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  • I’m saying it’s false to apply Occam’s razor to this scenario and draw a conclusion that this is caused by non-human life.

    I’m not assuming earth is unique. There have been many earth-like planets that have been discovered.
    I’m not even assuming humans are unique, given all of space-time.

    It is extremely unlikely that there exists intelligent life other than humans at this time (or within the window-function of time required for us to receive a transmission from however many million lightyears).
    Like, it is vanishingly small. The insane series of events that has lead to an intelligent species being dominant on a planet is ridiculous, to be honest.
    In other words, humans are essentially unique at this point in “observable” time.

    It is extremely likely it is a natural phenomena that we don’t understand, or even equipment malfunction, misinterpretation, miscalculation etc.
    We have discovered unknown signals, then learnt what they are. Humans don’t know everything.
    We have discovered unknown signals, then realised it was a nearby microwave, or a dodgy connection, or whatever. Humans make mistakes.

    The simplest explanation in order to not have to deal with a new research project is probably “aliens”. But the simplest explanation is “natural phenomena we don’t understand yet”












  • I had a google summary telling me how to use a lodash (js object/array/things helper library) method that sounded like it probably would exist.
    It was named how lodash would likely name it, and was summarised to do what i needed.
    Except, lodash doesnt have that method. Had to use a couple methods.

    But that was eye opening for me.
    Similar to lawyers citing cases that dont exist.
    Saw a meme-ish post recently from an IBM presentation 30-40 years ago along the lines of “computers cannot be held accountable. So dont have them make decisions”.



  • For mass distribution of wifi APs? Some SDN solution would have a higher upfront cost but a lower running cost. Im sure all the big providers have their own system, consumer ones include ubiquiti and omada.

    Cheaper than that would be mikrotik. Not really deployable at the scale of 1000s that would be required to fit every room with a wifi AP, but CAPsMAN can scale to hundreds, so still has centralised management to reduce running costs.

    If it has to be cheaper still, then any cheapo SBC with wifi. While raspberry pis might fit the bill, they would be too overpowered with too many unused features to really squeeze the cost effectiveness.
    Hey, its google. They could probably fork an AP into one of their home automation thingies. Then probably a whole stack of ansible scripts to try and manage 1000s of deployed linux installs