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Comment Re:wow (Score 2) 189

It depends if you stress "that" or not.

1) "less space than *that*, is required to store Wikipedia"

2) "less space than that is required to store Wikipedia" = "less space than what is required to store Wikipedia"

Comment Re:heresy (Score 1) 285

You are wrong. You can use French when programming. You want your variables and comments in French. But it's ridiculous to have your keywords also in French. It is debatable if it is a good idea to have libraries translated into another language. Here an example in PHP

$query = "SELECT ID, Parent, Nom FROM Animaux ORDER BY Nom ASC";
$result = mysql_query($query);

$categories = array();

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$categories[] = array(
'parent_id' => $row['Parent'],
'categorie_id' => $row['ID'],
'nom_categorie' => $row['Nom']
);

Comment Re:Yes, but other than that, how did you like it? (Score 1) 453

In this case the second password needs more combinations to be cracked just because it's longer

That's the whole point of the comic, to calculate entropy. If passwords were fully random the short one has 72.1 bits of entropy and the long ones has 117.5. It doesn't matter that you can achieve 117.9 bits of entropy with only 18 characters and the wider character set. I think it is much easier to remember: "ihgfwljytcvkrpnfdakngtecj" than "jgEm,8(l]tT3FcVNw#".

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