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Strategically let someone pass you?

Say you are in the lead of a race and there is like two laps remaining, and you have someone close behind. Like Max and Lando. Has it ever happened, or has anyone ever considered letting someone pass them on the second to last lap, with the expectation that they would have DRS on the last lap and get the lead back and win?

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Front Tyres Defy Physics
  • When you watch the video at the 7:17 timestamp, the front tyres are moving faster than the ground under them. This can easily happen with rear (powered) tyres (i.e., "burning rubber", "peeling out", etc.). But how can the front tyres go faster than the ground is making them move?

  • Front Tyres Defy Physics

    When you watch the front tyres of these cars in slow motion, it sure looks like they are rotating faster than the ground would have them rotate. Makes no sense! Any physicists in here that can explain?

    (7:17 timestamp) https://youtu.be/hqJiIRQZhRk?si=CttFGdfA6mpAXFsy&t=437

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    What does the "S" mean after each driver here?

    Don't think I've ever seen those "S" before. And I think it was only during Q3.

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    Where to put reverse proxy?

    I currently have my reverse proxy on my NAS. That means I forward all of my 443 HTTPS traffic to my NAS. I am using OpnSense for my router, and there are several options for reverse proxies on that. Everything works the way it is now, but I do wonder if it would be "better" if I moved all of the reverse proxy stuff to my router. I don't know that anything would be simpler to manage one way or the other, so I think it comes down to best practices and security. If I move the reverse proxy to my router, I would be able to remove that forwarded port, but is that really any more or less secure?

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    Proxmox Ubuntu VM has "graphical" console

    This is kind of hard to explain, but hopefully it makes sense. I don't think a screenshot would help because everything "LOOKS" fine. But the characters in my Ubuntu VM console look funny. And I can't drag my mouse across the text to select it. Nor cacn I right-click. The console works fine, and I can run commands. I don't see the Ubuntu desktop, just this console. I don't even really need the desktop, but if it's there and I can start it up when I want it, that will be OK, but for now I would like to figure out how to get a regular console for this VM. Any ideas? Thanks, and sorry for the newb question!

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    Initial steps with OPNSense
  • Yeah, but I'd rather not change it because I am pretty sure there are some devices in the house where I set up static IP addresses. I try not to do that, but over the years, I am pretty sure there are at least a couple. Heh, maybe a good time to seek them out!

  • Initial steps with OPNSense
  • Let's see if I got this... great idea to disable DHCP on the new OPNSense for now. I forgot about that. Just keep the one LAN cable going in, and I will just keep the IP address as it is right now (.79). Not even worry about the WAN port at all. Set up all of the features, including things like reserved IP addresses and whatnot. Then, when I am ready to drop it in, I will turn the old router off, and on the new router set up a static IP on the LAN port (.0.1) and add the WAN port (DHCP). Drop it in place, turn on DHCP and I'll be good to go.

  • Initial steps with OPNSense

    I am going to build a router with OPNSense (in Proxmox, on an HP thin client). I am stuck with setting up the networking (I have the Inel 4-port card). I don't really know how to get started. Right now my device has one LAN cable going into it, and my consumer router is doing everything. I can set up a bridge for the other ports, but what IP address will I use for the LAN? I can't use 192.268.0.1 because that will collide with my consumer router. Do I just take my consumer router offline while I am setting this up?I'd rather not because for sure I will get stuck and will want to look something up online. I guess I could use my phone but not the best when I am trying to see someone setting up something like this.

    Silly question, I know, but I just can't think of a clean way to get this going with minimal disruption. In a nutshell, what's a good strategy for setting up and testing the OPNSense while it's not actually doing any routing and then seemlessly drop it in and start working on it?

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    pfsense: Who needs AES-NI?

    I'm thinking about building a box for pfsense. Looking at hardware options and I see a pretty significant difference in price when comparing hardware with and without AES-NI. I don't necessarily think I'll need AES. The way I understand it, AES is for using VPN that is somehow running on the router??? I mean, my wife and I both use VPNs on our work computers so we can reach our work networks, but that isn't using any encryption features on my router, is it?? Or am I not understanding?

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    How would F1 write a rule to prevent teams from pulling a Perez again?
  • That's a great point. I think I am of the mind that it doesn't need fixing. I also do not like penalties after the race. So just let it be. If once a year a team figures out a way to exploit this, then so be it.

  • How would F1 write a rule to prevent teams from pulling a Perez again?
  • I thought it gave an interesting twist too. I guess I would feel different if I wasn't a RB fan. Hard to say.

