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That "nerd harder" thing is something I keep coming across in the professional world and it is something of a paradox. It comes from someone who knows you are

That "nerd harder" thing is something I keep coming across in the professional world and it is something of a paradox. It comes from someone who knows you are intelligent and more knowledgeable in a given area than they are, and who wants you to solve their problem, but they are unwilling to accept that your intelligence/knowledge extends to whether or not something can or cannot be done reasonably (Reasonable here being excluding things which are technically possible, such as lifting Rhode Island into some kind of Earth orbit, but aren't really quite feasible or practical). One guy I worked for had a bad habit of starting unicorn hunts and a lot of "this looks easy from fifty thousand feet" foolishness with the phrase, "I know you're real smart but ..." and whatever followed was more a statement of how convenient it would be if something were true, rather than if it were true, possible, and so on. Nerd harder, nerds.

mojo74 3y ago
The single sign on https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-the-single-sign-on https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-the-single-sign...
TheCapeGreek 3y ago
I had a boss who wanted to learn how to decrypt another apps' data on a phone in order to access sensitive information. I told him it wouldn't work, since that defeats the purpose of encrypting that data if we don't own that app. What did he do? Installed Android Studio on an i3 laptop and tried to use the emulator with some random tutorial from some MITM app that claimed it could do the job. Then linked me some other tools that explicitly said they couldn't do this outside of device emulation or rooting the device.
PeterisP 3y ago
My favorite statistics quote by John Tukey seems relevant - "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."

mojo74 3y ago

The single sign on https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-the-single-sign-on https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-the-single-sign...

TheCapeGreek 3y ago

I had a boss who wanted to learn how to decrypt another apps' data on a phone in order to access sensitive information. I told him it wouldn't work, since that defeats the purpose of encrypting that data if we don't own that app. What did he do? Installed Android Studio on an i3 laptop and tried to use the emulator with some random tutorial from some MITM app that claimed it could do the job. Then linked me some other tools that explicitly said they couldn't do this outside of device emulation or rooting the device.

PeterisP 3y ago

My favorite statistics quote by John Tukey seems relevant - "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."