alt Hacker NewsBy that logic, operating system developers struggle to understand that putting two files with the same name into the same folder(1) is very much possible in the physical world.
(1) or referencing them from the same directory, which was the earlier metaphor.
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LtWorf • yesterday at 6:00 PM
You cannot name 2 of your children the same names.
Hardly. That would be analogous to two people having the same name _and_ the same spacetime coordinates; they would indeed be the same person.