This seems to happen in a lot of IT in general.
Your software, db’s and infrastructure ends up a mess, but it’s so cheap they can pay 3x the number of people to keep sweeping all of the issues under the rug.

Fair enough! That does actually sound perfectly serviceable.

You really gonna put a tv remote on your lockscreen?

Ah yes, let me just pull out my phone, unlock, open remote app, switch to ‘my tv/air-conditioning manufacturer’ profile and press off.
The IR experience on a phone is not convenient for day to day, especially when (love it or hate it) most things can be controlled over WiFi without needing line of sight.

An infinitely small segment of the arc can be.
Geometrically there isn’t a problem. If you draw a line from that point to the center of the arc, it will make it clearer.

Calling them ‘curses’ is apt

Ain’t a problem in the ocean

The problem is that, with a good enough cheat, it can be impossible to distinguish from a very good player.
The best cheats use a secondary device emulating human input and reactions, which is practically undetectable.

I don’t mind people around me vaping, but the disposable ecigs are a scourge to the environment and need to be banned.

I actually hate crispy cones… Cornetto are good, crunchy but not hard.
More soggy ice cream cones I say. Who’s with me ✊️

I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.

This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
But I don’t know the details of your situation, obviously, and it’s not impossible.

I have heard that China has made significant efforts in this area, but that really is a massive change in just over a decade.
Meanwhile, the UK will take as long to build a single high-speed line.

Pro is still the same desktop app

SketchUp was intended for this purpose and is so incredibly easy to get started with.
Unless something has changed, it definitely is for sketching only, as it lacks a lot of advanced functionality found in other CAD programs.

No they’re not supposed to be piling it up

Design lead wants parting earth and flowing lava. Budget dictates static assets and baked in animations.

So you were questioning a password limit of 256 chars.
Let’s say we do not impose a limit because we’re not worried about anything. We now get hit by a botnet trying to create accounts or login in thousands at the same time.

Say we’re using Argon2id. This is obviously subjective to hw and parameters, but let’s say 8k characters take 5 seconds of (1) cpu time on your server.
Now multiply this by 1000 attempts a second, and all your hardware does is calculate hashes.

The input limit of Argon2 specifically is much, much higher than that at 2^32-1 bytes, at which point you might as well just take it offline yourself.

If hashing of 256-character passphrases, or even 2560-character passphrases

If we impose no limit, why would the attacker limit themselves to 2560 chars?

Like an individual dev can decide to make random changes to bank systems lol

Hashing takes up cpu time