stinerman

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, if you'd have put $100/mo into pets.com you'd have $0 now. Fun fact: Amazon invested heavily into pets.com.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Same. Should be rock bottom prices.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

Being a boring nobody is one of the most freeing things in the world.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

Picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, screenshot, picture, screenshot, picture.

That well is probably AI, though.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Best wishes! I hope it works out. If I was the employer and you were a good worker, I'd want to retain you rather than lose you forever and then spend the time looking for a new hire and training them.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This sounds like OP has a full time position somewhere and is thinking of quitting to go work as a contractor. My guess is that they're unemployed after 2 months and would need to find a new job.

My general feeling on this is that it's fine if they understand the difference. I don't know of they're in the US or elsewhere, but in the US the taxes on 1199 contractors are pretty high and there are no benefits. This can heavily change the calculus.

I would see if my current employer would allow me to take a 2 month leave of absence and then come back.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I found out at a previous position that the best way to get my work done was to be short with people. In that case they wouldn't bother me, and I had more time to do my work.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

This is all you really need to know about people's car payments:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gifYyVTHIfY

You can find this all over YT. It's insanity. For the record, my wife drives a 2019 Camry. I drive a 2012 Fiesta. Both paid off. I only have the Fiesta because my sister wanted to sell it and it was a good deal for the times where my wife and I both need to drive. We were a one-car family for a few years.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are people in my hometown that have car payments higher than their mortgage payments.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

DES is symmetric key cryptography. It doesn't rely on the difficulty of factorizing large semi-primes. It did use a 56-bit key, though.

Public key cryptography (DSA, RSA, Elliptic Curve) does rely on these things and yes it's a 4096-bit key these days (up from 1024 in the older days).

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