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maple_shaft

Jul 15, 2021 15:12

@Fattie thanks for clarifying. I agree with your sentiment about hours worked, but I would say the spirit of this sentiment is really about autonomy and agency. It is crazy to me that so many people take employment as if it were military service. We are all adults here, you should only give what you agreed to in your employment contract. If you want to do more thats fine. If you want to submit to psychopathic manager and allow him/her to beat you down and blame you and play mental tricks on you to guilt you then so be it but its your choice.

maple_shaft

Jul 15, 2021 15:12

@Fattie I think I just cut myself on the "edginess" of this comment. If you are in fact a top pay programmer then maybe burning your candle at both ends and sacrificing your health amd well being in a thankless way is the right thing to do, but I would lay my money that most of us are not truly that important and the projects not that dire or important either. These kinds of projects should be a rare occurrence, like 2 or 3 times a career. Otherwise you are probably killing yourself for nothing. The professional thing to do is step up within reason but allow it to fail if needed.

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maple_shaft

Jun 25, 2021 15:15

@OwenReynolds Forget privateers, it was incredibly common for merchant vessels to carry cannons back then specifically because of how bad piracy was. They certainly were not affordable by the average person, but a sailing vessel was probably one of the most significantly massive investments that could have been made at the time. It costed an exorbitant amount of money to commission the construction of a sailing vessel, so spending the extra money for cannons was seen as a necessity in most cases.

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maple_shaft

Nov 4, 2019 16:18

I liked the Ben Eater Youtube series where he builds an 8 bit computer on breadboards. He goes into how machine code instructions get decoded into sequences of microcode operations and how each microcode operation occurs in a clock cycle

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maple_shaft

Sep 2, 2019 14:30

@acspd7 No I actually was talking about a friend :) One of the leads that interviewed him is a high reputation StackOverflow user that called me out in chat when he realized I was talking about my friend. He mentioned that they weren't mad they were just a little shocked because they felt the interview was going very well. Small world!

maple_shaft

Sep 2, 2019 14:30

@JordanReiter Clash of cultures indeed. I understand the allure of the perfect design, the perfect implementation, it is a noble pursuit, but in the end, most of use are just writing line of business apps. I personally don't feel I am accomplishing much if I am not solving business problems. I still have passion though, I contribute on StackOverflow and Programmers, I sponsor projects for students at my alma mater, I even get a perverse joy out of tuning SQL queries for fun. I get paid though to solve business problems and I am all business at work.

maple_shaft

Sep 2, 2019 14:30

@MonicaCellio We can never know for sure because we weren't there. I realize I am only painting one side of the story but I have always know him to be a rather level-headed guy. I cannot see him being rude, he usually kills on interviews. What do you think the problem is then based on my description of the account?

Discussion on answer by Craig W: Is i…

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maple_shaft

Jan 8, 2018 16:13

@RossRidge That is correct. It wasnt for nothing either. Those treatments kept the cancer in remission for several years.

maple_shaft

Jan 8, 2018 16:13

@Tim You Brits don't realize how lucky you have it. Everytime I hear you complain about the NHS I want to slap every one of you.

maple_shaft

Jan 8, 2018 16:13

@Mehrdad I seem to remember the ACA did away with lifetime limits. My cousin came down with pancreatic cancer and eventually succumbed to it before the ACA, but not before hitting a 750k lifetime limit on her insurance and leaving her husband with hundreds of thousands of debt.

The Side Channel

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maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:58

Oh I might know what the key schedule is... but unsure what to do with it

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:48

I think I should probably post it as a question actually

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:42

I am kind of a crypto noob, is this a futile exercise? Should I just give up? My goal is to find the key(s)

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:41

I wrote a program to attempt every possible combo for EDE2 and EDE3 and none of them turned up any sequences of 0x30-0x39

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:39

Through core dumps I collected 5 different 8 byte sequences that I have suspicion are either the keys, or at least could be part of the 2 to 3 sets of keys

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:38

Triple DES ECB mode, either two 8 byte keys or three 8 byte keys

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:37

Eg. 0x30-0x39

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:37

Trying to decrypt a single 8 byte block, I know the plaintext data is 7 numbers with what I believe is a 0x00 padding on the end

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:35

I am trying to gather my thoughts and fill in some gaps of my knowledge with Triple DES ECB mode to work through a problem, wondered if anybody knowledgeable can help?

