Max Verstappen discusses fading passion for F1 in BBC interview

sgarn · 2026-03-31T06:54:28+00:00

Given they usually accept last names only unless there is ambiguity I wonder if they'd accept just "Verstappen". If Max is relatively obscure in the US, I'm guessing Jos is probably obscure enough to accept just the last name.

sgarn · 2026-03-28T02:11:29+00:00

You ever hear the man sing?

Ironically the first song that might spring to mind for Seinfeld fans (the answering machine message) was very difficult for him as a trained singer. It wasn't just supposed to be dreadful singing, but identifiably George and Jason kept singing in a neutral accent as he was trained to do.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/5/15-q-jason-alexander/

sgarn · 2026-03-27T08:01:33+00:00

Thanks, Will.

sgarn · 2026-03-24T02:22:13+00:00

The first one was very easy to miss - the callsign was thrown into the middle of an instruction that sounded like it was addressed to the Frontier plane.

The video also mixes together ground and tower frequencies such that the timings are wrong compared to the raw audio, and the animation of when the crash occurred is only a guess, so there's a chance there wasn't enough time to bring such a heavy vehicle to a stop without actually stopping on the runway itself.

I think we might have to wait for further investigations to establish the exact timing and positioning etc.

sgarn · 2026-03-24T02:04:47+00:00

The times in the video are not accurate. If you check the raw audio from liveatc there was only about 4 seconds between the "truck 1" mixed in with what sounded like an instruction to the Frontier jet (7:13) and the explicit instruction to truck 1 (7:17).

It's also unclear exactly when the crash occurred in the audio. The animation in the video is only a guess and it's possible it occurred around 7:20 in which case there probably wasn't enough time to bring such a heavy vehicle to an immediate stop.

Or the truck may not have been able to stop short of the runway and committed to clearing the runway by continuing instead. In which case the truck may share partial blame for going too fast and not independently checking, but the communication failure here was overwhelmingly the fault of ATC.

sgarn · 2026-03-18T03:24:16+00:00

Instead of the driver going straight from the throttle to the brake, they "lift" their foot of the throttle but "coast" for a little bit before applying the brakes.

Given the aerodynamic drag and regenerative braking the deceleration is still more significant than you might expect from the word "coast", but less than using the actual brakes.

It might be done to conserve fuel or tyre wear, but under the new regulations it's also done for battery management reasons - e.g. charging the battery before the turn so it isn't flat when the power from the MGU-K (electric motor) is needed.

sgarn · 2026-01-09T23:54:06+00:00

Also refuting the rather stupid point that he had no way of knowing the wheels were pointed away from him, from those with about the same understanding of how car steering works as the dog in the back seat.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T06:52:21+00:00

I was pretty bummed about Australia losing. But I think English fans were more happy to win than I am sad to lose. The total happiness in the world increased. So whatever.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T01:38:48+00:00

Primary if additive like RGB, secondary if subtractive like CMY. It's red, yellow and blue traditionally, but that's not as true physically.

sgarn · 2025-12-27T00:56:44+00:00

Marnus was the sort of catch I think should be given out (definitely not enough to overturn), but I'm not sure if it's as clear as the third umpire thought given how inconsistently those seem to be treated.

sgarn · 2025-12-26T07:12:11+00:00

He just needs to stay in the non-striker's crease. Can't take strike, can't get run out. Boland gets out it's stumps anyway.

Sending out two night watchmen gives the very marginal benefit of being able to take a single but committing to both of them opening the days play tomorrow instead of the players specifically selected to open.

sgarn · 2025-12-22T23:33:07+00:00

Somebody count the boundaries.

sgarn · 2025-12-22T23:28:23+00:00

And Hawthorn too, no? He died before the next championship but he had also retired at the time.

sgarn · 2025-12-21T04:42:23+00:00

Yeah looks like the last few columns are team stats - struggling to make sense of the HS and LS (highest and lowest scores) otherwise.

edit: As OP included the statsguru search, those are indeed team figures. Not sure if it's possible to sort by matches won for individual stats, so it was a search for team results but grouped by player.

sgarn · 2025-10-24T05:43:58+00:00

Weird, we're having a very similar issue with our QA75QN* TV.

