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eqmvii
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TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using...
Yep! It’s all just text files. Lots of acronyms in top of lots of ways to generate, send, and read structured text files.
One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.
inigyou
26 days ago
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There are also many binary files. Most databases are binary files which are wide trees of some kind (e.g. B-trees, B+trees)
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One day I realized even databases were just text files and I had to sit down.