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tooki:
--- Quote from: james_s on October 01, 2021, 07:54:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on October 01, 2021, 11:39:29 am ---The chances of a young person these days having interacted with a filing cabinet are, frankly, vastly smaller than the chances of them having interacted with a computer directory structure!!
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Surely they've interacted with a cardboard box before though, or a plastic storage bin, or a closet, or a chest of drawers, or a backpack. They've used a desk at some point and probably had some pens and pencils or other tools. Heck even my modern iPhone has albums that photos are sorted into, they aren't all just in a big disorganized pile. The concept of nested containers is pretty hard to avoid unless a person is just completely lacking any sort of organizational skills, in which case they're going to struggle in any sort of engineering job.
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iPhone albums are exactly not a good example of nested file storage, since they’re neither nested, nor do they reflect how physical objects exist in only one place at a time. (And the analogy of an album containing prints, while the library holds negatives, is even less helpful to someone who’s never seen photographic film.)
While I don’t disagree that difficulty in understanding nested storage isn’t likely to coincide with a good engineering mind, they are, strictly speaking, orthogonal to each other. Many brilliant engineers fall under the “idiot savant” category of people whose mental abilities have been entirely focused on one specialty to the detriment of everything else.
tooki:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on October 02, 2021, 05:59:57 am ---
--- Quote from: cgroen on September 30, 2021, 04:10:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benta on September 30, 2021, 03:51:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: cgroen on September 30, 2021, 02:36:20 pm ---(I even heard that some of them claims that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes :-DD )
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It is when you ask the hard drive manufacturers.
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I know. They did it (way back) to get larger numbers, once all did it, no benefit. Its just plain stupid (most words needs a context, MASTER and SLAVE as well as KILO means something different depending on the context)
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It all goes back to "computer people" ignoring the very long standing convention that "kilo' means 1000 times whatever the base quantity is, without any need of a "context".
Perhaps they should have invented a different word for "1024 bytes"----- sloppy word usage comes back to "bite us on the bum", even if it is many years later.
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You mean like the kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte, etc? Yeah, those caught on like wildfire! ;)
Circlotron:
The paths to my files all contain forward slashes.
None of that backslash rubbish!
Karel:
--- Quote from: Circlotron on October 02, 2021, 09:22:32 am ---The paths to my files all contain forward slashes.
None of that backslash rubbish!
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Also, all paths on my systems start with a forward slash...
james_s:
--- Quote from: CJay on October 01, 2021, 09:53:07 pm ---No, they weren't usually left on the server, they were deleted when downloaded, storage used to be expensive. You can still have your email client delete them.
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If you use POP3 yes, but I've used IMAP since ~2002 which leaves a copy on the server and downloads a local copy. Storage for emails has never been an issue in as long as I've been using email, back in the day they were simple text, hundreds of emails would fit on a floppy disk. You *can* have your email client delete them from the server, but that isn't typically how it works anymore and I see few reasons for doing so.
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