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Yeah these hierarchies are something that really slow me down. Was it arch/aarch64/dts? Arrgh no, arch/aarch64/boot/dts? No, actually arch/arm64/boot/dts..
by foxfluff 5y ago
Yeah these hierarchies are something that really slow me down. Was it arch/aarch64/dts? Arrgh no, arch/aarch64/boot/dts? No, actually arch/arm64/boot/dts..
Similarly, I couldn't decide on a hierarchy for my apartment. What's above living room? If root is your entire house, does that mean you can skip into any room without going through another? I can't go to the bedroom at the other end of my apartment without going through corridor..ish thing and the living room. I can't place room above the other because none contain the other. So I guess root is the whole house then. What does cd .. in my bedroom do? Do I get out of the apartment, so that I can enter another room? That's just weird. But ok, I'll take it: I can magically teleport out of my room and "into the apartment" and just warp into another room. Convenient, could we also flatten the bookshelf and bottom shelf into my apartment so that I can warp straight to them without first thinking about "livingroom"? Hierarchy begone :)
And still there is no spatial relationship between items under livingroom. It's unorganized chaos. I have more than one bookshelf.. I can refer to the bookshelf on the left or bookshelf on the right but in a folder? It gets interesting when you try to draw the line between living room and kitchen since they're kinda one and the same but not really. They're spatially separated but it's hard to say where one ends and the other begins.
On a map, where I can see continents, countries, cities, all at one glance. What shallow hierarchy there is, you can also see right through it; it's merely a guideline, not an obligation. You can see through multiple layers of hierarchy and your vision is not restricted to one branch. I can slide from Finland to Sweden near Tornio without having to first back up in some artificial hierarchy. I could do that even if Finland and Sweden were considered to be on different continents for some weird reason.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYou do get into delineation problems when you investigate the conceptual notion of space, as well as overlapping concepts, but I don't really see this as a problem. The world as it is, and the world as we conceptualize it is not the same thing. Our conceptual view of the world does not play by the same rules as the things in themselves. Anyway, given a google maps view of the entire world, completely unstructured, Where's Waldo? You get exactly the same problem you had with arch/aarch64/dts, except now you don't even have a hierarchy to go on. He could be in Tokyo among 13.5 million people, he could be in Siberia, he could be on a boat on the ocean. Heck, he could be in a mine underground. He could be on the International Space Station.