happyopossum

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M5 Ultra first benchmarks – Geekbench(browser.geekbench.com)
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by happyopossum 6d ago
"without transcribing" - I ignored nothing. Transcripts are not saved
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by happyopossum 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago
> Is the outside screen REALLY that strong iPhone 17 pro glass is insanely strong
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by happyopossum 7d 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 7d 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 8d 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 8d 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 12d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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 19d 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 21d 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 21d 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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by happyopossum 21d ago
> I don't physically share my machine with my coworkers. Yeah, you probably do - in fact you share physical machines with a TON of other people if you use EC2, GCE, Azure VM etc...
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by happyopossum 21d ago
> but at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets Last time I was in London I saw enough disposable vapes on the sidewalk to build a home-sized backup battery...
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by happyopossum 22d ago
Considering that DKA accounts for 160k hospital admissions a year, your lived experience translates poorly to such a flippant dismissal. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/diabetic-ketoacidosis.htm...
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by happyopossum 22d ago
> as it's even better for launching into those orbits When the weather agrees, yes. Sooooo many launches are scheduled around weather patterns and are affected by weather delays - I'd be shocked if LA didn't have 3-4x mor
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by happyopossum 22d ago
Understandable assumption if you haven't been paying attention to Apple and privacy, but incorrect: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/sign-in-with-app... >When you use Sign in with Appl
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by happyopossum 23d ago
> I don't think I've seen a public bathroom in America in my lifetime. You've never been to the beach, a city park (or state or national park), a highway rest stop, or any of the thousands of other places public restrooms
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by happyopossum 27d ago
There’s something to be said for using the tools your comfortable with. I’m a woodworker by passion, and a technologist by trade so I dabble in everything from cnc to 3d printing to hand tools. If I happened to be super comfortable with fu
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by happyopossum 27d ago
Fun writeup! I was surprised by the part about styrofoam boxes though: Despite their popularity, they have a few disadvantages: They come in predefined sizes which mandate a certain weight allowance They cannot be flexible for you
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by happyopossum 27d ago
> for every $2 invested Ocean Conservancy can remove a pound of trash from the environment and invest in scientific research and upstream policy solutions to prevent plastics from being produced and/or entering our ocean in the firs
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by happyopossum 27d ago
> abusive software supplier would be fired and replaced. Rose colored glasses much? We've never had the environment you're describing. Do you recall the 00's and '10s? It was cluttered with closed systems that had ri
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by happyopossum 28d ago
> No, I just use it to write message via telegram dictating by voice. Umm, can't your phone do that natively without a convoluted cloud-based agent? >The only gotcha is that you cannot use this when your phone is blocked, but see
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by happyopossum 29d ago
> from $0.013/hr up to 60 vCPU / 240 GB RAM and GPUs It ranges from cold to orange! From one earth gravity to 32* Kelvin! If you’re gonna pretend to give pricing give pricing. If you’d rather hide it, don’t throw out $0.013

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