Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Since around 2007 they pioneered 'seamless shifting' in F1, wherein - using some very trick arithmetic - two gears momentarily engage at the same time, so the next gear is 'queued' in milliseconds and the driveline simply keeps going with no interruption.

Since pioneered in the 1989 Ferrari this is usually done by computer now; the transmission forks and throttle are moved by an actuator, the whole thing is coordinated by a computer. The driver changes gear via paddles behind the steering wheel.

Fascinating footwell video of a V8 Supercar lap. The car has an ignition cutout on the upshift so the foot stays flat on the accelerator during the gear change. The heel and toe (clutch in and engine blip) is something you will not see in pretty much any racing series now, but they wanted it to stay in Supercars.

https://youtu.be/ytOujHHsIwI

We are a pretty big VMWare shop and I can't say this thrills me.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-lays-off-many-vmware-182751113.html

The only series where the Sprint - which they borrowed from #F1 - is significant to the championship, and works because the tempo and format is very similar to Sunday's race.

#MotoGP in the end, not with a bang, but with a whimper. But it went to the last race. Not a lot of that about.

Glorious onboard of a Ford GT40 at a classics event. The camera is just forward of the engine bay firewall, hence the very vocal V8. These cars look like they want to leave the track at any given moment.
https://youtu.be/EfhSb2cAN_Q

#F1 these cars, between their weight and the sensitivity to ride height, once they start to wobble, they're just gone. Both Sainz and Hulkenburg having big spins from mild upsets.

#F1 Mick Schumacher is joining WEC with Alpine's LMDh entry. This is great news. Endurance gives drivers things no other series does. Mick'll love it I'm sure.

Tried messing around with tap sensitivity within KDE's config, but little helped

Before this, simply moving the mouse across the display would periodically grab a window, or tabs would move/open, or video playback would pause.

Found an interesting quirk on #slackware wherein KDE's touchpad configuration was not disabling one-tap dragging, which was absolutely driving me nuts, until I discovered it needs to be disabled in synclient. #linux

If you think #F1 tyre differences are bad, in #MotoGP it's even worse - they are stuck with what they choose, as changing them is possible but obviously not practical in a race. In the case of Jorge Martin, his championship challenge evaporated in Qatar.
https://www.autosport.com/motogp/news/the-transparency-needed-from-michelin-as-the-motogp-title-battle-reaches-its-end/10549562/

'Funky Shitmittens' #F1 https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/alphatauri-ready-to-announce-new-name-for-2024-as-us-sponsors-join/10549847/

My (then) 6yr old would borrow my laptop to "...play Supertux and Minecraft" and he goes into firefox, uses the webcam to take his picture and changes my username. I love it so much I just left it.

#F1 there's a lot of mirth about Sainz hitting the manhole cover, but when you consider that his backside is sitting on what is essentially the floor of the car (in some cases the seat is cutout at this point), and there's a high density battery pack on the same plane, that could have been an extremely serious accident.