Last week we lost our car-named dog of 13 years, Shelby.
Here’s young Shelby:

Quadcopters and autogyros are in very different categories. If the engine dies in an autogyro it will autorotate safely down from any altitude. If one engine dies in a quad copter you’re probably crashing. If two die you definitely are. I’m not saying that either are practical, but the autogyro is definitely safer.

You don’t need unions for that. I’m a non-union US government employee. My pay scale is als0 public record and public knowledge. I don’t know how the union side of it works but that’s not one of the things they are responsible for.

Here I thought this article would be about these fixtures.

Your comment about needing to hold the nut in place while you turn the bolt reminded me of these-

And if you build latest gen reactors they could burn all of the nuclear waste we have for fuel. How is getting clean power AND getting rid of our stockpiled nuclear waste at the same time not a no-brainer? Expensive, yes, but how would this not be worth it?

Amen on surface chemistry! Way (way way way) back when I was a co-op at Motorola Energy Systems (they made the cellphone batteries before there were smartphones) one of my jobs was figuring out what adhesive to use to stick the battery packs (PVC shrinkwrap) into the plastic housing (Noryl to save weight) into the…

You’d think that a guy that looks like an antebellum plantation owner would be racist as hell, but he actually stopped using the word “negroes” when told it was offensive and even seemed to like tweaking the racists a bit. From https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/bizarre-life-kentucky-fried-chicken-colonel-san…

I think it’s because the motors themselves are fairly cheap and light and dropping the 0-60 times won’t do much to reduce the cost or the weight. Most of the cost, range, and weight is in the batteries. Why not have obscene amounts of power if having less doesn’t get you much?

Even better- with that degree and the actual experience driving trucks he could be one of the people programming and designing those bots!

I remember back when I was in high school (grad ‘94) I wanted to take the auto repair class elective but was not allowed to. It was only for people who wanted to become auto mechanics. Not parent pressure then, just not enough spots for everyone who wanted it.

Your dog eats steamed vegetables? Both of mine won’t eat anything we drop unless it’s meat.

I find it kind of ridiculous that, to charge a DC laptop from a DC car battery (with pretty similar voltages), we need to convert DC—>AC using this inverter, then AC—>DC using the transformer on the charger. There’s got to be a better way.

I ran the numbers a while ago but lost that spreadsheet. The reduction in your chance of dying from a COVID infection with/without being vaccinated were pretty much *exactly* that of dying from a car crash with/without being belted in. Exact numbers are probably different now, but the concept is the same.

I work in the Federal government and if you don’t spend your entire appropriation down by the end of the fiscal year then Treasury takes it back. I don’t know what happens to those funds after they are swept, but that is generally how it works. Just a bit of typical political grandstanding and mischaracterization of…

Caffeine is actually an effective performance enhancing drug at allowed dosages but pot does not improve performance and is banned. Their rules are funny.

Funny you mention that. Agreed that it’s not the same and being unvaccinated puts others at risk while being unbelted does not, but a while ago I ran the numbers (I can’t find the spreadsheet and am too lazy to redo it) and found that the reduction in your odds of dying in a crash caused by wearing a seatbelt were *ext…

I thought that was Denny’s that had lots of prior incidents. And Cracker Barrel of course, but what do you expect with that name? This is the first one I’ve seen involving Waffle House and it surprises me a bit, since 25-75% of the employees at the ones I’ve been to have been Black. But that was Atlanta and…

Not sure about now or buying, but I leased an Integra instead of a Civic back around 2002 because when you took into account the (much) higher insurance costs of the Civic and the higher resale value of the Integra the lease cost only ~$20 more per month. That was a no brainer for me.

He’s probably been reading Jalopnik which recently told him it works the other way around-