
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton will part ways at the end of the 2024 season. Lewis has activated a release option in the contract so this season will be his last driving for the team

Most journalism is a joke nowadays. Print/text media makes no money, so it’s all clickbait to drive engagement and clicks for ad revenue. It’s a problem with every other sport too as far as I can see.
Developer here
Had to spend 3 weeks fixing a tiny app that a vibe coder built with AI. It required rewriting significant portions of the app from the ground up because AI code is nearly unusable at scale. Debugging is 10x harder, code is undocumented and there is no institutional knowledge of how an internal system works.
AI code can maybe be ok for a bootstrap single programmer project, but is pretty much useless for real enterprise level development
I’m 100% with you on this. There isn’t a single thing that generative AI can do better than a traditional method or by myself.
AI code is pretty much useless, as you spend 2-4x the time debugging and fixing the code as you would have writing it from the ground up.
AI Search is useless because it regularly and predictably gives bad and/or incorrect results. A well built traditional search engine is so much better, but have disappeared with Microsoft and Google going all in on AI search.
AI art isn’t art, and I would never support anyone who uses it, let alone makes money from it. It fundamentally is missing three of the core pillars of art, which are creativity, uniqueness and the human experience.
AI chat bots are ruining human connection and consistently perform worse than human support reps.
Thank you for the useless opinion that adds nothing. Congrats
And I can’t game on Apple. A mac is a useless brick for the remaining 50% of what I do on a computer.
Adobe and ease of use
I need Adobe, specifically Lightroom, because there’s no alternative. I can’t just stop using it as a semi-professional photographer (I make money from it, just not a ton).
Darktable doesn’t handle large libraries well and also is missing features such as AI remove and integration with photoshop for splitting photos up for social media posts.
They decided to use the Cadillac brand as their racing brand, so they also run their GTP/LMDh (Le mans/IMSA/Endurance racing) cars as Cadillacs.
They’ve also got corvettes in the GT3/GTD categories
Nope, not just you. I live in the greater Seattle area (nearly the tesla capital of the world) and 8/10 times I’m blinded is a tesla in oncoming traffic.
Rivians are also terrible, and most crossovers in the last 2-3 years have been increasingly bad.
Driving a lowered sports car with no windshield tint has made driving at night a horrible process. I’m debating getting a low % window tint just to take the edge off of the headlights.
Somehow alpine has made a worse looking car than last year. They continuously amaze me with their ability to make terrible looking cars from all perspectives. Must be a holdover from their road car division
Would have been perfect without that giant white banner on the engine cover. I like the darker red, the white accents even look pretty good, it’s just that block
This livery goes so hard, much better than the rest of this years and honestly one of the better liveries of the current generation of cars
This entire set is made of insanely good photos. Absolutely love the entire vibe, the location is perfect and F40s make a great art piece.
Very much not a fan. Spa is a race that should be on the calendar every year, not periodically.
The fact that we’re still racing at imola, which produces terrible racing, is baffling, same with half the poorer street circuits.
Money is the root of every problem in this sport, but damn, this sucks.
AFAIK nobody is running against him
Factorio
The Factory Must Grow
I’m almost 100 hours into my new space age save, and I’ve played nearly 1k hours since I bought it 5ish years ago. By far one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played and I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys sandbox games
I’ll go Linux when I don’t need any more windows based software, and there’s been almost 0 progress made in that sector in the last 5 years.
Between games that don’t run on Linux (Apex, CoD, any other shooter) and professional tools such as Lightroom and photoshop, there’s no way to switch to Linux without needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day.
There is no data transfer between RB and RBR. This has been clarified multiple times and the FiA closely monitors what data is shared.
Technically yes, but they still have the staff to do it and could get them back. Of all teams they have comparatively little to lose from this.
I typically just ignore the weekend and check the results/highlights at the end of it. There’s no reason to get up that early to watch a procession.
I’d place a large bet on it being Aston Martin, Alpine and Audi/Sauber proposing it. It’s a massive advantage to them over RB and Haas because RB and Haas are beating them using parts bought from RBR and Ferrari respectively.
