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@TildalWave: You there... The guy in mountain! Has New Year come yet?
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merry new year to all utc people!
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@Waffle'sCrazyPeanut aye we had it an hour ago, it's @RoryAlsop @RоryMcCune and @kalina's turn now
Happy New Year!
Happy new year! Happy hogmanay!
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Oh, @RoryAlsop: Happy New Year then! You better keep in mind that I wished you - shouldn't mock me next time! :P
00:02
Lol. No mocking here!
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@RoryAlsop That's what he said!
Happy New Year All :)
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I wake up on New Year's morning and Manish just shows up with a link saying that Github is about get blocked in our country... -_-
00:29
Happy new year bronies :)
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01:31
Holy stars batman.
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01:44
saw this
gem
 
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02:57
Aww, no hat for me.
 
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07:16
@TildalWave nope, I'm +1 atm! Figured it would be a bit stupid to automate messages for the next 24 hours for each timezone...
sleepy time
08:00
1032
Q: Why is printing "B" dramatically slower than printing "#"?

Kuba SpatnyI generated two matrices of 1000 x 1000: First Matrix: O and #. Second Matrix: O and B. Using the following code, the first matrix took 8.52 seconds to complete: Random r = new Random(); for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < 1000; j++) { if(r.nextInt(4) == 0) { ...

08:13
@AviD ?
@TerryChia just interesting. highest scoring post on SO in 2014.
@AviD Ah. Yeah, SO likes this type of random questions.
All the actual programming questions already got asked years ago.
@TerryChia but some of the comments there are actually relevant:
> You need to be careful that you are only measuring the thing you are trying to measure
@AviD Which is generally why I think profiling the whole program is usually a better starting point.
thats kind of the opposite
actually as a starting point, youre right. only when there are issues, you need to drill down to the speciftics.
nevermind me. I'm still at last night/
08:31
@AviD Heh.
ftr, not talking about partying or getting drunk... talking about falling asleep with the kids and missing dinner.
are you sad now?
@AviD Not really. You're an old man.
actually, I dont think I cared much about that since highschool.
arbitrary dates are rarely a good reason.
and no, you dont need an excuse.
08:53
so, I've been discovering just how bad ALL the insurance companies here are with security. I've been a total pantsweasel, giving them all a hard time publicly (since I would never agree to consult to them again).
I've actually gotten a few "official" formal responses from the higher ups. Unfortunately, it is usually a pile of crap. "Oh our password policies comply with industry standards! blabla".
So, question is... DO I GO TO WAR WITH THEM ALL
@AviD That depends.
on what?
@AviD Whether going to war involves putting on pants and leaving the house.
actually I think I should go the regulatory route. It exists, its just pretty weak, and not strongly enforced. Maybe thats what I should crusade to change.
@TerryChia ha!
09:18
heehee, so after a bit of lawyering through the existing regulations, I think I might have them.
> ... must update the risk assessment after any changes in.... the security threats.
@AviD Starting the year by reading regulations. That doesn't sound fun.
@TerryChia heh. no, but going to war on the entire insurance industry? Priceless.
@AviD You must be bored...
@TerryChia I'm not bored. I AM PISSED OFF.
@AviD Heh.
09:36
@AviD Define risk for them in the way they understand: how it directly hurts their pocket.
I'm not sure about Israel but I know here that for breaches of personal data a company may be fined 2% of its global turnover and C-suite may be held accountable personally and be sentenced to prison
@AviD but yea insurance is really bad, I've also had my fair share of astonishment where I just found people's medical data all over the place for insurance claims
@LucasKauffman I'm not trying to sell them security. I am demanding it as a consumer.
@AviD oh, well then just sue them if there's a breach
@LucasKauffman dont wanna! I want them secure NOW.
hell just let me use a strong password comfortably, instead of jumping through your hoops to get a weak password.
@AviD I just sent an email to a savings and investment bank yesterday to tell them that thinking secrete questions + birthdate is not a form of two factor authentication
@LucasKauffman ha! inorite?
09:39
@AviD the BS answer you'll get is that "mainframe doesn't support it"
I refuse to call them "secret questions". nothing secret about them, especially not the answers.
I call them "grandma questions".
which is more "our shit application written in COBOL of which all developers have already died whose bodies have decomposed to dust, does not support it"
for more reason than one.
@AviD and especially if their WHOLE company can read them
@LucasKauffman often true (IF you get that far) - but that just shows that they are not complying with secure storage, either.
09:41
@AviD exactly
so with one of these co's, the senior lawyer in charge of audit or whatever actually sent me a letter.
@LucasKauffman Maybe they can hire @RoryAlsop to maintain it. ;)
yknow, an actual letter, on paper in an envelope. delivered to my physical mailbox.
but I cant back in touch with her!!
@TerryChia are you implying that @RoryAlsop has decomposed and turned to dust, or that he didn't?
@AviD That he didn't.
@Gilles I am disappointed you spelled doughnuts wrongly.
@TerryChia why would he add in the extra ugh?
so I think I just posted the brainiest facebook comment ever.
thats right, war with the insurance industry ON FACEBOOK.
09:47
@AviD That's not a high bar to clear considering Facebook's targeted demographic.
I would link it, but its in hebrew. Because they dont understand English.
@TerryChia well, yeah, exactly. how smart do you think it is to go to war with insurance companies by writing facebook comments?
@AviD Maybe you should write a angry Medium post on the topic and post it on HN.
heh.
too hipster for me.
though I did actually consider it....
it would have to be in hebrew anyway.
@AviD Who currently in this room has worked for a Silicon Valley startup (in the past year no less)?
@TerryChia hahaha
fair point
10:25
I feel like I have been hit with a train... like every single muscle in my body is disobeying my commands to hold it together and walk
wow, that must have been a good date last night.
good sex would be the comparison I'd use too, except I only did drugs last night and no sex was involved
anyway, this hotel sucked and I can't wait
time to go home
10:44
meh
11:21
Morning all! Hope no-one is too broken.
tldr?
a js port of windows.h, I presume?
@AviD Looks like it.
12:15
so someone may just have posted their username and password in base64/URL encoded format in a question
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Q: What kind of cryptography is this

