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		BobbyTables2 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits People usually think that but when it comes to attack surface, change management, upgrade issues, etc —- the extra stuff isn’t entirely free… Upgrades shouldn’t ever break things, bugs and vulnerabilities never exist, and Rube-Goldberg machines should work 100% reliably day in and day out. Unfortunately reality doesn’t work that way…

al_borland 53 days ago [–]

Even Rube Goldberg sometimes included a simple alternative at the end of his machines. If the opossum or woodpecker get sick, there is a knife handy to sharpen the pencil.

https://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/~lavalle/cs397/goldberg.html

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