There will always be corner cases. Is straße the same file as strasse?

Well, yes and no... should the system pretend that somehow, ß is the capital version of ss?

Case insensitivity worked in the cave days when there was only ACSII and non-English speaking countries were a myth.

Russia doesn't need NATO to break Russian things.

Air travel is safe because it has hard and fast standardized checklists, so airline personnel don't have to make shit up as they go along. They always follow the standard procedure.

Suppose a tablet gets jammed into a passenger seat. The procedure is that a flight attendant retrieves the device from the seat and inspects it. If it appears OK they can give it back to the passenger, but if it's damaged, say the chassis is bent, they'll put it in a special fireproof bag, and the flight continues.

What if they can't get the tablet out of the seat, so they can't inspect it? How are they supposed to decide whether it's safe? If it's an iPad, given Apple's build quality and engineering it's probably fine to leave it there, but suppose it's an ATOZEE or BYYBUO brand tablet -- one of those weird brands on Temu or Amazon Marketplace that slap their name on garbage from a random Chinese factories and then disappear if there's trouble and the get sued. No way you should trust one of those.

Clearly they can't be expected to know which devices are well-engineered, and which aren't. They can't know which devices may have recalls due to battery problems. They can't even trust the passenger's description of his tablet as an "iPad". Maybe that's what he calls all tablets.

The flight attendants need a decision tree, every leaf of that tree has to be safe, it can't require them to have personal knowledge of the quality and safety of every brand and model of device on the market, and it can't require them to take anything the passenger says for granted. That means you treat every tablet you can't retrieve and expect as a cheap piece of Chinese white label shit. From time to time that'll inconvenience hundreds of people for something that's 99.9% likely to be fine, but that's how airline safety works. A 0.1% chance of an unquenchable fire in the cabin is treated like a big deal.

Yes, I considered that possibility, which is why I referred to a car amplifier, which is a proper stereo made for a car.

We don't know the details of the vehicle's construction.

If the panels can be removed with a hex key, then those panels are probably not structural, but rather are bolted onto something else that *is* structural. So think of them less like the body panels in a modern monocoque vehicle body, and more like fairings.

Monocoque bodies are clearly superior if you are just concerned with weight and stiffness, but the advantages may be somewhat less in an EV with a skateboard chassis, where you're starting out with a very heavy and rigid base, and the efficiency penalty of extra weight is somewhat smaller than it would be for an ICEV. If you're envisioning a vehicle body that can be easily and radically reconfigured by the owner, maybe you'd take the additional weight penalty of some kind of space frame above the skateboard chassis that would allow easy body modifications while ensuring rollover and side impact protection in the modified body.

You can get bluetooth speakers with greater than 120 db SPL output. Or car amplifiers in the thousands of watts RMS range with bluetooth input if you're doing a custom audio installation.

And everyone is using a VPN these days, often from another country with favorable peering for their activities. On the internet, no one knows I'm a dog posting from an IP address on Mars.

That plus the decision to make the (hiddden) extension semantically meaningful by having it decide what actually happens when you click it was the most stupid decision ever in the realm of user interfaces. With the extensions hidden, you actually can't know if you're running an unknown exe, or starting an image viewer that will show a jpg. Either one without the other would be OK(-ish) and could have saved billions of dollars in lost productivity.

That's the problem. Wikipedia contains too many inconvenient truths and tends to weed out the administration's attempts to cram it with propaganda.

This isn't about funding, this is about 501c tax exempt status for non-profit organizations.

I'm pretty sure we don't tax Pravda.

The gym where I work out has Sirius XM as their background music, variously Hits 1 or The Pulse. If you told me it was all pre-recorded loops and/or AI I wouldn't doubt it.

The gym's soundtrack has nevertheless introduced me to some neat new music, duly added to my workout playlist. In that sense it's served its purpose. It's also exposed me to some truly dire excuses for music. People buy this garbage?!

The radio-friendly versions of songs are sometimes inadvertently amusing. "My give a craps are on vacation" "I'm a real tough kid I can hannnndle it"

...laura

More importantly, offer long term job stability and a golden parachute. It's necessary, because otherwise a long stent of COBOL on a resume is an express ticket to the round file. If they're going to get developers to learn COBOL, they'll need to offer them the last job they'll even need.

I'm fine with offices being made more comfortable, but even the title of TFA claims it is to convince people who WFH to RTO.

That is, ever larger moves to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hubble has provided a spectacular return on its investment, both in science results and in PR (i.e. pretty pictures).

Is it worth additional refurbishing? Is it worth bringing back to Earth? Both decisions are way above my paygrade. In many ways JWST is "better", but will it capture the public's imagination the way Hubble did? I doubt it.

...laura

Based on a CO2 level of 2000 ppm. CO2 is toxic. 2000 ppm won't kill you outright, but you would experienced unending respiratory and neurological distress.