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What is he studying? I feel like a lot of older people in non technical fields, even if they work with files, could not reason through exactly how to define a f
by asveikau 3y ago
What is he studying? I feel like a lot of older people in non technical fields, even if they work with files, could not reason through exactly how to define a file.
- loughnane 3y agoWent to a trade high school, the usual classes but a focus on carpentry.
- walteweiss 3y agoEverything is a file!
- arcanemachiner 3y agoYou're a file.
- walteweiss 3y agoI’m a file. You’re a file. Everything is a file!
- adolph 3y agoWhat is your definition of a file? Does it include bundles of files? What metadata does it include? Can it exist in more than one place? When a file is opened, is the file what is in processor and cache/RAM or what gets serialized to some persistent media? Metaphorically, is a file a sheet of paper or folded tan cardstock that holds many sheets of paper? Is a file unitary or can it contain other files? Is a directory a file? Is a link? Is a device a file?
- asveikau 3y agoI mean, a file is an abstraction of several of the choices you are asking about in these questions, and different people will answer different things. ps. I've worked on filesystem drivers...
- adolph 3y agoOk, can you "reason through exactly how to define a file?" Is defining something as an "abstraction" the same as saying you can't provide a definition? Since you are a driver worker, do you consider something a file before it is written to a filesystem?
- asveikau 3y agoI read you as needlessly combative here, getting far from the points made. Commenter said they told a kid that websites are just a collection of files, kid replied "what's a file?", and I chimed in that that's not so strange, because even people who work with them might have a hard time nailing down a definition. None of this is incompatible with your soap box, but you're writing as if we disagree.