71 karma · joined September 14, 2017
This is an important takeaway for me, maybe even more than “electirc devices are washable”.
World is filled with conventional wisdom that limits us in countless directions. Knowing how things work empower us to break these “rules”.
No one is gonna put Albon or Giovinazzi in the Mercedes and think "he'll be fine, we'll still win". Hamilton and Schumacher kinda put themselves up there to be in the position to dominate with the right team of engineers. They put themselves up there with their driving and team building skills.
I don't know why I watch the every single race. I got into it because I liked the engine noise. I happened to see young Kimi Raikkonen getting into the McLaren car. That was a nice story to follow. I started to pickup other stories. Newey moving to Red Bull, rule changes, Alonso moving to Ferrari, Vettel moving to Ferrari and here I am.
Needless to say, I have witnessed "sensor errors" botch up a perfectly fine pit stop.
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I would suggest it as a one-month experiment to anyone reading this. I had so much time to think, reflect and... get bored. It was a sort of detox. It was great to not know where you are on the map. It was great to not have something to listen to. It was great to not catch-up.
Since I was off the hook of my smartphone, I tended not to bail out on conversations with others and go back to my digital reality. I talked to people (maybe other people not having smartphones also helped with this).
I kept my "dumb" phone for a couple of months after that but I don't think I can manage to live without a smartphone full time. However, it's a great exercise to reduce addiction. I definitely started use my smart phone less.
I believe there is an option in the Performance pane to throttle the CPU in Chrome.
Turkey used to block Twitter and YouTube, just because of a tweet or a video. But because it causes such a problem for the government, they passed a bill allowing just to block some URLs. Not the whole website. So now, many of the news websites have specific pages that are blocked.
I believe he refers to this.