The DMZ

Ohnana

21:00

just keep in mind that there's a difference between being a landlord and a slumlord

slumlords get sued, landlords profit

Mark Buffalo

Of course

Buying furniture is a tax write off

David Freitag

It is?

Fuck

Mark Buffalo

There's no way I'd be a slum lord... it isn't profitable

Yeah, wait... David

If you buy a rental property, and rent it out, it's considered a business

David Freitag

That's $1300 I could have claimed

Mark Buffalo

When you buy things to fix the house

David Freitag

21:01

Oh I see

Mark Buffalo

Appliances, furniture, etc. It's considered a tax write-off

David Freitag

Like limos for businesses

Mark Buffalo

So every year, buy new furniture and appliances

and write them off...

After that, you can always upgrade your own stuff... by taking last year's furniture/appliances into your own home

David Freitag

The place I just moved out of had appliances that were from like the 80's

Mark Buffalo

or giving them away... or selling them.

Herringbone Cat

21:02

@MarkBuffalo if you ever get audited that's going to be a no no :) you have to mark depreciation on those assets, and you can't just make them into personal assets!

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo Yeah but you have to have the cash up-front to do that

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat I don't do that, but I know someone who does

or rather, I know of

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo yeah, they ask you what dates it was put into service and what dates it was taken out. Plenty of people do it but if you get audited you get a huge bill.

Matthew

in The Comms Room, Oct 2 '11 at 20:30, by Ward

Ohnana

uh what

Mark Buffalo

21:03

@HerringboneCat Well that's good to know....

David Freitag

What has been seen cannot be unseen

Mark Buffalo

I'm glad I talked about this before I tried that

Ohnana

@MarkBuffalo talk to a business accountant

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo I've learned about this stuff from years of doing my own taxes from consulting income (and consulting business expenses). e.g. you buy a laptop, you have to make a depreciation schedule

Mark Buffalo

I think I might be misunderstanding what they are doing...

David Freitag

21:04

@MarkBuffalo But what you could do is stagger appliances through your rental properties

Ohnana

before any of that shit, talk to someone who knows their shit

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag Yea, he does this

@HerringboneCat However, in the case of a multi-family property... where he "rents" one of his own...? Can he take that furniture?

Matthew

@HerringboneCat In my experience, laptop costs £x, then is worth £x/2 for about a week, then it's worth £150, then £60, then "just take it to the tip"

David Freitag

My nose hurts :[

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo If he's renting a property and declaring it as a business with income, then any assets used by the business have to be declared, along with % used for business, and dates placed in and out of service. If he takes the furntirue out of service, he has to buy it from the corporate en tity, or mark that it was put out of service and not get the tax credits

@Matthew IRS seems to think it takes 3-5 years for full depreciation

David Freitag

21:06

3-5 years for an appliance is totally ok

Matthew

@HerringboneCat They clearly don't abuse their laptops as much as some of our staff!

David Freitag

Hell my grandmother has had the same appliances since before I was born

Herringbone Cat

Depends on the item. An audit will determine if the time period you set for depreciation is realistic, and unrealistic timetables might trigger an audit.

David Freitag

@Pekka 웃: There's a your mom joke in here somewhere... — BoltClock ♦ 2 days ago

Rоry McCune

@DavidFreitag all depends on the asset, and are you going to use straight-line depreciation or reducing-balance?

Matthew

21:08

@RоryMcCune Did you see humblebundle.com/books/pathfinder-comic-bundle ?

David Freitag

@RоryMcCune I know what some of those words mean

Rоry McCune

@Matthew heh I was just on their site, I partipated in the main pathfinder one and can't download anything 'cause their site is hugely overloaded

@Matthew they're running some v. old verison of an Apple web framework and it doesn't look like scaling is easy/possible

@DavidFreitag it's my accountancy degree leaking...

David Freitag

@RоryMcCune Well stop it you're making my brain hurt

Matthew

@RоryMcCune I'm going to guess that it's not from the Pathfinder deal though - doesn't look to be selling that well!

David Freitag

Since steam and humble split I haven't gotten a single bundle

Rоry McCune

21:11

@Matthew well I guess it's relative :) I don't think they get that much download traffic relative to humble bundle stuff. Anyway there's a 22-page thread on their forums dedicated to download problems...

@Matthew paizo.com/threads/…

Herringbone Cat

@RоryMcCune Aren't you Scottish? How do you know about labryinthine american tax code? :)

Rоry McCune

@HerringboneCat indeed I am, but depreciation is a universal accountancy fact :)

and varying rates/styles of depreciation are part of that

Xander

@MarkBuffalo Yeah, no. Improvements are capitalized, not expensed, and so are not directly deductible.

