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I don’t know how NTFS does it, but on FAT filesystems the directory table contains the filename along with all the other file metadata (access rights, creation date, size, etc). Only the list of sectors containing the actual data is separate. That means that you can’t have two filenames for the same file on FAT filesystems.

If you want to learn more about this, the data structure UNIX filesystems use, and FAT filesystems lack is called inode.

Yes. On Linux/Unix you don’t delete the file, you just delete it’s name, which is merely a link to the actual file. That’s also the reason why the syscalls name is actually unlink and not delete. As soon as there’s nothing pointing to a file anymore, it is deleted.

As long as a process holds a file handle, there’s still a reference to said file, so it won’t be deleted. That saved me once, when I accidentally deleted a file I wanted to keep: As there still was some process keeping it alive, I could just go to /proc/[process id]/fd/[file descriptor id] and copy it to a safe location.

Why can „Bank“ be a 🏦 or a 🛋️? It’s a common feature of many languages that words can have multiple meanings. It’s called Teekesselchen in German, which is funny because Teekesselchen is a Teekesselchen itself: It can either mean „small tea kettle“ or „word with more than one meaning“.

But more importantly, why is there no emoticon for bench? I had to use a couch instead.

Good luck bringing back a treasure to the rightful owner, when the rightful owner has been killed along with his family. Also, usually the thieves would not write “stolen from person X in Y” on their gold bars.

And let’s not forget that a non-negligible part of the pirates were in fact former slaves that either fled on their own or have been freed directly by other pirates. So they basically fought their previous “owners”.

They’re not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates “stole” didn’t belong to their “victims” anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn’t stealing imho.

Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to “steal” their own goods back.

Disney on the other hand…

Hey, you can’t end a 40+ year war just like that. Do you want all those warriors to loose their occupation?

Much simpler: They looked into his passport to see that he’s a man and then they looked into his pants…

Why not use

ꟻbq.משתמשים/אדם/מסמכים/מחקר/מאמר/:ↄ

instead? If you want to write from right to left, you should go all the way.

With the right shell, you can just press tab multiple times to cycle through the possible completions.

A lot of car manufacturer did also produce airplanes in the pre-jet era: BMW, Mercedes, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Piaggio, Saab, and probably more. Some of them later concentrated on one thing or split into two companies.

They were the ones who knew how to build engines, chassis and so on. If you think about it, a 1920s car is not that much different than a 1920s plane. Just wire the motor to a propeller and the steering wheel to the flaps instead of the wheels, weld a pair of wings to the sides and call it a day.

If Algol68 is from 1968, shouldn’t Modula-2 be from 1898?

Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a USB drive if you’re unable to plug it in?

This mission is too important, for me to allow you to jeopardise it.

Yeah, it’s simple: In Command mode you press :!google-chrome https://openstreetmap.org/ <Return>.

Wait until you hear about Doramad

These are, in fact, called ‘lust lanes’.

Moin, Plattdüütsch is nich dat sülbige as Düütsch.

They are different languages even though they share some vocabulary due to their historical and geographical proximity. But until a few years ago it was usual for kids in rural Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony to grow up with Plattdüütsch as their mother tounge and only learn (High) German in school. I’m not sure if this is still the case as the number of monolingual Low German speakers has declined due to higher mobility in society and information.

Just because it’s spoken in Germany it’s not the same as German. You could get the same weird diagram by grouping French and English together as “Canadian”.