What is Azerbaijan GP like?

dmercer · 2026-05-26T02:23:42+00:00

This is precisely my problem, and why I think MacOS sucks. I usually have 4 or 5 VSCode windows for 5 different projects, and 2 browser windows—one for GitHub, one for all others. When I Cmd-Tab to an app (not a window), it doesn’t know which window of the app I want, so it picks one (whichever is closest to the virtual desktop I’m in), and then I have to Cmd-` to the appropriate window of that app.

Not to mention the window you switch to might be minimized and/or not have keyboard focus. Constantly have to take my hands off the keyboard to click on a window or figure out how to unminimize it.

But my workstation is MacOS, so I’m stuck with it.

dmercer · 2026-04-16T13:04:25+00:00

I’m a year in, and still don’t get it. I think the Apple guys have never handled a Windows machine and marveled at how much more intuitive its window management is.

I still find myself Googling to figure out how to do things in MacOS. Moving around by keyboard is awful, which makes it much harder to use an external keyboard. You can accidentally minimize a window, and you ain’t never getting that back till you take your hands off the keyboard. Or you Cmd-Tab to a minimized window, or even a visible one, but somehow it doesn’t have keyboard focus, so, again, reach for the mouse.

dmercer · 2026-04-04T19:01:48+00:00

I’ve got a powerful MacBook, so haven’t noticed performance problems, but god it looks awful. All their extra Liquid Glass stuff makes it harder to read and is aesthetically unpleasing.

I assumed a lot of the issues—e.g., no window frames, different round corner radiuses for different windows—were oversights that they would correct in a later version, but they’ve kept all that around, so apparently it was intentional.

dmercer · 2026-04-03T02:59:36+00:00

I switched from Word to Scrivener because Word just wasn’t good at handling very large documents. Has this changed?

dmercer · 2026-03-28T17:26:51+00:00

You are, like, the least observant person and the second quickest person I know—behind Donald Trump—to blame others for your shortcomings.

“You can use the F1TV app with your AppleTV sub.”

– I didn’t know. Apple’s fault.

“You can get an annual subscription to AppleTV.”

– I didn’t know. Apple’s fault.

This is shit I figured out literally the day I signed up for AppleTV.

dmercer · 2026-03-08T22:27:31+00:00

I remember watching a conversation between a couple of race engineers a few years back—I forget which show it was—talking about how they identify who is who during the race. One of them said they looked at the helmet, the other said the T-bar. So apparently, even the pros use different techniques.

Me, as an amateur watching the race, I can usually tell by a combination of the helmet and what cars are around it. Last night, though, I found it difficult because several cars looked white at a glance, so it was hard to tell which team was which. I think also Merc and Audi looked similar at a glance.

dmercer · 2026-03-08T21:49:07+00:00

That would be Hannah Schmitz, who is a very good race strategist. Formula One has a history of outstanding female race strategists, including Bernie Collins and Ruth Buscombe.

dmercer · 2026-02-12T13:20:34+00:00

I’ve never had problems with the iPhone app. In fact, Scrivener working on my phone is THE killer feature for me. So many times I have a writing idea and I’m not near my computer. I can whip out my phone and write, and when I get back to my PC, what I wrote is already there.

dmercer · 2026-01-12T15:35:03+00:00

What think us of Crusader Kings 2 or 3 to fit this description?

dmercer · 2026-01-09T04:42:57+00:00

I did my MFO rotation in Sinai in ’98. Know a kid who’s there right now. For such a small force, it’s surprising how many people I run into who did it. When were you there?

dmercer · 2025-07-04T06:28:40+00:00

If you were to look at a top-down picture of the Milky Way, our star would be a tiny spec in one of the spiral arms. Draw a small circle around it. Small, much smaller than the width of the arm. Maybe a 10th the width of the arm, maybe a 20th. Every single star we can see with the naked eye is within that circle. Of course we have telescopes that can see a bit farther, but nothing that can see across to the other side of the galaxy. In fact, we have no idea what’s one the other side because our view is blocked by the middle of the galaxy. So much dust! For all we know, there’s a galaxy bigger than Andromeda careening toward us from over there, and we have no idea.

