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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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tl;dr: maybe if our abstraction is no longer relevant we need a new abstraction
Didn't watch whole thing. Saving to watch later but when it comes to this type of thing, I always wonder where to draw the line between "you should know" and "irrelevant to most people". I like unix and plan9 so knowing how the filesystem works matters a lot to me. I also think diskless systems and immutable os are cool and a lot of people just use computers for browsing the web.
if most of the files you care about are photos, do you need to care how the fs works? what about the difference between ext4, fat32, gefs? to me both are pretty important but i don't expect most to care
EDIT: I appreciate this all being articulated. i may have phrased too imprecisely in that I was not trying to argue that this necessarily shouldn't be taught as much as much as wanting a discussion of where the line is between something people need to know and something i care about.
Yes. This should be required knowledge in our age. Nobody should graduate from school without a fundamental understanding of how computers work. You don't need to know the technical differences between ext4 and NTFS, just that different filesystems exist. You should know what an operating system is. If we don't teach these things, people will perceive computers as magic. They will resign themselves to helplessness.
My point is the to my use case, the implementation details matter too. either way, the FS is an abstraction and doesn't need to exist in the way that it does. I just think it's funny where people draw the line at X abstraction but not Y. Where is the line and how much should people understand?
While it is true the filesystem itself is an abstraction, it is a common abstraction used by every contemporary operating system for the past 40+ years, including the ones which hide this aspect from the end-user, excepting highly resource-constrained embedded systems. You could define an operating system as something that does filesystems and be like almost correct. If alternative architectures (like a global key-value store with namespaces, for instance) were in common use, then they would be worth mentioning in a practical "how computers work" course rather than courses for people specializing in computer science.
Great points!