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Take all the Roman alphabet apart from the vowels - 21 characters and length 6 gives you 100 million possibilities which is plenty for most applications. You c
by dmurray 2y ago
Take all the Roman alphabet apart from the vowels - 21 characters and length 6 gives you 100 million possibilities which is plenty for most applications.
You can still get vaguely offensive sequences like FKNNGR or BLKCNT, but at some point you have to put this down not to your software being offensive or hateful but to humans finding patterns in randomness.
- thwarted 2y agoUse Crockford encoding to reduce this. It has readability and dictation considerations too which makes it ideal for things humans will interface with.
- solidsnack9000 2y agoRemoving Y turns out to be important, as well...
- alex_duf 2y agoIt's still bothering me that Y is a vowel in french but not in English. Can we all agree on something for once?