Poob @ Poob @lemmy.ca

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I dunno, there some necessary context here. I think Requiem for a Dream is a better movie then Iron Man, but I sure as hell wouldn't pick it as the only movie I'm ever going to watch again.

Wait, y'all really think you were "the most stable democracy in the world" at any point in history?

You had a civil war.

A great way to learn about someone's values is to ask what their pronouns are

Wow, I didn't think "Facebook sucks" would be such a controversial statement on a place like Lemmy or kbin

TLDR: number of possible passwords is x^y where x is the size of your alphabet and y is the password length. Increasing y is better than increasing x.

It's not immediately obvious, but it is pretty straightforward math. It has to do with password length vs alphabet size.

Let's look at an 8 letter lowercase only password. Each time you increase the minimum length, you increase the maximum number of passwords by 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). So it would be 26x26x26x26x26x26x26x26 or 26^8 which is 208,827,064,576. This is a lot of passwords, but pretty easy for a computer to brute force.

Let's add the ! symbol. This means there are 27 options or 27^8. The total number of passwords is now 282,429,536,481. A bigger number, but not by much.

If we only have lowercase letters but increase it to 9 letters long, then it increases to 26^9 which equals 5,429,503,678,976. We've jumped from millions of passwords to billions with passwords only 1 character more.

If you allow all symbols and numbers, but also increase minimum length, you get the best of both without creating difficult to remember passwords.

This of course ignores the primary way people get past passwords: by asking the user for their password. It also ignores that an intruder is going to check the most common passwords and not just try them all. Adding numbers and symbols doesn't really change the most common passwords though, since dragon just turns into Dragon1!

Has Penny Arcade always been this hideous?

It's revenge and nothing else

You're making a lot of assumptions. I have considered both views and formed an opinion. You also seem to be implying that I'm "terrified" that someone could be carrying a gun, but I'm not sure how your jumped into my brain to figure that out.

Not all views are valid. That should be pretty obvious. I don't consider carrying a firearm to be a valid view. It's paranoia on the level of believing lizard people run government.

You're right. It was only a side point to imply that not every gun owner is as loony as certain American ones.

Well I own 5 guns and would never even consider carrying in public ¯(ツ)_¯

So we saw the hilarious attempt to nominate McCarthy last time, but what happens if they boot him out and refuse to vote in a speaker for a much longer time? Is there any kind of mechanism in case it's deadlocked indefinitely?

Hah, Rogan is 7 years older than Alex Jones

Hah, a classic!

Again, I wasn't commenting about the ban. Just the desire to carry a gun in public.

I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting on carrying a gun in public

Open or concealed carry is insane. You Americans are unhinged.

This is from a gun owner.

I recommend the video "In Search of a Flat Earth" by Dan Olson, aka Folding Ideas

Oh wow. A truely stunning achievement for this small indie studio.

You don't think voting demographics would change radically if people could go out and vote on legislation directly instead of a bribed politician voting for them?