That seems correct. A lot of companies will think: "Don't hire women. They may accuse someone of "gender bias" or "sexual harassment". In the U.S. at present, that is an easy way to get money without earning it.

A long time ago, I was dating an attractive woman who had 2 jobs in traditionally male areas. I said to her, "Women often say they have trouble with unacceptable male attention." She told me, "They ask for it!" (Exact quote) I questioned her and learned that opinion of hers was very strong and rooted in considerable experience.

She always dressed in a way that made people respect her.

I can give another example concerning the state of Oregon in the United States.

There are huge amounts of utter incompetence regarding technology.

Short answer is no. Although there are plenty of other semiconductor devices that can operate in the microwave.

The "quantum" part of quantum dots is that the effective bandgap of the semiconductor, which controls the wavelength of luminescence, is increased by quantum confinement. Google particle in a box for more information.

It's pretty stable in salt form---much less of a problem than elemental Cd from batteries or Hg from florescent lights. Also, it's pretty well encapsulated in the TVs.

Are you really going to the dictionary to dig up "describe" but not doing the same for "prescribe"?
Why? Because you're fucking wrong, perhaps?

Probably. The concept of a useful one-way function is absurd on the face of it.
Sure, f(x) = 0x is one-way - given 0 as an output you'll never guess the input. But it's not useful because all we need to do is guess any input that leads to the desired output.

Or the other sites that simply truncate your input without telling you, so when you put in 40 characters it only takes 16?
8 character limits were common up until a few years ago. Today I still see 16 (and 15 because of broken front ends) effective limits. 32 seems to be the most common.

Whatever it is, you're going to do it very, very slowly.

Why would you even bother with prepending "tesco" unless you were reusing that "20+ psuedo-random character" string across other sites? That's shitty practice on your end.

What pisses me off about password restrictions is that they change and break my existing passwords.
Most recently, T-Mobile changed their shit to disallow some characters / reduce the length allowed, so my perfectly existing password was rejected as being "wrong", my account locked, and I had to fight with their customer service goons to get a reset. During the support session, the customer support clown actually asked for my actual password! Promptly told the bitch to fuck off and escalate the issue - 5 hours later in the middle of the night I'm FINALLY sent a reset token. I received absolutely zero communication from anyone at T-Mbolie about it.
This also happened to me with my electric utility - they say right on the page they take 16 character passwords, and I was able to set a 16 character password, but when logging in it would fail. It worked if I truncated my input to 15 characters (after setting it as the full 16).
Plenty of other sites have fucked me in similar ways. Who in the fucking shit would change password length/character policies to make them MORE restrictive? Who the fuck would do this on the standard login page that can affect existing passwords?

Breaches are typically not noticed for months, and companies do everything in their power to NOT notify users for as long as possible and to lie to users about what was accessed and how it was stored. A password of "veronica" would be cracked in seconds.