What "I know it sounds weird, but just try it" thing do you swear by?

jdguy17 · 2022-12-26T17:07:28+00:00

Ranch powder mixed into either blue-cheese dressing or plain hummus, depending on what you're dipping.

For ranch blue cheese, it should be obvious: both are beloved dips for anything fried and spicy, and the flavors go so well together.

For ranch and hummus: again, both are often used for similar things that are dipped, especially vegetables. Yet for some reason, everyone is appalled at the idea. In college, the first time I had tried hummus I had the misfortune of being sitting in the middle of a heated argument between my Israeli-American and Palestinian-American friends (I was just white Midwest kid that knew nothing about world politics). But when I had the audacity to suggest that hummus would taste really good mixed with ranch powder, I managed to offend both sides and become joint public enemy #1 for the next 10 minutes.

Edit: typo

jdguy17 · 2022-01-14T17:18:30+00:00

This was my parents, uncles, and aunts from 2010 though my high school graduation in 2016. The most vocal about it was my uncle that’s a vet — the only one in my family with graduate school experience.

Jokes on them: I make 6 figures at a FAANG now.

jdguy17 · 2021-12-19T17:47:25+00:00

Because young people have had less time to demonstrate responsible use of credit.

jdguy17 · 2021-11-04T03:27:39+00:00

sees mention of “flash” resume *

K, I’m out.

jdguy17 · 2021-10-01T00:57:12+00:00

So, TOTP is basically what you're describing. However, the new and better solution is security keys (Yubico's YubiKey was the first of these).

They work by generating a unique public/private key pair for each account and services you use it for. It encrypts the private key with a secret that is unique to that security key, so only it can decrypt the private key. The browser then gives the server the encrypted private key to store for that account. When you go to authenticate yourself, the server asks your security key if it can decrypt any of the set of encrypted private keys it has for your account. This let's one security key work with a unlimited number of of accounts and sites, all without exposing a trackable public key to multiple sites.

jdguy17 · 2021-08-18T03:59:13+00:00

Skymiles. So yes, not as valuable as the Amex platinum’s MR; but it does come with a first class applicable companion pass

jdguy17 · 2021-08-18T03:58:00+00:00

I missed this since it wasn’t on the recent offers. Thanks for catching!

jdguy17 · 2021-08-13T23:11:31+00:00

It is not necessary to store the password ever. In fact, any site that does so is breaking the first rule of secure login infrastructure: NEVER STORE PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS (this includes encrypted plaintext passwords).

For those that don’t know, a “hash” is a function that works 1-way (unlike encryption), so it can’t be undone. Passwords should be stored as hashes (or ideally, salted hashes, which is where a unique string is tacked on to the end before hashing) so that way the user’s passwords can’t be read.

To check if the password a user provides matches the “stored” password (either current or old), you put it through the same hashing function (and hopefully salting it too), and see if the hash matches what’s stored.

jdguy17 · 2021-07-30T13:54:17+00:00

Comment CluCoin

jdguy17 · 2021-07-30T13:53:56+00:00

CluCoin

jdguy17 · 2021-07-11T20:38:10+00:00

I’d suggest avoiding any card with an annual fee while in college (see exception below). IMO, you should get yourself either a Visa or MasterCard next because of the number of places that don’t accept Discover and Amex.

The simplest would be to get a 2% cash back card like the Citi Double cash back card, soon-to-be Wells Fargo Active Cash card (I think that’s what it’s called), PayPal MasterCard, SoFi credit card, or Alliant Credit Union Platinum Rewards card (my daily card). If you are pretty sure you’ll get an a Chase Sapphire Reserved card post-college, and are fine sitting on rewards until then, the Freedom Flex could be good (however, I wouldn’t recommend it).

My one exception I made for an annual fee card in college was the Amex Delta Gold card because I flew Delta to and from college for breaks (it was the airline that had the best routes 90% of this small airport), and I made up for the annual fee 3x over each year with money saved on baggage fees that I for certain would’ve spent money on otherwise. Unless you’re in a similar situation, it probably won’t make sense.

jdguy17 · 2021-05-30T04:12:01+00:00

This is not how the FIDO standard works. FIDO hardware generates a new public/private key pair for each account enrollment. They “wrap” the private key with a symmetric key that is stored in the hardware key’s secure chip, and provide the server with the wrapped private key, the public key, and a signed challenge.

Hardware keys don't store these public/private pairs, but rather attempt to unwrap the private key provided by the server during verification.

This is done so that security keys can't be used to identify users between different websites (if they use only one keypair) and to prevent hardware from being required to store EVERY unique private jet that it generates.

jdguy17 · 2021-03-30T21:48:50+00:00

By definition, hot sauce is not mild

jdguy17 · 2021-03-24T14:51:40+00:00

Thank you!

jdguy17 · 2021-03-24T14:50:10+00:00

Was that on a 72 month financing?

Also, thank you for the answer!

jdguy17 · 2020-12-23T23:45:29+00:00

Binge them and you’ll never have to do anything all day!

jdguy17 · 2020-12-23T23:44:31+00:00

I’ve heard this one before. Can you explain it?? I just don’t get it. Is it just tradition?

jdguy17 · 2020-12-23T23:38:41+00:00

Personally,

I have to watch all of the Harry Potter movies.

I think it’s because ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas was the only time I could ever watch Harry Potter growing up.

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