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  • When I first started driving, it was with manual. And it really helped once I realized two things:

    • Being shitty at gear shifts won't make me fail at the final test. Instructor told me as much. If I wear out the clutch and cox up the engine through repeated stalls, that's my problem - I can torture and destroy my car through ineptitude, as long as it's done in accordance with road safety.
    • Getting used to the clutch is half the battle. Not clutches in general, but the specific one you're driving. Once you get used to know how insensitive or sensitive it is, the rest will be a lot easier. With time (and not a whole lot of it, actually), you'll be shifting gear without having to think much about it, just like the rest; right now you're struggling with you many areas that require your focus. As you practice them, you will do all of them without thinking about them.

    I still need a while getting used to new gearboxes whenever I'm using someone else's car.

    Oh, and a tip: be sure to memorize the gear positions, and while standing still with the engine off you can practice shifting from and to any gear without looking. That's one less thing to pay attention to.

  • That's my career in a nutshell. Most people remember how everything went to shit in both 2008 and 2020. Both of those years, economic turmoil coincidentally gave me huge career boosts.
    "Yeah, we're downsizing. But you can have this position instead..."

  • Cryptonomicon. It's not really a short book, but it's easily digestible as it has clear divisions where it is suitable to take a break.

    The way the WW2 plot and the 90's-plot intertwine is so much fun to read, especially since the 90's characters are descendants of the ww2 characters.

    And of course GEB Kavistik would grow up to be a pretentious cunt...

  • True. There are reports that Elon himself agreed with this in a weekly address to xitter staff, after he thoroughly explained how he takes care to use the right type of lube when rectally inserting cucumbers on himself.