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Until you try creating one of those videos, and now you need .movs and .mp3s and .pngs and a place to store the render output. Files have a way to go yet.

jen729w 2y ago
Also, replying to myself, have you ever had a job? At a place? Where the primary function isn't coding? Files are everywhere. They are every-thing. Except now, thanks to the disaster that is SharePoint, nobody has a fucking idea where they are any more. Because they've been abstracted away by some genius on the Teams team. So nobody can find what they were just working on. Or they have no idea if the thing they find is the right version. It's a total shambles. A hierarchical file system was boring, but it worked. And it still does. Disclosure: I'm Johnny.Decimal and my business depends on files still being a thing.
- moffkalast 2y ago
  I can't believe I'm seriously reading a discussion around the existence of files, what is this, an SNL sketch? This very site is being served from a file system.
  - HenryBemis 2y ago
    I don't think the comment was about the "file system", more like about the "humans" that dump every file they have to whichever folder they find available, and in the end of the day/week/month/year nobody knows where that file is. And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room). Speaking about SNL sketch.. it reminded me James Cameron's reaction on the Papyrus sketch --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1-k__LF40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1-k__LF40
    - falcor84 2y ago
      >And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room). It will likely eventually be used as training data for an LLM and get an afterlife. Resistance is futile.
yieldcrv 2y ago
You’d be surprised! With many apps on the iPhone you can get by Edit a video? Built in app, or your social media app is already loaded with that and you can save state instead of posting Reverse a video? There’s an app for that which just goes back into your Photos app to let you tried that content and so on people dont need to have that mental model until something breaks
- jen729w 2y ago
  Right, but those videos are amateur and get 200 views on TikTok. You want to produce a video of any quality at all? You're using files.
  - yieldcrv 2y ago
    source quality and editing prowess doesnt matters at all for views and you can edit in high quality on an iphone, higher than what’s necessary to view on an iphone so, two premises that arent substantiated
    - jen729w 2y ago
      Show me a million-view TikToker that does it unedited with no files. They might exist. I don’t watch TT, I’m happy to be wrong. But MKBHD, Justine, Mr. Beast, CGP Grey — you name ‘em, they use files to edit a production.
      - yieldcrv 2y ago
        That’s such a random bar with such random outliers Someone that doesn’t watch tiktok thinks a millions views is a lot there Stick with YouTube your worldview isn’t relevant this decade

jen729w 2y ago

Also, replying to myself, have you ever had a job? At a place? Where the primary function isn't coding? Files are everywhere. They are every-thing. Except now, thanks to the disaster that is SharePoint, nobody has a fucking idea where they are any more. Because they've been abstracted away by some genius on the Teams team. So nobody can find what they were just working on. Or they have no idea if the thing they find is the right version. It's a total shambles. A hierarchical file system was boring, but it worked. And it still does. Disclosure: I'm Johnny.Decimal and my business depends on files still being a thing.

moffkalast 2y ago
I can't believe I'm seriously reading a discussion around the existence of files, what is this, an SNL sketch? This very site is being served from a file system.
- HenryBemis 2y ago
  I don't think the comment was about the "file system", more like about the "humans" that dump every file they have to whichever folder they find available, and in the end of the day/week/month/year nobody knows where that file is. And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room). Speaking about SNL sketch.. it reminded me James Cameron's reaction on the Papyrus sketch --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1-k__LF40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1-k__LF40
  - falcor84 2y ago
    >And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room). It will likely eventually be used as training data for an LLM and get an afterlife. Resistance is futile.

yieldcrv 2y ago

You’d be surprised! With many apps on the iPhone you can get by Edit a video? Built in app, or your social media app is already loaded with that and you can save state instead of posting Reverse a video? There’s an app for that which just goes back into your Photos app to let you tried that content and so on people dont need to have that mental model until something breaks

jen729w 2y ago
Right, but those videos are amateur and get 200 views on TikTok. You want to produce a video of any quality at all? You're using files.
- yieldcrv 2y ago
  source quality and editing prowess doesnt matters at all for views and you can edit in high quality on an iphone, higher than what’s necessary to view on an iphone so, two premises that arent substantiated
  - jen729w 2y ago
    Show me a million-view TikToker that does it unedited with no files. They might exist. I don’t watch TT, I’m happy to be wrong. But MKBHD, Justine, Mr. Beast, CGP Grey — you name ‘em, they use files to edit a production.
    - yieldcrv 2y ago
      That’s such a random bar with such random outliers Someone that doesn’t watch tiktok thinks a millions views is a lot there Stick with YouTube your worldview isn’t relevant this decade