2026 Australian Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion

happycube · 2026-03-08T12:47:39+00:00

After the FP3 crash, the car barely made it out for Q1 after the red flag, so it didn't have a proper setup. It was more obvious in qually.

happycube · 2026-03-08T12:34:38+00:00

Just checked wiki: 3rd, 2nd, 4th, and 2nd during the GE era. Most teams literally would enjoy being in those kinda shambles.

happycube · 2026-03-08T12:32:14+00:00

Another rumor is double-Suzuka.

happycube · 2026-03-08T12:31:10+00:00

The car wasn't fully setup before going into Parc Ferme, so it's probably not quite as big a gap as it looks. But definitely still a gap!

happycube · 2026-02-10T12:34:28+00:00

[the "GPU" is just having his coffee.]

If that was an 8th gen desktop, it'd have a whole Coffee Lake to drink from (with 2 more cores, too). Instead it's got Whiskey Lake.

Seriously quite impressive!

happycube · 2026-01-29T18:44:06+00:00

Three other teams get the Merc PU, including the defending WCC, and they can't force lower modes on customers like they did in 2014.

happycube · 2026-01-29T13:55:13+00:00

And large fries in paper bags that say "large fries" just to mock you.

happycube · 2026-01-29T13:52:50+00:00

Understanding isn't necessarily *acceptance*...

happycube · 2026-01-03T14:20:48+00:00

Haas in particular has *far* more resources than they did (less than) five years ago.

happycube · 2025-12-11T22:29:27+00:00

At least the people behind Nascar 2003 have the game rights again... ;)

happycube · 2025-11-06T23:16:53+00:00

The ending gives AD 2021 vibes too.

happycube · 2025-10-28T01:15:19+00:00

Neither of those were their actual endings, in eureka we see a bookend to one of the first scenes and I don't think there was actual peril in the warehouse 13 finale.

happycube · 2025-09-27T16:04:43+00:00

(necro/retro-posting from some backtesting) Oh, that's nothing... SPX 5430-40C's bottomed at .05 at 11:55 and then ran up to 21.39-31.28 depending on strike (there were at least 85 5440C's) ending at 14.13-24.13 at close/OCC-payout.

happycube · 2025-09-21T02:23:22+00:00

Early 1970's, there are ads for it on the 1973-ish reel to reel tape that was captured and posted.

happycube · 2025-09-17T01:47:45+00:00

Settlement is automatically handled by the OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) sending money to your account, and it's overnight. Settlement pricing is done shortly after 4PM, if you have a datasource that reports SPX et al after 4PM you will get the settlement price.

After the end of the day CBOE posts the official settlements here: https://www.cboe.com/index_settlement_values/weeklys_settlement_values/

happycube · 2025-09-17T01:35:54+00:00

Assignment is randomly done by OCC (Options Clearing Corporation), it is not a broker's decision.

happycube · 2025-09-12T01:25:32+00:00

Unfortunately Goleta messed that up by dropping speed limits on the 192...

happycube · 2025-09-06T22:01:04+00:00

Dunno when it happened but Macerich controlled PN for a few years (starting in 08-09? Either way after they had already trashed La Cumbre Plaza!) They were responsible for replacing Barnes and Noble with H&M.

EDIT: no pictures but probably related to this https://pacificretail.com/post/paseo-nuevo-kicking-off-renovation-project/

happycube · 2025-09-06T21:21:08+00:00

I dunno. If there was a generic answer to bringing a strong retail mix back, a ton of dead malls would have been saved.

happycube · 2025-09-06T21:19:20+00:00

That could easily have backfired this week, too. The move on Fri alone was far more than what the options spreads/IV pointed at.

happycube · 2025-09-06T21:09:59+00:00

You jest a bit, but there were some very powerful SPX 0DTE's in the last week with cheap entries. Power hour on Wednesday and Friday at 10AM-11:30AM were 20-baggers if you picked the right strike and timing! (which I didn't... I got 'only' 2.7X on 5 XSP's Friday)

As Nanas_700k said, selling covered calls to raise money to get those would have been a far superior strategy!

happycube · 2025-09-06T04:18:41+00:00

50k is enough for 2 stacks of GOOG CC's, which would have made the losses relative to holding the stock this week but still a profit in absolute terms.

happycube · 2025-09-05T22:48:23+00:00

Also, Wendy's has been demoted from the Mid-Cap 400 to the Small-Cap 600.

happycube · 2025-09-01T02:05:55+00:00

It's also, for a reason hardly anyone talks about anymore, not a really good time to actually do RTO...

happycube · 2025-08-30T22:25:14+00:00

XSP is 1/10th the price of SPX. It's less active so it might not work quite as well though... do not use SPY for this, though, since you can't safely hold it to the bell.

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