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There will be lift almost as soon as the plane begins moving forward, reducing the weight of the plane, which would seem to reduce downward stress.

I think that depends on the region and weather differences. In the northeast at least, asphalt seems to be a lot more common than concrete.

On the one hand, the Cloudflare article doesn’t smell bad to me. As someone who gets to pay attention to this type of thing, these kinds of things really do happen frequently, and …

The pilot restrictions definitely need a revamp. Any diagnosis or medication can greatly restrict you for a long time after, incentivizing avoiding treatment completely.

I wonder if you misunderstood what the commenter was saying. It isn’t that the goal of the companies is to make people sick as you suggest, it’s that the goal of the companies is t…

But unlike some other pieces of the Ultra subscription you can’t share YouTube premium with family. So now I have both and Google has suggested a few times that I shouldn’t be doin…

They quietly released an update to CC earlier today so it can now be run natively on Windows.

I failed that as well back then! I still (mostly) remember the question that I knew was going to sink me. The scenario was that I caught a coworker stealing a pencil from the compa…

Having been on the receiving end a bit, the gag orders don't come from the FBI directly. The FBI can ask you not to say anything, but you can ignore that without any legal repercus…

Tau Station, https://taustation.space/

I think this may have surfaced on reddit recently, with a picture. https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/10pciup/the_comp...

A more generous reading is that he was saying he didn’t plan on quitting and didn’t plan on changing his behavior to fit into any culture changes that he might disagree with. The m…

The game itself is Java, but the mods are Lua

https://store.steampowered.com/app/882140/Reentry__An_Orbita... is pretty interesting for summing early US space flight.

Given the author, higher order jokes seem especially appropriate.

That’s a fun story! Asherons Call had something along those lines, https://massivelyop.com/2018/01/30/re-examining-the-signific... though it only really got interesting on one serv…

My memory of that wasn’t that dentists stopped recommending flossing, it was just an acknowledgment that there hadn’t been any research that showed a positive effect. And not that …

There might be merit to this in general. But in this specific case the person is no longer in authority so it doesn’t seem to apply.

Sure, but for most of the service cutoffs so far, including this one, there were no relevant US sanctions in place.

I found it pretty useful to do both. A quick press is esc while holding it down is ctrl. I do find caps lock useful enough to keep it around still, so hitting left shift + right sh…

I’ve no experience with anonymous reviews, but have had experience with two approaches that help with the minor comments. One is an agreed upon method of identifying potentially mi…

Isn’t it still the case that a large percentage of hospitalizations are people who refused to get vaccinated? Is there any reason to believe these same folks would willingly take t…

Did someone confuse the date value for the year value?

I no longer work in data centers, but in the past had success with both https://opendcim.org/ and https://www.racktables.org/ . RackTables is probably a little simpler for managing…