But if you tell somebody “a million gallons” they will imagine a much bigger volume of water than “a swimming pool” even though they are almost the same. And a lot of high schools and universities will have an “olympic-sized” pool that somebody is likely to have seen at some point, without actually going to the Olympic…

Ships and planes both have the problem of energy density. Batteries just aren’t good enough to cross an ocean either by sky or sea. Yet. And while ships do produce a lot of emissions, they are still very efficient when you consider the tons and miles they handle. Nothing gets 50,000 tons across 7000 miles for less…

P.S. the above numbers are without wind. It gets much better range when the wind blows. But I can still make the LA to Catalina crossing without wind.

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Depends on how deep the UI reskin is. At one level, it would be relatively easy to replace a few graphics and make it look kinda similar, in the way a website can be reskinned by some CSS: change the font, make this part blue and this other part white, etc. But you’re right that making a more substantial change to…

Starship burns methane, which is relatively clean, producing 2 water and 1 CO2 for each CH4 it burns. It also produces much less soot compared to an RP1 rocket. One of Elon’s future goals is to produce that methane with solar energy, which would make it truly carbon neutral. (And equally important for Elon, makes it…

SpaceX is getting a lot of bang for their bucks. (lol) but they also have 5 more of these Starships in various stages of completion. And building them of stainless steel instead of carbon fiber or other exotic materials really does cut down the costs. This crash might set them back a week, (if that) whereas Boeing’s…

At least the new launch stack has an abort capability without blackout periods. The shuttle had no viable abort options from T-Zero to 2:30 or even later.

On a Saturday, about two decades ago, I told myself it was time to get a dog. I went out and bought a few little things like a food bowl, but something came up so I had to spend time fixing a computer instead of visiting shelters.

The author’s image shows a vent that would be blocked by the tall screen of your kind of unit. With the screen extended, your unit is 3 DIN tall.

I half suspect this is really aimed at someone specific that the author doesn’t want to call out by name. Maybe even qualifies as r/suspiciouslyspecific material.

As mentioned elsewhere, a lot of cars have air conditioning vents or other controls directly above the radio, so being able to mount the screen somewhere else would be useful in at least some cases. Also, the unit you show needs the full DIN height, PLUS the height of the screen, while the NEX unit’s screen can overlap…

I’m surprised they didn’t go the steganographic route on the video marking. Or maybe they have and we don’t know yet.

Just an argument to properly handle animal waste. It is not natural for so many dogs (or wolves, or coyotes) to live in a small area, therefore we can’t expect nature to handle the byproducts in-situ. If humans are enabling the extra density, then humans need to be responsible for hygiene and waste management. It’s…

Coyotes are not densely populated in either suburban or rural areas. They roam over wide territories measured in square miles so their waste is not concentrated in a single area. Dogs do most of their business on the same few hundred square feet of backyard, or the occasional half mile of sidewalk-adjacent lawn during…

Or else they wanted a knob, but didn’t want it to be off somewhere by itself, away from the other related functions that are on the screen. And it would be too expensive to put a hole in the screen for the knob.

My 18-month old still mostly babbles and says a few words, but she did learn a new word when the Christmas lights went up: “Wwoooowww”

Even the annual flu vaccine has an allergy warning because it’s made in part using chicken eggs, and you’re supposed to hang around for 5-10 minutes after you get it just in case. (Especially if you don’t normally get the flu shot.)

Some of those roadblocks are funding. Companies normally wouldn’t want to spend money creating millions of doses before they know it’s effective and have approval.

Most phones, even when the sensor is working perfectly, will still ask for the PIN once in a while, and disable biometrics, if it detects unfamiliar movement, or sits too long. (I don’t know the exact parameters that triggers it, but it’s several times a week for me.)