cornishpixels

I used to work for Spectrum, in Business Class tech support. Several friends still work there, in NOC and Enterprise tech support. All of them have laptops, "in case [they] ever have to work from home". Meanwhile, they're not allowed to work from home.

That has nothing to do with what he said. At the very least, you can leave their modem also set as a router and just put your router behind it (double NAT). More likely, you can turn off all of the "router" functions of their modem and still put your own router behind it.

There is no way for them to differentiate whether the device behind the modem is a router or a computer.

What? LOL. No it won't. A few providers will lift them temporarily and then go right back to how things were in a couple of months.

> the very fact that the limits can be lifted at will or certain high-traffic categories (such as a broadband company’s own streaming TV channels) can be exempted [... proves that] there is definitively enough capacity for the network to be used without those caps

Someone doesn't understand how the Internet works.

> that may or may not actually be paid

It'll be paid. Most of their customers don't have any other choice but to pay it. (Otherwise, most of them already wouldn't be their customers, after all.)

> NOWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE IS THIS FACT DOCUMENTED. The referenced commit (https://github.com/golang/go/commit/675eb72c285cd0dd44a5f280...) has /* SIGSETXID; see issue 3871, 9400 /, / SIGCANCEL; see issue 6997 */

> The way things stand, nobody would ever know why the signals are set up the way they are unless they trawled through 40,000 commits. Yes, 40,000: git log --oneline | wc -l.

git blame exists. 675eb72c285 src/runtime/os1_linux.go (Austin Clements 2014-12-19 16:16:17 -0500 417) var sa sigactiont

> They're presumably way better at it than I am.

That's laughable.

> Now I understand why UPS is delivering so late in my area, including having guys hanging out of UHaul trucks.

That's normal. Although at least here, it's Budget trucks. I must say, it was not very fun driving over 100 trucks from various Budget locations to the UPS depot, with 4 people.

Amazon: Hey, we'll give you a free upgrade to same day or next day delivery!

Also Amazon: takes 3 days to deliver.

FedEx ground does not have a guaranteed delivery time.

The problem is that Amazon Logistics is systemically far less reliable than FedEx or UPS.

AT&T (the ISP's) allocations are to AT&T Corp, not AT&T Services.