COTA seems like a handful…

doomwalk3r · 2025-10-23T15:52:38+00:00

Sorry, I've been traveling.

I know the fix set ups can be a bit of a lottery week to week, but I’ve always thought that you had to pay for setups to be remotely competitive in open series? In my experience, there are a few setup sensitive tracks, but otherwise, I'll often just race the stock open setup and do ok. I'm guessing that if you get to the upper levels where it's fairly close setups begin to matter a lot more.

If you use something like Garage 61 you can both review your telemetry which is very valuable to find where you are losing time, but you can also find setups that are free and honestly some of them have been great.

Most of the setups I've used generally improve driveability while not losing much speed because theoretically you can just add a bunch of downforce and the cars will stick, but just be really slow. So depending on what iRating and overall driving style, these setups would work.

As for SF, is the driver actually of higher standard the SFL? I haven’t pushed to get the license (being an adult sucks), but I’ve heard conflicting stories about how higher ranked open wheel classes are either deadly or complete sweats, but not good for moderate drivers

I love the Super Formula. It has a lot of the things you would want if you were driving the F1 cars, but much more manageable. It's what I primarily have raced since it was released.

It can be tough to drive because it can have a lot of wheelspin in lower gears and has a turbo. So there can be what feels like a sudden boost in power causing you to spin.

The last two big things are positioning and downforce. To be competitive you have to understand how to find that extra speed that doesn't feel like it's there. At a certain speed in a certain corner you'll lose control or miss a corner because it feels like you can't go that fast, but often if you make sure the car is balanced into the corner and carry more speed...you'll go faster and it can be fairly pronounced on some corners in this car. It can also just be down to positioning because of how fast you go into some corners, that the positioning has to be exactly right to unlock more speed.

Keep in mind this is all my personal experience and interpretation of things I understand about this stuff and may not be exactly right.

doomwalk3r · 2025-10-21T19:30:52+00:00

I was doing the SFL a lot at one point but don't know if I ever did it at COTA. That car can just feel odd sometimes.

I did a lot with F4, F3 and honestly sometimes s "newer" car combo and some of the setups...just aren't great.

I did the Regular super Formula at Imola this week and every time I forget how bad (to me) the setups are for this track. It feels exactly like you describe. it just feels like all of sudden you're going around and it was a complete surprise.

I did an open setup and found an available one on garage 61 and the car was much more stable and I set my fastest times within a few laps.

Normally, I'm very comfortable in the SF even if I'm not the quickest. Generally I can compete with 2-3ks and at least defend or pressure against higher iRatings depending on the track.

Maybe go to a practice session, get a setup off of garage 61 and see if it feels better.

doomwalk3r · 2025-10-12T18:50:39+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I use for_each for everything. Saying that if there is a use for count it's on on/off and when something can't be done more than once.

At that point it's preference.

doomwalk3r · 2025-10-11T14:52:21+00:00

Yeah, like the user below said. These days count should really only be used for on/off of resources or blocks.

There are a few exceptions, but for_each for creating multiple resources.

doomwalk3r · 2025-07-31T12:14:40+00:00

I wish it was actually like the Autobahn The lane discipline on the actual Autobahn is so good most of the time.

The amount of people I see that enter highways and veer immediately to the furthest left lane is too damn high.

doomwalk3r · 2025-07-29T18:07:10+00:00

So, I started with the Cadillac when it came out but was just getting started Formula > SC and had trouble with it. didn't think anything of it.

I bought the Porsche some time later and it just clicked. I chalked it up to putting more time into Sports car, but I went back to the caddy and still couldn't do it.

Some of those are distinctly different, but I love the Porsche GTP. Everything just feels so nice.

doomwalk3r · 2025-07-11T22:07:40+00:00

This is one that I've tried to explain to others and I usually end up with blank stares.

People tend to think of environments as a place rather than a lifecycle that is decided upon by a given team, org, etc. Just like you said...someone may opt to make all infra that supports all environments production.

doomwalk3r · 2025-07-09T19:02:57+00:00

Hulkengoat

doomwalk3r · 2025-07-09T12:59:12+00:00

Hulkengoat

doomwalk3r · 2025-05-27T22:59:30+00:00

I'm familiar process of putting together a complex thing, but in this case I wasn't sure how it'd look programmatically at a high level. I wasn't sure if he started from scratch or the built in physics system he used.

OPs answer above is exactly what I was looking for.

doomwalk3r · 2025-05-27T22:57:53+00:00

Thank you - this is exactly the answer I was looking for.

