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It's not self-cancellation in the way you're interpreting the title :)

Author here. This! The point isn't to name and shame, but to illustrate a complex failure mode. I too could see myself writing this bug!

Hi! Author here. You're right — but two things to consider here. First, that quote is referring to human-made systems, not natural ones (as is the rest of the essay!) and I think o…

The site's description says: "I was feeling nostalgic for the Windows Bubbles Screensaver, so I made my own, much more relaxing version." Click the bubbles and they pop! Very satis…

I'm sure of it. And yet based on this rapidly getting to the front page, it seems like many of us are part of today's lucky ten thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/ Might be more than …

The shell script starts with the following comment: # All the code is wrapped in a main function that gets called at the # bottom of the file, so that a truncated partial download …

Seems like another user with way more experience than me did an excellent job explaining the situation -- I enjoyed reading their answer!

Oh wow, what a read! Great story, thanks for sharing :)

(Author here) The image is AI generated. I did not use any AI to write the post itself. That's just my style of writing, you can check my pre-GPT posts and compare if you'd like.

Haha sadly from reading many of the rest of the comments, the typical HN reader seems unconvinced that trees or rain could impede Wi-Fi signals, because their Wi-Fi at home goes th…

Wow! Are you maybe able to find a demo video of this? I'd love to see it! (I'm the author of the post btw)

Related, sure! But it could be rain helping close a circuit on a rusty antenna connector port. Or rain improving the grounding of some neighboring circuit that otherwise drains thr…

(Author here) For our Wi-Fi bridge, the devices on both ends were set to max power. I don't recall them being able to change data rates very much (if at all) because the ones at th…

Right. This is a multiple timelines problem. This story happened a bit over 10 years ago at this point. At the time of the story, the Wi-Fi bridge was already almost 10 years old -…

(Author here) Across several city blocks, in fact, and longer than the max range of Ethernet on normal (Cat 5/5e/6) cables. Past ~300ft/100m, you need a repeater even for Ethernet.…

(Author here) Worse: to the balcony of our apartment building. Imagine asking your HOA how they'd feel about you mounting your antenna "higher" AKA on someone else's balcony or on …

(Author here) Yeah, my dad's company does this stuff for a living, so I learned to distinguish all the terminology very early on :)

Even if you are looking at the turbines "edge-on," there's probably going to be a noticeable Doppler return as well. Plastic drones with plastic propellers are still visible on rad…

(Author here) I'm worried they might combine in a way that leaves them not working neither rain nor shine!

(Author here) I didn't forget, it just didn't seem like the most likely problem. Like I said in a reply to a sibling to your comment, the gear was ~10yrs old at the time and had be…