What is the data supposed to represent? Given an IP, I get back some indication of location. Is this
(a) The location of the user who uses this IP at the moment?
(b) The location of the device that is assigned this global IP?
(c) The location of the switch/router at the ISP that is directly connected to the device with the IP?
(d) The headquarters location of the organization that registered the IP block.
(e) Some other location we can't describe.
(f) One of the other answers, but at some time in the past.
These are not all the same location, and not necessarily the same country. Think about people using phones, on airplanes, at sea, in the desert using starlink, corporations using internal networks to get to an ISP POP in another country.
Many companies have internal directories which can be downloaded and (say) committed into git on a daily basis. This could be automated in a cron job. This then gives an immediate view into what is going on.
I believe that the Slack API (if your company uses Slack) can be persuaded to give you the list of deactivated accounts. Then you just check this into git (on a daily basis), and you are done.
And, of course, in this AI Agentic world, you can probably ask your HR bot about the recent layoffs and get the information even more easily!
That is odd. When I searched for Vitamin D, it showed me a list (which I could sort by $/mg). That list included Vitamin D, Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3. I assumed (incorrectly it seems) that this meant that it was doing some sort of prefix match. It seems that the result table highlights the "Ingredient" column, so I assumed (incorrectly) that it was searching that column. However, it doesn't seem to search the "Supplement" column, nor is it doing a prefix match (or substring match) on the Ingredient column. This is just confusing.
I suspect that my Tesla adjusts its location based on dead reckoning after losing GPS lock except that it assumes that I'm driving forwards. I.e. If I reverse out of my garage, then the map ends up in the wrong place and now I'm driving parallel to the road!
I'm not convinced that the units conversion is right. The example of 2 Cups of greek yoghurt being 391.32 g. 1 US cup is 240 ml (or 236.5 ml depending on which type of cup you are using). The density of greek yoghurt is somewhere between 0.96 g/ml and 1.04 g/ml (depending on which website you trust the most). This leads me to calculate that 2 cups greek yoghurt weighs between 454 g and 499 g). The 391 g value is way off.
I had a problem with Comcast that was that native IPv6 traffic was slower than IPv6 over my Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel. Support was no use (no surprise). But I happened to meet someone who worked in Comcast's backbone network. He figured it out and I got 10ms knocked of my native IPv6 ping times. (See https://n1dq.blogspot.com/2015/03/ipv6-comparing-hurricane-e... for the story).
The moral of the story is to find someone who works at Comcast who has Engineer in their job title and reach out directly. Linkedin is your friend here.
The article seems to think that a word is untranslateable if there is no single word in the target language. If I'm not misreading the article, then this is completely obvious -- just consider the number of words in English and the number of words in almost any other language, and you will find that there are more English words than the other language. It is now clear that there exist English words that don't correspond to a single word in the other language.
I suspect that this unaligned read apporach doesn't work for a bit length of 59, 61, 62 and 63.
In the case of 63, reading out value at offset 1, requires two reads as it need 1 bit from the first byte, then 56 bits from the next 7 bytes and finally 6 bits from the 9th byte. Nine bytes cannot be loaded in a single u64 load.
I want to know how to prevent my house from freezing (I'm in New England) in the middle of winter during a multiday power outage. Today, I run a 7kW generator that can keep the oil furnace running and the fans to circulate the air through the heat-exchangers (it is a multi-zone system).
It seems that I need soft-start compressors and coordination between the different units so that they don't all try to start at once.
I don't care if the house gets down to 40F during this period. I just don't want the interior water pipes to freeze.