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12 December 2018


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TILLYKKE Mouthansar!!!
ЧЕСТИТО Beliberda!! GRATTIS robert1!

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You’ll have heard of WYSIWYG, but WYSIWYR? You’ll be familiar with it though – What You See Is Where You Are – or rather with its converse, as your client samples or polls the server at various apparently haphazard intervals to report your position, those of your competitors and everybody’s DTFs. In particular, in a short race like a sprint, and particularly in this last super short one to end the sprinting year, the not-WYSIWYR phenomenon is noticeable, as reflected on in our winner’s excellent report on a hygellig evening racing and supping with a good friend. Shades of the Olsen Brothers!

However, it may be of interest to note that Mouthansar’s host’s – it was Wolff – disappointment at coming out of the blocks late, and satisfaction on recovering well, were, although understandable, even enjoyable, unnecessary emotions. It is all just not-WYSIWYR at work, which only gets corrected when the server reports the final times-on-course. To summarize our tech-meister, kroppyer, on the matter:

The server stores an exact timestamp of when the boat last moved, the very first timestep being the start time. When the boat is next moved, the server will move it by exactly the difference in time between now and the existing timestamp, and it will then update the timestamp. When for some reason a boat skips a server jump, the server will make bigger jumps as the time between now and the last timestamp is larger. In other words, there is no technical disadvantage being "second row".

So, hats off to Mouthansar who cornered the course like Sir Stirling Moss, and commiserations to Beliberda who came so close. As noted previously, it is coming, Beli-bee!

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