Matthew

@RоryMcCune Sounds like it's the publisher having the issue then? I know HB can handle a lot more traffic than that!

Mark Buffalo

@Xander I think I'm being lied to

Rоry McCune

21:14

@Matthew oh yeah HB are fine, it's downloading from paizo that don't fly, sounds like the 26k customers they got from the first humble bundle is a lot more than they're used to

Mark Buffalo

Not by you, but by someone else

Xander

@MarkBuffalo That would not be uncommon, when taxes are concerned.

Rоry McCune

@Matthew they should put in the cloud in some docker containers, and use a bit of redis and perhaps a custom elrang/clojure front-end and that'd fix it for sure!

Herringbone Cat

I just did my friend's taxes using turbotax the other night...he just emigrated from israel, so he had no idea about american taxes. He was about to pay someone $200 to do his taxes. Dude makes $40k a year. I was like, "You're going to take the standard deduction."

It's amazing all the urban legendy stuff that people are fed about taxes

Matthew

@RоryMcCune Yeah, they do seem to be making a mess of it...

Rоry McCune

21:18

@Matthew there's people on their forums suggesting changing the Firefox HTTP timeout from 90 seconds to 1 hour ?!?

Matthew

@RоryMcCune Um... That won't help much...

TildalWave

@Ohnana bill of writes

Rоry McCune

@Matthew well no, the system sounds v. clunky and not scaled well, I guess they should've predicted that offering several hundred bucks of stuff for $15 might have caused some traffic...

Xander

@MarkBuffalo My first career was as an accountant. As I transitioned into technology, I actually spent a couple of years building tax software, albeit premium tax software, not income tax software.

Matthew

@RоryMcCune Really? I thought offering things for less caused fewer people to want it! :-)

David Freitag

21:29

Mmmh I need a new belt

Rory Alsop

I know that paying an accountant £1k a year saves me so much more than that. And I have no complicated finances at all

Mark Buffalo

@RoryAlsop You pay 1k pounds for an accountant? :X

You must be making a killing

Rory Alsop

I think that's cheap, according to the other quotes I got. It's totally worth it. British accounting rules are utterly stupid so they are not manageable by non-accountants. And the penalties for mistakes are epic

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop exactly, ours costs a bit more than that but well worth it when HMRC are so hideous to deal with if things go wrong

Mark Buffalo

@RoryAlsop Yeah that makes sense then

Rоry McCune

21:39

3

Simon

THEY DON'T EVEN LOOK REAL

"but they're not real Simon"

Rоry McCune

^^Looks like they found an interesting new Crypto flaw

Simon

o

TildalWave

@Simon that should be the callout over them :)

Mark Buffalo

0

Q: How is it tecnically possible for Apple to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone?

If the iPhone of the San Bernadino shooters is locked, how would it even be possible for Apple to acquiesce to the FBI's request for them to unlock the phone? Does that mean Apple has some kind of "back door" that would let them into any phone? Wouldn't a locked phone theoretically be secured f...

Notto disu shittu agen

Ixrec

21:48

mega research fail

Matthew

Yeah, this week we're on DROWN, damnit!

We also have

0

Q: A mental uncrackable password-generator

I am interested in creating a formula to create unique passwords for every website that I am going to use. These passwords should be easy to figure out (not necessarily remember) for me at any point in the future, but not be vulnerable to any form of reverse-engineering with today's technology: t...

decryption

Which is a standard "I trust my brain more than a computer" question

It's slightly worrying that that is a standard question, thinking about it

Ixrec

it's definitely a sign that something ought to be done about the general population's awareness of basic password security principles

Matthew

Um...

0

Q: Possibilities of guessing combination-locks

A combination lock has five slots for numbers 0-9. What is the probability of one guessing the correct combination?

locks

Did I wander onto basic arithmetic SE?

Ixrec

migrate to Math.SE (no not really)

David Freitag

@Ixrec Migrate to trash can

omnomnom fruty tootsie rolls

Also, since when is vanilla considered a fruit?

8

Q: Why particles in Quantum Mechanics are indistinguishable?

Currently reading about tensor products in Quantum Mechanics and composite systems I've read that in Quantum Mechanics particles are indistinguishable while in Classical Mechanics that's not the case. This leads to the requirement that the wave function be symmetric or antisymmetric and thus, to ...

quantum-mechanics identical-particles

That's possibly the best broken english I've ever read.