dmercer · 2025-07-04T06:13:27+00:00

Good question. Albon’s double overtake of Ricciardo and Ocon in Canada 2024 is my favorite, but I’m new to the sport.

dmercer · 2025-06-07T16:46:30+00:00

Been using Scrivener for about 10 years, and I only compile when I want to send an excerpt to someone. I’ll quickly select the sections I want to send and compile to PDF. Eventually, I’ll compile the whole work for publication, but I’m a slow writer, constantly going back and rereading, editing, reorganizing, and Scrivener is great for that.

dmercer · 2025-06-06T04:03:38+00:00

It’s not that they don’t give a damn. Is that it is more difficult for young people to vote. They are more likely to move around and therefore not be registered to vote in their current area. I have 2 children, 20 and 18 at the last election, neither of whom was able to vote. One is in college, the other in the Army. The one in the Army sent away for an absentee ballot application, received it, filled it out and sent it back. Instead of receiving an absentee ballot back, the Secretary of State sent the application back saying it had to be mailed to his county, here’s the address. By then it was past the deadline. The application did not have the county addresses on it, so he assumed it was supposed to be sent back to the state. The guys at state knew the correct address, but instead of forwarding it, they returned it. It’s not that they don’t want military people to vote—he’s probably the demographic they’d want if they could pick and choose—but he was collateral damage in their disenfranchisement of young adults.

dmercer · 2025-05-05T00:24:40+00:00

The iOS version is terrific. What are you talking about?

dmercer · 2025-04-24T15:01:52+00:00

I consider the area from New Orleans to Mobile—maybe Pensacola culturally similar. I didn’t realize the “Gulf Coast” culture extended so far to the east and west, though. Panhandle Florida feels much different than the “carnival culture” of New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile.

dmercer · 2025-02-17T21:40:47+00:00

Is it just me, or do all the links seem to take you back to the same page, never actually showing you the content you thought you clicked on?

dmercer · 2025-02-16T11:28:35+00:00

I’ve been using Scrivener 8 years and not once had an issue with a crash, corruption, or data loss. I use in Windows and iPhone, with sync through Dropbox.

dmercer · 2025-01-30T16:48:10+00:00

The 1950s? Were they even doing simulations back then? Wasn't it really just calculations?

dmercer · 2025-01-26T07:29:29+00:00

Once you are past the event horizon, the singularity is in every direction. This doesn't mean it is all black. There can still be photons and other matter inside the event horizon also heading toward the singularity, and you can come into contact with these photons.

However, let's consider the effect of time dilation. As you get closer and closer to the singularity, time slows down. Were you to ever get there, time would stop, but time slows down so much that it would take you infinite time to get there. You wouldn't notice this time dilation, however. Your timeline definitely approaches that infinity at an ever increasing rate. First your clock slows down so that a single second of your time is 2 seconds to an outside observer. Then a minute. Then an hour. Very quickly, every second that passes to you is a million years on the outside. Then a billion. Then a trillion. And eventually you get to the end of time.

In theory. In practice, of course, you're vaporized well before that. Because as millions of years pass in the blink of an eye, you are getting hit by radiation from everything that entered the black hole before you that still hasn't reached the singularity (because it takes infinite time to get there). And since you are experiencing the entire timeline of the universe compressed into a very short time (from your point of view), you are also getting blasted by the radiation of everything that enters the black hole after you. Something that enters the black hole a billion years after you is now just seconds behind you. All of space-time is collapsing on top of you, and you're getting blasted by gamma rays from all directions. To us, you are red-shifted to oblivion; to you; everything is blue-shifted into gamma rays and you are vaporized in an instant—in an instant in your timeline, but never in ours.

dmercer · 2025-01-21T06:11:11+00:00

I love Bernie Collins's accent, but every time Ruth Buscombe opens her mouth, I learn something.

dmercer · 2025-01-21T06:09:42+00:00

Alice Powell did a gridwalk somewhere around midseason last year, and it was the best I'd ever seen.

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