• happydoors@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I agree. I heard recently a lot of kids under 20 grew up in an iPhone, iPad, and chrome world and never learned “folder” or directory concepts so it’s a tough transition in the work world. Paper organizers are not nearly as ubiquitous as they once were.

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        9 months ago

        Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you’ll have everything in 1 spot

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          9 months ago

          Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don’t have to be contiguous.

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            9 months ago

            Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!

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              9 months ago

              Yeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?