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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

…or your file manager is smart enough to do numeric sorting

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    you should never make the assumption that software you use is smart, or even not complete garbage

    …and file managers aren’t the only things that display lists of files. low-level tooling should not be “smart” beyond the most basic sorting without specifically being told first

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Then there's the problem with "smart" sorting like Windows Explorer does: in a folder with hex based naming, such as the gpo policy folders for an AD domain, it blends alphabetic and numeric in weird ways where it treats number strings as whole numbers in the middle, where a123e would show up after a19bc, as an example, even though it should sort first

    (Sorry, tangent)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    ...And you assume you will only ever look at those files with that file manager forever...

    There is no downside to writing the leading zeroes pretty much anywhere except when aesthetics matter (event flyers, etc)

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