No no its not like we'll let you censor us, even if you wanted to (after all, you're just a mere diamond-less mortal) :P

That is true

As a random Youtuber once said: "Ernest Hemingway wrote that 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for' and I agree with the last part."

The good thing is, there is no need to prove it - the fact that all his passwords are going to get cracked in seconds proves it enough

How the hell do you prove something?

We tried proving it mathematically, (s)he doesn't want that

schroeder proved it by showing how some long but simple password was in the top 100 passwords

He said that doesn't prove iut

I'm going to prove it by telling him he's a fucking idiot.

"Prove me wrong but you're not allowed actually to do anything"

"Oh, you can't do anything with those rules? That must mean I'm right!"

@MechMK1 really?

How exactly does that prove you're right?

Or any better than that chap. Pick fights that matter ;)

@JourneymanGeek That's not the point. The point is to feel better, not to find who's right or wrong. But I agree that it would be unproductive trolling/fighting/bullying/being stupid.

@A.Hersean Oh feeling better is a good reason but... the mud

I'd rather stand on the high ground and toss intellectual grenades

Yeah, nobody thinks about the mud

@A.Hersean No I don't!

Ha!

So if you do actually call him an idiot, or worse, you get flagged, maybe suspended and... you feel worse.

@nobody that's the problem!

But maybe nobody has the solution, too.

speaking of which

@J-- I got my keyboard, finally

@A.Hersean maybe nobody likes mud!

"You can't prove that my theory is wrong" isn't how science works.

@MechMK1 Sure

But are you going to change his mind?

@JourneymanGeek I don't need to, nor could I really. You can't use rational arguments to convince an irrational person.

Exactly

Somehow, it reminds me of the father of a friend who became more and more clinically paranoid due to a degenerative mental affliction (uncurable). Last time I saw him he believed I became part of the conspiracy/cabal against him because I told him that no, his "proof" did not manage to break RSA.

@A.Hersean There is a very simple way to show that you broke RSA :^)

You can't disprove a theory without a theoretical answer.

"All owls are red. Disprove that without talking about owls."

The more constraints you give, the less useful the theory

@MechMK1 I know, he too. But he did not have access to a supercomputer to run his algorithm (he tried it on "small" numbers). But a complexity analysis of the code revealed that it was useless to try it.

@A.Hersean Let me guess: He didn't understand the complexity analysis, so that must mean that the result of it is wrong?

I also broke RSA, coincidentally

He could code smart optimizations. But he had no number theory knowledge.

It's very simple, actually: Just iterate all prime numbers until you find the correct one.

I tried it for small numbers and it works

It was a pity to watch such a smart man degrading with time. A bit like with a multiple sclerosis, but hereditary. This was something like 10-15 years ago. Today he should be blind and in a wheelchair.

I don't know if it's worse to have a mental or physical degenerative disease...

losing your body and being conscious of it, or losing your mind

It's fucked up either way

I guess if my outlook on life was complete mental degeneration with no chance of recovery, well...I guess I'd shortcut it

Since the mind controls the body, loosing it (as in this case) often makes you lose your body. And since it's only parts of the brain that degenerates, you can be conscious of it.

the question is what is worse: a healthy mind on a disabled body (like Stephen Hawking) or a healthy body and disabled mind

@MechMK1 That ends up being the choice of many multiple sclerosis patients, even when it's not legal.

@ThoriumBR I'd take the healthy mind in a disabled body if I had to choose

But you can't choose in life

We tend to believe that life is fair, simply because we wish to live in a fair world.

I would ask for what my father got: we worked normally that day, went home, had a cerebral aneurysm and was dead the next morning

from healthy strong man to dead in 10 hours

Horrible things happen to good people, and horrible people succeed in life

And just as Thorium said, sometimes people die out of nowhere

@ThoriumBR I'd prefer that to dying slowly

The biggest challenge in life is to accept that none of it makes sense in any ways. We're all governed by complete randomness.

My preferred way out is a 12ga to the brainstem

Just blows the whole brain out in the process

his father got bedridden for almost a decade... when my grandfather died, all his sons wept but my father... my father said his father rested, as he was dead since getting bedridden. he always said he wanted to die working, and he got that

My grandmother died over the course of several weeks from her cancer

It was still comparatively fast

But she had no life left in those weeks

To quote a song: "Was ist der Tod, wenn du im Leben kein Leben mehr spürst?" meaning "What is death, when you can't feel life in your life anymore?"

@MechMK1 Salvation.

@A.Hersean That's the next line, actually, asking if death is a punishment, or salvation

@J-- It reminds me of my old keyboard when it was new

the keycaps are a bit nicer than what razer shipped (though hard to read with the lights off)

and I didn't realise over a decade how quiet my old keyboard had gotten

I have cherry blues so worn out they are silent :D

it was prebuilt :(

I was hoping to assemble it - swapped out the spacebar for the 'spare' set they sent (I shoulda gotten something else but I kinda forgot to check what the default is

lol

Oh

this was a few months back

and I have AMD 3000 series APU based NUC-type machine on order this month

oh

I need to dig up my aliexpress one

after I clear my desk

lol

never tried taobao

the fact that its all in chinese is a bit of a thing

lol

finding stuff/understanding what's going on lol

I really can't do anything too fun until 2023 tho

when I move out

I live with my parents for now

My new place ought to be finished by then

Shoulda been 2022, but covid's ruined a lotta things

little 2 room place in a really new public development

(can afford better but can't buy a bigger new build public housing as a single person)

Planning ahead is how I make it through today :D

Oh uh

If my math is right, I might be able to own it outright

@J-- no real choices

I'd get a 3 room, but once again

options for singles are limited

Government owns much of the housing, we lease it

and apparently singles don't need space

so I either can buy out someone's lease (which is pricy) or buy a new build, which is built as there's demand

onnnlyyyy

it got delayed by covid

HOWEVER my apartment's prefab so it might cross fingers get done faster

lol

I don't think I have read the news in years

I get it from my RSS feeds (which is mostly techie stuff) and people around me

@J-- why?

You'll feel bad reading it too

might as well spend the time doing something that dosen't make you feel bad

Oh

Ours is having a small crisis :D