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Delta Airlines began cancelling thousands of its flights on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, blaming the resulting delays on thunderstorms at its Atlanta hub (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/delta-flights-canceled.html). The airline still has not recovered as of Saturday, April 8 — already this morning, Delta has cancelled another 275 flights.
The resulting chaos at airports has been extensively documented in a flyertalk thread (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta-air-lines-skymiles/1834788-april-5-2017-delta-cancels-300-flights-due-thunderstorm.html). The thread contains pictures of people sleeping on airport floors, reports of 20-40 hour call wait times, and claims that Delta's crew-scheduling computers have crashed. In a thread at Airline Pilot Forums (http://www.11alive.com/news/local/long-lines-reported-saturday-morning-at-atlanta-airport/429759800), Delta employees are posting about waiting for work and not being called in.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)
I don't know what Browser/OS combination you are using, but for my setup, I can select the text of the URL, drag it up to the tab bar, where a new tab will open on the URL.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @08:53PM
Yeah, that will work.
With a no-spaces string, I like it when I can just double-click that to highlight it.
With a parenthesis at the start of the string, that won't work; I have to carefully mark the significant part.
That still leaves what the "link" does to the S/N page.
I use NukeAnything Enhanced.
I can mark and remove a bunch of a super-long hyperlink (to eliminate the horizontal scroll bar and narrow the width of the page to that of the window), with that hyperlink still being valid/dragable/clickable.
Can't use that trick with super-long plain-text "links".
I still fondly remember when the site did the break-long-strings-at-the-right-margin thing in HTML and not via CSS.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:30PM
That doesn't negate anything the GP said, though. And it's almost exactly as irritating as selecting, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V, compared to just clicking a hyperlink.
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