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  • Some of these seem a bit obscure. I wish the author had given detailed examples or linked to pages with details on the points.
    by AnonC
  • I love the number of people who are commenting about how the article is wrong, and then finding out that they are actually wrong.
    by jyounker
  • > My LAN uses IP addresses.

    I've never heard of a LAN without IP addresses. Is that a thing? I'd assume that no IP addresses means you can't even use TCP/IP at all, right? Is there something else you'd use instead?

    by LoganDark
  • Not sure what a "LAN" is but it happened to me at work that I thought .0 is not a valid host address until I learned about Layer-3 only networks. So also no ARP. I guess this is still a LAN although it's probably an "Enterprise LAN".
    by ofrzeta
  • * there is something called a LAN

    * two people who say they are on the same LAN agree on what the LAN is

    by mitxela
  • This feels like a bastardization of the already questionable "Falsehoods ___ believe about ___" format.
    by elaida73
  • I get the idea, but this isn't necessarily useful as advice and toys with definitions. It's ESPN levels of conversation-baiting. Lots of assumptions can be reasonably made about residential LANs without being true of enterprise LANs/DMZs.

    If a residential LAN is RFC1918 and has no NAT, then it is still a LAN... without internet access.

    Then the "A & !A" fallacy of "MAC addresses can’t be changed. MAC addresses can be changed."

    Just kind of a mess. Would be more interesting to explore the edge cases rather than throw out half-truths and 0.05% instances.

    I like the GNOME 2006 era though.

    by unethical_ban
  • Falsehood People Believe about Programmers:

    Programmers think the models they use are perfect.

    by amelius

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