It makes more sense when you realize that it’s not that everything is files it’s that everything can be treated as a file. There are other APIs to interact with things, but everything can be interacted with as if it was a file. It doesn’t seem as bonkers like this.
Yeah, it sort of depends on the definition of the word file. “File” in the sense that it can be interacted with like a file versus “file” in the sense that it’s data on a disk. But then, if you’re really thinking about it, data on a disk isn’t a file, it’s data, and we can just interact with it like a file.
Exactly. A file is really just a way to understand a collection of bits. So saying everything is files is like saying everything in computers can be described as sets of bits, which is not a terrible heuristic.
It makes more sense when you realize that it’s not that everything is files it’s that everything can be treated as a file. There are other APIs to interact with things, but everything can be interacted with as if it was a file. It doesn’t seem as bonkers like this.
Everything is computer.
Files don’t actually exist once you dig down
Bro stop digging I need those files to keep existing
Yeah, it sort of depends on the definition of the word file. “File” in the sense that it can be interacted with like a file versus “file” in the sense that it’s data on a disk. But then, if you’re really thinking about it, data on a disk isn’t a file, it’s data, and we can just interact with it like a file.
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Exactly. A file is really just a way to understand a collection of bits. So saying everything is files is like saying everything in computers can be described as sets of bits, which is not a terrible heuristic.
It’s like saying everything is a wave IRL.
Especially the particles