This rings true to me regarding most jobs.

I get your point, but it's worth noting that they had access to modern technology for the time: punched card machines. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust. I don't think they could have done what they did at the same scale without at least that level of data collection and automation.

In 2018 or 2019, I was working in embedded software development despite not formally studying CS (electrical engineer with some coding experience, mostly numerical stuff). My coworker was interviewing new hires and complained that none of them could answer challenge questions that he thought were fair and not too hard. He had me work through the question set, and I think he was right.

My current manager says some kids just out of school are fairly obviously using AI during the interview. They don't get hired.

Ah, thanks. Pretty sure the PHP 4 docs in 2004 recommended individual salting. Save each salt alongside the hash. A global salt is just a really odd combination of doing a little more but still being lazy. They probably did it to make their study achievable.

My friend in high school made a website and rolled his own hash function. I was able to brute force every password in a reasonable amount of time with interpreted PHP code on a 667MHz Celeron. It didn't help that he failed to sanitize inputs; the ASCII null character really sped up finding collisions.

Do you have an example?

Conceptually, with enough computing power, it should be possible to simulate a human brain. That would give a computational basis for human behavior.

Back in 2004 or 2005, when I was just some kid in high school playing around making a little website with PHP, I used salted hashes for password storage because that's what the PHP 4 docs recommended. It's not that hard.

My first question on reading the summar was whether the hashes were salted or not. I followed some of the references in your link and ended up at https://securelist.com/password-brute-force-time/112984/, which indicates that these password hashes are indeed salted.

I haven't looked into this stuff in a long time, but I think best practice nowadays is to use a salt, a more secure hashing algorithm, and possibly multiple rounds of the hash to slow down attacks.

SoftwareArtist probably disagrees with the bolded part of what you wrote.

I say this because they wrote,

I'm sure many people have arguments for why God exists despite the present-day lack of such evidence; I'm only trying to explain where SoftwareArtist seems to be coming from. I will further claim that, for some major religions, it's possible to prove their deity doesn't exist if they define the deity clearly enough and the definition conflicts with other, well established facts.

Regarding trying to pin down definitions of athiest and agnostic, it seems that most people, especially non-academics, use these terms somewhat loosely. That's just something that happens with human language.

Do you understand how acting like an insufferable ass leads to poorer conversations?

The truth is out there. [hums X-files theme]

Anonymous shitposting is a human right. I hold this truth to be self-evident.

With Gerald Bull, it's pretty clear why some parties with the ability to kill him would want to do so. Ditto for Iranian nuclear scientists, etc.

These look a lot like random occurrences that people are associating after the fact.

But her emails.

$50k worth of LTO-9 tapes, no compression.

Thanks for using metric. I don't know why they're talking about temperature and heating when the units are clearly referring to charge. Anyway, 9.1 Coulombs isn't that much charge over an area that large, and they should look into using better wire insulation. Or conductors with a higher work function.

The halting problem is undecidable.

Hey, I'm agreeing with you. I'm completely flabbergasted that all of the experts working in this field think they're accomplishing something and haven't sought the superior knowledge that you and Peter Gutmann posess. It's disappointing that all of these companies and smart people are wasting so much time and so many resources as a result.