yeah that doesn’t work. if they can’t reach out from the base station they try picking another one. so it would make the problem way worse.

in a very agressive way. hence coffee.

this image is photoshopped. i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

if they could get carriers onboard to sponsor the installation then maybe.

it would increase costs because that’s what airlines do whenever they get a new gadget.

with the prices they charge for the wifi, what do you think would happen to ticket costs if they added a 5G transciever?

it’s called wifi

yeah that’s the main reason it’s kept around.

good morning to you too. remember to have your coffee before going on the internet.

that’s linux kernel code style

arrays start at (offset) zero. lists start at (position) one. fight me.

i think he’s more likely in the centrist position of “politics is when parties or banners or protests”

yeah that’s another thing i got from that interview, he writes his own philosophy and doesn’t really understand that fundamentally different worldviews exist. in his imagined perfect world, a pure meritocracy, all rules are legacy and can be disregarded if required.

i mean artemis explicitly has a black female muslim protagonist, which he got a lot of flak for since identity is political for some people. project hail mary is about the whole world banding together to fight catastrophic climate change. for him to have written those things, and then tell a right-winger in an interview that his books are nonpolitical while nutrek is too political, to me can only be ignorance.

that would require him to realize that he was indeed speaking to “the other side”. i don’t think he did.

if you read potter assuming the narrator is not only unreliable but also sleep-deprived and slightly drunk, in makes a lot more sense. it also makes rowling’s unhinged lore additions from twitter, like how wizards just used to shit on the floor until plumbing came along, slot in nicely with established facts, like how a hundreds-of-years old building would have a huge network of secret tunnels in the bathrooms. it goes from incongruous to “whos- who’s telling thiss story, you or me? shhhutup.”

i mean, they’re never apolitical, the only difference is whether the author understands the points they’re making.

like that andy weir interview where he says “there are no politics in my books”. i was completely taken aback by that because his stories are so political and they’re researched politics. they are big allegories that make salient points. but he’s not written them that way. it’s completely by accident, or so he believes.

is this like the egyptian equivalent of an elaborate B that covers half the page in a medieval book?

i don’t think he knows what he’s talking about in that area

i’ve worked with highly competent programmes and sysadmins whose houses are entirely connected. they do exist.