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Thanks, I think I'll reconsider, although I realised it was usb 2.0 I didn't realise it was 2.4 only

The phrase is "to no avail".  
 
As far as I know, there's no way to route one thing to two outputs within windows alone.
 
Maybe this will help though:
 
 

Craft Computing has a tutorial to VPN everything on your network. I implemented it on a Raspberry Pi B+.
 
 

*Internal shudders*

just keep doing what you're doing, also get involved with other open source projects. releasing a pip package is also good.

The one thing i could say to improve you current projects is get some testing.

*g*
 
Make a website. Don't rely on Github. You'll find that you'll have a lot of other people's projects in your repository list really, really soon.

Good things to do:
- Keep GitHub repo of all code and projects
- Make a pip package

The first one is the best portfolio, but making a pip package is also decent
 

Take a look at 
 
https://github.com/vorticalbox/json-mysql
 
Its wrote in node but if you look in my __tests__ folder you can see I am testing that my functions are doing what I am expecting them to so.
 
It's a way to prove your code is actually doing what it says.
 
Once set up you will very quickly know that your changes havent broken any existing code.

Oh my god I suck at explaining things, that's exactly what I want to do. Let me rephrase the original post

Write unit tests to progtammatically prove your code is working as intended 

What kind of encryption? Encrypted zipfile? Encrypted folders like with BitLocker? A fully encrypted filesystem like ecryptfs? A fully encrypted block device like dmcrypt?

You could have used one line less by not using the horrible "using namespace std;".

Sudoku game generator, 50 lines, simi standard formatting (not compressed?). More commenting this time.
/*----- keyboardCowboy | 8/8/19 | Sudoku Generator ------*/ #include <iostream> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <algorithm> #include <string.h> using namespace std; const int S = 9; //size of arrays int RND(int i){return rand()%i;} //random funk void mask(int G[S][S]){ //skill level mask int arr[S] = {1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0}; //skill = 4, change mask, 1 = blank (skill) for(int i = 0; i < S; i++){ random_shuffle(&arr[0], &arr[S], RND); //mix the mask for(int j = 0; j < S; j++) if(arr[j]) G[i][j] = 0;}}//write the mask void swapRC(int G[S][S], int a, int b, bool f){ //f=0, row | f=1, col int c = 0; //swaps rows&cols for(int i = 0; i < S; i++) f ? (c=G[i][a], G[i][a]=G[i][b], G[i][b]=c) : (c=G[a][i], G[a][i]=G[b][i], G[b][i]=c);} void mix(int G[S][S]){ //mixes rows and cols at random int a = rand()%1024; //max iterations is 1024 (make it bigger?) for(int i = 0; i < a; i++){ bool rc = (bool) rand()%2; //row/col bit int pik = rand()%3; //which row/col swapRC(G, (pik*3), (pik*3)+2, rc);}} //swap that shit! void shiftLeft(int arr[S], int steps){ //shifts array to the left x times for(int i = 0; i < steps; i++){ int c = arr[0]; for(int j = 0; j < S-1; j++) arr[j] = arr[j+1]; arr[S-1] = c;}} void init(int G[S][S]){ //init game board int cnt = 0, arr[S] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; //base condition random_shuffle(&arr[0], &arr[S], RND); //mix base at random do{ for(int i = 0; i < S; i++) G[cnt][i] = arr[i]; (++cnt%3 == 0) ? shiftLeft(arr, 4) : shiftLeft(arr, 3); }while(cnt < S);} void dump(int G[S][S]){ //dumps the board for(int i = 0; i < S; i++){ for(int j = 0; j < S; j++) !G[i][j] ? cout << (char) 250 << " " : cout << G[i][j] << " "; cout << endl; }cout << endl;} int main(){ //main... its main int G[S][S] = {0}, K[S][S] = {0}; //2 game arrays, K=solution srand (time(NULL)); //init rand init(G); mix(G); memcpy(K, G, sizeof(K)); mask(G); //init, mix the 2d array, copy, then set skill mask cout << "Puzzle, Skill:4\n"; dump(G); //display game cout << "Press Return for Solution..."; cin.ignore(); //waits for user intervention cout << "\nSolution\n"; dump(K); //displays the solution return 0;} ScreenShot
 

Yeah after seeing these one liners I'm gonna edit the original post ?

Simply connect 1 wire from button pin to ground and the other to any other pin except 3v/5v. For library you can use GPIOzero that's very good.

There's a LOT of projects on Google.

Yeah after seeing these one liners I'm gonna edit the original post ?

Yeah after seeing these one liners I'm gonna edit the original post ?

print("Hello World") <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?> Console.WriteLine("Hello World!"); #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!\n"; puts 'Hello world!' I think I nailed it! ?

