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Especially the blurring of code and data (a la Lisp) -- a 'bolt a feature on' response is nigh-on-impossible expressly because that vast range of python libraries won't work lisp-like code/data ambiguity.

Ruby and Python are more similar than different: they are C-like or Algol-like scripting languages that have both object oriented and functional programming features. So I'm honestly confused that you are distinguishing them in this way. Could you please give me an example of something really LISPy that is possible in Ruby and not possible in Python?

Python has support for explicitly compiling a string into code objects, and then Python code can introspect and rewrite the code objects. This is much more difficult that the similar operation in a LISP because S-expressions containing tokens are much easier to work with. And I'm guessing this isn't the sort of hacking you mean.

There are two things about Ruby that I am aware of that are more hacky than Python and that you might like, but neither seems that LISPy to me:

First, because Ruby is very generous about what you can use in an identifier and will implicitly call functions, you can hack up a DSL that's really just Ruby in disguise. For example, there is a DSL called Cucumber that defines things like Given: and because Ruby allows punctuation like ':' in identifiers, and doesn't require parentheses, you can implement this by writing a function and naming it Given:. But Python has library modules like PyParsing, which IMHO is a better solution: just specify the language you want and the callbacks when the parser figures out what is being specified. It's a bit more up-front work but it's a cleaner and less hacky way to go. (And thus my bias as a Python user is exposed... I prefer the explicit solution even though there is more up-front effort as I think it will result in a cleaner solution with less total work in the long run. Ruby users may disagree completely.)

The other thing is that Ruby lets you extend the fundamental objects for things like integers. You can access the global object for integers or whatever and add new method functions or override built-ins. What is Monkey Patching in Ruby? This just freaks me out. Python lets you do whatever you want by making a new subclass: you can make a new class that is just like an integer but has some behaviors overridden or new behaviors added. That to me is the One True Way... builtins like integers should be your bedrock, totally predictable because they can't be overridden. Python is less permissive than Ruby, but even Python is more permissive than I would like... Python doesn't have a const feature built in, so you can't do this:

const FOO = 1

You can simply do FOO = 1 but other code could clobber FOO with a different value. So in Python you have to just learn to not clobber things you don't own, and in Ruby I guess you just have to not break integers for everyone.

By the way, it is possible in Python to make a class and then override assignment to members of that class. So you could make a Constants class, assign all the constants as member variables, and then override assignment to the class so that it raises an exception. But in my experience people just set up constants in modules and then try not to clobber them.

It was better when it was left for dead. At least then it was left alone. Everything that Mozilla has touched since 2012 has turned to ashes. Actually, it was 2011 when they adopted Google's rapid release and versioning methodology on a project that it was neither technically nor culturally suited for. They broke extensions by the truck load with that little gem, and instead of slowing down and letting the extension system catch up, their solution was to write a script that automatically scanned their extensions and just disabled the ones which hadn't caught up yet. Now they are set to do it again with Thunderbird. They are just hell bent on shedding any technical merit or usability they have in favour of cramming UI changes and

The've been doing this since 2011. Mozilla has been quite content to shed any technical merit they had for almost any reason at all. It all started when they saw Chrome beginning to become successful, and immediately decided to emulate Google's development environment. They adopted Google's rapid release and versioning method on a project that was neither technically nor culturally suited for it. They broke extensions by the truck load with that little gem, and instead of slowing down and letting the extension system catch up, their solution was to write a script that automatically scanned their extensions and just disabled the ones which hadn't caught up yet. Then they went all hell bent on adopting major UI changes that were demonstrably unpopular by the majority of its user base. And if alienating the extensions authors wasn't enough, many of the UI changes destroyed themes on back-to-back-to-back releases. It reminds me of one of my country's more famous (and intensely divisive) prime ministers who, when he realized he'd alienated half my country, proceeded to give them the finger from his seat on a train as he was passing through their area. That's Mozilla. They go out of their way to alienate users, and then the ones who have stayed loyal they give the finger to with decisions like this.

