If you are generating your password in your head then it is probably trivial in some important way. Even if you are a password expert who knows all the ways humans get passwords wrong your password is probably trivial in ways you will realize as you generate it.

I miss old Usenet forums. They actually worked better because they had the concept of, you’ve already seen this message, you don’t have to read it again. And so you could go back and actually have longer conversations over time because you weren’t constantly trying to figure out what to read next. Some of the forums I’ve used I’m trying to do this however they don’t do it nearly as well because it’s more like you’ve read this far up in this page and so if you start reading and then use and there are multiple posts and you run out of time you eventually reach quite where you’ve closed a tab and when you come back it assumes you’ve read things you haven’t.

It is called salt and useful so long as the main part of the password is generally secure without. I have a couple common things I add to any password I have to create (generally meaning my password manager’s automatic generation is rejected), but this is only useful because I figure humans won’t guess the rest (nor will they feed that into a computer to guess the rest which probably isn’t long enough to be secure alone), and the whole then becomes long enough that a computer can’t brute force it. Note that I don’t always use exactly the same sale factors and I don’t put them in the same place - if you know what I try you can brute force my hand generated passwords with a computer but the job is much harder in hopes that you give up.

But if at all possible I will prefer to use a generate password from my password manager which is even more secure. Humans are very bad are creating passwords - even humans who know all the things to get wrong tend to be bad at it.

I have too many passwords for that.

Even that changes. My surname is what it is because English doesn’t have the same accents of the old German script (which isn’t used in Germany anymore), and so the spelling changed. Then over time how we pronounce it has changed to match the spelling.

It wouldn’t surprise me, but as an American I have an objection to monarchy in general and so I don’t care enough to look it up.

right, highways are a tiny % of the budget. Most of the costs to a car are elsewhere. (and even more elsewhere if you count things not measured in money)

There are a lot of reasons we should be encouraging transit, but we still need highways for shipping and construction use that can never be on transit (could be on trains, that doesn’t seem reasonable)

3 generations for rednecks… Cousin marriage is often legal and not unheard of, though most people try to avoid such close relatives. By 3rd cousins - 5 generations - you often don’t even know everyone and so it wouldn’t be a surprise if you don’t even know you are so closely related until long after you have kids. Generally there is enough separation that this isn’t a genetic issue. Even first cousins don’t typically share enough genes for issues to be much more common than otherwise. (kids of brothers-sister pairs often have genetic issues).

That assumes you can get a different type of crude. If a different refinery is setup for texas light sweet crude, they are likely able to take all the oil Texas can pump, and they have pipelines in place from Texas to them. Even if you convert your refinery you can’t get any of that crude because it is under contract to the other refinery and they can afford to outbid you because their shipping costs (via the pipeline) are lower.

10 years ago (approximately) there was a North Dakota oil boom - the crude from those wells was shipped via a railroad that goes very close to a Minnesota refinery, but that refinery is setup for Canada crude (including a pipeline) and so the trains went right on by without stopping. The oil ended up in East Cost refineries that had been mothballed (that is shutdown) for years, but they were able to take the North Dakota crude and so reopened. I don’t know the current situation - other than a suggestion that the owners of those refineries were not planning to do more than minimal maintenance - that is if something major breaks they would tear down the refinery instead of repairing it (this of course has likely changed several times as the market changes).

Diesel seems to have gone up slightly more. Diesel tends to be somewhat less elastic - people are using this for work they consider important. You might not make a long distance trip (stay home, or travel to something closer to home), but you won’t stop buying things shipped with diesel. In some cases you are substituting a trip to the store (gas) for deliver (diesel, but because it is a combined trip overall less fuel used)

As you get back more than 12 generations it is highly likely the same person appears more than once in your family tree.

When IPv6 was first created, the dream was that your machine would get a new IP address any time the whole network felt some need for that. The idea was, as someone added a network, we may need to change the way your systems are numbered in order to make the backbone routing a lot easier to fit in memory. This hasn’t seemed to work out, but that was the dream.

I assume your ZFS system has plenty of redundancy. Thus, I would enable snapshots and do a regular rotation because ZFS snapshots are so easy to recover from for most disasters. What that leaves is the catastrophic losses from, say, your house burning down. So you still need something off-site, but the ZFS will cover most of your backup needs.

I did the monthly arch upgrade and had to reboot to get some service to come up. Took an extra 5 minutes this month.

It might be but it is risky - if anything goes wrong there goes that data.

The problem is people don’t want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can’t follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn’t what we want.

1% of females as well, but few know that even though there must be a lot out there.

I was in college when my mom brought the books home one weekend. As she suspected my sister was also colorblind. Mom gets three wrong and you need more than three to be colorblind - but latter she was working in a clothing store and a customer ask for a discount for some stain she couldn’t see but the manager saw it from 10 feet away and gave the discount.

I can tell the difference between the red and green light - but if a left turn turn light comes on while the red remains (that is only left turns no going straight) I’ll probably miss it because the green is so faint and red obvious

Retail will take anyone and train them which is why it is so easy.

Every other job needs someone with special skills and so they are selective and hard to get in. Even though most people don’t work retails, there is much more competition for these jobs, and a lot less job in any given specialty. The better the job the less competition there is - but there still is plenty of competition.

Which means you need to not ask for “a job”, but select the specific job and then set yourself up to be good at that on your own time. The more specialized you get, the better a chance you have a job in that specialty - but the worse chance you get at any other job! Which means choosing the right specialty is critically important. Good luck (usually it too bad though as most things have enough demand).

The worst part: once you get a job they start teaching you the skill for that. It is really hard to change latter because you go from an expert to beginner.

Remember what others have said though: who you know is more important that what you know! So figure out who you know! Figure out what they can maybe get you into, and apply the above in consideration of that. Sometimes people will tell you what they can help you with, sometimes they won’t know but you can guess.