Allah@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAre hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareAre hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have?Allah@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredotslashme@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoI imagined my whole OS disk as a mongodb document after reading that comment. Pretty sure my brain puked somehow.
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoEgalitarian filesystem, all the files are on the desktop
minus-squareporcoesphino@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoMuch of mathematics, science and computing uses layers of abstractions because they have high utility and can usually be made to have relatively low cost.
minus-squareLimerance@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoA database like file system could work fine without hierarchy.
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I imagined my whole OS disk as a mongodb document after reading that comment. Pretty sure my brain puked somehow.
Egalitarian filesystem, all the files are on the desktop
Much of mathematics, science and computing uses layers of abstractions because they have high utility and can usually be made to have relatively low cost.
A database like file system could work fine without hierarchy.