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He basically invented the natural history documentary, maybe even the science documentary. Before him, there was little to no serious natural history programming, or what there was was quite "folksy". And with it, he created, sustained and increased the public interest and concern about the natural world.

I suspect many scientists can trace their early interest in science back to him. And I believe the green movement would have had a lot less impact without him.


There's a map facility not linked here that allows you to build GeoJSON graphically:

https://geojson.io/#map=12.42/51.50593/-0.13003


A radio report I heard said that hantavirus is nothing like coronavirus. It is not new, endemic, and there is plenty of immunity around to slow down local spread.

Agreed. I found compose overlay files merged list values differently between the Docker and Podman versions, which was a PITA in teams running Docker & Linux dev machines.

FWIW, most of these issues were recently fixed in podman-compose. I can now use the current git version of podman-compose interchangeably with docker-compose.

And one nice thing about podman-compose is that it's ONE PYTHON FILE. You can just copy it into your source tree.


The majors that do upstream (taking it out of the ground) as well as downstream (refining and selling it on the forecourt or wholesale) make their profits on the oil markets.

When crude is high, it's upstream that earns the income. When it's low, it's selling it to the customer.

Fun fact: when I worked at BP, the product with the highest margin on the forecourts was the Wild Bean coffee.


It's funny to think that BP is a coffee shop with a side-business in petrol.

McDonald's makes its largest margins from the soft drinks, according to an ex's brother who worked in their HQ. From a $1 drink, the cup, straw and lid is 5 cents, and the liquid is 3 cents.


Isn't that (part of) the purpose of using something like Ariel OS, to isolate you from changes?

> I've also found that using those attributes inherently pushes your code to make ownership more explicit. I personally stopped being terrified of double-pointers and started using them for ownership transfers, which eliminates a large class of bugs.

This is very interesting. Do you have a practical example?


Yeah here's a trivial one.

void *__free p = NULL;

func(&p); // func zeroes p to claim ownership

// end of scope, p is NULL, nothing happens // if func was not called, p is freed


Missed the opportunity to call it Kink ...


That's what I'll be calling it

openkink

GNU + kink

Yeah, that threw me as well.

Also worth pointing out that the Old English version at each of those dates probably varied quite a bit. This was the time period over which Old English was being influenced by external factors such as Norse and Latin.


"countryclub.com" - ie, a bunch of fossils :)

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