PrettyFlyForAFatGuy

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  • Lead of a small team of scripters here. The “Why. Not What” is defo a good way of encouraging cleaner code.

    Had to request changes recently on a PR like this, big function with comments telling me what it was doing. When they resubmitted for review they had broken it down into smaller functions with good variable/function naming. following what was going on was much easier
















  • You need some sort of reference point to translate a language. The rosetta stone allowed for linguists to get their foot in the door for ancient egyptian because the same text was written three times in ancient greek (which they already knew), ancient egyption and another one i cant remember.

    from there they were able to use what they knew to expand their understanding outwards.

    you’re better just writing in your first language and encrypting using strong encryption.

    keep in mind quantum computing is coming so you will need to use encryption designed to withstand that.

    You’ll also want to keep in mind that when you delete a file on a computer it usually isn’t destroyed, it’s just sort of de-referenced and maked as “available space” so you’ll need to ensure that your medium for writing isn’t writing unencrypted to disk at any point or at least is overwriting those sectors after use otherwise what you write could be recoverable without having to decrypt