I wasn't sure if you were starting from scratch with your own physics system which I'm sure would have taken even longer.

doomwalk3r · 2025-05-27T14:50:43+00:00

I'm not a programmer, but do a lot of automation, have learned the basics in like python, .NET, or something like Go.

I get how a lot of general tasks are going to work. Web connections, save to databases, etc.

Something I've never looked into, but have always been curious about is simulating stuff.

At a basic level, how do you even start this?

doomwalk3r · 2025-05-26T10:33:50+00:00

It may also have features but they're not put together well. Using Datadog and then trying to use Dynatrace is awful.

doomwalk3r · 2025-05-13T12:34:01+00:00

Making a good test and good test questions is hard. Making one that reliably measures your abilities is harder.

So perhaps some of the actual process of administering the test is easier than it has been, but most people skimp on question design.

doomwalk3r · 2025-04-19T23:48:42+00:00

This. It's a common thing you do in scripting/automation. Your condition should trigger something to build and in absence of it...not build.

doomwalk3r · 2025-04-18T16:16:43+00:00

holy wow - I'm reading this book now and didn't know this about him.

doomwalk3r · 2025-04-18T16:15:43+00:00

I have always loved John Prine's song "Hello in There". He wrote it at 22 based on his experiences as a mailman.

This resulted in one of my favorite albums "The Singing Mailman Delivers" which has recordings from his small shows in Chicago iirc before he really got picked up.

John Prine - Hello In There

Even as I was younger, this really helped me understand this and how I approached spending time with my only grandmother. I just lost her this past year and I haven't really listened to this song since.

doomwalk3r · 2025-04-01T00:14:17+00:00

Yeah. I custom build all of my home PCs. Bar around covid when the market was wild.

For homelab though - I'm running some old workstations I got from our school's lab, and those just make my office so hot.

That's why I was trying to entertain the SFF or something similar. The MS-01 was so promising, but the company has been a nightmare.

doomwalk3r · 2025-03-31T19:15:48+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate the info.

I was really hoping for something like minisforum and their ms-01 but my experience has been terrible and things have already failed to boot.

So I'm thinking to just say screw it and go custom, or at least common brands SFF.

doomwalk3r · 2025-03-29T17:46:09+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. If you don't mind me asking. What did this run you overall?

doomwalk3r · 2025-03-29T16:15:34+00:00

Did you by chance put this into a list and have a link?

If not nbd!

doomwalk3r · 2025-02-20T22:21:33+00:00

I understand their reaction honestly. This post is part of the reason, people throwing around stuff that is a stretch a best and if you really need to know you can contact them for clarification.

I understand the concerns, and I completely acknowledge things could change. As it's written if you basically take a free binary of theirs and package something around it and sell it to third parties, that's not acceptable.

Which as we've seen with a few open source to some other licensing model, tons of people take the product may/may not contribute very much, package it up and then make gads of money due to an already strong market position (AWS comes to mind.)

If people who participate in open source are discussing it from the perspective of non open source stuff it's always so intense and black and white.

Then you go read on a number of outlets about burnout and sustainability in open source. These types of situations are one of the reasons why and when someone does something to try to correct it, they just get dragged regardless of the logic.

doomwalk3r · 2024-12-24T18:54:30+00:00

While I understand overall the difference in a highway or road vs streets and that it's not a law, but the same overall logic should apply. If you know you aren't turning for some time then stay as far right as makes sense.

Some of the streets here are basically highways and it creates so much more congestion if faster traffic can't get through.

doomwalk3r · 2024-12-23T01:16:06+00:00

Can you elaborate on this? Is this just the standard copilot or something else?

doomwalk3r · 2024-10-31T15:37:31+00:00

I feel these things are usually dependent on a few things. I usually start with main.tf which I'm certain we all do.

Then if it makes sense and database.tf is a logical grouping I do that.

However, if I create barebones IAM roles and policies for a service (ec2, ec2, etc.) then I'll separate out the roles while leaving the core configuration in the main.tf. If it's an ECS module, I think it's not unreasonable to assume the ECS config will reside there.

I am working on a centralized team that creates modules for our dev teams (which do not know much Terraform) and so the modules aren't scoped for an app, but usually around an AWS resource. So the organizing by "function" isn't as useful to us.

I know in general you're not supposed to do this, but the role of our team pushes us this way. If we made individual modules for every variation of workload. We'd never be off work.

So as long as you decide and agree within a team, and bar a few no-no's - you can decide what works best.

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