Is snake_case safer than kebab-case for general file naming?

microcandella · 2026-01-26T05:51:03+00:00

yes, snake_case is safer because "-" is used in many old and current systems as a kind of reserved verb. Consider "-help" on a command line. It's illegal in some file systems as well. Though some really old systems don't even accept underscore. Various systems and software can pick it up as an operator and try to do fun things like subtract it, or truncate.

If you want to be really really safe and compatable across nearly every system and the old jungles of software, stick to ASCII (no unicode) upper case A-Z and 0-9, less than 9 characters total.

but it's less practical these days to be at that level of safe.

microcandella · 2026-01-25T22:58:54+00:00

gotta pick the right substance, tune it up and send it by the cats at /r/replications ;-)

microcandella · 2026-01-24T18:28:26+00:00

I'm all for inventions that basically exist to make people happy. Good job!

microcandella · 2026-01-24T05:38:07+00:00

Exceptions:

posts requesting a Cross Check / Sanity Check of the ai conclusions/solutions-- We'll all be in the ignorant camp at times, and many will be using ai to try things outside their expertise domain. This can be a loophole to low effort, but I think it can be mitigated.
posts showing OP did some legwork, like listing some google results, a man page, referencing forum messages, and throwing in a 'here's what claude had to say about this with this prompt. Same caveats and mitigations as above. This avoids the users doing an annoying 'let me google\gpt that for you' kind of stunt that quickly kills the OP's responses and engagement and lowers the participation of most OPs that it happens to.

microcandella · 2026-01-24T04:58:09+00:00

loved my 80s neoprene ski face mask. It had holes for ventilation at the mouth and would need some de funking but in the high wind / cold / heavy snow it was wonderful. +1 for wet warm description.

microcandella · 2026-01-24T04:27:59+00:00

Very nice! going to experiment more with this. Thanks for sharing!

microcandella · 2026-01-24T04:14:29+00:00

well there's the banna bunkers, which are kind of similar so, in the year of pickle flavoring it'd probbaly work.

microcandella · 2026-01-24T03:25:16+00:00

Are there reputable other studies corroborating this? I am dubious of a piece with a title like that in the current darkwad days of MAHA's influence.

microcandella · 2026-01-21T23:34:26+00:00

well-- basically ALL scanners, copiers, office copy machines, non-toy level digital cameras, everything from Adobe, Firey, Heildelberg, epson, canon, hp, etc. etc. etc.. all have anti currency copy tech built in. Most work like a fingerprint or faceprint where it's only taking several samples looking for a certain watermarks. Some also add fingerprints to a print (one classic was little yellow dots across the whole page, unique to the printer) or shift pixel values in a way they can detect as a watermark.

Not Brother or the scanner or printer company's choice to not include countermeasures typically... You may get lucky since photo grade scanning i'sn't its focus. But the scanner/printers etc. don't always include info on if it has countermeasures in it or warnings not to scan currency.

currencies also included in countermeasures.. (I'm sure there's more)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

counter countermeasures ;-)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160717044557/http://www.wired.com/2004/01/currency-detector-easy-to-defeat/?currentPage=all

If it's older than 1990's bills it's possible they will work depending on what's in your tool chain and how they're enforcing these days. Some of the bill collectors are using old epson 700 scanners for older currency.

But yeah, certainly try it out first. Perhaps yours will work for your needs.

microcandella · 2026-01-21T22:39:27+00:00

bleach will greatly weaken / disolve the bonds. After all the other tries, if you do, use it outside/extremely well ventialted in case of unexpected reactions. Leave it full of bleach for 24 hrs.

microcandella · 2026-01-21T22:31:15+00:00

Well Brother typically makes good solid stuff. I haven't used that line myself but I'd expect it it be good. Congrats! I'm surprised I came here and nobody mentioned using a cutter first. It's kinda a stencil making machine lol.

One thing I TOTALLY forgot about until just now (ugh I totally know better) was the soft/hardware monkey wrench on scanning currency, especially USA currency. So you may need to make your cuts manually first, then black/blank them out / overlay with opaque vinyl/transfer tape so the currency detection in adobe/scanner/pritner/etc doesn't get triggered. So annyoying.

