the most amusing thing is the exclamation mark on such a banal opening move.
It's been decades. That means "Check!" right?
Nope, it means "good move". Check is +
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#83Interestingly enough, this password does not show up on haveibeenpwnd!
should be there in a couple of hours though
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#84He would have had to expend quite some calories to type that out every time on an ancient keyboard with chunky keys and massive travel.
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#85the most amusing thing is the exclamation mark on such a banal opening move.
It's been decades. That means "Check!" right?
Exclam! Generally a good move, perhaps even unexpectedly so. Double exclam, !!, being a brilliant move, especially one with flair like a sacrifice. Triple exclam is reserved for the games of Emory Tate. ;)
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if you play chess. 1. d4 is played probably more than half the time in professional games. It can lead to lots of different openings, closed and open (but not at the same time).
Really? I though 1. e4 was more common. TIL!
e4 is more common. d4 is second.
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#87disappointed he didn't use algebraic notation. Could have been: e4e5f4ef
Thompson is a person of class, hence opening with the queen's pawn. The Kings Gambit accepted is too brutish.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first password ever was qazwsx and I used it until I learned that it's included in "known" password text files and thus instantly crackable. However, I wonder how safe it is to take an "easy" password like /.,/.,/., and then add a bunch of exclamation points to the end, so that it's both long and not part of a dictionary. I'm sure password crackers are advanced enough to first try taking common passwords and then…
best practices have changed from using a complex password with lots of upper/lower and symbols to use something longer but easier to remember. More strength from misspellings and a few symbols My Fav0riT Pas%werd is actually pretty solid compared to df22@$Fasdf because the latter is more crackable
I really like the logic behind this one: https://www.xkcd.com/936/
It also doesn't require any special characters and its quite easy to remember.
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#89> (those familiar know the hash-rate fluctuates and slows down towards the end) Could someone explain this to me, why does it slow down towards the end?
I'm curious too, could it be due to the way the search space is explored in parallel?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is the beginning of the closed game, which is what the article says. Seems like a vacuous nitpick.
Pedantry might as well be correct: calling q2-q4 "the beginning of a closed game" hides the fact that it's also the beginning of many other validated openings: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess_Opening_Theory/1._d4 Advancing the queen's pawn 2 squares is a very common first move in chess at all levels. It's disingenuous to call this the beginning of any one of the specific possible openings in the above list.
And calling "It was the best of times" the beginning of a famous Dickens quote hides the fact that it's also the beginning of many other valid English sentences, I suppose.
There is nothing incorrect about the article's statement.