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You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

Funny “Haha” or funny “Uh Oh”?

A .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?

Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.

So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?

That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

It may be possible…

It may not be necessary…

What, no avocado toast?

So… it’s an order, then?

Bill Nyehilism is for me.

Yes, unless it’s an element of a crime like fraud or theft.

I’m painting a cave wall right now.

It’s George Lucas and Steven Spielberg violating Indiana Jones.

Yeah, I worked in a few affordable housing sites and the OP looks like something the on-site social workers cooked up.

A&W

A Nintendo64 with several game cartridges. It’s a little flaky, but it still works for the most part.

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

You shouldn’t help old ladies cross the street anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESczegwk0g

The trick is to bounce both legs but in opposite directions. When one is going up the other is going down, cancelling each other out.

Californian. No.

It wouldn’t solve any problems that can’t be solved by other means, and it would create new problems that we haven’t had to worry about before. It’d be a net loss for everyone involved.

That detail is conspicuously absent from the announcement itself.