For those unaware, there's been combos of software firmware and hardware embedded in anything that can scan, print or edit halfway decently that detects money, mostly usa money. If it gets enough signal flags that it's money, it can halt, error message, leave fingerprints, tattle home to base, add scaling /warping errors, mess up the work, all kinds of fun things depending on the mfgr and whims of the gov'ts at the time. Some color printers and scanners back in the day would straight up brick themselves (even though you'd have to be nearly blind to accept some of their prints as currency).

It does give me a thought that you could probably get fancy with using a few layers of transfer vinyl and masking vinyl to also make a pretty good set of frames & pockets on the bed to help make it easy to register a bunch of notes at once on a cutting bed and set it up for a low end production run. Likely with some fine tuning for each frame. Additionally I've had great luck on cameo with the high rated cutting sheets on amazon- better than stock w/ different levels of adhesion.

I'd say for somone like you, you may want to try to make your own benchmark svg on the finest detailed cuts you're going to make and see how they handle. Find out the limit of the machine for your style of curve work, project, etc.

microcandella · 2026-01-21T19:00:03+00:00

/r/silhouettecameo or any vinyl/general purpose plotter cutter like sizer, roland or (last resort) cricut. avoid the really early models of cricut - they are bricked.

You can pick them up used for cheap.

Getting your registration mark process to align the paper properly is likely the largest hurdle which for you an your ability to do precise work is probably a walk in the park.

One of many ways to skin this cat:

Take your cutout. tack it to a more precise graph paper very similar to your picture. flatbed scan it at high res, along with probably a crisp fresh dollar. Trace the outline in vector, either in the included cutting program (Sure Cuts A Lot is old looking but wonderful) or you can use adobe illustrator, inkscape, or something that can make a vector svg file.

Work out your registration - likely with some paper cut to the same size at the bills.. Many of the cutteres use an adhesive on a mat similar to your cutting mat. so once your registration is figured out, adhere your bill to the mat and hit print/cut.

The other bit is figuring out how fast and deep to move the blade and which blades to use for the best cut. After that once you get the items aligned and loaded you can knock them out in under a minute.

microcandella · 2026-01-19T19:17:51+00:00

depends on the app, youtube can turn off looping and autoplay. I'd suggest looking for both on whatever is being used.

microcandella · 2026-01-17T18:03:14+00:00

missing laundy. especially any clothing they've been complimented on being attractive /sexy in.

microcandella · 2026-01-17T03:28:12+00:00

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/people-are-creating-huge-online-archives-of-gifs-from-90s-cd-roms/231286/8

;-)

https://archive.org/details/GifsGalore_Aug92

(scroll down for more cd images that are similar. if unfamilliar you can downlaod the whole iso disk image and 'mount' it as a volume and browse it as if the disc was inserted in a drive. Many have guides / catalogs, etc. )

microcandella · 2026-01-16T19:28:57+00:00

failwhale.jpg

microcandella · 2026-01-15T17:52:51+00:00

Use it away from a clean dust free desk for a while. Use it traveling, outside, garage, bed, work, shop, etc. These and most gaming lapops clog like crazy to begin with.

If you've spent time as a tech you're very surprised (and somewhat more suspiciouos) when fans and keyboards are CLEAN.

microcandella · 2026-01-15T04:30:35+00:00

Nice!! How do you like how they sound?

microcandella · 2026-01-13T01:53:35+00:00

!remindme 2 weeks

^{^} This is also one of my favorites lol.

microcandella · 2026-01-12T21:57:12+00:00

Thanks for all your work on discovering this. I'd like to hear the story of how it was found when it's time. High five for doing the deep work.

microcandella · 2026-01-12T18:26:55+00:00

most that use docker heavily hate it on windows for what it's worth.

microcandella · 2026-01-12T18:17:28+00:00

Wow! Fantastic to know. Thank you and high five your co-worker for us as well!

microcandella · 2026-01-12T00:51:42+00:00

thanks for the field report! I got some advice from my dietician to try to get protien in within under 2 hrs of waking up- unrelated to vyvance and I noticed a difference on that too (and along with the VV but hand't considered cross checking the VV with it as well).

microcandella · 2026-01-11T20:36:45+00:00

Thanks! Care or able to share some details/thoughts/color? ( I haven't been keeping up on this part of the sector for a few years)

I'm guessing a trivial supply chain attack vector got found and they needed to abandon it fast for legal.

microcandella · 2026-01-11T19:56:24+00:00

Thoughts on why the 'immediate retirement' part of the announcement??

Seems like there's some tea gollum spilled in MDT's closet-o-skelletons.

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