walterman

According to the article, the crunch has reportedly been going on for more than a year.

IF that's true, then CDPR's claims about only crunching for the last two or so months isn't as transparent as they wanted it to seem back in October.

> The advice we give people today is don't have a password, have a passphrase," said Lee.

What is meant by this? Is the distinction between "word" and "phrase?" As in "don't have 'horse' have 'correct-horse-battery-staple'" because that's a "phrase?"

>I think that this bias of "revolutionary over incremental" might be holding science back in a variety of other areas as well.

I agree. Despite all the ecological issues with internal combustion engines (ICE), consider the massive improvements in efficiency in the last half and quarter centuries. Some of those were small "revolutionary" changes (variable valve timing, turbocharging, electronic fuel injection, direct injection) but constant iteration and competition drove up efficiency also.

We shouldn't dismiss significant improvement in better fuel sources because the step forward isn't a big enough step. Embrace any improvements we can get. Time is running out.

What are you implying?

I'm trying to understand this so I don't know a lot of what's going on here, but why is the fundamental half the bit rate instead of the bit rate?

Raspbian disabled that as a default a while ago because there's no good way to have ssh login by default without having default username and password be public info.

They could do something like have the default password be something embedded in the silicon like Apple's SE master key? And the print that key on the underside of the Pi so only people with physical access can read it.