Rоry McCune

22:10

linode.statuspage.io/incidents/wwzn1mcmc2fp guess we might not be seeing @TerryChia @JourneymanGeek or @LucasKauffman for a bit...

SEJPM

@DavidFreitag standard language for science guys, I was told

David Freitag

@SEJPM What, broken english?

Rory Alsop

@MarkBuffalo we have a rory who has gone wrong!

SEJPM

@DavidFreitag yes

David Freitag

@SEJPM lol

SEJPM

22:12

I saw it in some CERN documentation...

David Freitag

Also, that top-voted answer seems to say words but I can't quite make out what they're trying to say... :P

lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/…

hahawut

> Here’s an idea: let’s rip a 4.7-liter Maserati V8 out of a Maserati and stick it into a motorcycle. Wouldn’t that be excellent?

@MarkBuffalo what are some good color hex codes for green/red pass/fail indicators?

Herringbone Cat

jesus christ that's a bike

looks uncomfortabl eas hell to ride

but you won't be on it long :)

David Freitag

It's as long as I am tall

probably longer

Herringbone Cat

keeping that bike upright seems like a challenge

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat It has a double-wheel construction, I bet it's pretty easy

Rory Alsop

22:26

@DavidFreitag as long as you don't lean it into a corner while going too slow...

David Freitag

@RoryAlsop Well yeah :P

Herringbone Cat

@DavidFreitag yeah the wheels are big and must be stable but i'm talking abuot stopping , thing is heavy, probably hurts to fall on your foot and lean,

i suppose the point of the bike is not to stop at red lights etc :)

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat Do you see those mahasive brakes on there?

Rory Alsop

@HerringboneCat not to stop - evarrrr

David Freitag

Those brakes are bigger than the ones my car has and my car weighs like 3x as much

Herringbone Cat

22:27

@DavidFreitag Brakes mean the bike tips over when it slows. WIthout throttle, it loses stability. It's still a bike.

You can hit the brakes all you want the bike is still gonna drop one way or the other until you catch it with your leg.

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat So brake from the back?

Herringbone Cat

@DavidFreitag when you brake a motorcycle, the bike goes down. That's why every motorcyclist you see stopped has one foot on the ground.

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag Depends on your layout

and color theme

Rory Alsop

@HerringboneCat ahh - not quite true

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat Yeah but most motorcycles have thin tires, that one has two in the front and a monster rear one

Rory Alsop

22:28

and in this case very untrue as 3 wheels

Herringbone Cat

@RoryAlsop Really? What bike doesn't? :)

Mark Buffalo

@RoryAlsop I know :(

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo No color theme, it's a standalone app

Herringbone Cat

@RoryAlsop I think even with the 4 wheels this thing will lean because the wheels are so close together..never ridden anything like this though, so not sure.

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag You can't go wrong with #990000 and #009900

Rory Alsop

22:29

@HerringboneCat Mine. I can quite happily stop with my feet up

Mark Buffalo

They aren't too dark

Herringbone Cat

I ride a triumph bonnie and a vespa LXV. ROry what are you riding that lets you stop like that? :)

Mark Buffalo

and not too bright as to be unreadable

Rory Alsop

iI have a Yamaha 750 Super Tenere

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo Ok, now to find out how to color a label with a hex code in C#... :P

Rory Alsop

22:30

but every bike I have had will do it

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag No need. Use 155,0,0 and 0,0,155

Rory Alsop

little practice - although your bonneville may be tricky...

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo How do I do that (Programmatically)?

Rory Alsop

that's a beast of a thing

Herringbone Cat

@RoryAlsop You must be a pretty good rider to be able to balance for more than 3 secs with that thing stopped.

Mark Buffalo

22:30

@DavidFreitag Color.FromArgb(155,0,0,1);

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo :D

Mark Buffalo

you just enter 155,0,0 inthe color thing

it accepts rgb values, I believe

Rory Alsop

@HerringboneCat nah - I have had a gap of 16 years without bikes and just getting back into them now my kids are older, so I'm not polished at all yet

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo No I need to do it in C# to indicate a pass/fail condition when you click a button

Herringbone Cat

@RoryAlsop Here, at stops signs cops will stop you and be like "I didn't see a foot down. You didn't stop you rolled."

Rory Alsop

22:31

At lights I almost certainly will have a foot down, but my point was just that you don't need to. Bikes balance well

@HerringboneCat yeek

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo So which one is green and which is red?