All of this was in an attempt at emulating Chrome's burgeoning success. The problem is, they never figured out... you simply cannot surpass someone else by playing copycat on their methods. This is important so I'm going to say it again. Mozilla cannot copy Google and be better than Google. All they did with Firefox was alienate their existing user base in favour of a product that could never be quite as good at being Chrome as Chrome was. And now they are running headlong into inevitability again. See here for details.

The PaleMoon project has done for the browser what Mozilla should have done. It was originally a patch on an earlier FF ESR, they have since essentially departed from Firefox, though they still borrow some bits when it makes sense to do so. It's what Firefox should have been if they hadn't taken the detour into crazy six years ago. Maybe they can be convinced to do the same for Thunderbird.

As a system admin with 20+ years of experience, I never understood this fixation on wanting to be a software architect. That's like a pitcher in baseball wanting to be a quarterback in football.

That may be true for sysadmins, but not for programmers, assuming you're talking about effective software architects. Building software is not like building buildings, and if you want it done well you should follow the organizational pattern Architect Also Implements. In fact, the architects need to be among the best of your programmers, because they need to deeply understand all of the issues, from the high level down to the smallest details. It does make sense to have people who focus on higher levels of design, who don't understand the details but focus on user issues (though the architect should understand a lot of those as well), but those should be called business analysts or program managers or system designers or any of a dozen other titles I've heard around the industry. I suppose you can even call them architects if you like, but it's crucial that you do *not* allow them to define the software architecture. That's a job for your most talented and experienced programmers.

Mikhail Botvinnik worked for years with a team on one of the first non-brute-force programs, PIONEER. While the program itself was not ultimately at the forefront of chess programs, spinoffs of the developed algorithms were employed for energy network planning in the USSR at increasingly larger scale and successfully so.

You can pick up an old motorola MOTOACTV for cheap and root it: http://motoactv.wikispaces.com... . I love mine for cycling, and with Augmented smartwatch pro on my phone and sideloading apps through ADB, it will do many things that the latest smartwatches still don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Motorola isn't interested in maintaining it so they lose your data once in a while. The data should be on the motoactv itself though (hopefully!).

The other problem is that it is not sweat-proof. So, you have to put it in a zip lock bag if you are running sweaty or if its raining.

You can pick up an old motorola MOTOACTV for cheap and root it: http://motoactv.wikispaces.com... . I love mine for cycling, and with Augmented smartwatch pro on my phone and sideloading apps through ADB, it will do many things that the latest smartwatches still don't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bosch guys said it would be illegal to use this specific feature.

Forbidden!

It's not the laptop. TS3 just does not run well, no matter your specs, and the problem is only compounded by all the EPs and stuff packs and whatever the heck else is piled on top of the base game. About the only thing you can do to maybe give a bit of an improvement is installing some NRaas mods. Error trap, master controller, story progression, etc.

Virtual Boy was not a VR device as we use the term now

Or even back then. The Virtual Boy was released in July 1995 . That same year the VFX-1 (a true though limited by the technology of the time) virtual reality headset was released.

Slightly related: I created a cluster of raspberry pi's to do a distributed chess-game PuppetMaster. It participated in a CSVN (Dutch computer chess organisation) tournament and even won a couple of games! These little things can be pretty powerful.

This is when moms started joining the workforce. Educated in the 60s and beyond.

But there were already many women participating in the workforce, particularly as teachers, nurses, and clerical workers. Women formed the backbone of the war machine for World War II--and were basically kicked out of those jobs when the fighting ended, whether or not they wanted to be. The concept of women working wasn't foreign back then; it was the concept of women doing jobs they weren't supposed to do that was the big sticking point.

A woman invented half of the computer junk we use today at Xerox parc. Some of the greatest programmers of the past 40 years have been women.

Yes, absolutely yes! Until the 60's, this was completely true, because programming was viewed as women's work! Then something happened, and women dropped like flies from the ranks of computer programming. Did they suddenly stop being good programmers, or was something else going on?

