It is entirely location-dependent because of how Anycast works as implemented in (E)BGP. There is no single "1.1.1.1", but many hosts that share the same vIP in many physical locations.
+1 for the SensorWatch. I've been using it for a few months now and it's been flawless. I prioritize battery life above all else, and only recently has the battery been dropping in voltage. Opening up the watch to do any SW changes is a bit of a pain, so if you constantly want to make changes it could get annoying.
This would be perfect for me, I love ambient music while doing almost any task, only 2 qualms tho. One being the high pitched beep when pausing/playing, it hurts. Second there isnt a volume slider. I keep different applications at different audio levels in the Volume Mixer, with chrome at full, making it very loud. Other than that, I love the idea!
Calling it on its own always returns the weather for Ottawa. Id expect it to use the requesting IP's location at the least. Using wttr.in/~LosAngeles returns the weather for "Rua Professora Maria Losângeles Navarro", a street in Brazil.
It gives me the weather for "Italy, United States of America". So having got the country of Italy from the geolocation, it must then be doing a US-centric text search for the location.
The weather report is nice but doesn't work too well with rxvt-unicode or with a light-coloured background.
Mine returned Oymyakon, Russia. Nearly 8,000km from my location, or IP address geoloc. I'm assuming it's possibly picking up some hop in between, maybe?
Mine too, but at the very bottom, it says "We were unable to find your location
so we have brought you to Oymyakon,
one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet."
I’m fairly certain in a reply someone mentioned this, and Bill said that cash does lead to deaths, but with it comes actual Person-to-Person contact to exchange, making the anonymity of cryptocurrencies more appealing.
I’m able to get most of my books online for free, and have been lucky with professors not requiring textbooks. This semester though I’m forced to purchase a $200 textbook just so I can turn in my homework through some online system, it’s a joke.
> This semester though I’m forced to purchase a $200 textbook just so I can turn in my homework through some online system
Walled gardens encroaching on education.
Can you mention what system it is? There's a few thousand entrepreneurs on this site that might be interested in disrupting broken business models like that one.
When I was doing Algorithms and Data Structures at the University of Otago, the required textbook was Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms first edition. More than $NZ130 at the time, and we got a few weeks into the course before they told us we didn't actually need it for coursework, they just wanted to make sure we had a copy.
I see it's available for $US6.61 used on Amazon now...
When you say "they just wanted to make sure we had a copy" you mean - they made you buy it as a "requirement" (that there was no way around it), or they just told you and most of you bought?
And by "they" you meant the faculty (professors etc) or college administration or some other office office? Just curious about it. I am from India and there are no fixed text books here (at least the colleges I know about - central Govt. funded). There are syllabi and you are free to study the course with anything you want - books, or no books. My college library solved textbook problem for almost 40% students and rest were solved by hands-me-downs from seniors, 2nd hand book stores (some of them have very capable xerox machines too), and then there's "online".