Herringbone Cat

I should know this, I got a failure to stop ticket like that recently :)

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag Are you using the dialog editor?

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo Yeah

Mark Buffalo

rgb = red, green, blue. 255,0,0 = red, 0,255,0 = green, 0,0,255 = blue

Let me check

Herringbone Cat

22:32

My response to the officer: Sir, this is California, I thought that's how we stop here! California rolling stop right?

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo I know what.... nevermind.

Herringbone Cat

His response: I'm giving you a ticket, but you're funny, come to court and it'll be dismissed.

deed02392

super rabies gay balls

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Rory Alsop

@HerringboneCat the main use of having the foot down for me is to brace, change feet for gearchange, then change back

David Freitag

@deed02392 wut

Rory Alsop

22:33

@deed02392 erm... whut?

Mark Buffalo

OHHh

Rory Alsop

@deed02392 did you mean to type it into the google bar?

2

Mark Buffalo

so on_click, change label color?

Herringbone Cat

@RoryAlsop I can keep a bike up for a bit without a foot down and even fully stop, but with a passenger, I find it necessary to put a foot down immediately on a stop.

Rory Alsop

@HerringboneCat ok - totally with you on that

David Freitag

22:33

@MarkBuffalo Yeah with some other logic and communication bits.

Simon

You're a communication bit.

David Freitag

I got how to do it, I just needed to know how to change colors

@Simon ( ͡◉ ͜ ʖ ͡◉)

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag:

private void btn_Name_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.lbl_Name.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(155,0,0);
}

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo Yeah I got it... thanks

Mark Buffalo

welcome

David Freitag

22:35

Also, the this. isn't necessary.

Mark Buffalo

if you add a fourth parameter it allows for transparency

I know, but I like typing it

David Freitag

Right...

Mark Buffalo

because I may have another dialog with a control of the same name

Herringbone Cat

It used to be that the more terse/brief the code the better, but it's been realized the more verbose the code is the better becuase it is more readable. More time is spent reading than writing code, so, add more stuff to variables :)

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat This project is literally like 20 lines of code

Herringbone Cat

22:37

@DavidFreitag Yes but BEST PRACTICES darnit

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Yep. More time is spent looking at code

Ixrec

when it's only 20 lines, you have no excuse not to spend a minute polishing them so you can instill good habits for when you have a genuinely challenging program

Mark Buffalo

@Ixrec My good habits have resulted in the need to not have to unit test in most cases

David Freitag

@Ixrec "Challenging?" Not really something that happens at work when it comes to software.

Mark Buffalo

because my code 100% works before it gets to the point where testing is required >:D

David Freitag

22:39

@MarkBuffalo Unit testing? Haha what's that... :P

Mark Buffalo

does not scale for massive applications though

actually it does

Ixrec

skipping unit tests does make a lot of sense at 20 lines, yeah

David Freitag

This project is basically just a UI to expose one small portion of a DLL

for testing a particular PCB once it's assembled and programmed

Mark Buffalo

If you work on a massive system, unit testing is required

David Freitag

You're a massive system

Mark Buffalo

22:40

indeed I am

Ixrec

integration testing is also required

David Freitag

@Ixrec Integration testing?

I've had enough differential equations, thank you.

Mark Buffalo

@Ixrec agreed

I have to do a lot of that

Ixrec

half of what I do at work these days is refactoring the most complex part of our app so that it will soon become possible to write tests (of all kinds) involving that part

David Freitag

Ok, fine, don't explain it. I'll just google it.

Ixrec

22:45

oh you actually didn't know, I thought that was a math joke

man, that really shows how overeager the unit testing craze is

it's automated testing that has all the magical properties, unit testing is just one of the important categories thereof

Mark Buffalo

@Ixrec I do enjoy refactoring

Ixrec

I go back and forth between enjoying it and my head hurting, but it's always satisfying after it's done

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo " i do enjoy refactoring" you're a masochist!

Mark Buffalo

Not really. I've done large-scale refactoring

Meaning I can take a company's entire flagship product that they spent 10+ years developing and working on, and recreate it in under a year... usually 6 months

and do so in a way that's very easy to fix/maintain/update/etc

Herringbone Cat

Ah yeah, at least for me it would be pure pain. Although, i'm not a developer..sure I can code, but it's a small segment of my work, mostly scriptping/devops stuff.