I work for a giant company. Huge. You may have heard of us. Its women all up and down. Management and Tech.

I'm going to guess that you're with a Fortune 500 company, then. Consider this Senate testimony that goes into considerable detail as to the persistent gender challenges faced by women in large corporations in America, particularly in professional and higher-level positions. It includes data pulled from the Fortune 500, and goes into painstaking detail as to the disparities--both in numbers of women and their compensation--that continue to exist in large corporations.

Yes it's EDUCATION for women. Everything else follows. You want women in tech, incentivize them to LEARN TECH so they may achieve MERIT.

That's absolutely part of the solution, but it's only part of the solution. Those of us already in the tech sector need to be asking ourselves exactly why, for an industry that repeatedly insists that it is rooted on merit, we look so very different from the society in which we exist.

Further, there exists a clear and significant disparity between women and men pursuing CS degrees--a gap that didn't exist until the 90's. Something happened, and "well, that's just how things played out" doesn't cut it for me.

To focus on one industry is just bizarre handwaving.

Oh, this is a problem across many industries, but that doesn't mean we're somehow absolved of trying to get our own house in order. Further, we have some unique challenges of our own in this regard--the large drop in CS college enrollment, for example.

And the understanding that if gender doesn't want to get involved in a subject it doesn't mean we should establish a quota.

Oh, I recommended a quota? I must be getting old. I have no memory of doing any such thing.

Let's work on getting women in the middle east educated first.

Yes, we wouldn't want to overtax ourselves with doing more than one thing at the same time.

OK? Can we just cut the nonsense?

That would be wonderful.

So, Metro City, the movie version.

or "L. Bob Rife's Raft, a flotilla of ships circulating the in the pacific, bringing immigrants in search of a better life from the Third World to the California coast. These immigrants are known as Refus. The Raft is a lawless, sprawling, entangled mess of boats of all sizes, all connected eventually to the aircraft carrier piloted by L. Bob. Rife himself, which has only a tangential influence on the actual navigation of the Raft." https://mslinder.wikispaces.co... Crash by Neal Stephenson-Plot Summary-The Raft

I work in a cleanroom as you do and have found that my smartwatch is useful for the very reasons you describe. I have a different suggestion though, which is IMO a more versatile and certainly cheaper. Buy a Motorola MotoACTV and root it. What a lot of people don't realize is that the 360 is actually Motorola's second generation watch already. They billed the MotoACTV as a fitness tracker, but it does all the smartwatch type things stock, and then you can install a custom android ROM and run whatever apps you want. I bought mine off ebay for $60, and with a little help from here I got results similar to this. It basically becomes the world's smallest tablet on your wrist, and my gmail and facebook messenger work fine on it. The only issue I have is that they don't support our corporate exchange server email, but if you set up forwarding you can work around that.

Is it possible to have socialists ideas before the term socialism was coined? It doesn't matter what you were referencing, the idea you were conveying is a socialist one.

So you're saying that the proletariat of France were socialists before socialism was cool? What hipsters! For the record, proto-socialist ideas started popping up in France distinctly after the revolution. I suppose that these distinctions are lost on you, though, since you're using the word in a prejorative sense, not a technical one.

Did you read below that I will repeat it since you missed it, if you are saying they had it equally as good you need to find something that made up for a serf's lack of technology, like cell phones, clean drinking water, indoor plumbing, living quarters without livestock, cars, laundry facilities,... What area did the serfs have it better then migrant workers to make up for all those things I listed.

First, I'll reiterate my objection that those aren't things that migrant workers have, generally speaking. Second, I'll reiterate the response I offered earlier: leisure time and living space.

If they are only given enough not to riot then they are way over compensated.

