Alex Willmer moreati

An Aesthetic Comparison of Human-Readable
Hashing Functions

The following compares the output of several creative hash functions designed for human readability.

sha1's are merely used as arbitrary, longer, distributed input values.

input	1 word output	2 word output	3 word output

Create 3 top-level directories. Create a file and a directory in each.

$ mkdir r rx x
$ touch {r,rx,x}/file
$ mkdir {r,rx,x}/dir

	#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook
	---
	- name: Test behaviour of version test
	hosts: localhost
	gather_facts: false
	tasks:
	- name: Expected results, comparing a.b.c <-> x.y.z, or a.b <-> x.y
	debug:
	msg:
	- '"1.0" is version("1.0", "==") -> {{ "1.0" is version("1.0", "==") }}'

	- hosts: localhost
	gather_facts: false
	vars:
	regex: ^(\w{3}\s+\d+\s\d+:\d+:\d+)\s?:\s?(\w+)\s+:.(?:\r?\n(?!.COMMAND).)\r?\n.?COMMAND=(.(?:\r?\n(?!\w{3}\s+\d+\s\d+).))
	tasks:
	- name: slurp file
	slurp:
	src: sudo.log
	register: slurped

	from libc.string cimport memcpy

	cpdef bytes noswap():
	cdef double pi = 3.14159
	cdef unsigned char buf[8]
	memcpy(&buf, &pi, 8)
	return buf[:8]

	cpdef bytes swap():
	cdef double pi = 3.14159

	from cStringIO import StringIO
	import sys

	import ruamel.ordereddict
	import ruamel.yaml


	s = '''\
	foo:
	bar: baz

	import re
	import tokenize

	import astroid

	from pylint.checkers import BaseChecker, BaseTokenChecker
	from pylint.interfaces import IAstroidChecker, ITokenChecker


	FORMAT_PATT = re.compile(r'\$\{.*?}')

	<!doctype html>

	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8"/>
	<title>Testy test</title>
	</head>

	<body style="background: black;">
	<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="display: none;">