You might be interested in this prequel to "Service Model": "Human Resources" [1]

[1] https://reactormag.com/human-resources-adrian-tchaikovsky/

He needs to do more in this universe and maybe connect it to one of his others. He really specializes in all the variants of collapse and I love every page of it.

I wonder if Typst [1] can handle this.

[1] https://typst.app

Off-topic: when I initially saw the headline, I thought it was about people farming termites. :-)

For reference, Libreture maintains a list of non-DRM bookshops [1].

[1] https://libreture.com/bookshops/

what we need is a unified search engine for non DRM bookshops so that I can just search for what I need and then be directed to whatever shop offers it at the best price or format.

I take wildlife shots but mainly for the record, which I post on iNaturalist. On occasion, I do need to see 'slightly into the future' for some shots, like predicting where birds and flying insects might be when I'm tracking them for shots. (This can be hard for pollinating insects flying from flower to flower.)

An article that brings back memories for me, since I worked at Creative Technology (the Singapore HQ) from the CD-ROM days until recently. :-)

I was also one of the people who worked on the Nomad II MP3 player.

If you worked on the Zen, then thank you. I had many good years of service from mine. Cheers!

I still use OSMAnd because it can take photos (with GPS coordinates) at waypoints while recording a track.

I use this to take photos of images from my DSLR while on nature walks.

I later download the waypoint photos and upload it to iNaturalist to get the location information I need to link the location to my higher resolution camera images.

More reliable than linking my camera to my phone (via Bluetooth) to record the location info.

JOSM, the OSM editor, has a clever way to do this. It links photos to locations on your track using the timestamp of the photograph. The only problem with that is the time on the camera is probably off by a bit. So to solve that you just take a photo of the time on your GPS device at some point in your walk (usually the start). That's then used to determine the offset to align everything.

Yes, the Sidek Serve involves hitting the feathers first. The controversy over the serve was widely publicised in Malaysia (my birth country) at the time, as it was 'invented' by Misbun Sidek.

The Sidek family was a dominant badminton force for Malaysia during that period. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidek_brothers

From the Introduction:

"The intended use is to serve as a convenient target for cross-reference from other specifications whose authors wish to exclude problematic [Unicode] code points from the data format or protocol being specified."

Open Access Paper: [ https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.20... ]