Your "they" refers to people risking their capital, according to the rules of English grammar. There is no meaningful risk of them rioting, so that interpretation of your words doesn't make sense. I don't think you meant to refer to the poor either, since then you'd be saying that they should be paid less so as to cause riots. Riots are generally undesirable for a society, so that interpretation doesn't make sense either. I can't think of any other ways to parse this statement, so I'm genuinely not sure what you're trying to say here.

People are breaking the law just for the opportunity to go work as a migrant worker, that is a long way away from a revolt.

I'm glad you think so. You may think the distribution of wealth in this country is just fine, but 92% of Americans would disagree with you, despite the fact that a majority of Americans actually underestimate the actual inequity in wealth distribution. See aforementioned Forbes link as reference for this claim.

I repeat, yet again, this thread got rather long. I don't like that. The last time I participated in a thread this long, it got way too long. The lesson I learned there is that some people have trouble communicating with me, and that it takes a considerable amount of effort to resolve the issue. Since I'm not willing to dedicate sufficient effort to accomplish that in this thread, I think this is as good a time as any to throw in the towel.

The disclaimer I've added to the end of my last three posts (as well as this one) has been rather prophetic, don't you think? Perhaps you're interested in breaking the 76-post-long-thread record I set with bingoUV? That would be even more impressive with this disclaimer in place the whole time. I totally think you should go for it.

Carbon fiber bends.

A good road should last for tens of centuries. The Romans understood that, and engineered their roads accordingly. To blithely dismiss their roadbuilding expertise as consisting of "flat rocks" ignores the engineering underneath the road, described here. Or if you have kids, David Macauley's City may still hold up after nearly forty years.
  American roads rarely last more than a few decades, unless consistently and constantly maintained. But they are comparatively cheap. I hear that European approaches tend to produce a more durable road, at greater expense.

That said, the solar roadway may not turn out to be a very good road by this metric, despite the added construction expense.

Google inadvertently captured this very public data in the same stream as the public access point beacons.

If only there was a way to filter what they captured and not log everything. Maybe even a free piece of software so Google wouldn't have to blow the budget.

There's a wiki here: http://spacexlanding.wikispace...

Here you go:

http://godandwar.wikispaces.co...

With a dual-purpose typing needle it could be pretty killer though.

YEEHAW!

It means nothing of the sort.
There was no shortage of protein leading to cannibalism, that myth has been debunked for over 20 years.

And Nat Geo never said the cliff dwellers were eaten by the Aztecs. There's not a shred of evidence that the Astecs ever made it as far north as new mexico.

http://romanvoices.wikispaces.com/Roman+Timekeeping

With computerized everything, we can just alter the days in perfect sync. And once we kill television schedules and make everything on demand it won't matter "when" something comes on!

While I'm certainly one of those people that find it "mind-numbing" that someone would want to use tiny screens, tiny fiddly on-tiny-screen change-mode-every-3-keycaresses (can't make myself call *that* key-"stroke"s), wasting an entire hand holding the device, barely-past-modem-era-connections, modem-era-connection-reliability, etc.. in the first place, when large-screen laptops with decent keyboards and 100Mbit/s to the home and office are readily available, it can also be said that the only thing to be gained, in my view, the "mobile" aspect, reminds us of the *other* meaning of mind-numbing: It will numb your mind to be "online" and "reachable" all the time, because your mind *requires* being "offline" for its normal functioning.

https://neurowiki2012.wikispaces.com/Default+Mode+Network

Now.. driverless cars may be a solution.. give you time to daydream so your DMN can function properly, unless you spend the time "being online".. But I'm not charmed by any of the other "moonshots", either. For Glass, it's a matter of being able to take it off, and not becoming a Gargoyle. And Loon.. Are "rural areas" then to be Google's "persplex boxes" as in

http://www.piers.org/piersonline/vol1/2k5hz_p638.pdf

to see if rural folk's albumin will leak out of their brains, as it did in the rats (sarcasm, but not quite crazy)?