The Whiteboard

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maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:48

I feel like the community kind of left. Like we turned this site into a science and people got bored

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:47

@enderland shame

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:31

How the hell is Whiteboard doing, haven't dropped in for a while?

maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:30

Mod tool auto generated text... Rude and Abusive

maple_shaft

Jun 2, 2017 13:56

I lol'ed... and now I need to clear my schedule this afternoon to program this!

maple_shaft

Jun 2, 2017 13:55

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Q: Covfefify a string

In this challenge, you must take a string matching the regex ^[a-z]+$ or ^[A-Z]+$, or ^[A-Z][a-z]+$ or whatever is reasonable, (you may assume the string is long enough, and has the right structure for all the operations), and output another string, produced similarly to word at the end of a rece...

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:29

so many people

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:29

omg and everybody in this room...

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:29

@AaronHall and you

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:28

@GlenH7 thank you too

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:28

@gnat thank you too

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:28

@RobertHarvey Thank you too

maple_shaft

Oct 21, 2016 14:27

@null Thank you too

The DMZ

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maple_shaft

Jul 28, 2017 17:34

I am trying to gather my thoughts and fill in some gaps of my knowledge with Triple DES ECB mode to work through a problem, wondered if anybody knowledgeable can help?

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maple_shaft

Jun 28, 2017 18:08

@Etherable To throw another snag, even if your employer is unethical and untrustworthy, and even if you think you will have no practical use to your employer after automating your job and disclosing this to them, that still doesn't make it ethical for you to take advantage of them by deceptively inserting bugs and lying to them through omission. Their wrongness doesn't increase your righteousness. The right thing to do is probably start looking for another job as a backup plan, and then tell the truth, while asking for additional responsibility. Your contract is FT, they expect FT effort.

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maple_shaft

Jun 27, 2017 18:51

It is still not fully automated. It still takes him a couple hours a week to do the required work. Honestly what I would do is communicate what happened and suggest contracting myself out for 2 hours a week at a high rate to continue performing my job, leaving me free to take another full time job. Now I have full employment and I am making more money than before.

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maple_shaft

Apr 7, 2017 15:58

As others mentioned, carriers are inherently vulnerable. You don't even need to punch through a fleet to sink one, any advanced military with conventional guided ballistic missles can sink a carrier at the press of a button (Hell, even N.Korea has them!). Counter measures against ballistic missles have less than a 50% success rate so even if you are lucky once, the odds are against you when they fire missle #2. As others rightly pointed out, they are used to project power and bully/scare weaker nations.

Whisper

General discussion for Ethereum Stack Exchange.

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 11:53

I have been playing around with smart contracts though. There are some interesting use cases but I feel like so much of the hype is overblown.

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 11:52

@5chdn difficulty is so high now that i cant find a single share.

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 11:50

I feel like everytime I show up at a crypto currency party, the bandwagon had already left and I am 3 months late.

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 01:47

oh well

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 01:47

i am getting awful hashrates though and havent found a single share yet

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 01:46

I found an ethminer fork that chunks the DAG or at least it claims to

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 01:46

I also struggled to get mining on multiple 2gb graphic cards. The DAG cant keep it loaded

maple_shaft

Dec 13, 2016 01:43

@5chdn Thanks, my frustration turned to determinism and I figured it out. I think I struggled because it is so foreign to other cryptocurrencies

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:50

Im done. That feels better to get it off my chest

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:49

Ethereum is hands down the worse thing to ever happen to me since Trump got elected.

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:48

In frustration I downloaded a standalone windows executable for geth without looking at the checksum and now I have a crippling miner trojan that I cant seem to get off my PC. Currently doing a factory reset hoping I dont have to wipe it. To top it all off, i now have to download the blockchains of all my cryptocurrencies all over again, including Ethereum which will take me 3 weeks aparently because geth doesnt exist anymore in the latest stable release

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:45

Nothing is documented correctly or if it is then it is out of date. I tried multiple wallets for one that doesnt freeze and die half way through loading the block chain... nothing I downloaded had geth in it despite multiple sources telling me it should be there, it installs to Local AppData of all places and I still am not sure how to set data dir...

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:42

What in the hell!

maple_shaft

Dec 11, 2016 03:42

Not asking a question, just screaming in frustration. I have mined as a hobby since 2010 with Bitcoin and later with the Scrypt currencies. Never have I been so ungodly frustrated than trying to get into Ethereum mining. OMFG!!! This has to be some of the most convoluted, buggy, overly complex collection of software I have ever experienced!