<story><title>The Wi-Fi only works when it&apos;s raining</title><url>https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Let me see if I&amp;#x27;m the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, &amp;quot;I cannot send email further than 500 miles&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&amp;#x2F;harris&amp;#x2F;500milemail.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&amp;#x2F;harris&amp;#x2F;500milemail.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or the Magic&amp;#x2F;More Magic switch&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catb.org&amp;#x2F;jargon&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;magic-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catb.org&amp;#x2F;jargon&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;magic-story.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>Oh man, this is one of my favorite lines of all time:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Geostatisticians...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;--yes, and she&amp;#x27;s produced a map showing the radius within which we can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles.  There are a number of destinations within that radius that we can&amp;#x27;t reach, either, or reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I adore when experts use their expertise to analyze real-world things like this and provide ridiculously thorough explanations :-D</text></comment>
<story><title>The Wi-Fi only works when it&apos;s raining</title><url>https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jordigh</author><text>Let me see if I&amp;#x27;m the first one to link to that classic story in the same series, &amp;quot;I cannot send email further than 500 miles&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&amp;#x2F;harris&amp;#x2F;500milemail.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&amp;#x2F;harris&amp;#x2F;500milemail.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or the Magic&amp;#x2F;More Magic switch&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catb.org&amp;#x2F;jargon&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;magic-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.catb.org&amp;#x2F;jargon&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;magic-story.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fun when physical reality meets the abstract models that we have built in our heads of these machines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebtron</author><text>Or the &amp;quot;Car allergic to vanilla ice cream&amp;quot; story [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37584399&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37584399&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>