TVPaulD

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[–] TVPaulD 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly you’ve never had a novelty pen with a comically small biro inner due to limited space.

[–] TVPaulD 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[–] TVPaulD 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fun thing with Musk is it’s now impossible to determine whether he’s lying, doing something stupid, or simply inaccurately reporting something someone who actually knows what they’re talking about told him.

This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. And it’s an ad-supported service. If nobody’s able to view content, they’re also not viewing ads.

With this move, he has truly achieved fractal wrongness.

[–] TVPaulD 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just the Grand Prix (it’s not called the feature race). The Sprint Grid is decided tomorrow in the “Shootout”

[–] TVPaulD 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, he’s right to be annoyed. Four races on the bounce unable to make Q3 in by far the quickest car is not bad luck. It’s carelessness.

[–] TVPaulD 1 points 2 years ago

On the one hand, good - obviously. On the other, he can’t get any credit for this. She shouldn’t even have been in post. Sacking her this late on absolutely means nothing

[–] TVPaulD 1 points 2 years ago

To clarify, this kind of depends on the race. Daniel is a reserve driver for Red Bull (also Alpha Tauri), primarily at the races he’s attending (of which there are eight, I believe). Lawson is presumably the default at the other races, but if Ricciardo is available they could well choose him instead.

But yeah, as Lawson and Ricciardo are shared with Alpha Tauri, they could also, for example, ask Yuki to drive the Red Bull and put, say, Lawson in the AT.

[–] TVPaulD 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don’t think Sainz is doing poorly or anything, but he’s hardly setting the world on fire either. I’m not sure the leverage is particularly in his favour here, Ferrari have Leclerc already and there’s several drivers of at least the same or similar calibre to Sainz who they could look at as alternatives. So I’m not sure the threat really works. Not saying they’d definitely be looking elsewhere off their own back, just that if that’s his attitude they have no reason not to and they’d find other ways to go. Why rock the boat?

[–] TVPaulD 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think at this point the most likely scenario in this regard is that if Daniel seems up to what they’re looking for pace-wise in the tests he’s doing, they’ll look to slot him into Alpha Tauri next year with a view to having him firmly on deck if they wind up needing to make a change with Perez. Checo has definitely been underwhelming this year, but I think it’s only if he’s still underperforming next year that he faces the prospect of anything drastic. And on a similar line, De Vries seems like he’ll probably see out this year, but if things don’t improve for him then he’s who I’d expect to be moved aside for 2024 should they want to give Daniel a race seat.

[–] TVPaulD 1 points 2 years ago

Weak! Weak! Weak! That is the reason: his weakness.

[–] TVPaulD 4 points 2 years ago

Seems very likely he’s lying about the progress of this “march.” Main question is “how much is he lying?”

[–] TVPaulD 13 points 2 years ago

The more I hear about how these people operate, the more my internal screaming intensifies. Yeah, the ocean is inherently dangerous. That’s a reason to take all possible precautions, not a reason to pretend there’s no point in taking any. Sheesh.

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