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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

  • I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.
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[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, here's the important part:

I have never done data forensic

So yeah, I didn't know that at the time. Anyway: Which tools are you talking about in particular?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Windows File Recovery, WinfrGUI, Easeus, Aomei, DiskGenius, etc.

[–] korok@possumpat.io 4 points 10 months ago

Someone else already named some tools, so I won’t repeat. But the reason this works is that even once you clear out those trash files, the OS usually only removes the pointer to where the data lives on the disk, and the disk space itself isn’t overwritten until it’s needed to save another file. This is why these tools have a much higher chance of success sooner after file deletion.