Jeffrey Morrell
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It's really okay to marry someone, stick with them, and raise kids together. No journalist will write an edgy magazine piece about your lifestyle, but you'll have a great shot at a fulfilling and meaningful life.
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@OfficialS2G We need to move away from oil. The two ways of doing so is electric or sustainable fuel. F1 is doing both. And what is created in F1 is what lands in our cars later. And expect for BMW all the biggest manufacturers itw is here. F1 has never been cooler. The real racing will come
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@CroftyF1 if you thought the new regulations are rubbish, especially regarding ev stuff, would you be allowed to talk about it? Or would that create issues for you?
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@PolePositionist Drs created drama, though. Passes at the end of a straight vs the beginning
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I don’t get the “artificial racing” thing the drivers and fans are throwing around.
DRS was artificial, push to pash in IndyCar is artificial.
Whatever tool they give to the drivers to overtake, it will be artificial.
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Just rented a $3 million house in the Smokey Mountains for $400 a night.
6,000 sf. 7 bedrooms 8 baths.
The market must be getting absolutely crushed.
Is visitor traffic down that much? Too many Airbnbs?
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Jeffrey Morrell retweetledi
As a person who spends as much time looking at numbers in the timing tower as he does looking at actual cars, this is actually a pretty important issue for me and @F1 needs to fix it as a matter of URGENCY. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Jeppe H. Olesen@jeppe_olesen
F1's new 1-decimal gap display isn't just dumbing down the data. It creates a rounding problem that actually matters. Overtake mode activates within a second of the car ahead. So is 0.950 shown as 1.0? Is 1.049 shown as 1.0? Drivers could look out of range when they're not, or in range when they're not. F1 measures in thousandths. Qualifying, lap times, photo finishes. The precision exists. Just use it.
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It’s kind of weird that school buses haven’t changed in the almost 40 years I’ve been alive.
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Jeffrey Morrell retweetledi
@heidfeldmafia I think it’s the fanbase response to “should f1 be electrified?”
The fanbase unequivocally wants v10s and zero batteries. @fia has taken a sustainability stance and made it their whole thing.
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Jesus Christ.
If this individual doesn’t enjoy the sport then fair enough
But I can’t be the only one thinking the F1 fanbase has massively overreacted over all this regulation stuff. I really don’t get it
Delta Data@DeltaData_
Honestly, right now I have no motivation to analyse this GP. Maybe it's because when you read so many pessimistic comments you start to lose hope. I won’t deny it — at the moment I’m seeing everything in a negative light. We simply lack the means and the data needed to carry out a proper analysis. I honestly thought the race was very poor. The vast majority of drivers reported mechanical issues, which makes the ability to interpret the driver factor extremely limited. On top of that, the time required to analyse each driver and every lap is enormous, yet the conclusions you end up drawing are barely representative of what actually happened. I don’t know… I just feel disappointed with what I’ve seen today. Maybe the best thing right now is to take a few days to step back and reflect on a lot of things. Is it really worth putting so much time and effort into a sport that I’m not enjoying at the moment? 🤷♂️
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@thef1diplomat @LawVSX It’s constant dumbing down. Like tires used to be 6 varieties and now there’s only 3 nicknames. Soon it’ll be Indy level idiocy with “red tire”
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I really want to know why #F1 chose to remove hundredths and tens of thousandths from the timing board for pretty much most of the race.
I don't recall a reason given. Either it was down to a graphic stability measure or, oversimplification.
And then there's Indy with 0.0000s
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@GarageGuyChase It is time but it’s not going to be in a homologated series in 15 year old dallaras
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EMERGENCY RACING UPDATE:
F1 is collapsing under the weight of their own bad decisions, while INDYCAR is thriving after a weekend with NASCAR in Phoenix.
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@F1 I would like to see 0% battery, please. This is not fun, or racing, or in any way related to sustainability.
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@nihonjin_waifu @F1Techy I feel exact opposite. If you're in iracing, sure.
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@F1Techy Horrible. Passes were boring and predictable and never in the turns (except 1).
Announcers can't stop saying megajoules and talking about batteries.
This sport has fundamentally been altered.
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@kevinroose @_simonsmith I mean…but y’all do just shit on Elon and OpenAI. Care to address that?
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@_simonsmith Points taken but fwiw the Dario memo got leaked after we taped this week’s show. We would have talked about it!
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I used to enjoy listening to Hard Fork, but recently it just feels like OpenAI bashing and Anthropic boosting, to the point where I can so predict what’s going to be said I stop and delete the episode. For example, no mention of Dario’s unfortunate memo this week. No mention of the fact Anthropic isn’t against autonomous weapons, just against current models pulling the trigger. No mention of Anthropic model use by Palantir, leading people to perhaps think Anthropic is some kind of pacifist company.
I’m not pro-OpenAI and anti-Anthropic or vice-versa. I use and pay them both at work and in my personal life. I’d just expect an actual analysis of the situation here. Like, if OpenAI didn’t do its deal, what’s left would be xAI. Is that better? Or, if private companies can set arbitrary uses of their technology they can change, that technology becomes unreliable during critical uses.
This entire thing has been such a clusterfuck of bad communication on all sides, DoD and Anthropic and OpenAI. perhaps a result of trying to hash it out on social media in real time. But I would appreciate journalists trying to paint a clear picture of the situation with some degree of objectivity versus just becoming a self-parody of “afflict the comforted, comfort the afflicted” and predictably ripping OpenAI.
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Jeffrey Morrell retweetledi
I have never seen the F1 community so united. McLaren, Ferrari & Red Bull fans, Lando, Max & Charles fans to name a few all think these regs are total horsehit. The drivers & team owners agree. What the fuck have they done. It’s so bad!
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@NewsLambert Owners suite?
I thought we were done with this stuff and could go back to master bedroom
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Housing affordability remains so strained that giant homebuilder Lennar continues testing how willing buyers are to go smaller
Price: $174,990
3 beds
2.5 baths
Sq ft: 1,360
Houston metro (Huffman, TX)
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