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No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth. I use a magic string somewhere, which has control codes, three ASCII digits for vers

No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth. I use a magic string somewhere, which has control codes, three ASCII digits for versioning, and an RTL UTF-8 character, and is exactly eight bytes wide. Anything munges my file, I'll know. Meanwhile I can just mask it.

IshKebab 4y ago
That's not really what a shibboleth is...
- samatman 4y ago
  Obviously we're from different tribes because clearly you're wrong, and I'm compelled to cut your throat and throw you in the Jordan river. I think. Been awhile since I've reviewed the source material.
- nano9 4y ago
  It's a shibboleth for knowing who the author is, you could say.
ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth. I would not call it a shibboleth, but vague, generic terms are known to be for most purposes unsearchable, and having a really unique string identifier for your thing could make it more valuable. It reminds me of this other HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241020