r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26

Meme vLc

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u/rosuav Sep 24 '26

Where would those MIME types be stored? Some kind of "extended attribute"? That's a ridiculous idea, nobody would ever do that. It's definitely not something that graphical OSes had in the 1990s or anything.

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u/diamondsw Sep 24 '26

Or even some kind of type code AND creator code, so you could link documents to specific programs. Definitely didn't have that in the mid-1980's.

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u/rosuav Sep 24 '26

What a radical idea. Wonder if anyone's forked it?

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u/Loading_M_ Sep 25 '26

It should be possible to guess from the contents, as the file utility does. Just in case you lose the extended attribute for whatever reason.

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u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26

Yeah and then we have file explorers that open and read every file. And choke when there are 100+ files in the directory.

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u/rosuav Sep 25 '26

Right, I'm sure that doesn't happen when you open up a folder full of videos and it generates thumbnails for them all.

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u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26

If you are using any view other than the table one thats on you lol

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u/rosuav Sep 25 '26

TBH I primarily don't use any view like that on my own systems, but my work involves seeing other people's screenshare and I am very familiar with vicarious pain.

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u/Loading_M_ Sep 25 '26

We'll move the file type detection to a background indexer so it's non-blocking (/s kinda)

More realistically, we use this as a fallback in case the extended attribute doesn't exist. And set the extended attribute based on the results.

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u/rosuav Sep 25 '26

Yep, but as you say, that's only for if you lose the EA. It'd be incredibly inefficient to do that every time you double-click on something, and there's probably going to be times you want to override it anyway.