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Bloody hell. Look at the timeline: This is obviously an uninhabited island, but other ones also suffered extensive damage. Their communications are mostly cut off. 3 deaths confirmed so far.

That kind of rude behaviour and attitudes towards locals rooted in deluded feelings of superiority is sadly quite widespread among western - especially American and British - tourists in developing countries, in my personal experience. It's hard not to intervene sometimes.

Happy birthday!

Don't go back home, problem solved

I'd say it's mostly because in situations where two or more cars are similar, the driver still makes THE difference, and it's extremely exciting to watch. Best drivers tend to push the car to the very limit when it's needed, and are able to shave off a few thousandths or hundredths per lap when it truly matters, even when it seems impossible. So while even the best driver wouldn't win titles without a very strong car, just the car isn't enough, either - you need someone to drive it flawlessly week in, week out, on different tracks under different weather conditions. The other, even simpler reason is probably because the driver is the one who actually drives the car and that's what the fans see - they do not see the effort that is put into building, developing, repairing and upgrading the car, nor do they see hundreds of people behind it. I also believe the glorification of the drivers is strongly linked to racing conditions a few decades ago, when motorsport was extremely unsafe and by far more deadly, so racing drivers were seen as some sort of "gladiators" who braved death every weekend, and that image is branded into the psyche of the fans. Also, some fans simply have little interest in technical aspects of the sport and just support a specific driver, for whatever reason...

The car is the most important part of the sport, with the driver and team effort (setups, pit stops, race strategies, etc) making the difference when the gaps between cars are small. F1 are not a spec series - all cars are designed around a specific set of technical regulations that might seem quite restrictive (engine displacement, car weight, aerodynamic parts, etc.), but in reality they still allow enough creative freedom for designers and engineers to play with, and every team pushes the limits of the regulations constantly to find something that gives them even a marginal advantage. Visually, the cars all look similar, but the actual differences are extreme enough that one team can't even copy another teams parts as it likely wouldn't work with their design.

Here, "true colour" image on the left with HSO colour mapping after assigning RGB colours to narrowband channels (Hydrogen as red, Sulfur as green, and Oxygen as blue). That image then gets processed additionally to balance the colours and get the details out, resulting in the image on the right.

It's true that Webb is primarily an infrared telescope, but it's also worth noting that the original images Hubble takes are also very different from the final pictures that get published - the original ones are narrowband images of different wavelengths in black and white, and colours are just added and manipulated during image processing (and they aren't accurate representation of the real image in visible light). Assignment of colours to different narrowband images is even called Hubble Palette because it popularised the technique. So the original image of the Pillars of Creation above would have looked something like this: I'm sure they'll do plenty of image processing to the infrared Webb images too, and we'll still get some absolutely fantastic views. The important part for the telescope is the scientific data it gathers, after all

Haha, it's Kyle Butler, there was a bizarre story with him a few years ago when he posted a tweet saying he signed for Fortuna, but Fortuna didn't know anything about it he's also Leon Bailey's stepbrother, too. I'd guess that your taxi driver probably did some trials, considering that he was only there for 3 months.

I don't know about safe and easy, have you seen those blades??? Easy to lose a couple of fingers, I reckon

This fella?

I will appeal it.

Trust me, it won't be finished in time for the new season Besides, training the algorithm on the historical data won't be of much use now with all the regulation changes... So I'll do just the rudimentary, primary predictive modeling this year so that I can find all the technical solutions and get it working in the first place, and then will put it to the test in 2023 season based on the data of 2022 season. After that, definitely world domination

That's definitely a LIDL Don't they have those machines in the UK? It's literally everywhere Europe.

VPN alone won't help you much, I'm afraid, as they also do address verification on the card you're using for payment (so it nieeds to be registered in one of the countries where F1TV is available). There's a workaround though, I believe - if you use VPN on your phone and then sign up for F1TV via their app, using Google Pay or Apple Pay as a payment method... Haha Nah, I simply like merging my hobbies with things I'm learning, as that gives me motivation to keep learning and progress faster. When I started with python two years ago, my course finishing project was writing a script that automatically calculated superlicense points for drivers in junior categories

Also @RondónEFC if you know some programming, there's a python package for accessing F1 historical timing data and telemetry (and a huge amount of other data) called FastF1: https://github.com/theOehrly/Fast-F1 I've been using it to run some data analysis from time to time, and I'm using it now for building a Machine Learning based F1 race prediction model for my AI & Machine Learning course. Alternatively, if you're a non-programmer, Ergast API offers similar historical data as online queries or as spreadsheet databases: http://ergast.com/mrd/ . Then there's also this website for using the same data to generate lap times and telemetry graphs for driver comparisons etc: https://www.f1-tempo.com/ It could keep you occupied for ages

Yeah, it's both terrifying and fascinating (and also extremely humbling) to see the power of nature in action. The shockwave looks crazy... Tsunami warnings are now given to certain areas in Japan and islands in the Pacific, too.

Ah yes, now I remember you telling me this last off-season If you do torrents, there's a massive collection since 1978 on reddit...

Rewatch old seasons you haven't watched before...

Recently finished watching White Wall, a Swedish-Finnish mystery thriller sci-fi series. Loved it, and couldn't stop watching it. Very suspenseful, eery and atmospheric, and the story is pretty novel and unique. Hopefully there will be Season 2... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648870/

Massive volcano eruption in Tonga, causing Tsunami warning all the way through to Australia and the US.

That's extreme dedication, hard work, and strong will power. Massive news.

Oh, and Jos Verstappen's team is currently leading in their class in 24h of Dubai

Dakar has finished.