The thing is, you can’t really engineer against anti-social behavior. For every better made apartment you will find that there is an even bigger anti-social idiot who still manages to make life hell for their neighbors.

I’m pretty blessed with my mostly boomer neighbors (🤞) who don’t make a peep after 10PM, but my girlfriend has had some shitty neighbors even though her apartment is pretty well made. Sound insulation between apartments is no match for cigarette and marijuana smoke wafting in from the balcony below any time you want to open the window to air out, or if, heavens forbid, you want to sleep with the window open in the summer, nor does it help much if they are partying and speaking loudly on their balcony until 4AM on weekdays. And then I’m not even getting into how they’re treating shared spaces.

The proximity makes everything so much worse than it would be with a house, at some point only adding distance helps.

https://imgur.com/UJtFNp7

A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, and things slowly returned to normal, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.

All true, yet it has nothing to do with what we are discussing, so why are you muddying the water with it?

my body, my choice

It’s a bit more complicated than that with transplants. Should people for example be able to sell their kidney to the highest bidder? That’s also “my body, my choice”. And should doctors be forced to participate in such a scheme?

A transplant system should consider fairness, equality and possible abuse. Obviously I think it should be possible to donate to a loved one, but we should also be careful not to create a system where the rich get priority, because they can pay more, and where poor people could be financially pressured to give up their bodily integrity by having to sell an organ.

We’re explicitly talking about a situation where the donor is suitable. So I don’t know what kind of information you’re trying to add here.

The past year or two I’ve found several stores where they are abandoning it. I presume because people carrying cash, especially coins, is becoming rarer and they don’t want to inconvenience their customers?

Strangely enough, carts still get returned even at these stores.

Even if her partner could donate his own liver, it should still go to a better recipient

That’s nonsense, because the partner would not donate his liver if it went to someone else.

Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.

It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm

I’m limited by the rate at which I can think of bullshit.

yet all I needed is a “this side up” symbol …

kill -9 1

Leave the poor kernel out of it, it has nothing to do with this. It’s Lennart, not Linus.

No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs

Like a time traveller who accidentally steps on a butterfly and erases the whole future that he came from

I don’t think it’s intended as a “solution”, it just lets the clobbering that is caused by the case insensitiveness happen.

So git just goes:

• checkout content of README.md to README.md (OS creates README.md)
• checkout content of README.MD to README.MD (OS overwrites README.md)

If you add a third or fourth file … it would just continue, and file gets checked out first gets the filename and whichever file gets checked out last, gets the content.

Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you

The joy of living in a central, densely populated area of Europe … I’ve been able to see almost all niche bands that I’m into live.

The problem with that is that they are usually in tiny venues, often with no seating (some of us have issues with standing for a few hours straight), and absolutely terrible acoustics.

Not true at all where I live, except for the seating part sometimes. There are many small to midsized venues with ticket prices well below €50, and they all have way better accoustics than the large concert halls, and it’s a much more personal experience than in a >10,000 people venue because you can be way up close with the artists.

For example, these are all venues I’ve visited in recent years, I rarely paid more than €30 for a ticket:

• https://www.abconcerts.be (has seating)
• https://www.trixonline.be (no seating)
• https://www.deroma.be (has seating)
• https://www.hetdepot.be (has seating)
• https://botanique.be (no seating)
• https://www.effenaar.nl (no seating)
• https://www.013.nl (no seating)
• https://www.viernulvier.gent (no seating)
• https://www.doornroosje.nl (no seating)
• https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/ (has seating)

It tells you there’s a name clash, and then it clones it anyway and you end up with the contents of README.MD in README.md as an unstaged change.

That’s some suckless level cope

Thanks, really constructive way of arguing your point…

Who really cares about some programming purity aspect?

People who create operating systems and file systems, or programs that interface with those should, because behind every computing aspect is still a physical reality of how that data is structured and stored.

What’s correct is the way that creates the least friction for the end users

Treating different characters as different characters is objectively the most correct and predictable way. Case has meaning, both in natural language as well as in almost anything computer related, so users should be allowed to express case canonically in filenames as well. If you were never exposed to a case insensitive filesystem first, you would find case sensitive the most natural way. Give end users some credit, it’s really not rocket science to understand that f and F are not the same, most people handle this “mindblowing” concept just fine.

Also the reason Microsoft made NTFS case insensitive by default was not because of “user friction” but because of backwards compatibility with MSDOS FAT16 all upper case 8.3 file names. However, when they created a new file system for the cloud, Azure Blob Storage, guess what: they made it case sensitive.