This. Parents bought LG OLED TV. It is absolutely lovely, has super nice picture. (not an ad!:D) I insisted they never connect it to network. Probably it would be usable on network cut off from internet, but there is high probability of some mistake. I wasnt sure what happens if it got out for just a tiny bit so decision was clear. We've seen zero ads there (except the standard-ads-iterrupted-by-actual-programming).
Files in nested folders are primarily an abstraction for humans. They are a maximally flexible and customizable system. This has substantial costs (especially in environments with parallel work). As such, no one really has millions of pieces of fully separate, unstructured, hierarchical data. Once you have that much data, there is almost always additional structure that would be better represented in something like a database where you can actually express the invariants that you have.
Filesystem is essentially a "simple" database. If it is not performing, then it is not a good db. It shouldn't really matter how many files you have if metadata, and indexing of that metadata is done properly (i.e. like in good db). It also has additional benefits to DB that usually do not even exist there as they aren't practical at all (like random access).
The problem with file systems is that even if it's a competently implemented DB, it's a DB where you cant (easily) change the schema, put type restrictions on the columns, or customize the indexing. File systems are great, but if you have a lot of data, using the right tool for the job is a lot better.
Aren’t block sizes (and minimum file size) normally around 4kB? So a max number of 1-byte files would take up around 16 TB, without adding any overhead. Those drives are available these days
Piles of small files are unpleasant to deal with. Going over millions of files even without touching the contents gets annoying. Trying to back up or move big directories gets worse. If you have a hard drive involved it really gets bad, it can probably seek 10 million times in an entire day.
Really? Is this some kind of perverted joke?
Electron based thing wants to brag about less being safer?
Get rid of the browser, then we can talk about less.
People get paid to create holes for useful purposes all day everyday. It is creative in a very literal sense. Precision hole digging is - no joke - a multibillion dollar industry.
Unless you are out in nature you are almost certainly sitting or standing on top of a dirt that was paid to be dug.
If you mean hole digging isn’t creative in the figurative sense. Also wrong. People will pay thousands of dollars to travel and see holes dug in the ground. The Nazca lines is but one example of holes dug in the ground creatively that people regard as art.
My 8 & 6 year old have spent 2 weeks digging a hole out in our little forest. It has been one of the most bonding & therapeutic things in them I’ve witnessed. They’ve developed stories, they go out and dig after school or when they are upset, etc.
Give a boy a shovel, step back & witness unbridled creativity.
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