    One other possibility comes to mind. What if there are no rule changes, but instead if the stewards think a team might try to take advantage of this, they decide at race time to hold their ruling disclosure until after the race?

  • How would F1 write a rule to prevent teams from pulling a Perez again?

    Question coming from a F1 newbie as of this year (thanks DTS)

    Interesting race yesterday. Clever loophole exploitation on RB to put Perez back out to erase the time penalty. Supposedly F1 powers-that-be want to plug that hole so teams can't do it again?

    I guess the bigger question is should the loophole be fixed?

    So how would such a rule be written? Say "if a car is out of a race under green for more than five minutes, the team must retire the car (which is defined as not permitted to race again in that race)". But that doesn't seem fair to a team in a race where less than ten cars are remaining (does this ever happen?) and it takes a while to get the car fixed.

    Anyway, I am curious to see what becomes of this.

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    Why do these git merges happen
  • It is for a middle school robotics team (FIRST Lego League if you have ever heard of it). No, I don't have some burning desire to get rid of the merges. I was mostly woried that we were doing something wrong. We definitely do not have any branches. We really just use github to have a safe place to store our code and so that all of the laptops can have all of the code from all of the teammates.

    For sure I don't want to add any complexity. I think that since from their end it looks like it is doing exactly what they think it does (i.e., I upload my code with a push, and I get everyone else's code with a pull), there's definitely no need to fix a non-problem.

  • Why do these git merges happen

    With git/github I really only pull and push. I don't really use any of the other features. Same for the kids on my robotics team. The only thing I have taught them is pull and push. The kids do a pull at the beginning of practice and a push at the end. Yet sometimes I see this in the commit logs. Why are these merges happening? Even I have some merges and I know I didn't do anything differently. Should I be concerned? We are doing all of our git/gihub work in VS code if that matters.

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    Questions about Lemmy
    1. My profile currently says I have 4 posts (this will be number five) and three comments. That's what is says right under my username on my profile page. But below that, there's an option to view "Overview", "Posts", "Comments" and "Saved". "Overview" shows two of my posts and one comment. "Posts" shows nothing and "Comments" shows nothing. Is there a way for me to see all of my posts/comments?

    2. I made a post in https://lemmy.world/c/google. I asked a question, it was upvoted a few times, some people responded and I responded back. Yet, when I go to https://lemmy.world/c/google, I don't see my post there. No matter what I filter on, it doesn't show up. In fact, if I still didn't have the tab open in my browser where I made the post, I don't think I'd be able to find it.

    Anyway, thanks for your time. I am loving Lemmy. I no longer browse reddit at all. Sometime reddit comes up in google search results, and if it wasn't for that, I'd probably never go to reddit any more. So seriously, thanks!

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    Google Meet... does it not make video calls like all the other apps?

    When I try to use Google Meet to call my wife, daughter, mom, whatever, it always wants me to send an email to them to schedule a meeting. They all have gmail accounts, and that's what I am trying to call them with.

    Is Meet supposed to be an alternative to Zoom? As far as I know, you can't just call someone on Zoom and their computer/phone rings (like MS Teams).

    Does Meet not place on-demand calls (like WhatsApp), or am I doing it wrong?

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    When a car catches on fire, what's burning?

    When Magnussen's car caught on fire today, it made me wonder: what's burning? The fire was coming out of the exhaust, so I can't imagine what was actually burning. And then, what does that mean for the engine? Can it be repaired, or does the whole engine need replacing? There are limits to how many engines a team uses each year, correct? I'm guessing that will play a role in this too. It's not the first car fire this year, so I am also wondering how all of the teams are doing this far into the season with regards to using up all of their allocated spare parts.

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    I thought I understood sprints

    I watched the qualifications highlights and saw what happened with Perez. So, I thought the qualifications were for the start position in the sprint. Obviously not since he started front row. And now that the sprint is over, and I see the lineup for the race, perez is starting 15th. I thought the sprint was used to determine the start positions for the race. How were the start positions determined for the sprint? What is the purpose of the sprint if it doesn't determine the start positions for the race?

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    Browsing Local vs Subscribed

    Why would I want to browse Lemmy "Local" instead of subscribed? It seems that "Local" can serve up just about anything, including things that have nothing to do with the types of communities that I have subscribed to. If I understand correctly, "Local" shows any post to any community on Lemmy.world, which could be just about anything. So, maybe I am missing the point because I don't really see why anyone would want that.

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