Mark Buffalo

22:47

I enjoy any kind of coding activity, really... but that one is one of my favorites

ya I do some devops stuff as well

security/devops/programming/pentesting(ugh)

Herringbone Cat

I don't enjoy a whole lot of coding...I'm really good at logic, but not the greatest at math. So some programming, like scripting is really fun, but like making structs in C++ is painful for me.

Mark Buffalo

and the reason I do all the extra stuff is because I have a need to keep busy

I finish my programming tasks far too quickly, so I'm left with nothing to do for months

Ixrec

I can understand liking refactoring, since it does put the focus squarely on rearranging code without any real changes in requirements and any of the coding-related-but-not-really-coding issues that new feature development generally entails

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo Sounds like you need more challenging employment :)

David Freitag

@Ixrec Yeah but if you screw something up...

Ixrec

22:49

which is why you have tests!

afaik the potential for screwups is not really any higher or lower with refactoring than it is with new features

David Freitag

@Ixrec Yeah but it's possible to screw something up in such a subtle way that no test will find it.

Ixrec

yeah, there's no perfect defense against that

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Well, I'm fine being here

David Freitag

@Ixrec Sure it is, you have a very good understand of code you're writing for the first time. However, if you're refactoring it might be code you've never seen before, and if you don't understand what is going on it's easy to fubar something.

Mark Buffalo

They let me do a lot of extra stuff, like security

and pentesting

David Freitag

22:51

@Ixrec Sure there is, regular code audits

Ixrec

@DavidFreitag I mean new features in an already non-trivial app, so you don't have all of the other code memorized

@DavidFreitag I said "perfect" for a reason

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo Yeah I understand that. I've arrived on a somewhat similar conclusion -- I used to bust my ass doing consulting, incident response all that stuff in my 20s. Now i'm in my 30s I just want a steady job with a sustainable amount of work, as well. that pays about as much as the busting one's butt :)

David Freitag

@Ixrec I suppose, but it's a bit more dangerous to mess up existing code because customers will expect it to work a specific way.

Mark Buffalo

@Ixrec I've actually gotten really good at getting anything done... no matter what it is. I can code an entire enterprise saas from the ground up. It gives me a really nice sense of accomplishment when I do that, even if it's only refactoring. I like it

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo If you managed to understand our enterprise SaaS i'd give you $10, nevertheless code it :) It took us 10 years!

Mark Buffalo

22:53

That's why I enjoy programming... the feeling of accomplishment every single time

Ixrec

@DavidFreitag true, but that's always balanced by the fact that if you're not sure what it should do you can always just run the old version, while with new stuff often no one knows how it should work yet

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat This is where reverse-engineering comes into play

If I can see your product in action, I can copy the results 100%

quickly.

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo Unfortunately, other companies provided our source code have tried and failed. It's way complicated.

David Freitag

@Ixrec Yeah but in some environments that's not practical.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat IF I'm supposed to work with your code base, that's different. It takes time

But once I understand what you're doing on the code end, no problem

Herringbone Cat

22:55

@MarkBuffalo A team of 300 engineers was unable to even support our codebase and release new versions. The PM said that it would have taken their 300 man team the same amount of time, ten years, to come up with software that does what ours does.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Sounds like a shitty code base?

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo It's just really incredibly sophisticated, we created algorithms and stuff based on research from the 50s and 60s that had never been made into code, and it works quite well.

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat ԅ( ಠ ‸ ಠ )╮

Herringbone Cat

We have a lot of Ph.D's on staff etc, so it's just really high level stuff.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Also, for me, size comes into play... if you're developing something supermassive that one person couldn't possibly do, I might have trouble. d:

Herringbone Cat

22:56

I'm sure a crack team from like, Google etc could make sense of it, but 300 persons in India ..not so much.

Mark Buffalo

ah, outsourcing...

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat Never farm out software. Never.

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo Not so much outsourcing as that's where multinationals just base their programming arm.

@DavidFreitag Tell that to Siemens.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat I knew a guy who got replaced after working at Siemens for 10+ years

replaced with someone he had to train

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo sounds like standard multinational corp BS

David Freitag

22:57

@HerringboneCat I should rephrase. Never farm out software to a company you can't personally visit. Regularly.

Herringbone Cat

I've never worked for a public company -- I pretty much flat out refuse to, becuase of these shenanigans. Once you're beholden to shareholders and not like your own ethics or anything like that, evil results

I have consulted for public companies though, but that was under the auspices of a private consulting company.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Public sector vs. public company...?

By public, you mean IPO, etc?