By proposing this rule those teams stand to benefit greatly from some of their largest competition being nerfed for performing too well.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team & Lewis Hamilton To Part Ways
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton will part ways at the end of the 2024 season. Lewis has activated a release option in the contract so this season will be his last driving for the team
Mclaren Livery Reveal
The team’s 2024 livery incorporates the fan-favourite elements of papaya and anthracite with a touch of chrome
iRacing 23S4 Wrapped up!
For those with iRacing, how did Season 4 go for you? Make any progress towards some goals?
Hot Lap Challenge | Round 5
If you do not have Automobilista 2, please submit your times with the sim you are using, replicating the track conditions as closely as possible.
Please use the car’s default setup. You may only adjust fuel levels, tyres, TC, ABS, Brake Bias, and ERS deployment level.
You have until 01/12/2023 23:59 to submit your best lap. Please only submit times in a top level comment. If you have already submitted a lap and you improve, please edit your top level comment.
Please include a screenshot of your lap time for verification.
It's been a while since our last challenge, but we're back!
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itsmikeyd | 1:30.314 |
SimpleDev | 1:29.866 |
Rallycross makes for some amazing pictures
This weekend I got the chance to shoot my first rallycross event. Despite literal inches of rain, it was some of the most fun I’ve had with a camera.
Nikon Z6, Z 24-70 2.8 S
70mm f7.1 1/1000s ISO 1000
Trading Paints Credentials Leaked - CHANGE PASSWORDS
Hadn't seen this posted, but for anyone who uses Trading Paints in conjunction with iRacing you need to go in and change passwords NOW!
There was a leak of 270,000 accounts with emails/passwords in md5 format (easily reversible to plaintext)
If you use the service make sure to reset your passwords asap and if you use the password shared on other services you should make sure to change it as well
iRacing 1440 minutes (24hours) of Le Mans
Anyone want to run the 24 hour race at Le Mans in iRacing this weekend?
Don't currently have an endurance team and just realized the race is coming up quick. Not super fast (like we know from the league), but pretty consistent and know the track/car well.
I'd prefer the LMP2, but could drive a GTE too. Only requirement is a C class license and the track/car.
We're a little sparse on Rig Posts, so here's mine!
Rig is a NLR F-GT. It's handled everything I've thrown at it so far, but it's struggling to keep up. The Seat on this rig has been ripped up by my cat, so a sweatshirt and a towel have gone into service covering up the very ripped leather. I plan on replacing the seat soon, so hopefully won't have that problem for more than another year or so.
Wheelbase is a VRS DFP. It's amazing and I love it. Packs quite a punch and does really try to rip your arms off at full FFB. This is paired with a CubeControls QR (Also known as the aliexpress one) and an Ascher F64-USB.
Pedals are also the VRS Pedals. Currently I only have 2 installed, but I do have the optional 3rd clutch
Lemmy iRacing Scheduling Poll and Joining the League
In interest of scheduling I'd be looking at a 3 week league with races on Aug 5, Aug 12 and Aug 19, with a possible extra round on Aug 26 Please select ALL timeslots that you would be available. If you have another timeslot please suggest it in the Lemmy comments
Hey all,
Sorry about the google forum, it's set not to collect any info, but we all know how much info that still means google will grab.
I think that due to the spread of timezones interested we should plan to run the races on the weekend. They'd take ~30-45 minutes (Race length to be decided later) but shouldn't take more than an hour and a half maximum.
Please select any timeslots that you're available for, we'll choose the one that the most people can make.
To join the League you'll need to Search for the "Lemmy iRacing League", currently with id 10017. The correct one will link back to https://lemmy.ml/c/simracing as the website link. Request to join and I'll accept any incoming join requests.
Is there interest in a Lemmy iRacing league?
When reading through some of the other comments on the page, I noticed there's a good number of people who at least have an iRacing subscription. Would there be any interest in a 1 month long, free content only league? It would allow people to try the sim for a minimum cost if they're interested.
A 3 week mini championship with the MX-5 Cup, Formula Ford and Street Stocks could make for a lot of fun.
I'd be happy to organize and cover hosting costs if we can get 5/10 people interested
Edit: 5 Interested, I’ll put a poll together later and we can look at running this for the month of august.