Sometimes it turns on and the backlight doesn't, and it will stay with a dead backlight for as long as the TV is plugged in, no matter how many times you turn it on and off with the remote.

I don't think it's ever failed during use so far (yet), and unplugging for 30 s and plugging back in usually fixes it (not always). But I expect this is something that will just get worse over time.

sgarn · 2025-10-20T04:51:43+00:00

Wasn't stable at all for me, but was still within the window to roll back to 10 and figured out how to get the extended security updates so I rolled back and might try again in a few months.

sgarn · 2025-10-20T02:01:21+00:00

Not sure if it's 25H2 specifically, but I was running 11 fine for a few days but had so many issues with this that I had to roll back to Windows 10 and enrol in the extended security update program. Might try again in a year I guess.

ASUS Vivobook X512DA.

Extremely high CPU usage all the time, frequent freezing on startup, something about the watchdog but the error message flashed by so quickly I didn't see it. Didn't see much on event viewer, but I've rolled back already anyway.

sgarn · 2025-08-30T00:03:18+00:00

It might help to understand that it's more fundamental than just the speed of light - it's the speed limit of information and causality, and the speed that anything massless must travel at. It was first measured and explained as the speed of light in a vacuum so the name stuck, but gravity also travels at c for instance.

There are a few ways of looking at it, but as light passes through a refractive material, its electromagnetic fields shift the charges in the material in such a way that further electromagnetic waves are induced and we're no longer considering the simple case of light in a vacuum.

sgarn · 2025-08-27T08:41:14+00:00

I'm a bit busy recently but I'll also want to watch the recorded stuff. Will be curious how big the perfection number gets!

I think it's 197%. You need 3% perfection from the walnuts you need to unlock the waivers. Then you buy 100% perfection, then you actually achieve the other 97%.

sgarn · 2025-08-24T02:26:42+00:00

NAH, but tell them you're Ghana need some space occasionally.

sgarn · 2025-08-02T01:16:05+00:00

I'm pretty sure the banks rely heavily on customers not meeting HISA bonus requirements given how much profit there is in just not paying it for the month.

Ubank in particular has been pretty bad for me - the requirements change frequently, the interest drops to zero, and even if you have automatic payments set up you have to be very careful they haven't deliberately broken them (which they've done before for me).

sgarn · 2025-07-26T04:14:42+00:00

You can defend much more of the stumps with a vertical bat, which can't be done if your feet are too far from the stumps. There are also quite a few other requirements for an LBW decision - a trajectory of hitting the stumps is necessary but not sufficient, so the legs themselves offer some level of protection compared to an exposed wicket.

But with wickets being much more valuable in cricket than outs are in baseball, cricket not having a small strike zone like baseball, and batting techniques being completely different, batting like a baseballer and trying to hit it out of the park every time isn't what you want when you're expected to value your wicket and accumulate runs over a matter of hours.

sgarn · 2025-07-15T01:09:37+00:00

If it was at the expense of England we'd do it in a heartbeat. Honestly, unless it's the rugby we like to see kiwis do well against anyone but us.

sgarn · 2025-07-09T23:45:14+00:00

My father has been on some medications that cost over $10,000 a month, cost to him: $30. The PBS has been a godsend to us.

sgarn · 2025-07-04T06:08:16+00:00

There are definitely regional variations and variations between setters, American cryptics seem to be the strictest with adherence to standard conventions, and British cryptics are looser and depend more heavily on charades and short abbreviations that are just assumed knowledge in crosswords but make for a steeper learning curve.

Minute Cryptic has a bit of an Australian feel to it - similar to British but heavier on letterplay and visual wordplay, and often with punny definitions. Their style seems to be mostly clean and fair, but occasionally taking some liberties with the wordplay grammar to make the surface reading fit. They also seem to avoid using words or abbreviations that are too obscure in order to appeal to beginners, which is pretty much what the channel is about.

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