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You're right in that, your neighbours likely won't do the same thing... But you loose nothing by turning the AP power down to a level that covers the necessary
by kiallmacinnes 8y ago
You're right in that, your neighbours likely won't do the same thing... But you loose nothing by turning the AP power down to a level that covers the necessary area...
In a sense, it's lose-lose, but you can choose the higher ground...
All that said - if you have multiple APs, then you absolutely want to tune the power levels, or you're only making yourself a looser!
- jrs235 8y ago*Loser not looser, lose not loose. Lose/loser is to not winning as loose/looser is to not tight. This mistake is prevalent even among HNers. Sorry for being pedantic.
- enobrev 8y agoI've noticed this one quite a bit recently on HN and reddit. I'm seeing it far more often than "they're, there, and their" and "your and you're" mistakes, to the point where I wondered if it were something localized (like color / colour or aluminum / aluminium).
- lukecameron 8y agoOne that I've noticed everywhere throughout the tech community is "it's" instead of "its". It seems unrelated to whether the article author is from a majority-English speaking country. And I see it on the blogs of companies big enough that I would assume proof read all of their posts. It sticks out like a sore thumb to me because my brain reads it as "it is", which does not fit.
- enobrev 8y agoI've also learned to read contractions in their extracted form in order to help me when editing. It's a similar trick to remembering spelling versions of every word, like "Wed-nes-day", or "Col-o-nel". Sometimes I think it's more bothersome than it's worth. I could really use my own environment variables for `IGNORE_GRAMMAR` and `IGNORE_SPELLING`.
- jerf 8y agoIt could be in the process of regularizing. There's no particular reason why "it's" can't be both things. Language changes. One I've witnessed in my lifetime is "different than" vs. "different to". I was taught the first one. The latter sounds wrong to me, which is why I notice I'm hearing it more and more. (Note I have phrased this subjectively; I'm not saying it is wrong. I'm generally a descriptive grammarian. But it does sound wrong to me.) It may be a dialect thing, in which case my dialect seems to be shifting. Languages change.
- enobrev 8y agoThat reminds me of how in the Northeast they say "Quarter of [hour]" whereas in the Midwest it's "Quarter after [hour]". The former confuses me every time, with my immediate thought being "is 'of' before or after"? My wife, who is from the Northeast, just confirmed it's "before" Edit: I mistyped my comment as "after". The replies are justified.
- thescriptkiddie 8y agoI'm pretty sure that "quarter of" means 15 minutes before, not after. But confusingly, I've also heard people day just "quarter" (no "of") to mean 15 minutes after.
- smackmybishop 8y agoYour wife is wrong, it means "before."
- Dylan16807 8y ago"quarter of" is easy. Try asking people what "half three" means.
- lukecameron 8y agoThis (and others who pointed out the regularisation effect) might actually help me to accept it more. It's more constructive to think "grammar is slowly changing due to a weird rule that was difficult for even native speakers to remember" vs "people keep spelling this word wrong and they should just be less sloppy about it". I think once you internally accept a change in language, it starts looking/sounding less wrong over time.
- dahart 8y agoThe rule for possessive its is backwards from all other possessives. As a native English speaker, I still have to look up “its vs it’s” because it’s confusing. I think we should drop use of its without an apostrophe, and always use it’s, and let people figure it out by context. It’s happening anyway, and it’ll become de facto accepted English grammar when enough people use “it’s” differently than the old rule.
- dTal 8y agoIt's not backwards, or an arbitrary rule. It's exactly consistent with "his" and "her", which don't use apostrophes.
- dahart 8y agoAh, that is a great point. Of course you know I meant that the rule of not apostrophizing its is backwards from the more common case of personal pronouns. Okay, so the possessive pronouns don’t use apostrophes and personal pronouns do. And its and whose are possessive pronouns, or possessive determiners. Is that the whole apostrophe rule? Are there any other cases or exceptions for possession? Do all indefinite pronouns use apostrophes, e.g., it’s anybody’s guess?
- chapium 8y agoFor me, I understand the difference quite well. However when typing it feels like I occasionally have this blindness to the words I typed and occasionally my brain sends the other version to my hands. If I look directly at the word after typing it, I dont even recognize the word as incorrect.
- nf05papsjfVbc 8y agoDoes it also bother you that a lot of people tend to say "amount of people" instead of "number of people"? I think of cannibals talking about their food whenever someone says "amount of people".
- enobrev 8y agoIt never has, but it probably will now. Your comparison reminds me of the phrase "2.5 kids". Also "Less" vs. "Fewer".
- sowbug 8y agoIf it doesn't bother you, try making the same mistake in the other direction and asking for fewer milk in your coffee.
- function_seven 8y agoThe use of "less" for countable objects never used to bother me. At all. I'm pretty sure I didn't even notice. Then one day, a couple years ago, it started grating on my nerves. I have no idea what caused me to suddenly start caring! I just do now. I guess as I get older, less things get past me?
- Baeocystin 8y ago>I guess as I get older, less things get past me? ಠ_ಠ
- tzs 8y agoIn this case, though, note that if you turned power way up, it might cause your neighbors to do the same, and you could be said to loose a power war upon the neighborhood (in which everyone would probably lose...). Turning power down, on the other hand, probably will loose nothing, just like he said.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoLanguages change over time. You are fighting a losing battle. (loosing battle :-)
- njepa 8y agoYou might very well improve reliability by turning down the power since you will notice problems better instead of relying on "being the loudest".