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DanAtC··on The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
Dynamically pivoting SQL is a pain in most dialects
DanAtC··on More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike in clash with over wages
Sounds like the workers are due $925mm
DanAtC··on Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet
You can still provide all this while contributing to and using the data
DanAtC··on How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off
So?
DanAtC··on FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel
Plus taxes, and fees, and equipment rental. Also that's only an introductory rate with a 1 year term. 1Gbps ends up being ~$70/mo off-contract.
DanAtC··on Ask HN: Firefox issues – is it only me?
Same. Also Night Mode keeps enabling itself randomly. Filing a bug report is a major hassle as well
DanAtC··on Show HN: Hyperboot – Run Linux distros on your Chromebook
Just to clarify, this requires Dev Mode and will still show the "Press Space to wipe device" screen on boot?
DanAtC··on Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin
Good
DanAtC··on America Gave Up on the Best Home Technology There Is
Sadly the digital-only version isn't the same.

Real circuit-switched lines are wildly expensive if you can even get one. Verizon and AT&T are doing their best to make that impossible.

DanAtC··on Ask HN: Protection Against Home Router DDoS
Blocking traffic won't help if the size of the DDoS is larger than his pipe.

A VPN to a provider with a lot of bandwidth might help if Nintendo online can still work that way.

DanAtC··on Chinese Cellular IoT Radio Modules Pose an Alarming US National Security Risk
The basebands underneath still use firmware blobs like modern wifi cards. Not ideal from a Free software perspective, but better than being left vulnerable to things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301240
DanAtC··on Chinese Cellular IoT Radio Modules Pose an Alarming US National Security Risk
Ironically modules made by Quectel are GPL compliant (https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source) and you can build custom firmwares for them (https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk) to strip out any OTA logic.

Fibocom, on the other hand, not so much.

DanAtC··on Animated Knots
Web > proprietary apps
DanAtC··on Every phone should be able to run personal websites
iOS can with some caveats https://apps.apple.com/us/app/worldwideweb-mobile/id16230068...
DanAtC··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
Network blocks are issued by regional registries: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Regional...
DanAtC··on The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
So what?
DanAtC··on Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites
It doesn't. This is a dick measuring contest between billionaires.
DanAtC··on 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
Except now you're limited to 2 TB/mo with no alternatives.
DanAtC··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Putting the scam in Scamford
DanAtC··on GPT-4 details leaked?
I meant things like:

- parameters

- layers

- "Mixture Of Experts"

- tokens

That's about as far as I made it

DanAtC··on GPT-4 details leaked?
These words are nonsense to me. Can someone explain?
DanAtC··on XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
I have no idea what any of these words mean, but I'd like to. Can someone point me in the direction of an "AI for Dipshits"?
DanAtC··on The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
IRC is ephemeral. Discord becomes a de facto knowledge dump like Slack in the corporate world.
DanAtC··on Meta Tells Office Workers to Come in Three Days per Week This Fall
Sounds like it's time to reduce productivity to three days per week.
DanAtC··on The Future of Consumer SBCs: Has the Pi Bubble Burst? [video]
The other 50% is "Qualcomm"
DanAtC··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
Is there a precedent of app stores needing to enforce app restrictions on a state-by-state basis?

What if Apple protests and just disables their store in MT? It would only impact at _most_ 500k people (population 1mm at 50% market share, not accounting for demographics)

A huge number of angry Montanians who might vote their representatives out, but a rounding error for Apple.

DanAtC··on Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose
Skeets
DanAtC··on Ban all gambling adverts, say more than half of Britons
Profits are stolen wages
DanAtC··on Ban all gambling adverts, say more than half of Britons
Line only goes up if someone loses.
DanAtC··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712
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