RandomRawrIn a website called "Chatzy", when you post a message you send a POST request containing the message and your name and color, the name and color are sent in this form MzEwMzk4ODgyNTIxNTQmMzEwMzk4ODgyNTIxNTQmMCZYMTY4JjE0MTE4NjkzNDUmSVFTQVhZT1MmRXZl​cmdyZWVu4oCMJjMyQ0QzMiYmMSYzJjEmdWJ1Z2dAemV0b...

decoding the string they provided gives the colour they talked about along with what appears to be a username and may also be a password?
but then I guess it may be some other text relating to the app.
I'd edit the question but IIRC it'll still show in the history
You'd have to ask a dev/CM via your mods to get that wiped,
I'd ask, but I'm not quite smart enough to word it right XD
hey @AviD @RoryAlsop can either of you two ask a dev to wipe that... it may not be his password but it's definitely an e-mail address and what could well be a pwd :)
12:34
@RоryMcCune You are asking them wrong.
@TerryChia hmmm?
Oi @AviD, stop writing Javascript and do your damn job!
 
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14:14
select
  'http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/' + case when isnull(p.parentid,'')='' then cast(p.id as varchar) else cast(p.parentid as varchar) end + '#comment' + cast(c.id as varchar) + '_' + cast(p.id as varchar),
  c.score,
  c.text
from comments c
inner join posts p on c.postid = p.id
where c.userid = ##userid## and c.creationdate > (getdate() - 365)
order by c.score asc
also: "yay home" and "boo, going out again"
14:31
@kalina is that a long way of saying it's been a year since you did the same NYE run?
@TerryChia reading javascript actually, and that is my job
well, "job", but I dont actually have one.
@RоryMcCune meh, nothing I can do. If he wants, he should email them via [email protected].
also, since when do you honor "break this encryption" requests with an answer?
@AviD hey I was just going on what @JourneymanGeek suggested :op
@AviD it was so obviously base64 + URL encoded I just thought I'd take a look
Cause that's generally what I would advice my users to do. Oops ;p
14:38
@JourneymanGeek yeah but you're probably a less grouchy mod than @AviD :)
@RоryMcCune Oscar would make for a less grouchy mod than AviD.
sorry, this ain't no full service station here. Maitre d'Site is out for the day.
@kalina s/select/delete top 10
your regex is broken
14:52
heh
Happy New Year Everyone!
(It's safe now no? It's 2015 everywhere?)
BTW I definitely didn't drink enough last night. I didn't even feel it ...
Now, TWSS!!!
@TildalWave: or you drank too much and you can't feel it cause you're in a tub of ice with your kidneys removed.
@JourneymanGeek you have a weird sex life.
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@AviD: Oh, you wish you knew about that. Oh wait, you don't.
14:58
hmm. I really am too cranky to be doing any modding right now.
@AviD Isn't too much empathy usually what's the problem with modding? As in, you weren't sure if you should nuke it or guide some misguided soul to start making some sense, then later realized you really should have nuked it because that misguided soul started guiding you how the site is supposed to work or how you fail to see sense in something that has none?
only here. Most other sites, not enough empathy is the problem.
Oh no, I didn't mean the trilogy
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A: Why will SpaceX do Pad Abort test from a truss, not a real first and second stage?

