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That was the first suspect as she has a wireless land-line receiver right next to her chair but we tried powering that off (and moving it elsewhere just to make sure) and it didn't make any difference. Added to which, it's the same 'phone that she's had for quite a while so we can only assume that it's an innocent party.
There's not anything that's changed in her general telecoms set-up that we're aware of.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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It's possible that a neighbor changed their phone. I had that issue and the phone had two channels two switch in between. Ask your neighbor if you're on friendly terms with them.
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That's a good thought.
She's quite friendly with them so I'll get her to ask.
Thanks.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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The signal-strength thing is pretty much meaningless, and is not connected to data-transport speeds, for example.
Just get a cheap, plug-in repeater AP, for downstairs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PeejayAdams wrote: (the router is located in the room above her living room and is pretty much directly above where she tends to sit).
This could be the problem - she may well be sitting in a dead spot. WiFi boxes are designed to radiate radially. If the router has adjustable aerials, then try making them parallel to the ground, or lay the unit on its side/face.
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My suspicion, just a hunch...
- In the floor/ceiling between the router and where she sits, there is a wire that is carrying a lot of power.
- That wire is generating RFI
Just a wild guess; no clue if I'm helping or not.
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One of the things I would look for are new devices that have been introduced or have been moved. Especially those that are wireless themselves. Wireless phones are notorious for screwing with Wifi signals. Also check the antennas on the router. Make sure nothing is blocking them and they are positioned in the proper orientation.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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My first inclination (supported by some of the other comments,) was that the signal wasn't being projected downward (or, very strongly, at least.)
My suggestion is to just simply mount it upside-down on the ceiling. If your Mum doesn't like the look, or you don't feel like running wires through the walls, just run the wires into a closet and mount it there instead.
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It would take a far, far braver man than me to rearrange my mother's house!
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So I'm working on this application and we use LESS as CSS preprocessor.
When all of a sudden I noticed I was working on the file "home.less" (which is exactly what I'm going to be if CSS doesn't get its sh*t straightened out).
Put a smile on my face, such moments while coding are price.less 
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I was at a meetup.com meeting last night (Dublin Software Craftmanship Community) and we had an interesting discussion on areas where we could see AI being integrated into the development process. For example, AI enhanced code analytics could check your code matches the general idialect of the existing code base rather than relying on hard-rules or your queries and code could be optimised behind the scenes or etc.
Any thoughts - where do you see AI joining you in the code development process?
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Try the search engines like Google with some complex search (where the result isnt a clear word match, but a special connection between two words, which meaning is weighted with some other words) and you will see that is a lot of bull-sh*t bingo. So it is full of some day dream believers.
AI may work in simple cases, but when it comes to intelligence it all fails. 
PS: in earlier ages it was called "fuzzy logic"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Fuzzy logic certainly is not the last word on AI. There are many different approaches. What about evolutionary algorithms? We do know that evolution has produced systems with a certain intelligence. The real problem may be that the complexity (and the drawbacks of evolved systems) may result in an simulated evolution needing as much time as natural evolution.
Also, evolution takes place in a certain environment and adaptation to that environment is one of the most important parts of evolution. What simulated environment is complex enough to evolve something that is fit for the real world?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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KarstenK wrote: PS: in earlier ages it was called "fuzzy logic"
My Degree's thesis (Diplomarbeit) was a Fuzzy Software to offline simulation of regulations and online connection with PLC (SPS)
Interesting theme, but you are right... from AI, nothing at all.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 18-Nov-16 5:29am.
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Not at all. AI is a myth IMO. Its way beyond our ability to even understand intelligence, let alone mimic it.
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I was thinking at the pattern matching level, not human level intelligence.
For example you could look at running pattern matching over software logs and metrics to generate pre-failure notifications and root-cause analysis for non-linear faulting. Companies such as "Prelert" already do this.
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And is this effective? Sounds like its guesswork to me.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Considering that our intelligence is actually just chemical reactions in the brain, we can figure out what drives it. Since nature seems to have a much better understanding of chemistry then we do it might be quite hard to deduce but we will get it eventually.
I consider it a waste of resources to try and recreate animal-type intelligence in computers. I also think that machine intelligence will be hardware based and will have little to do with software or programming unless someone can build a analog processor at 8nm with re-writable logic circuits.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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You could run tfs check-ins through Microsoft Cognitive Services to predict when a developer is about to quit and start looking for a replacement before they even leave.
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...and I've just watched the first five minutes. (If I watch more, Herself will not be amused, she's at work and want to see it tonight.)
It's looking good. Very good. Like Top Gear with a bigger budget. A much, much bigger budget (there are rumours that the opening scene alone code £2.5M)
Anyone else watched / watching / going to watch?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haven't seen it, but:OriginalGriff wrote: the opening scene alone code £2.5M
...that's a lot of code 
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I've got a code and my head id fudd of cotton wood...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Watched already - it gets much, much better after 5 minutes. I would love to have seen Chris Evans face if he watched it. That's how a motoring show is supposed to be run (even if TG should do it on a smaller budget).
This space for rent
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I'm quite looking forward to it in spite of being a non-motorist.
Interesting to see Clarkson doing bits on the Beeb again (HIGNFY, QI etc.) - could this mean a possible return of Top Gear one day?
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