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This is one of the most badass names for a project I have seen in a while!

It's inaccurate though. The whole point of horcruxes in the book is that Voldemort can always resurrect himself if one of them remains. This tool is the opposite: you need multiple parts to reconstruct the file.

Yeah but that's just copy paste. This is more fun.

Horcrux would be a cool name for a database backup service

No because a Horcrux is a nasty lossy copy that involves somebody's death to be made.

Any wholesome leader who is also a HP fan would not appreciate the name tbh.

They already acknowledged this in the faq fwiw.

They acknowledged it but dismissed it with an incorrect statement, and then declared victory with "checkmate HP fans" despite actually being wrong.

Cool. Not being privy to Harry Potter inside baseball I could not tell from your original comment whether you had seen that FAQ entry.

I’m not an extreme Harry Potter fan or anything. It just bothers me when people ride the coattails of some popular term/phrase but then get it wrong. Another one is “isomorphic” as in “isomorphic JavaScript” which abuses the term from mathematics to mean something completely unrelated.

I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definition was likely to cause confusion.

I think they mean idempotent

Whoops, you're right, I brain farted the wrong word.

To be clear, though, they were still wrong. `f(x)=2x` has the property they described of consistently giving the same input for a given input (if you pass in 1, it will always output 2), but it is not idempotent because f(f(x)) does not, in general, equal f(x).

ok I totally get this.

Microsoft co-opted “DNS” as “Digital Nervous System” to try to exploit business decision makers’ dim acquaintance with the term. They had a pattern of doing this with other internet acronyms back in the day. Annoying af.

He could not resurrect himself. He needed someone in not-ghost form, to collect some special items and perform a magical ritual. Some of the special items were also one-time use iirc.

Perhaps, this tool needs to additionally encrypt some of the pieces with the dna of one's father or whatever.

The point is, this is a very inappropriate project name, if it is to be a reference to the storyline.

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