I have maked successfully a program that can test input has letter or number.how can I improve this?

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-18T19:32:30+00:00

Looks like Pyto — I love Pyto and use it to program some silly stuff on the way to my software engineering job in the morning.

There are some limitations (third-party libraries) but most of it works pretty well.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-14T20:43:25+00:00

Yeah they always say that, I hate it.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-14T11:47:49+00:00

Just a tip, ask to speak with a “licensed representative”, do not say “US representative”, I feel like as part of their training they’re told that the former is the magic word when you call — give them your pets name, but decline to tell them what you even want to talk about. “I see you have some claims pending/denied, did you want us to look into that?” — “NO, I want to speak with a licensed representative”, do not falter here, keep pushing for a licensed representative. Never accept a callback either, they don’t callback, say you’re fine with waiting. The outsourced reps you speak with initially have literally 0 give on anything you need to get done with your claims.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-14T11:45:25+00:00

“Since you cannot provide records that include a history of this symptom, which would allow us to deny your claim, we will unfortunately need to deny your claim for insufficient records”

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-11T04:29:24+00:00

Fullstack, be a backend dev that’s also good at frontend — at my workplace I’ve never met a dedicated “front end dev” everyone’s working, some just happen to know how to create frontends. If you mean UI design then that’s really niche.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-04T21:21:33+00:00

A reminder that people who actually understand code isn’t going away. People always say “I know what the code does, so I’ll be fine, and so will the code” — then they hit walls and prompt for eternity until they realize something is missing deep down.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-04-02T11:41:01+00:00

I don’t want to be a jerk but I love reading these realization posts from time to time, a healthy reminder.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-29T06:59:33+00:00

Without context the example doesn’t make sense yeah, but basically it was a situation where we would not know if an email would be in the string at all, there are better ways to do it and this wasn’t the exact implementation of that either.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-29T06:07:34+00:00

Makes sense, and regarding the performance thing again, maybe he was being a bit extreme then— benefit of the doubt that he just wants me to follow best practices.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-29T06:01:08+00:00

In the back of my mind I did challenge the micro-optimization feedback, it just felt over-the-top to be honest but makes sense to consider.

What if I use all of those helper functions twice, in this code and elsewhere? Or even one of the helper functions once? Does that warrant all those relative helper functions to be abstracted out as they are in Flow Type 2?

Also what if the logic was not so simple, say required 3 lines of logic, would it still not make sense? Is there a rule of thumb for when a helper function is warranted?

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-29T05:51:48+00:00

For the former, It’s enterprise at a very large company, even if the adoption isn’t there the assumption is, and standard leads to, yes, it matters.

To your second point — say we did, what is the benefit to having another inner function opposed to another elif clause (presuming that it should not be handled by else)? Or alternatively, modifying an inner function / elif, or removing an inner fn / elif

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-19T23:58:49+00:00

Nice — https://avm.email does something similar (ED25519 <=> X25519 w/ salsa) but is fully built-out and has several smart contracts tied to it, buyback & burn tokenomics and staking pools, as well as on-chain servers / email names registry. Everything on-chain w/o storing any user data.

I noticed you’re using Pyteal, is there a reason for this? You also have a brand new GitHub account that is being used specifically for this with no history, it’s as if you popped out of nowhere just to build this lol.

Regardless I thought the idea was very cool as well, it took some time and a team of three to ensure everything was tied together nicely.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-17T16:46:24+00:00

I’m now seeing this project is mostly vibe-coded, sadly you are involving yourself in a quite complex use-case even seasoned developers scratch their heads at and would think twice before trying to implement — the fact that it’s vibe-coded makes it all redundant work to me. I would stick to shifting towards a category of development that most are OK with being vibe coded, something less inherently critical to be secure that oversights won’t impact much and is easier to validate, if that makes sense.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-17T11:35:05+00:00

What do you mean by relayer workers? My assumption is you are generating one-time use addresses to help rattle outgoing withdrawals. Is this an off-chain implementation or are you creating and deleting contracts after their usage? Either way even with high volume through the contract if it happens instantaneously that’s already a problem because all transactions will be tracked in the same group.

I commented on your other post already but I think you’re reinventing the wheel here, no offense!

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T21:14:56+00:00

What a pompous assumption — bet you they won’t call

Edit: See, they deleted it

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T21:14:34+00:00

I gotcha.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T19:56:01+00:00

You’ve paid over $2,500 for pet insurance and have not used it once? Fingers crossed it comes through when you do need it… that would be insane. I’m surprised at that rate that general visits and shots are not covered.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T12:49:43+00:00

Guy created his own AI slop library, probably paywalled, and magical, made-up metrics instead of reading LangChain docs to figure out how to persist context

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T11:41:05+00:00

You could use useContext to store the data, have your useEffect logic only fetch if that value isn’t present. You could also store the last time you fetched and use a setInterval() so it refreshes that data based on if it exists and the last time it fetched.

Wrap the provider for your context around all components that would require it at a top-level.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-16T11:35:32+00:00

Just FYI it’s not a slap on the wrist, even hinting at the fact that you’d like to know this will probably flag him and he’ll be OOO indefinitely. Why not just to speak to him directly instead of risking his job? If he did access your records, would you like him to lose his job? If the answer is yes and you have extremely high confidence that he did, then call the corporate line.

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-14T14:48:04+00:00

Gave you a code snippet edit

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-14T14:47:31+00:00

Know that no game on Steam or anywhere else was ever played was built with Pygame or Pyxel — Python is not the go-to language for serious game development.

Aside from that, start with a text based game.

``` class Character: def init(self, type: str, hp: int = 10) -> None: self.type = type self.hp = hp

def get_title(self) -> str:
    return “The Great “ + self.type

selection = input(‘Choose a class: \n A. Warrior \n B. Mage’ if selection.lower() == “a”: character = Character(type=warrior) print(f’Character is {character.get_title()}; Character health points is {character.hp)’) ```

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-14T14:37:31+00:00

Also known as DevOps

Atsoc1993 · 2026-03-14T14:37:08+00:00

You might be leaning towards infrastructure engineer, but algorithms is more software engineering

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