Was hoping for a bit more detail than the article gave. Concrete is great and all but how do they make it earthquake resistant? Or survive broad face hurricane winds on a 20' tall flat wall? Can they put rebar in the walls?

Exactly. Case insensitivity belongs in the application-layer APIs, not in the OS, or the file system itself.

See the post above about how Windows actually does it. It's in the win32 api, not the file system. On Linux you really need to talk to the Qt and GTK folks, or maybe the glibc people.

Mod this up! Apple's APFS is the same way.

If Linus is right, then the kernel should treat all filenames as a stream of bytes. Good idea? Not really.

There's really no other sane way to do it. Even Apple has come around to this as this is the exact thing Apple's APFS does. Filenames are simply bytes, assumed to be (and forced to be) valid UTF-8. Of course it's complicated by the fact that there are different ways of normalizing UTF-8, so you can get a situation where you copy files from a mac to Linux and you might see two identically-named files where one used NFC and other used NFD normalization. Unicode is kind of messy that way. Though folks argue that Apple chose the wrong normalization scheme.

I dunno.

Isn't the stuff to change eyelid color called "eyeshadow" ?

I'm a guy; I kind of exhausted my knowledge of makeup in the initial post.

I've only had any, ever, for Halloween, onstage, and television interviews.

The moon, like all solid bodies, has a surface rich in oxides.

Honestly, this to me isn't as interesting with respect to the moon as it is with respect to Venus. Venus is very hydrogen deficient. If you could dramatically up its hydrogen capture rate (e.g. magnetic lensing) and in a way that would greatly exceed the loss rate (normally we think of the solar wind as a loss mechanism), it would have a wide range of effects that would make it more earthlike. In particular, you'd get the Bosch reaction, where H2 and CO2 react to form water and graphite. Venus's surface is active (both volcanism, and while it has no subduction, it has microplates that jostle up against each other), so over geological timescales, surface carbon will be sequestered. So you're lowering the pressure, lowering the temperature, raising the water, and lowering the acidity. Also, if the water content in the crust rises over geological timescales, it becomes more ductile, so potentially - after immense timescales - you might *possibly* start/restart plate tectonics

None of this would be at all on human timescales, but it's interesting to ponder whether Venus's conversion to a hellscape could be slowly reersed.

No that's not at all what I was getting at at all, sorry.

Have you looked at cars lately, both ICE and EV? They are all are emulating Tesla. Mechanically they are very sound. But the original points the OP made still stand, regardless of brand.

in fact, research has found that there is an *almost* (but not quite) dollar for dollar increase in tuition for each additional available dollar of student loan and pell grant. Iirc, one was 95%, and the other 90%, but it's been a while.

the idea of a remote control operating system *anything* on my pants, let alone the zipper, is, well . . .

just another reason to stick to button fly jeans!

this.

I only reluctantly gave up atavist for the weaker search but broader index of google.

But I've tried, off and on for several years, to use non-google search engines.

I think that that 80% is about right on usable results from bing/ddg -- but it's unusual day that I don't need to go to google at least once. For some searches, I don't even bother and go straight there.

what finally got me to change my default away from google was the effort of typing "-video:" (which also excludes ai) on every search.

in related news, still waiting for an orbital strike on the YouTube servers, but in vain. Really, how can you make a vive minute "video" on the firing order of an eight cylinder engine (the numerals 1-8 in some order or another) ?

I'm not clear on how that distinguishes them from progressives democrats, and third parties.

>Apparently this rouge editor has made 60K edits.

How does that compare to foundation and mascara editors?

Probably *way* behind eyeshadow editors, but ahead of lipstick editors.

But I'm just guessing.

You have to go back further than that, to the British Mandate after the fall of the Ottoman empire. The British government of that era has a lot to answer for.

Probably more correct to say Orbanization, because Trump is following Orban's blueprint for democracy to dictatorship to a tee. And he's managed to do in three months what took Orban many years. In the United States of America no less.