-f

The wiki article may not have captured McKinstry's full purpose, which was to ask questions of the type the article refers to, which any human knows the answer to, but computers may not have seen before. So the http://aiki-hal.wikispaces.com/file/detail/gac80k-06-july-2005.html (list of questions assembled by Chris) includes such questions as:

Is a car bigger than a breadbox?
Are horses bigger that elves?
Is an elephant bigger than a cat?

etc.

These sentences, transformed into declarative form, have probably not occurred on the web, which was the point of McKinstry's test.

Consider also the misspellings and grammatical mistakes in the questions, which humans are nonetheless able to answer, but which are unlikely to have been part of any web-gathered corpus...

Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:

There you have it.

Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.

It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.

$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.

Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?

Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:

There you have it.

Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.

It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.

$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.

Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?

Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:

There you have it.

Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.

It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.

$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.

Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?

Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:

There you have it.

Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.

It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.

$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.

Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?

Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:

There you have it.

Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.

It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.

$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.

Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?

I couldn't help but find it funny that the first result on Google for "Orbis OS" is this: http://orbisos.wikispaces.com/

Insteon is a proprietary design, but the protocol is open. It is necessary if you want to control something. I have the PDF on this box somewhere, and I used it to hack the thermostat code to add a function (fan on/off) that wasn't there initially.

Insteon can work with Linux. My own setup runs on Windows, just because I'm using Homeseer - and until just a month ago HS did not run on Linux at all. The hardware interface (USB or serial) plugs into a userspace service, and that one exposes a port (don't remember what type) for multiple clients to connect. HS connects to that port. You can bypass all that if you need to, or you can even build your own Insteon hardware if you have nothing else to do :-) I can't think of anything secret there.

You can write Bash scripts to run your house. You will want to have some framework, though - you get a better view from shoulders of giants. Check out MisterHouse and LinuxHA. Do not waste your time on reinventing the wheel; use existing code and build on top of it.

While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.

The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.

Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.

The fridge must have been somehow sending out a noise signature which was in tune with the radio conditions of the network

No, purpose-built transmitters necessarily have a single frequency, but ACCIDENTAL transmitters can crap all over the radio spectrum.

http://radiohax.wikispaces.com/Spark+gap+transmitter

Oh and don't forget about the Amiga emulator for Eye of Beholder... http://eob.wikispaces.com/EOB1+AGA+GAME

If were talking PC architecture or similar there are plenty good emulators or hacks to make the games work. Maybe not all of them. But an uncountable number.

As soon as I actually began to comprehend the syntax of systemd commands, I knew it was a catastrophe. Underneath the veneer of the administration tools lies this: http://hhe.wikispaces.com/file/view/rube-goldberg.jpg/51160771/rube-goldberg.jpg

Apple does not have a backdoor per se. But Apple does have the device signing key and can thus completely compromise the chain of trust. The only thing stopping you from compromising a phone with a 4 digit passcode in seconds by brute forcing it is the fact that software rate limits attempts, and the option to have it delete its intermediary keys after 10 bad attempts. If you have the ability to load an arbitrary kernel it is trivial to bypass both of these, but only Apple has that capability, at least on devices without jailbreaks that can be executed them while locked.

If you want to make sure your data is secure then use a full password and not a PIN, which will make Apple's ability to run code moot since brute forcing it will not be practical any more. You can look at https://acg6415.wikispaces.com/file/view/iOS_Security_May12.pdf/343490814/iOS_Security_May12.pdf for more info on the actual architecture.

http://english102-tamuc-barnes.wikispaces.com/file/view/Argument_Pyramid.jpg/112461215/Argument_Pyramid.jpg

Hello

When I first saw the headline, I thought it was going to be a fossilized bioluminescent sunstone from H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy series of science fiction stories.

Still, a fascinating read, albeit not one as exciting as if H. Beam Piper's fictional sunstones had been found to exist in real life.

Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky

Hello

When I first saw the headline, I thought it was going to be a fossilized bioluminescent sunstone from H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy series of science fiction stories.

Still, a fascinating read, albeit not one as exciting as if H. Beam Piper's fictional sunstones had been found to exist in real life.

Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky

Oh that's easy.

You have to pulverize obsidian and smelt it with lead to get hardened glass, then assemble tin, hardened glass, and diamonds to get the tesseract frame. Then you have to melt down some ender pearls and fill the frame with the molten ender to get an unattuned tesseract. Then you pile in a servo, some silver ingots, and some lead, copper, tin, or electrum ingots to round out the exact tesseract you need.

Wait... you were talking about Minecraft mods, weren't you? No? Damn...

(And in case you're still struggling with figuring out WTF I'm talking about: clicky thing.)

Wow, that's one heck of a conspiracy theory.

It's not a theory. Several lobbyist in the past was describing precisely such practices.

"Social engineering" sounds to me bit off, too glorified. I used to call it "conditioning" (the Neuro Associative Conditioning seems to be the common term). It is pretty well known set of practices from the NLP.

Not sure how this is a groundbreaking achievement. ComputerCraft already provides a LUA interpreter and turtles, and has a lot more documentation. There's also RedPower's Control module, that gives you an emulated 6502-based 8 bit computer. A FORTH boot disk can be crafted in-game, or you can edit your save files to bring in either an BASIC boot disk or your own assembler code. (Previous /.coverage of the 6502 emulator blocks)

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Maybe there's a way to use amateur radio instead of wifi for the medium to long hops from your fiber-access to the town and then set up a wifi base station there for the customers. I don't know about the licensing issues with going up over 1-watt transmission though.

Beholder is like Eddie... doesn't need a disintegration ray, sucks dog dick for million dollars--will pay forty cheap whores to pretend to be you. The gossip will kill your life.

"I'm going to call BS.." isn't informative, nor a convincing refutation.

There is some more info at http://wikibin.org/articles/adam2.html and at http://ar7.wikispaces.com/ADAM2

For example

"ADAM2 maintains a set of ''Environment Variables'' in a so-called Non Volatile RAM, emulated by the last FLASH partition mtd3. This partition is split in two : the first 10kB contain the ADAM2 environment variables, whereas the last 54kB store a XML file detailing the global configuration of Montavista Linux as it was saved by the user."

A memory leak is fixed by rebooting. This isn't about memory leaks, or volatile RAM being fragmented, it's about an file system on "disk" being fragmented.

If you've used different router firmwares, especially the third party ones, you'll have seen that other types of router also suffer some fragmentation but the operating system routinely performs effective automatic defragmentation of the environment. As far as I know ADAM2 is the poorest performer in that it gets fragmented easily, doesn't repair itself automatically and can reach the point where it is beyond repair, all this just by the user upgrading the firmware and changing settings. But that doesn't mean it's the *only* poor performer and it doesn't seem unreasonable to posit that the apparently common phenomenon of wireless transmission devices (soho wireless router) performance degrading over a couple of years might be associated with similar but less severe (or better managed) fragmentation of non volatile RAM.

In addition...

due to historical evolutions in social cues and associations it is common for people to mistake, mischange, interrelate, and otherwise incorrectly obfuscate the associations of "bread" and "wine", ie. the desire of boredom and the desire of care and worry.

Do note the spacial relation of the bread and wine during an appropriate training participation.

Scotland is a bit of an awkward place for mobile signals - you have 1 of 2 problems.

First, the population is small and the land is large. Hence - few masts get put up, and no masts get put up in the middle of nowhere.

Second, Edinburgh has good coverage, but it is built like a MC Escher painting, imagine a canyon with a bridge over it, and housing/shops/pubs in the valley, and on the bridge, and in the bridge. And all made out of thick, solid stone. Its no wonder your coverage is patchy.

It's called the immune system. If yours is not working properly it is likely because there is too much water clogging up your cellular machinery. A full fast is recommended.

It's supposed to run 1000 instructions per Minecraft tick, which is 1/20th of a second. Note that that's instructions, which on a traditional 6502 can take multiple clock cycles.