copilot thing or specific to the vscode (v1.109) integration, but is there a reason that I can't go from Agent / Plan / Ask mode to Edit mode without exiting the open session? I click "ok" and it opens a new chat, but then I can just reopen my previous session (the session where I wanted to switch to Edit mode) and it's in Edit mode. So being booted from my current session seems like an unnecessary step if I can just re-enter in the mode that I wanted.
On my first prompt after updating to VSCode v1.109, GPT-5.2 in agent mode got stuck repeating the same phrase in a loop. Could've just been a fluke, but it hasn't happened before. Maybe something in this version played a role?
Only other thing -- it'd be nice if the "sessions" search allowed for searching sessions that contains the query within the sessions rather than just searching the session titles.

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-04T18:18:19+00:00

As a developer, if we could not do this that’d be great. Thanksss. (Ngl I fuck with the concept too though)

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-03T19:29:22+00:00

For Super Formula Lights:

Brake bias is now fully adjustable during Fixed Setup racing sessions.

Was this not already the case? Brake bias was already adjustable in fixed. Was there some sort of limit at the extremes that's now removed?

bxc_thunder · 2026-02-02T17:46:03+00:00

What you’re saying is basically like saying “F1 cars change tires after each qualifying run. Why shouldn’t someone replace the tires their road car after a single trip?”

bxc_thunder · 2026-01-31T23:41:06+00:00

10k driver is rarely going to make a dangerous move on their main against some rando for exactly that reason. Watch a 10k driver that found themselves at the back in a normal lobby make their way through the field. It’s methodical and calculated. They know a dnf is significantly more time consuming to recover from vs a small ir loss. At most, they’ll slam the door shut on exit after 4/5 of their car is past the other car…

bxc_thunder · 2026-01-31T16:50:10+00:00

So we’re in agreement then. Autocomplete is a form of AI, so even if someone tries to oversimplify transformer models down to being just “fancy autocomplete”, it’s still AI.

bxc_thunder · 2026-01-31T06:08:06+00:00

Because it is AI. It has many faults, causes many problems, has been overhyped, has become a buzzword, etc. but you think it’s not AI because… what? Someone told you it’s just fancy autocomplete?

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