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  • Probably depends on the work and your endurance level. I used to do 12 hour warehouse work Saturday/Sunday over summer vacation in college while I played video games and hung out with friends the rest of the week. It felt freaking amazing. Three days in a row might’ve been pushing it, especially in my later 30s.

    But considering I’ve done intense development work for 12 hour sessions over 3-5 days, having had 4 days off instead of 2 would have certainly delayed or prevented my inevitable crash of burnout.



  • That’s correct, let’s say a database was breached and the hacker has every user and their password hashes. They can login with testuser@email.com with password “password123” and see if the generated hash matches any other user’s password hash. If so, they might be able to hack many accounts with the same password or even reverse engineer and decrypt every other password.

    Developers can make the hash more secure by adding arbitrary characters to the password (aka a salt), and this becomes the site’s “authentication algorithm”. But if the hashes are stolen, it may be a matter of time before the algorithm is figured out, which leads to updates, which leads to your pre-existing hash no longer matching.