Interesting Links for 05-10-2021
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andrewducker- UK's largest long-term saving/pensions provider plans to cut their investments in carbon.
- (tags:co2 globalwarming investment uk finance pensions )
- All because you 'trigger' Article 16 that does not make it a gun
- (tags:law trade uk europe )
- Farmer Born in 1842 Talks About Life and Change (Filmed in 1929)
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- Drones raining from the sky in China
- (tags:China drones fail )
- Kids who grew up with search engines don't understand folders
- (tags:Technology metaphor ux Education computers viaSupergee )
- France threatens to use energy supply to 'put pressure' on UK to comply with Brexit deal
- (tags:france uk europe trade )
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Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-17 06:35 pm (UTC)Tags are far superior to hierarchy, yes, because hierarchy is inherently single-path. (Ironically, I added tags to the emacs-based mailer I was using at the time in the mid-80s for exactly that reason: I needed to be able to apply more than one tag to a message.) But until operating systems catch up and give us a lightweight and portable way to tag files, directories are what we have. (It does me no good at all if MacOS has "labels" -- not sure if those work like tags -- if those labels won't follow the file to Linux or Windows.)
Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-17 06:41 pm (UTC)So you probably need a unique filename/path as well as a path. Although you could effectively just give each a file a GUID if you really wanted.
Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-17 06:46 pm (UTC)I just had this problem with the blog software I'm setting up: URLs were all of the form "blog/entry-title", but I wanted "blog/2021/entry-title" or even "blog/2021/10/entry-title" because, you know, I might want to talk about Yom Kippur in more than one year and I might reach for the obvious name. Without hierarchy I'd have to add temporal tagging, so that an entry might be tagged "Judaism" and "2021" and the combination of all tags + file name would need to be unique. I think I would find that hard to manage if I couldn't actually use hierarchy for the temporal axis, but maybe I'd get used to it. (I did sort out my URL problem.)
Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-19 09:14 am (UTC)URLs on DW obviously use the unique ID method (albeit one which is a constantly rising number). And we can have tags too!
Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-18 12:16 am (UTC)Yep. But what I'm getting from this topic is that the OSes probably should be paying attention to this, and making hierarchical tags a first-class concept.
Re: directories and search
Date: 2021-10-18 06:14 am (UTC)Tricky to do well (the file system and network commands would need to support it if it wasn't going to be lost as soon as you moved a file), but useful.