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in my experience coffee shop WiFi is weak because
1) it's near a DECT cordless phone base station
2) it's near a big metal coffee machine
3) it's an ancient router
4) 'smart channel selection' seems to work by seeing where everybody else is and deciding that must be the best channel.
Well, I thought about using the term 'router' but I thought that, in the simplistic case, it's not actually doing any routing, is it? Just switching some packets to a gateway?
I am not a network (or any kind of) expert really.
... so much simpler than when I was a Smalltalk programmer and had to write stuff like
squares := numbers collect: [:each | each ^ 2]
Are we actually going forwards at all?
* of course, if one were serious one would add the method to the class and just write
squares := numbers squares
Queen Victoria at a meeting of European leaders
Queen farts. Disraeli leaps to his feet and says "Excuse me ma'am, I humbly beg your pardon"
"Quite alright, Sir" comes the reply. Disraeli sits and smirks smugly at the other two.
Queen farts again. Determined not to be out-gentlemanned by Disraeli, Louis Napoleon III jumps up almost before the fart trails off, kicks Disraeli's chair from under him causing the latter to sprawls indignantly on the floor. The Frenchman makes a sweeping bow, an extravagant apology, and the Q not only says "Quite alright" but actually cracks a smile.
Well, this isn't going down at all well with Otto von Bismarck who feels thoroughly outdone and increasingly embarrassed. The moment the Queen farts again, he leaps to his feet, waving his sword and shouts "Diesen - und die nächsten drei - übernimmt die deutsche Reichsregierung!"
"Just because someone might have questions about one event, it does not follow that they will swallow any and all conspiracy theory"
It doesn't follow, but it certainly has predictive value, both in how likely they are to believe other CTs and how pointless it is to talk to them.
Whilst I agree that the *user* of a corporate VPN might not care about DNS leakage, the corporation should.
Unnecessary information leakage is always a problem, even if it just enables social engineering attacks (eg which vendor support pages you are visiting).
As the tunnel is already there, there's really no excuse for not sending DNS queries through it.
Google still frequently misreads my email and frightens me by popping up notifications for train journeys on the wrong dates.
Even when it has notified you of a train journey and must "know" you are on a train, and where you are getting off, it does stupid stuff like asking you if you want to check in at the Mailbox when you're sitting on the train at Birmingham New Street.
May I commend to the commentard community, a word I only recently learned?
My brother had referred to a "sacofricotic colleague" and my subsequent enquiry taught me the definition of sacofricosis
I'm torn because I absolutely agree with you that politics should be removed from education but feel that your focus on "PC" is entirely wrong.
I would argue the problem is more to do with setting curricula centrally, micromanaging teachers and setting, and trying to achieve, fairly arbitrary targets.
@OnlyMee
Its not only you: I would agree that few run time bugs are type errors. It can increase tooling sophistication, as the IDEs then "understand" more of the code.
My most productive (and favourite) language remains the dynamically typed Smalltalk (even that will barf on 1+"a" unless you specifically create a method to perform it, but it will happen at runtime.
I've had those kind of type errors at runtime, sure, but you hit them and fix them in the very early stages of testing, so I'm not sure static typing is worth the effort. Other's mileage may vary, of course.