happyopossum

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by happyopossum 5d ago
> A good proxy is the M2 mini dropping to ~$250 after the M4 hit. That's really not a good proxy, as the base price of EVERYTHING was way lower in 2024. Heck, that M2 mini you're referring to is selling for more than $250 toda
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by happyopossum 5d ago
> Disney+ is already by far the most expensive subscription of all A cursory search found that the first 3 subs I checked were the same cost or more than disney+ (HBO Max, Fox One, and Netflix)
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by happyopossum 5d ago
> January 27, 2025 So, not new. Got it
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Zeek 9 – Zeek Network Security Monitor(zeek.org)
2 points by happyopossum 9d ago|0 comments
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by happyopossum 9d ago
> Maybe they mark up 2% and the annualized profit is 100%. That's not how profit works. If you spend $100 to make $102, that's a 2% margin. If you do that every week, you've spent $5200 to make $5304: still a 2% margin.
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by happyopossum 9d ago
> I think this is a very outdated perspective. Always amazing to see how quickly the norm can become 'very outdated'. What GP described was all unheard of in 2023, brand new in 2024, and became pretty widely accepted in 2025.
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by happyopossum 9d ago
All those times you logged in and were prompted to verify your backup email address, and when you set up 2FA and were given recovery codes, and when given the option to sync 2FA codes to another copy of the authenticator app: This Is Why.
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by happyopossum 9d ago
> The signature doesn't even cover the photo! Which makes sense, as the signature is for the barcode data...
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by happyopossum 9d ago
An 8GB dataset? That’s literally a few seconds worth of records generated in my world, and any speedup at that scale is completely meaningless. Let’s talk when you are looking at double digit TB at a minimum.
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by happyopossum 10d ago
How exactly am I expected to upload my nfc chip to my insurance company’s website?
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M5 Ultra first benchmarks – Geekbench(browser.geekbench.com)
4 points by happyopossum 11d ago|0 comments
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by happyopossum 11d ago
No, what GP was saying is "Let's spend 13 billion to save the future revenue from OpenAI and many other customers"
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by happyopossum 11d ago
In a hospital setting nobody will be degloving your finger - this is a common situation, and they have pliers that will crack/shatter the tungsten for removal.
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by happyopossum 16d ago
"without transcribing" - I ignored nothing. Transcripts are not saved
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by happyopossum 16d ago
The watch gets worse battery life without a phone - it offloads a ton of stuff to your phone via low power Bluetooth when the phone is nearby…
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by happyopossum 16d ago
There is no transcript - you make claims about what Apple “never mentions “ but they do - in great detail: “Audio from the microphone enters the Secure Exclave of Apple Watch, where it is initially processed for speech, sounds, or music, wi
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by happyopossum 17d ago
let's see, next year i'll be due for a new iPad mini and iPhone pro max. $1300 for one, $600 for the other (or $750 if I want cellular, which I actually do), and suddenly this doesn't look out of reach... if only I could us
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by happyopossum 17d ago
> Is the outside screen REALLY that strong iPhone 17 pro glass is insanely strong
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by happyopossum 17d ago
> making doing so more or less “free” except for those monthly payments you never get to stop making, yeah it's free.
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by happyopossum 17d ago
> less battery than a tablet iPad mini battery life ~10-15 hours, iPhone duo 30+ hours so no... Matte finishes are great for viewing outdoors too...
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by happyopossum 17d ago
> 1) rogue state releases a self moving self modifying AI into the wild. It is trained on how to hack, monitor new vulnerability updates, scan code bases to find new vulnerabilities. It constantly replicate and hides in systems so it wil
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by happyopossum 18d ago
These TVs will connect to any open wifi and upload your data - your firewall only works for your network.
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by happyopossum 22d ago
Current headline on HN is incorrect - it's not custom domains, it's third-party email addresses, such as @yahoo.com or @outlook.com. Domains and other gmail addresses you own can still be used....
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by happyopossum 26d ago
That was true years ago, but I haven't been able to use an iPhone camera to pick up an IR signal in a long time. Just tested it to be sure they hadn't reverted to an unfiltered lens (17 pro) and nope, no IR visible.
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by happyopossum 26d ago
> I remember buying one for my son a few years ago (M1 mini) and it was a few hundred; now we're up to $900 for the base model. The base price of a mini has only gone up $200 from $699 in 2020 to $899 today, and for $699 you only go
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by happyopossum 26d ago
Easy integration with iCloud, mac native screen sharing/remote access, iMessage support, and a huge corpus of widely-adopted agents to pick from?
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by happyopossum 26d ago
The linked letter has absolutely nothing to do with TFA other than a very tenuous link to Vanguard: It was written a founder who hasn't been in charge of Vanguard for several decades.
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by happyopossum 29d ago
> Backing exploit PoCs out of patches, commit messages, and random overheard or over-read sentences is a practice as old as vulnerability research True, but it used to take days or weeks of research, testing, and RE to get those PoCs. To
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by happyopossum 1mo ago
> a bit more expensive $750 vs $1,750 is not a bit more... [0] P2S with AMS vs Core One + MMU
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by happyopossum 1mo ago
>The MAGA wing is entirely serious about annexing Canada. Wow, that's some amazing propaganda you've bought in to there...

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