In every other aspect of life it is just understood that there is a trade off between convenience and security but for some reason computers have to be magic.
Nobody said there aren’t better alternatives. People are saying what the best practices are for the situation we are currently in.
Your posts don’t seem all that interested in why these are suggested. It sounds like you just want to vent about how bad software is. Trust me, nobody is going to...
You wouldn’t have to use Il|1¡iO0りˆ^`' you can compensate just by making your password longer. inzlsybkueuxkuxzjlwbbhbol has no special characters but more entropy.
C++ is hard For a few reasons. Compared to C the language specification is very complex. A single person could write a pretty good c compiler as a college project. I doubt many could do that for C++.
It has manual memory management. Most modern languages abstract this away from the developer...
the proper analogy would be getting a free magazine in the mail where they have covered up some of the articles with post it notes and request money to remove the post-it notes.
I see you mean mean light load across cores. What do you mean that turbo boost is unlikely if all cores are running full out though? When I run all cores full out it's still 1ghz above base clock.