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> but that magic quickly goes away when everything suddenly shifts 10 (or 50) meters to the east because your device got updated GPS info.

"The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course long understood – and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy."

Have you tried turning off the Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain?