Making coffee. Dont get me wrong, I love drinking coffee made from freshly ground beans either as espresso or as a pour over, and I do have multiple cups every day, but the absolute faff of having to manage that process is a PITA.
Put the cup and scales underneath, zero the scales timer
Pull the leaver
Not forget I am making esspresso and stop when at target weight
Move cup and scales out
Remove portafilter and empty, then wash
Finally drink the espresso
This doesn't include the faff around cleaning the espresso machine everyday and managing its special water. Its probably about 15 minutes a day but for two cups of espresso that take about a minute to drink? Feels like a lifetime.
Until they start referencing the telemetry from the cars, which the Stewards have access to, in the judgements this shit is just not going to stop. You could even compare the telemetry to their actual fastest lap from qualy, which would give a significant margin in favor of the driver as very low fuel vs. lots of fuel during the race until they have completed x laps of the actual race.
Lost went on far too long and they backed themselves into a corner by saying that the big secret was what nobody had guessed, but this was right around the Internet getting popular to talk about tv shows, so everything good had already been suggested. If it had been me, I would have just picked the best one and gone with that...
The problem is that the battery is usually half the cost of manufacturing the car, larger batteries still means more expense, at least until whatever replaces the current battery tech is mainstream.
Britians cheapest brand new EV that isnt limited to 28mph top speed is the Dacia Spring at £11k. $17k is about £13k. UK average commuting distance is a round trip of about 40 miles. In an ICE car thats costing about £6 a day, vs. 70p in an EV that can charge at home overnight. My kids basically get brand new (small) EVs for free vs. running an older ICE that I would gift them just on the fuel saving.
Obviously not everyone can change at home, but this will change the more people push for it.
People like Wes Streeting want to import your health care system. It's long been the dream of people like him to do so. It's the most valuable thing we have on the table.
It always felt like they wanted to sell motorsport to the Saudis for that lovely oil money, so he was hand picked to enable that. Sure, there was an election but pretty much the same way Putin has elections, or the Olympic committee has elections.
Do they speak Spanish? The English version of them make no effort to learn to speak Spanish, or integrate outside their own communities, then make videos about people doing that who go to England.
Back before Mesh and Roaming between APs was a thing I used to adjust the transmit power on my three DDWRT APs so that they didnt overlap fully to force roaming between them. I did this mostly because I didnt want too many devices on the same AP as a lot of devices back then would be stubbonly sticky to the first AP they found and APs could handle a lot less loading that they do now so it was far more important to spread devices out across the APs.
Now I still have three APs but they all WiFi 6 as are the main devices that use it so I do not bother micro managing it as WiFi 6 is much better at congestion and Roaming. I would rather have more range than worry about it, I have good coverage from the back of my garden to the front of my drive, its not essential that I have that but it is very very useful at times.
5Ghz penetrates a lot less than 2.4Ghz so that does not cause as much problems if left at 100%. 2.4Ghz can be a pain for others but I cannot wait to turn that off at some point in the future anyway.
Merc had an exception for Kimi from the FIA. I think in Kimis case it looks to be valid, as it would for Max if he was joining now at the same age as Kimi, but Lance would have also needed the exception if joining now at the same point and he shouldn't have had one at that age. I do not mind exceptions if they are true talents like Kimi and Max but that has to be enforced.
I've worked in: UK, Ireland, Spain (Marid and Barcelona), France (Paris), Italy (Milan and Rome), Germany (all over), Belgium (Brussels), Denmark (Copenhagen), US (New York and New Jersey), Canada (Toronto and Montreal)
On top of those I've visited: Japan (many times), US (many times), Sweden, Holland, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, BVI, Antigua, St Martin, Barbuda
I've sailed in BVi, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Greece, and obviously the UK.
If I could, I would live in Japan, by far my favourite place
Go to a meet up if you can and try out different boards, switches, key cap profiles, talk to owners etc. before you spend any significant sums. Impact of key cap profile and materials is often underrated.
If you cant then switch testers and "cheap" 3d printed or acrylic boards are a decent way to try different layouts, especially if you can sell them once you finished with them. Sure you can skip this step if you know the exact layout you want, but I didn't.
Learn what types of switches you prefer, if you like them lubed, filmed, ball bearing mod, stem swapped, etc. is worth the effort. As is getting good at stabs.
I think another fundamental is deciding if you are one and done or you will keep buying boards. Buying keyboards then building them is the hobby for me, I have loads, more than 50. If its the former then you want to spend longer nailing down what you want, the latter it doesn't matter so much.
Its snobby but mass market boards are ok, just ok. I would much rather have something more premium, with a bit more thought around it. It is more risk than buying from your average shop though, and you need to do proper research into the GB runner, even then they can exit scam (ask me how I know).
Being able to decide everything you want for a board, mounting style, plate material (or even no plate), switches, how they lubed, if they filmed, what stabs you use, what keycaps, all make fundamental differences to a boards sound and behavior. Getting that how you want it can take time.
Having actually been rushed to hospital when I was a kid by my friends after a big accident on my bike I would say the number is higher than you might think. They even walked by bike back home, which considering it was miles from home was pretty mad for teenagers.
I would say at least 20 people I know who are close to me either have done something I would consider above and beyond for me already or I know for sure would do so. Thats not counting any relatives.
Yeah that not right. It's possible for the teams to work out ideal efficiency for the max fuel flow limit and battery discharge limits and go from there. These are hard constants for what is possible. Sure, someone might break the laws of physics, but it's unlikely.
This is what you get when you do not want two number one drivers but want someone to pay second fiddle to Max as you are too scared to manage two competitive drivers.
They kept Carlos hanging around for months last summer on the off chance that Max would leave when they could have just signed Carlos and had two experienced quality drivers for this year.
Now I am very curious as to how Yuki will do in the Red Bull as it seems to be a complete nightmare to drive. If they do not sort out their car then Max is going to struggle as the season progresses.
Making coffee. Dont get me wrong, I love drinking coffee made from freshly ground beans either as espresso or as a pour over, and I do have multiple cups every day, but the absolute faff of having to manage that process is a PITA.
I have to:
This doesn't include the faff around cleaning the espresso machine everyday and managing its special water. Its probably about 15 minutes a day but for two cups of espresso that take about a minute to drink? Feels like a lifetime.