This Week I Learned - Week #28 2021

This Week I Learned - 

* For customers looking to leverage the new West US 3 datacenter region and Availability Zones, Azure offers region portability for multiple resources with Azure Resource Mover.

* There are more than 270+ instance types available in AWS with 400+ variations and nearly 350 VM sizes in Azure

* YUM (​Yellowdog Updater Modified) is a software package management utility used in many popular Linux distributions for installing, updating, removing, and managing software packages.

* CrowdTangle is a public insights tool from Facebook that makes it easy to follow, analyze, and report on what’s happening with public content on social media. CrowdTangle allows you to search Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.

* GitHub calls Copilot its AI pair programming companion for developers.

* Like logical fallacies, these data fallacies are good to keep in mind while making data driven decisions. 

* New Zealand's three official languages are English, Māori, and Sign Language.

* In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. 

* Although Captain James Cook is famously associated with the exploration of New Zealand, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is officially recognized as the first European to 'discover' the country in 1642.

* The 12,000-foot peak Aoraki / Mount Cook  is New Zealand's highest mountain. Sir Edmund Hillary developed his climbing skills on the mountain in preparation for his conquest of Everest.

* New Zealand is home to more species of penguin than any other country. Thirteen of the world's 18 penguin species have been recorded in the New Zealand region. 

* Gentoo penguins are the fastest underwater (flightless) birds in the world.

* Hyperkalemia occurs when potassium levels in your blood get too high. Too much potassium in your blood can damage your heart and cause a heart attack.

* Traditionally, to "get religion" is (1) to become religious, or (2) to end one's immoral behavior. The phrase still carries those definitions, but it's also used more figuratively to mean (1) to get serious about an issue and devote proper attention to it, and (2) to reform one's view toward something.

* A Jesuit is a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order which includes priests and brothers — men in a religious order who aren't priests.

* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 are regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement.

* Mark Twain embarked on a year-long, around the world lecture tour in July 1895. His three months in India became the centerpiece of his 712-page travelogue "Following the Equator". A reviewer writes that "for those who like to be offended, there is still enough political incorrectness (in the book)". Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835. He died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth again, in 1910.

* Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch (23 novels till 2021) and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. After three years at the Los Angeles Times, Connelly wrote his first published novel, The Black Echo (1992). The book is partly based on a true crime and is the first one featuring Connelly's primary recurring character, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, a man who, according to Connelly, shares few similarities with the author himself. Connelly named Bosch after the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch — The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), and The Last Coyote (1995) — before quitting his job as a reporter to write full-time. While writing Connelly listens exclusively to instrumental jazz, though, because it does not have intrusive vocals, and because the improvisational playing inspires his writing.

* The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with melamine. The chemical was used to increase the nitrogen content of diluted milk, giving it the appearance of higher protein content in order to pass quality control testing. 

* In 1992, the government's decision to confer Bharat Ratna posthumously on Subhas Chandra Bose met with criticism due to controversy over his death. Following a 1997 Supreme Court decision, the award was cancelled. This was the first and to date the only occasion when the award was announced but withdrawn.

* Potato is called "batata" in Portuguese and Marathi. Indian cuisine would not have included potatoes had it not been for the Portuguese colonizers. - Masala Lab

* The tomato arrived in India by the way of Portuguese explorers, in the 16th century. It was grown from the 18th century onwards for the British.

* Chilies were brought from South America to India by the Portuguese through their trading colony of Goa. India is now the largest producer and exporter of chilies in the world, growing a wide variety of different types. 

* A habitat map is an illustrated depiction of the various creatures that occupy a particular ecosystem, from the sky to the sea floor. 

* Mumbai’s Interactive Biodiversity Map

* Zomato is emerging as a dominant player along with Swiggy in the restaurant discovery and ordering market that's now a duopoly. Zomato will joins the likes U.K.-based Deliveroo and U.S.-based Doordash that have gone public in the last one year even as the pandemic raged.

* "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain