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    The Virtues and Vicissitudes of Passwords

    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.
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    The Virtues and Vicissitudes of Passwords

    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...
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    The Virtues and Vicissitudes of Passwords

    Then you just pad them all with with !1, they still aren’t cracking it
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    The Virtues and Vicissitudes of Passwords

    https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator
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    The Virtues and Vicissitudes of Passwords

    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.
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    What advantages do new cryptocurrencies claim?

    The big one these days seems to be finding alternatives to proof of work which require lots of energy.
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    Do you consider writing this program a bit of a challenge?

    That’s entirely too sensible. Are you sure you’re here for the programming position?
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    Do you consider writing this program a bit of a challenge?

    Sure. Next question, what if it’s not allowed?
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    Do you consider writing this program a bit of a challenge?

    Followed by “now do it without a Temp variable.”
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    C/C++ Learn C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup's "Programming Principles and Practice" Book

    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...
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    Why Am I Able to Get Around Some Paywalls?

    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.
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    Question about the speed of multi-core HP laptops

    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.
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    Question about the speed of multi-core HP laptops

    Turbo Boost happens at light loads? I thought it only happened at peak loads?
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    HTML/CSS Any suggestion of a good self starter book on HTML?

    It's not a book, but I still recommend it: Getting started with the Web - Learn web development | MDN (mozilla.org)
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