Sudoku game generator, 50 lines, compressed to 90 columns, prints in notepad++, within the margins. The program compiles and runs.
Formated
Screenshot
main.cpp.pdf

Try and make a program in any language that is under 50 lines of code* **
 
 
*Comments and White Lines included
** Standard formatting (so no super compacted 1-5 liners) 

stock prediction in pure JS  nodeJs most of the lines are training data

bugger example you can see here
 
https://repl.it/@vorticalbox/stockPrediction
 
const brain = require('brain.js'); const trainingData = [ [{ open: 1.045509090909091, high: 1.063281818181818, low: 1.0419909090909092, close: 1.0563909090909092 }, { open: 1.0427181818181819, high: 1.0529818181818182, low: 1.0279, close: 1.0434545454545454 },], [ { open: 1.006318181818182, high: 1.0163454545454547, low: 1.000909090909091, close: 1.014590909090909 }, { open: 1.0052272727272726, high: 1.0177363636363637, low: 0.9999272727272728, close: 1.0137545454545456 } ] ] const test = [{ open: 1.0145454545454546, high: 1.0168545454545455, low: 1.0066090909090908, close: 1.0085454545454546 }, { open: 1.0008181818181818, high: 1.010218181818182, low: 0.9959999999999999, close: 1.0094272727272726 }] const net = new brain.recurrent.LSTMTimeStep({ inputSize: 4, hiddenLayers: [8, 8], outputSize: 4 }); net.train(trainingData, { learningRate: 0.005, errorThresh: 0.02, log: console.log, logPeriod: 100 }); const forecast = net.forecast(test, 3) console.log(forecast)  

Another look at it is if your program stops working then you have another thing you'l need to troubleshoot, another point of failure as you will. Also if you were to deploy this program you'd rather not take the chance of your product failing because of a mistake you made.
 
IMO if you can pull it off just do it.

Here is the one I wrote for work to merge CSVs with the same headers into a single CSV

node.
const fs = require('fs').promises; const csv = require('csvtojson'); const { parse } = require('json2csv'); const path = './csv'; const fields = ['id', 'firstname', 'lastname'] const opts = { fields }; const listFiles = (folder) => fs.readdir(folder); const loadCSV = (files) => Promise.all(files.map((file) => csv().fromFile(`${path}/${file}`))); const flattenArray = (arrays) => [].concat(...arrays); const parser = (items) => parse(items, opts) const save = (data) => fs.appendFile('merged.csv', data) listFiles(path) .then(loadCSV) .then(flattenArray) .then(parser) .then(save) .catch(console.error)  

Out of habit. I got used (as a sort of good practice) to always have < > != == or === in an if / while / do / loop / whatever, so while (true)  while correct, just doesn't feel right to me.
Also, in php you may often be tempted to do if (!$variable) but that can be wrong, because you may want to do $variable===FALSE
 
In the case of the example above, in theory I think while(true) would be a few cpu cycles faster, but in practice I think the Zend engine (which converts the php script to bytecode) will optimize away  the 1==1 to true anyway when the script is loaded, so the second time the while loop goes, the result is the same... it's like writing "true" there.

just wrote it for fun...
tail - shows the last 512 bytes of a file and keeps showing what's added to the end of file ... useful to see web server/ftp logs or whatever as they're updated
php.exe tail.php  "x:\path\to\filename.extension"
could be much smaller but has some added text on screen to remind user how to close it and show the app is still working (every 10s)
 
<?php if (count($argv)==1) die('usage : tail.php "filename.ext"'); $argv[0] = ''; $path = trim(implode(' ',$argv),'" '); $CRLF = chr(0x0D).chr(0x0A); echo 'Trying to open '.$path.$CRLF; $handle = fopen($path,'rb'); if (!$handle) die('Failed to open file.'); $finfo = fstat($handle); echo 'Filesize : '.$finfo['size'].' bytes. Press Ctrl+C to quit.'.$CRLF.$CRLF; $offset = $finfo['size'] - 512; $offset = $offset <0 ? 0 : $offset; $counter = 1; while (1==1) { $finfo = fstat($handle); if ($offset>$finfo['size']) $offset = $finfo['size']; if ($offset<$finfo['size']) { if ($counter>0) { echo $CRLF.$CRLF; $counter=1; } $ret = fseek($handle,$offset); $buffer = fread($handle,512); echo $buffer; $offset += strlen($buffer); } else { $counter++; } sleep(1); if ($counter % 10 == 0) echo $CRLF.date('H:i:s',time()).' Press Ctrl+C to quit.'; } ?>