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo public company means listed on a stock exchange

Mark Buffalo

Also, are you Herringbone Dinger? :D

From SF?

Herringbone Cat

and with that comes rules on governance etc....you have to do the best for your shareholders, if that means fire ppl or outsource, that's the executive's responsibility to the shareholders

@MarkBuffalo never heard of the dinger.

Mark Buffalo

23:00

huh, might've had you mixed up

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo the herringbone cat is well known in the SF art party scene as my character :) I'll demonstrate.

Mark Buffalo

Yeah, I think we talked a while back. You mentioned SF is for polygamists, etc?

Herringbone Cat

nah, utah is for polygamists

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Ah, okay. So you're essentially completely insane and totally whacked the hell out.

Herringbone Cat

polyamory lives in northern california though :)

Mark Buffalo

23:01

I like you.

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo now you get it!

Mark Buffalo

Ah, yea... polyamory

I'm not into that

Degenerates. All of you.

Herringbone Cat

I wear cat ears to parties and a tailcoat with a tail. So, since i'm completely batshit insane, I could care less about being a degenerate ^-^

David Freitag

@HerringboneCat That doesn't look like a "party scene"

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat I like that. I'd probably wear a Dracula costume or something.

Or even a Darth Vader costume

David Freitag

23:03

@MarkBuffalo What just because we have closets with ball gags, whips, gimp suits, and nipple clamps we're degenerates?

Herringbone Cat

@DavidFreitag That is the Edwardian Ball 2016. edwardianball.com . .it's a 2000 person party.

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag Uh... well, yes...yes, you are. Pony weirdo.

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo Hey. I said nothing about ponies.

Mark Buffalo

I had to self-censor myself

flickr.com/photos/marcosanchez/24655523156/in/…

Look, I found my ex

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo She digs the whip? Kinky.

Mark Buffalo

23:07

Never mind, that's just a woman dressed up as satan.

David Freitag

shit what am I going to have for dinner tonight

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo I think some people spend months on their edwardian ball costumes. The amount of effort is insane. Some of them would make the cast of downton abbey jealous.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat It sounds fun

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo It really is. They even got a commendation from the city of san francisco for this year's party..and it's really hard to get a commendation from the city for well, throwing a party.

Usually you just get arrested :)

Mark Buffalo

I went to a party here recently

It's called a snow storm

and... I just...

I got snowed in

David Freitag

23:11

@MarkBuffalo And you have the nerve to call us degenerates.

Herringbone Cat

I'm going to that party this weekend in South Lake Tahoe.

Mark Buffalo

@HerringboneCat Lake Tahoe is freaking awesome

been there with the fam

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo I know.. I try to go up 3-4 times a season..even once in the summer too.

Mark Buffalo

Last year... grand canyon, phoenix, salt lake city, mount rushmore, etc

Herringbone Cat

I think I managed to hit the last snowstorm of the season this weekend.

Mark Buffalo

23:12

and all over california

I do like california quite a bit

Herringbone Cat

We have a lot of nice stuff..my favorite part of California is the redwoods of Humboldt/Mendo though.

I know, lots of people like Yosemite, or Tahoe..but those redwoods are just amazing

David Freitag

Sometimes I wish I didn't have crippling social anxiety

Mark Buffalo

I like Southern California

and san fran is nice too

@DavidFreitag You do? Could've fooled me

Herringbone Cat

@DavidFreitag eh I have the opposite. I have the tendency to seriously intimidate introverts soemtimes, so it's a mixed bag.

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo I explained this already

Mark Buffalo

23:13

@HerringboneCat For some reason, I intimidate both introverts and extroverts

:(

Herringbone Cat

@MarkBuffalo a hobson's choice :(

David Freitag

When we met I was so sleep deprived that my brain literally didn't have the energy to make me all anxious

Mark Buffalo

@DavidFreitag ah, yes...

I remember this, but I'm not buying it

I THINK YOU'VE GOT MORE POWER THAN YOU THINK

David Freitag

@MarkBuffalo My brain randomly decides when it's going to screw me over

I get really sweaty, start to shake a lot, then I get really flush

Thermite Vs. Hockey Puck

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TildalWave

23:48

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Q: Which encryption Technique should I use?

Which encryption Technique should I use to encrypt my daughters naked pictures? I want the encryption technique to be strong/resistant to brute force attacks. I am thinking of using maybe RSA, but, I heard that RSA is slow for large files and that I should use RSA to just encrypt the Keys and not...

encryption

can someone please burniate this one off the planet?

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