Hacker News: mimon

New comment by mimon in "Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com"

mimon — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:25:56 +0000

So if you can just trick someone into trusting a bogus root CA, take control of their DNS resolution, and get them to open an attacker controlled domain in Chrome then you can... Use this API to get information about their current CPU utilisation.

Wow some attack you got there.

New comment by mimon in "Leaving Substack"

mimon — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:06:47 +0000

As we saw recently with Mastodon, for a very large section of users, views on "open-source, self-hostable and super customizable" will range from "don't care" at best to "that's too much hassle, pass" at worst.

People just want to write their article and have it come up at the top of Google search results, that's the hype.

New comment by mimon in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"

mimon — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:45:14 +0000

I think the idea is the scammer just picks a random business in the area then ships them an empty box with a real tracking number.

New comment by mimon in "Ask HN: Why do people open their doors to strangers without police supervision?"

mimon — Sat, 20 May 2023 17:39:07 +0000

In addition to being completely impractical and unnecessary, you are significantly more likely to be harmed by the police officer than by the random stranger.

New comment by mimon in "ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M"

mimon — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:17:06 +0000

$80k was my starting salary in Sydney, as a grad, almost 15 years ago. It is not even close to competitive in today's market.

New comment by mimon in "FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges"

mimon — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:07:40 +0000

Because crypto in cold storage doesn't earn interest and can't be used as collateral for a margin loan.

Crypto is full of people looking for to get rich quick with interest rates that are obvious ponzi schemes and/or by taking on insane leverage. They don't want to just put tokens in an offline wallet and watch the market prices.

New comment by mimon in "Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)"

mimon — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:31:07 +0000

While that is true it is not relevant here, since this example does not involve associativity.

What is relevent here is that integer division is not distributive over addition.

New comment by mimon in "The Pound's Warning for Europe"

mimon — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:07:46 +0000

It isn't sarcasm. They are saying recession is bad but giving in to Russia is worse.

New comment by mimon in "Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories"

mimon — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:04:52 +0000

Whether code is protected speech or not is utterly irrelevant. Microsoft is not the US Government and has no free speech obligations to anyone.

There are already many forms of protected speech that are banned from GitHub, this is not proving anything.

New comment by mimon in "Fuckyou.money"

mimon — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:11:20 +0000

The assumption that all the money I'm not currently saving is living expenses and that these expenses will continue growing exponentially really throws this off.

Many of the biggest expenses people have - income tax, mortgage payments, raising children - all decrease in retirement. Also, many FIRE proponents explicitly include plans to reduce these expenses even more, such as by moving to a place with lower cost-of-living.

New comment by mimon in "'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed"

mimon — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:06:38 +0000

It is a recommendation only, so you won't be fined, but during court proceedings failing to follow this or other recommendations in the highway code can increase your liability.

The government announcement of the changes is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-highway-code-8-change...

New comment by mimon in "I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me"

mimon — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:31:30 +0000

If the ads are being added by the content creator and you don't like that, the solution is to not watch that content creator, not blame a random streaming platform for supplying unadulterated content.

New comment by mimon in "I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me"

mimon — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:28:32 +0000

There are millions of podcasts adding thousands of hours of content every day, how is this even remotely feasible? Why would Spotify want to do this anyway? If you don't like it when a podcast includes ads then don't listen to that podcast, this has nothing to do with Spotify.

New comment by mimon in "It’s not still the early days of blockchain"

mimon — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:29:21 +0000

I'm don't know where you live, but I have purchased cars in both Australia and the UK and both involved verifying via a centralised database that the car was not stolen or financially encumbered.

New comment by mimon in "Bugs are evolving to eat plastic"

mimon — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:45:20 +0000

They already manufacture a variety of biodegradable plastics. They are not more widely used because they have some combination of undesirable properties compared to common plastics (expensive, brittle, cannot be exposed to sunlight, moisture, etc.)

New comment by mimon in "Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call"

mimon — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:53:00 +0000

Breach of contract, or at a stretch maybe fraud if they were actively misleading someone. But definitely not theft.

New comment by mimon in "The Spiral Staircase Myth (2020)"

mimon — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:23:56 +0000

Survivorship in what sense? The castles that exist today have not survived because they were better at repelling swordsmen, they survive because someone in the nobility happened to like them and protected them from development and hundreds of years of disrepair.

New comment by mimon in "A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems"

mimon — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:42:29 +0000

Unfortunately for you I live, work, and do tech hiring in Western Europe, so I'm just going to go straight ahead and call you out on your weird geo-superiority bs.

Western European grads are no better or worse than elsewhere. Tech jobs do pay disproportionately well (not as much as the US but still well), and I assure you other white-collar fields such as law, finance and medicine have plenty of ridiculous demands and barriers to entry - often much worse than the ones we see in tech.

Honestly if you are as good as you say you are you should be happy to just walk into any tech company you like, spend a couple hours showing off, and be set for life.

New comment by mimon in "A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems"

mimon — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:13:34 +0000

If you think holding a CS degree in any way correlates with being able to function as a professional developer... Boy have I got news for you. Companies conduct these interviews because holding a CS degree is almost worthless as an indicator of ability.

I suggest you sit in on some of these interviews if you get the chance, you will very quickly see what an absolute train wreck they are when you get someone with the right paper qualifications who just doesn't know how to code at all.

New comment by mimon in "Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag"

mimon — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:08:22 +0000

Except your rule isn't a rule at all, it's just you assuming everyone else has the same usage pattern as you (they don't).

Pre-covid I had many co-workers who would sit down, plug their laptop into the dock, and work the whole day without ever opening the lid.

I've also spent 15+ years with a laptop connected to my TV that never has the lid open, and I definitely expect it to wake up when I sit on the couch and wiggle the Bluetooth mouse.