Wayne MartinThank You for the Warm Welcome TidalWave! Another Unfortunate is that when it comes to SpaceX the word enigmatic comes into play and most of the replies posted here are speculative and or potential answers... as was mine... What I offered does not need documentation and or URL Links in this ins...

clear case of too much empathy
That punctuation.
you'd be surprised how many people that think they can do rocket science have problems reading
My favorite line is
> Testing is something that I happen to do for a living
then going to read his profile :)
15:12
@JourneymanGeek seems very excited!
Another case of too much empathy cc @AviD
The consequence would be that its not SSL? Or even anything resembling a sensible system... I cannot figure out how such a system would even work, in your mind? — AviD ♦ yesterday
thats too much empathy?
I almost deleted that user.
and you should have IMHO
because this
@Avid: I can have anything in my mind. There should be some reason why development team choose this in SSL implementation. — Shivani 2 hours ago
I know, thats what I'm talking about.
isn't that one blocked from asking anyway?
and who the frack upvoted his crap questions?
I'd just hit the suspension with the sockpuppet reason
and make it a long one
15:26
@TildalWave thats the point. I dont have patience to do it right, right now.
15:44
I'll help you then
Also, sockpuppeting much? You have 4 questions, all extremely poor in quality, yet each with one upvote made at nearly exactly the same time. — TildalWave 32 secs ago
Empathy is good. Make others feel your pain at their bad questions.
erm, that would require THEM to to be capable of empathy, no?
I'm sending mental lightnings down their way but they're not receiving ...
precisely
@TildalWave I think what he's trying to ask is essentially this: crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/586/…
16:07
@RоryMcCune nope, replace 'gaming' with 'security' and run it against the data explorer to select 10 comments from the last 365 days to delete for the hat
@kalina ah I see it's a hat thing
@TildalWave ...in the data explorer?
@Ninefingers Dunno, good find but he's asking about using "symetric [sic] key for key exchange [SIC!] and then an asymetric [sic] key for data encryption". That Big Bear's answer only discusses the latter part. Could be because the former part makes absolutely no sense whatsoever LOL
@TildalWave Yep basically
Anyway, when you see someone taking more time to argue in comments than it would take to clarify the question, I'd suggest just flagging to request a nuke and moving along
16:14
Im a scottish llama now
Yep
Well rather than sit back and work out where their understanding is off, they're arguing. Which indicates they probably won't get (or like) the answer.
@LucasKauffman Is this in place of the singing career?
It also won't help others if their thought patterns are stuck on problem making rather than problem solving
@Ninefingers combination
I will be guided by pipebags while singing
@LucasKauffman Sounds interesting
Ahh, scotland's second most lethal weapon..
after swarms of wild haggis.
16:29
@JourneymanGeek Got to be third. You've forgotten Mel Gibson!
user image
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Wait isn't Mel Gibson Australian?
actually ... and I didn't know this either:
@Ninefingers: If the scots had broken out the bagpipes, it would have ended very differently.
> He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old.
so he's upstatenewyorkian downundrian :)
17:26
@RоryMcCune was going to but then couldn't get onto the Teacher's Lounge, so just deleted the entire thing - 10k'ers can see it, but you already gave him your warning :-)
17:44
@RoryAlsop \o/ non-grouchy mod :)
17:56
@RоryMcCune Slow mod though - finished drinking about 3.30, so waiting for blood alcohol level to come down was accomplished with the Lego Movie and lots of bacon
Only just got home a few minutes ago to find Livingston had a power cut earlier today, so timers and embedded devices all need redone round the house
UPS on expensive stuff though, so no real worries
@RoryAlsop nice!
@RoryAlsop less nice!
@RoryAlsop \o/

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