I just love reading articles like this. Not just because it was well written, thoroughly researched, and very informative. But because it helps grant me insight into a different way of life. A window into a world that I will probably never have any part in. In this case it’s something that to New Yorkers is just a…

Oh, gotcha. Yeah that would be annoying. For what it’s worth I haven’t seen any persistent notifications on my Pixel after installing Oreo which is why I asked. I wonder what an app has to be doing in the background to trigger a notification.

Being waterproof would be nice too, but I’m not willing to trade my headphone jack for the privilege either.

You may have to elaborate on the persistent notification issue. But I agree there’s no reason that this often requested feature could not be pushed out to the original Pixels. It would be a genuine shame if they don’t.

...And this is exactly why my kids don’t have access to the Google Play store on their devices, or the ability to install anything at all for that matter. My son would have probably downloaded every one of these apps if he could have, along with innumerable other malicious applications.

Oh, you’ve gotta read it. I’m literally halfway through it right now. And this is probably like the tenth time I’ve read it. The movie is good but the book is so much better.

Unless you got your numbers transposed and you meant 142... 124 db is loud, but it’s honestly not that loud. It’s certainly not nearly loud enough to cause all of the hate and discontent that Mr. Hamilton here is accused of. 124 db is probably about how loud a really nice factory stereo will get when turned all the…

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are looking for, Google has been doing this for sometime now. Since they released the Chromecast Audio you have been able to setup multi-room audio streaming. I have two Google Homes and 4 Chromecast Audios in my house right now and I can play music to any or all of them at the…

Honestly when I was young I would have agreed with you 100%. I never really even considered to having kids until I met my wife. And even at the risk of sounding cliche, now that I have them, I literally would not trade them for anything. Like even if you told me I could somehow go back in time to before I ever had…

Well I guess it is a bit harder to have kids before finding a spouse... So I’ll definitely give you that one. But in my case once again on the bell curve of life I am probably an outlying data point. I met my wife at 19 and got married at 22. I was already in the military when I met her and I got out and moved onto a…

Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I am 35 and I have 3 kids, 2 of which I had before turning 30. Although I also happily acknowledge that I am the exception to the current cultural norm. But honestly I just don’t know how people wait to have kids until their older. Kids are fricking exhausting and I’m definitely…

I like the idea of a digital photo frame but I’m still holding out hope for a color e-ink version someday. Not only because the LCD ones just look like one more random glowing screen across the room... which they are. But an E-ink one could probably be made to run for a year on a few AA batteries. Which would be way…

I like the idea of a digital photo frame but I’m still holding out hope for a color e-ink version someday. Not only…

Not shown in the video... his attempt at making breakfast that morning.

No they are not designed to self destruct. Rockets by their nature are just a very delicate balance of strength and weight. So in order to save weight they are made very strong in a intended direction, along their vertical axis. However they are not really designed to take much force along a horizontal axis. It…

Exactly! I was less surprised at how high the fuel pressure in diesel engines was. But the thought of gasoline at such high pressures just makes me uncomfortable. Still in all seriousness I have faith in the engineers that developed this system that they know what they are doing and wouldn’t put something out there if…

Yeah with as delicate of a balance that they constantly need to achieve to get this engine working it would be almost impossible to get more power out of it without degrees in physics, engineering and computer programing. Either that or you could just kill all of the SPCCI magic and turn it into a dumb supercharged…

One would hope!

This is exactly where my mind went. When I found out that it was over 14,000 psi I instantly though of a water jet cutter, except shooting gasoline. I think the only inherent saving grace is that a pump designed to get the fuel up to such high pressures isn’t going to also support a very large flow volume. 

Yeah that was the other nightmare scenario that I was imagining happening. Nothing like the potential of a nice thermobaric explosion to keep you from tailgating the car in front of you.

Well that’s just terrifying. I’m going to go ahead and make a note to not damage any crazy high pressure fuel components... as per David’s suggestion. Also for some reason the thought of gasoline at these pressures seems more intimidating than diesel at three times the pressure.