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Yes, but Ubiquiti did a good job of advertising these features and making them available to the “prosumer” segment. With most other brands you have to go through enterprise sales, a distributor, or find them second–hand. Cisco might make the best APs ever, but good luck using them in your home.

Brilliant, one correct answer and three incomplete answers.

Same reason why you never implement a VPN using TCP sockets, for those readers who solidify their knowledge by triangulation (as it were) from multiple directions.


> one correct answer and three incomplete answers.

well, that's what the retries are for! Keep retrying until you get a complete answer


I’ve had no complaints with my UniFi APs, but that is a fairly small sample size. And I’m using an older model; I haven’t upgraded to WiFi 6 or 7 yet.

Unifi/Ubiquity does not have a spotless record, far from it. But i must indeed admit they are getting back on track.

Well, they EOL’d their early–release WiFi-7 router that came out before WiFi-7 was even finalized, and simultaneously released one that they have spent an extra year debugging. Presumably they fixed the firmware bug that fixes the synchronization problem, or switched to a different implementation. It’s a really bad idea to buy early products like this since.

Nah bug is still in the qcom tree. I've not checked how many devices use it though

Ugh...reminds me of the "Pre N" Wifi days, and my stupidity for buying one before 802.11n was actually ratified.

Live & learn...


How will you get your fake internet points now?!

False premise. Terrafirming Mars is a necessary prerequisite to any kind of tinkering on Earth. If you haven't practiced on Mars, how will you gain the necessary experience to be trusted to do anything on Earth where the consequences of failure would be extreme?

The wealthiest people already pay more of the taxes than the poorest. An estimate I saw last year was that in the UK the wealthiest 0.1% of people pay more taxes than the entire bottom 50%. They’re already taxing the wealthy to pay for benefits that go to the poorest. You cannot just keep adding more taxes on the wealthy and also adding more benefits for the poor forever.

It’s hard to call them “rods” at this point, since they melted and then cooled into tiny metallic droplets and shards after they were ejected in the explosion.

Practical for many missions, just not for sending humans in person to other planets. For example, consider a mission to deliver a telescope out past 550AU so that it can use the whole sun as a gravitational lens. That’s more than 11× further than Pluto, but a fission fragment drive could get the telescope out there in about the amount of time it took New Horizons to fly past Pluto.

For that particular mission I’d be curious to compare to an ion drive architecture.

Don't ion drives consume comparitively a lot of xenon to work?

Yes, they have substantially lower specific impulse than fission fragment.

Production ion drives have ISPs between 1000s and 4000s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster#Comparisons). A fission fragment drive would have an estimated ISP of over 100,000s (https://www.nasa.gov/general/aerogel-core-fission-fragment-r...). Of course you can just buy an ion drive off the shelf, which is definitely an advantage. And making the fuel for a fission–fragment drive is probably going to be fun.

Not to mention needing a nuclear power source anyway, this far from the sun.

Control-c meant cancel for decades before some idiot decided that it ought to mean copy instead.

As for your pinky, just type the chords correctly and you won’t hurt yourself. This means typing the modifier key(s) with the opposite hand instead of the same hand that is typing the letter. So for control-z you are going to type the “z” with your left hand, so use your right hand to type “control”. That’s why the keyboard has every modifier key on both sides.


> just type the chords correctly

Gee thanks.

I like to have my right hand on a mouse or trackpad, so two handed chords are much less convenient.

Macs manage to make one-handed chords for copy and paste ergonomic, but on a PC it's user error?


> Macs manage to make one-handed chords for copy and paste ergonomic

Cmd-C is not any more ergonomic than Ctrl-C. You are only speaking from position of habit. Pressing modifier with tucked in thumb is not great for it.

If someone is concerned about ergonomics, they should buy ergonomic keyboard. Standard layouts are crap.


Exactly. Either way the keys are too close together for comfortable, and quick, typing. The solution is to move your right hand back to the keyboard and to leave it there. Since selecting text is usually what you do right before you copy it, learn to select the text using keyboard commands.

Ah yes, computing luminary Larry Tesler, what an idiot, working at Xerox PARC. Whoof.

Decades is an exaggeration. It was less than a decade after Digital started using Control-C as a process interrupt in their PDP-10 operating systems (1967) to when Mr Tesler devised his mapping to a copy operation (1974-1976) for Smalltalk-76, and only four years after C was born. CP/M is the much more likely source of widespread usage of control-C as an interrupt, and it was contemporaneous (1974) with Tesler’s mapping.


But they weren’t combined on the same system until decades later, after Windows became nearly ubiquitous and Linux systems started copying things from it.

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