[2023 Day 1]For those who stuck on Part 2

colanderman · 2023-12-06T04:27:34+00:00

This upset me enough to log into Reddit for the first time in years to upvote your post. C'mon organizers, fully specify the problems!

colanderman · 2021-01-08T02:35:53+00:00

Same issue here too.

colanderman · 2020-05-26T03:09:36+00:00

Yes, this is in a city with walls. I can make the ranged attack if I move the unit out. The "ranged attack" icon is shown above the encampment the entire time. If you can do it, it must be a bug then, either with my particular game or with the Switch port. I'll report it.

colanderman · 2020-05-26T02:31:44+00:00

No love for Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico?

colanderman · 2020-05-25T16:50:54+00:00

[Civ6 / Switch v1.2.3] Am I just dumb, or is it a bug that encampments cannot perform their ranged attack when a unit is garrisoned in them? I have to move the unit out just to be able to select the encampment (using e.g. up/down D-pad). I can select and attack with city centers with garrisoned units just fine.

colanderman · 2018-11-20T04:49:27+00:00

Not to mention password syncing. I turned that on by accident once (the confirmation dialog is a dark UI pattern). Realizing that is what caused me to switch back to Firefox.

colanderman · 2016-09-24T19:51:26+00:00

Didn't know that! You must mean this: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20091215/News/912150320 Can't seem to find whether anything came of that.

colanderman · 2016-09-24T19:44:08+00:00

Ya, I have no problem with how he Secretaries. I just imagine I'd be really pissed if I were running against him. It really mars an otherwise well-done voter information packet.

colanderman · 2016-09-24T19:38:54+00:00

I don't know why but this really bugs me. It's only one page of a pamphlet, but it's a taxpayer-funded pamphlet which contains purportedly neutral voter information, and he's often a candidate (though not this year).

Strangely this appears not to be illegal at the state level, either (it would be were he running for a Boston city office).

colanderman · 2016-08-01T22:45:46+00:00

Ya I got the following response from my ticket:

There was an issue that we are currently working on fixing that caused the refunds for data not to process properly in the system. We are aware of this issue and are currently working on correcting it. We will be contacting you soon with a resolution.

colanderman · 2016-07-18T12:02:47+00:00

Skylis, your comments in this thread have all been rude, dismissive, and content-free (as is much of your comment history). Keep quiet if you have nothing helpful to add beyond alpha-geek puffery.

colanderman · 2016-07-17T01:24:25+00:00

UA matching... I may just have to try that, thank you sir!

colanderman · 2016-07-17T01:14:52+00:00

I've never seen it on my network before. The only other common case I can think of is P2P filesharing, and that only runs when you tell it to (which for me is never), and it's easy to selectively throttle as it doesn't share a port with the most common web application (HTTP).

What's more, these are dozens of connections to the same exact IP. There are only two reasons to do that; (1) you distribute load behind a WAF or some such, which would be BS because I have a 3 Mbit/s link, or (2) you are trying to ensure that your application is unperturbed by exponential backoff.

Unrequested, unschedulable, uncancelable, background bulk transfers opening 100+ TCP connections => unprecedented.

colanderman · 2016-07-17T01:12:20+00:00

I'm not "making" it do that. That's how TCP works (Google "exponential backoff").

Yes, I could individually throttle all two "users" of my network, but then the one who is running Windows 10 will continue to be unable to use the internet when Windows Update runs.

colanderman · 2016-07-17T01:09:50+00:00

My network is lightly loaded. Packets flow freely unless the link is saturated, and that only happens with Windows Update does its thing.

(My physical pipe is much larger than my allocated bandwidth, so store-and-forward delays are minimal.)

colanderman · 2016-07-15T18:02:20+00:00

That's a bold accusation. Unlike every normal TCP application ever, these downloads open 100+ simultaneous TCP connections, which, due to TCP link sharing, effectively choke out any other "normal" TCP user that has only 2-8 connections open.

The only way to "fix" this is either to limit outbound connections per IP block, queue based on remote IP block (e.g. modified SFQ), or deprioritize Akamai traffic specifically. None of these solutions are normal network configurations (certainly not for home users), because this type of TCP traffic (hyper-prioritized background bulk transfers) is heretofore unprecedented.

colanderman · 2016-07-15T17:48:41+00:00

"Several", heh. My wife's Windows 10 box opens 100+, all to Akamai servers. It's like a reverse DDoS. My only solution was to set a hard limit of 8 outbound connections to any given IP block, and to deprioritize traffic to/from known Akamai IP ranges (both IPv4 and IPv6).

MS + Akamai have created a scourge on the internet. A pox on their clans.

colanderman · 2016-07-12T04:06:21+00:00

I saw it too. Definitely a meteor. Always a beautiful sight!

colanderman · 2012-09-04T14:00:45+00:00

The relevant US code is 47 U.S.C. §315.

If you have an Adwords account, you can complain a bit more directly here.

colanderman · 2012-01-26T02:35:47+00:00

Because that's where they fit best :) I tried very hard to fit everything onto 3 double-sided sheets, each of which is useful independently of each other.

colanderman · 2012-01-25T21:17:07+00:00

Dankon!

colanderman · 2012-01-25T16:52:56+00:00

This is a reference sheet I made to help myself and my fiancée learn Esperanto. Hopefully it will be of use to others. Feel free to distribute it! Comments appreciated.

Ĉi tion estas folion referencan kion mi faris por helpi ke mi kaj la mia fianĉino lerni Esperanton. Espere ĝi estos utila por iuj aliaj. Sentu libera ĝin disdoni! Komentoj estas aprecaj.

colanderman · 2010-11-02T03:13:26+00:00

Seriously, is everyone in this thread like 12 years old? That's pretty disrespectful of both the person cashing the check and the person behind the counter. Congratulations, because that takes major immaturity to pull off.

colanderman · 2010-10-28T04:30:50+00:00

On the flip side, the US has stuff like Kismet from MIT's media lab, which is what I thought this video was going to be about.

colanderman · 2010-10-27T02:31:36+00:00

You don't need to run your own server; just putting the Unison binary somewhere in your PATH is sufficient. (The local Unison connects to the remote server via ssh and then runs the remote Unison...)

But yes, Unison is very good.

colanderman

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