Jon Foster

@tocaboca Hey there. Here’s a letter from my daughter who’s very sad that Toca Lab: Elements has disappeared from her Amazon Fire tablet.

@greta_garbot @Jenny_1884 @AngelaCaulfiel5 How is this relevant??? Having time off it have kids is fucking hard work. And given falling birth rates needs to be incentivised .

So am I right in saying that if I’ve never worked I would receive a state pension, then in turn receive pension credit, then in turn get fuel allowance. That means then if you’ve worked all your life & paid into your pension then you won’t get fuel allowance How’s that fair 🤔

@wirednot Planey McPlaneFace . Sorry couldn’t resist:)

Name it

I mean, 20 odd characters including at least 1 capital letter, number and special character is not enough?

@evernote man, being told that my very long password is too weak and being forced to change it before being able to log in to write a note is SUPER PATRONISING. Also, when your reset email does not arrive and I can’t use your product … where do I even begin?!?!

@mark_elley @Sandford_Police @ProfKarolSikora Oh yeah lol! I got all Twitter-cross

I detest smoking. It's an awful habit, terrible for your health and I urge anyone to quit. But. At some stage, we have to trust people to make their own decisions. If we banned any harmful habit, we'd be living very boring lives. Where do we draw the line? Alcohol? Unhealthy food? Driving? Contact sport? Why even bother leaving the house at all? The line of 'protecting' the NHS just doesn't wash. You're in a pub garden. If someone is having a cigarette a few tables away, you are not in any danger. At all. 'Protect' the NHS is the most dangerous slogan in my lifetime. I certainly don't want to see that toxic principle applied to all other areas of society. Educate people, tell them the facts, and let them make their own decisions. We're all big enough and ugly enough to do that. Outsourcing responsibility to Government has to stop. It didn't work during lockdown, and it won't work now.

@DennyTWright @ProfKarolSikora Add DIY and falling off a ladder to the list.

@TheRobAlmighty @ProfKarolSikora Yes, 💯 this. Sky diving has a risk - but we don’t ban it. Cars produce pollution but we’ve not banned them. Smoking is awful (ex smoker here)… but personal choice , right?

@Sandford_Police @ProfKarolSikora That’s a really really dangerous precedent to set. I can’t believe that it’s really coming from a police force account. Your job , last I heard to enforce the law. Not to weigh in on politics

@ProfKarolSikora We deal with lots of people every single day. A lot of them make very, very poor lifestyle choices We cannot leave the decision making process up to them This is for #TheGreaterGood

@LucindaLea1 @big_monkeyball There was probably autism … but it wasn’t called that.

For people over 30! How many kids had gender confusion when you were at school?

@big_monkeyball 0 as far as I aware.

@collin_ruth89 Not unless it’s a shotgun wedding . IIRC my wife and I put 4.3 million man hours (person hours?) into planning ours … At least 18 months in advance.

Just had an employee tell me they can't work because a "family emergency". Gave me 36 hour heads up. Then I learn the "emergency" is a wedding. What do you think? Is a wedding a family emergency?

@oledoteth Great thread danke.

In the US, money is an open topic, unlike the taboo it has in Europe. I noticed that people are excited to talk about their work and financial success without any negative vibes. As someone who likes these topics, it felt freeing to chat about it with other like-minded people.

I'm European. I recently visited the USA for the first time since 2018, hitting up Las Vegas and New York City. What I witnessed left me stunned. 15 American oddities I still can't wrap my head around:

@WolfOfClapham @TNotional Why not apprentice for a trade? As I understand it plumbers are a dying breed…. (For example)

@TNotional Nothing. Just not what you go uni for. If it was beneath me I wouldn’t be doing it.

If you done well at A - Levels it means nothing. I got A* - A - B, and a 2:1 degree in International Relations from the University of Portsmouth and I’ve been working manual labour since.

@rescuerules @thenabastet @hashjenni I spoke to a plumber yesterday who lamented that few young people want to learn a trade. The tendency is to ask for a huge wage with no skills. We’re all going to have to fix our own plumbing in 10 years.

@thenabastet @hashjenni The bottom line is, most of us don’t have a choice, at least not at your age. If you don’t like your job learn to do something you do like, you’ll be doing it for a while. Facts.

Am I the only one that sees a problem with working 8-9 hours a day and then going home to having about 4 hours to yourself which includes getting ready for the next day??? This is not life…

@Mike84321145568 @thenabastet @SueCollins1 @hashjenni Right. There is little enough to go around as it is. Agreed that it’s unfairly distributed; corporate greed blah blah blah… but that’s a different argument .

@agarvis @hashjenni Yes, initially , If you’re a decent parent.

@hashjenni And when you have kids 100% of those 4 hours is dedicated to them.

@hashjenni Help me understand your viewpoint here . I don’t like it either but where do you think ‘stuff’ comes from if not by people doing work?

@JussiKiviniemi Also, CCI as visualised by a software tool is probably acceptable if it is result of high AP density that ALSO means APs/Clients tx/tx at higher MCS. But I suppose if you’re looking to squeeze this much efficiency out of the WLAN then you’re already definitely looking at 20MHz

@JussiKiviniemi I’ve never seen any vendor docs on this. I think Devins comment about how busy you expect channels to be hits the nail on the head. Fundamentally you’ll struggle to codify the answer to ‘it depends’ :)

CHANNEL WIDTH question for Wi-Fi engineer friends: When planning a Wi-Fi network - how do you decide the "acceptable" level of channel interference until you go for a lower channel width? I'd think "zero tolerance to CCI" doesn't always result in the best perf given "double ch width => get double the data rate". Multi-faceted issue for sure (what about neighbor interference, etc etc)- but what are your thoughts? Is there any vendor documentation on this?