jackknife

What good is a jackknife when there's no water?

My thighs jackknife to my chest, unbidden. I moan, and darkness closes in from the edges of my vision.

And so you should, because that's what it originally referred to: jack is short for jackknife.

If he matched the truck's speed before pulling in front of him, would it reduce the risk of the jackknife situation you described? Seems like it would to me.

Also, you can't jackknife a car - I'm guessing the physics of driving a Mac truck with a heavy trailer and 18 wheels is a lot more complex.

Most people have never attempted to back up a trailer before and at least the first few times they attempt it the chance they'll jackknife it is pretty high.

I find this tendency to constantly jackknife between talking about languages and talking about frameworks a little dizzying. Shouldn't the decision have been what web stack to use?

I laid on my horn and basically had to sit there as my ABS chugged away hoping I don't hit him, and hoping my work trailer's brakes don't lock the wheels, lose traction and jackknife into an adjacent lane. I missed the guy by literally less than a foot.

> old Microsoft of the 90s Not to jackknife the thread, but most developers were born in the 90s and do not remember this Microsoft. The engineering and dev managers DO remember this Microsoft.

For example a car should be able to measure the angle of the trailer and apply the brakes when someone tries to reverse-jackknife. It should measure oscillation frequencies and damping factors at highway speeds and set a safe max speed.

Remove the girl or boy of today from radio, the telephone, the libraries, movies, and other forms of amusement and comfort -give them merely a jackknife and nature's unchanging wonders for amusement, and how would they fare? I fear me ennui would claim them for its own and that they would fare ill until returned to their accustomed habitat of convenience and plenty.