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intune··on Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear
Not quite, there's also a rule that you can't operate an aircraft within 8 hours of consuming alcohol, aka. "8 hours bottle to throttle".
intune··on United States vs. One Book Called “Ulysses”
Morris Ernst was an ACLU attorney who challenged other high-profile book bans during the period. He found a cooperative publisher and hatched the plan to import a copy of the book from France and have it seized by customs, although the getting it seized was more difficult than anticipated.

> A few days later the book showed up at Random House—it had passed through customs. Furious, Ernst personally marched the package over to the customs office and demanded that it be searched. When the inspector opened it and found Ulysses, he muttered, “Oh, for God’s sake, everybody brings that in. We don’t pay attention to it.” Ernst insisted that he seize it. On May 8, the book was officially seized by customs.

In lieu of the usual fees, he would receive 5% of the book royalties should it be legalized and published (not a bad deal).

More backstory here: https://crimereads.com/banned-books-ulysses-joyce-morris-ern...

intune··on A practical explanation of a Naive Bayes classifier
Is there some way to normalize the document length?
intune··on [dead]
I've heard some good things about system76. I'll probably order one when my thinkpad (also running linux) finally dies.
intune··on Ask HN: Does music increase productivity at work?
I'm in the same situation, my office has an open floor plan and can get very distracting at times. +1 for 8tracks, I haven't created any myself but there are some great electronic playlists with minimal vocals for coding.