The day I put together how QAM worked in Wi-Fi, and what it meant for data rates, was the day that convinced me that Wi-Fi is akin to messing with an elder god's rituals.

None of this shit should work at all, but it does, and that feels like a devil's bargain was struck.

There are so many stories I could tell. About why planes changed from four engines to two. Which is why I sport them. Everything about planes is analogous to computer security. Everything they learned about not killing people is perhaps the most important work that has ever been done.