This Week I Learned - Week #14 2022

 This Week I Learned - 

* Inspired by The History of the Web, the Google Chrome Developer Relations team has compiled 100 Cool Web Moments 

* Lambda Function URLs allow your function to be called via a HTTP request. This capability isn't new, previously you'd need to pair Lambda with API Gateway (v1 or v2) to invoke a function via HTTP request.

* LAMBDA is a new function available in Excel 365. Use a LAMBDA function to create custom, reusable functions and call them by a friendly name. A custom LAMBDA function does not require VBA or macros.

* Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a set of principles and practices for creating scalable and highly reliable software systems.

* SRE and DevOps are both modern operations practices. There is considerable overlap in tooling and areas of work between SRE and DevOps. SRE could be considered a specific implementation of the DevOps philosophy. SRE is to reliability as DevOps is to delivery. DevOps engineers  largely focus on the software development lifecycle pipeline with occasional production operations responsibilities while SREs focus on production operations with occasional SDLC pipeline responsibilities. Can you have both SRE and DevOps in the same organization?" - Yes.

*  ServiceNow has launched data center facilities in Mumbai and Bangalore.

* If you use the HTML elements of summary and details you don’t have to write any show/hide code yourself and users of Chromium browsers (Edge, Chrome, Brave…) can use “find in page” as the browser will automatically expand the details that contain their search terms.

* Vakyansh - Text to Speech in 8 Indic Languages

* IndicNLP group is focused on building NLP ecosystem for Indian languages.

* In journalism, a hot take is a "piece of deliberately provocative commentary that is based almost entirely on shallow moralizing" in response to a news story, "usually written on tight deadlines with little research or reporting, and even less thought". The New York Times Styles section defines a hot take as "a hastily assembled but perhaps heartfelt piece of incendiary opinionated content". Hot takes are often associated with social media, where they can be easily shared and commented on by both readers and other journalists, a lucrative environment for publishers...

* It's expected the global population will hit 8 billion in 2022.

* United States of America is the third most populous country in the world trailing only China and India, having 4% of the total world's population.  China and India account for roughly 36% of the world's population.

* With more than 1.2 billion telecom subscribers and more than 830 million internet subscribers, India hosts the second-largest telecom market in the world. 

* India's 3.1 million NGOs largely rely on foreign funding. 

* Bombay Duck is a marine fish from India and Bangladesh. The fish is sometimes dried before it is consumed. After drying, the odour of the fish is extremely powerful, and it is usually transported in air-tight containers. The Bombay duck is a popular food item in certain areas of India particularly in Maharashtra. It is also called bummalo, bombil, and boomla. 

* Know Your Fish (KYF) is a voluntary initiative of a team of researchers working towards an ocean-friendly lifestyle. It offers seafood consumers recommendations on eating seafood responsibly by specifying best time to eat a particular type of fish so as to avoid periods in the year when a species breeds in the wild.

* In case of hospitalization, your insurance claim will be decided on the basis of rent charged for hospital rooms (general ward, private room, deluxe room, etc). The definition of room rent is the cost of the room per night, including nursing charges. it would help if you also ask the hospital to disclose the room charges and nursing charges to know the actual room rent before the hospitalization. Health insurance policies typically cap room rent at 1-2% of the sum insured. However, in some policies, the room rent is capped based on an absolute amount. 

* Gazebos, Pergolas, Solariums, Marquees & Awnings are related to outdoor structures & shades.

* The dowry was a custom brought to the United States by colonists from England and elsewhere in Europe.

* Bride price, bridewealth, or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.

* Victors spin morality for their own political ends. Permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) can veto any resolution, including those to set up international tribunals.

* The “Son of Sam” law was created to keep convicted criminals from profiting off their stories after a serial killer sold his story rights for a murder spree he committed in the mid-1970s. In its modern form, the law gives the New York Crime Victims Board the power to freeze any profits earned by criminals in the state so that victims can sue. Netflix paid Russian-born con artist Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin an initial fee of $30,000 pre-trial and subsequently paid more for the rights to adapt her life story, bringing her payment up to $320,000. It was used to pay restitution and legal fees. Inventing Anna is a Netflix miniseries created and produced by Shonda Rhimes (showrunner—creator, head writer, and executive producer—of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy), based on the May 2018 New York article, “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” by Jessica Pressler. - Time

* Buddha attained nirvana 675 years before the year of Mahavira nirvana. 

* Rakesh Gangwal, the co-founder of IndiGo airline, did his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975.

* Amalner in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district is said to be the homegrown IT company's birthplace. Former Wipro Chairman and philanthropist Azim Premji's father, Mohamed Hasham Premji, established his company - Western India Products Limited - in 1945, which was later abbreviated to Wipro. It started off as a vegetable and refined oils manufacturer and was developed into a new-age IT company. Out of the 75 years of existence, the Indian IT company was led by the Azim Premji Foundation founder for 53 years. Premji (Azim) took over the vanaspati business at the age of 21. - ET

* To seek round the clock security related assistance, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) security helpline number 139.  You may also write a message 'MADAD space your complaint' and SMS it to 139. The Twitter handle is RailwaySeva. 

* MPs who have served even a day in Parliament get Rs 25,000 a month for the rest of their lives. Among states, 20 pay more pension for one term than the Parliament does. India has had over 45,000 MPs and MLAs . If half the expense on former Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs is added to the list, the total comes to over Rs 73 crore a month  - ToI

* The WHO recommendation is a minimum doctor:patient (D:P) ratio of 1:1000. Qatar has the highest D:P ratio in the world of 7.7:1000. The number of living and practicing “qualified” doctors in India is likely 675000 (0.5:1,000).  India has the largest number of medical colleges in the world (595 as of Jan 2022) with an intake of 89395 students in the last year. - ToI