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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by rozab on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:30PM (#31021601)
From books? Having anything that's natural language will kill your entropy, way way below correct horse battery staple. Moreso if it's indexed by Google Ngrams.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by earthboundkid on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:52PM (#31021781)
Yes. But it’s much more dramatic in the movie when the villain runs his finger along the spines of the books in your library idly but then his eyes narrow and he aggressively pulls a book off the shelf and flips it open to a well worn spot. Checkmate!
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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by lobocinza on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:21PM (#31021968)
Theoretically, maybe. But I'm tempted to believe that for all practical purposes it's a 60+ chars password.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal ... by kragen on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:55PM (#31022203)
Don't. It isn't.
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