Are there any non-VTOL jets that can actually take off from a carrier without any assistance ? I thought they were either catapulted or the runway had to be sloped upwards (and possibly longer than 500m iirc)

Or France

It’s definitely inflated but I’d say the real number has to be at the very least within 10% of that estimate (probably a lot more, but I’ve seen some AAA games at a 90% discount in the past) which is still in the billions of dollars, which is still kind of nuts

Tbh it was 100% a move to avoid pissing off the fans by only announcing Starfield

As a “gamer” and game developer, this is sound advice.

They are very precise, cover the whole french territory, are all in the same format, follow the same standards and the paper maps are not too expensive. There are topographical maps at a 1:25000 scale, and roadmaps at a 1:250000 scale. And these paper maps are as sturdy as they can be, my dad has been rocking some of them for almost his entire life.

I guess I just get too excited about state funded institutions that provide good service to the public and still exist in 2024. Them paper maps can really be a lifesaver when you’re hiking in the more remote parts of France though

Also IGN (Institut géographique national) maps are amazing

This

VS this

The brake pedal in the first picture is more than twice as wide as the accelerator, and it’s only about ~50% wider in the second picture

Yeah, it’s not “emergency brake” levels of slam (where you would indeed slam on both pedals), but it usually gets pressed a lot faster and harder than how you’d press on the braking pedal when braking normally.

Basically, monkey brain expects the left foot to meet with a pedal and will absolutely settle for the brake pedal if not reasoned with. I’ve done it a few times myself.

Because there is no inherent benefit to easing the clutch “in”. At least that’s the reason they gave me when I was learning how to drive, and my mechanic doesn’t seem to disagree. Basically, you want to disengage the transmission from the engine as soon as possible (especially when you’re doing that to benefit from the engine brake), change your gear, then gently ease the clutch “out”

You slam on the clutch to change gears. And you get used to changing gears while decelerating to use the engine brake as much as possible

I guess it could be construed as racist when it’s literally “master/slave”. But I have never seen it as a normalization of slavery because there usually is no value attached to the terms, it’s just describing the relation between them. And I don’t think acknowledging that a slave generally doesn’t have much say in doing what their master tells them is racist in itself or endorsing/normalizing slavery.

But also, I am white, and there are other terms we can use that can describe this kind of relation just fine, so, whatever. I just get mildly annoyed when some stuff that was working perfectly fine gets deprecated just to change these terms and I have to adapt to it.

Wow ok, let’s just act like it wasn’t because I just installed Linux on my new gaming PC 🙄

“just work 8 jobs at the same time lol” this guy, probably

I did not 😄 but as a lazy person that’s why it instantly made sense when they told me

That barn owl weighed 320g which felt super light for its size. I didn’t ask why but I felt like the nocturnals looked a lot heavier than they are, as opposed to the other raptors we got to fly who basically felt as heavy as I expected when I saw them. I guess owls have more “fluffy” feathers which makes them look bigger ?

Yeah I love how eagle owls look. Magnificent little fellas

I learned a lot of things about raptors behavior, how they are heavily affected by their past experiences with humans, all of them have their own personalities, like some of them actually respond to flattery or praises, etc. I was a little surprised to learn that most birds of prey won’t fly if they don’t need to hunt for their survival because I never really thought about it but it makes a lot of sense, especially for predatory birds.

Eh, I’d still call it a win by Boeing’s standards

Hello, fellow “fuck you and your privacy settings” homepage enjoyer.

Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.