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@Jennnyyyyyy 44

What will be the missing number? 🤔 Difficulty - Hardest 😉

@rocknrollofall Great memories of being 18 and listening to Making Movies when it had just been released with a long lost friend.

Do you remember the first time you listened to Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits? The song was written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and inspired by his broken romance with Holly Vincent, leader of the band Holly And The Italians. Some of the lyrics indicate that Knopfler felt she used him to boost her career: "How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals." The line, "Now you just say, oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene withhim," came from an interview where Holly Vincent was quoted as saying: "What happened was that I had a scene with Mark Knopfler and it got to the point where he couldn't handle it and we split up." The lyrics of the song describe the experience of the two lovers of the title, hinting at a situation that saw the "Juliet" figure abandon her "Romeo" after finding fame and moving on from the rough neighborhood where they first encountered each other. In addition to the reference to William Shakespeare's play of the same title, the song makes playful allusion to otherworks involving young love, includin the songs 'Somewhere' -from West Side Story, which is itself based on the Shakespeare play-and 'My Boyfriend's Back'. Here's your song, Mark Knopfler performing "Romeo and Juliet" live at A Night In London, recorded in BBC building, on April, 1996.

@ThoNg676733 The drummer is a great vocalist too... youtube.com/watch?v=IxTucy…

Should give credit to this incredible band and vocalist. Cannot find anywhere💗

@Ngnghm Smalltalk was ok for a small demo but working on a large project the garbage collector would cause the UI to hang for minutes several times an hour. This was in ~1995 using expensive hardware with maxed out memory.

Ironic: Smalltalk and Lisp systems were once both revered in theory and shunned in practice for being luxury languages requiring expensive hardware, priced well above the mass market. The same hardware requirements are now considered trivial—and yet neither language recovered.

@CaroDiRusso @Qantas Glad that you are safe. It could have been much much worse... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_A…

Got on a flight this evening to go home. We took off. Turns out ground staff didn’t close the cargo hold properly. Now we have to fly in circles for two hours to burn fuel before it’s safe to land back in Sydney. I just want to go home. How fucking hard is it, @qantas?

@Franc0Fernand0 The C programming bible...

There aren't many good books about the C programming language, and even fewer for more advanced devs that are hardly tied to a recent standard. "Modern C" is one of them. You can download it for free here: inria.hal.science/hal-02383654v2…

@dino11 @kapilansh_twt Tell it to minimize the changes.

@kapilansh_twt lol this is painfully accurate the worst part is when you try to understand the AI's fix and it's like "oh I just refactored the entire state management system" cool cool cool guess I'm rewriting this from scratch at 4am

the AI coding experience nobody talks about: → prompt AI for a feature: 30 seconds → AI writes 400 lines you don't understand → it works → you ship it → 3am production bug → you have no idea what any of it does → ask AI to fix it → AI breaks 3 other things → you are now debugging code written by a robot fixed by a robot broken by a robot we do not talk about this enough

@lemire I would teach a variety of languages such as C, Python, bash and sql.

Which programming language should you choose for teaching? Though many schools use Java, C#, C or C++, many others have adopted Python. The upside of Python is that it is somewhat easier to get going (helps motivation). The downside is that Python makes it harder to think about low-level issues such as data structures since everything is abstracted away. My own view on the matter, is that students should become polyglots. It is a strategic mistake to focus on a single programming language. But what about learning outcomes? Hott tells us that it does not matter. « there was no statistically significant difference in overall outcomes or struggle between students who complete their programming assignments solely in Python, solely in Java, or a combination thereof. Additionally, there was no statistically significant difference in overall scores on programming assignments, written problem sets, or quizzes from the course based on the language students chose when implementing their solutions. From these results, we conclude that providing students with a choice of programming language, including allowing students to program in a language they are more familiar with, does not appear to dramatically improve student outcomes. Additionally, the use of Python over Java (or consequently Java over Python) in an upper-level algorithms course does not improve performance overall, even though it may provide some benefit in isolated assignments. Therefore, educators need not worry about how the programming language chosen for their courses may impact student outcomes. » Hott, J. R. (2025, August). Student Outcomes When Provided Programming Language Choice in an Algorithms Course. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V. 2 (pp. 26-26). Hott has interesting research... engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/john-r… Coming back to what kids should learn, I largely agree with @lzsthw and his essay « AI Didn't Kill Programming, You Did ». Instead of worrying about which programming language we should use, we should turn things around and tell kids how to start a business, how to become independent from tech trends, and so forth. The very idea that you should standardize on one programming language should be a red flag. You can learn programming with anything. Start with Logo, Ada... Do it all! Heck!!! Invent your own programming language. learncodethehardway.com/blog/39-ai-did…

Be honest, is this relatable??

@mstockton Easy when you know how.

At one of my first software jobs in the mid 2000s, I had a coworker who was an absolute wizard at using grep / sed / awk / regex / xargs / tail and just piping all that stuff together like some sort of wild spell to solve whatever problem he wanted. I never knew what he was doing and it was honestly weird to see him just….type this stuff out. Meanwhile I was writing 100 line Java programs to do the stuff. I sometimes think about how this hard work he put in (along with his team of wizards) plus maybe a few times they posted their magic on StackOverflow is one of the primary reasons we can just do things now

Oddly this information is very hard to find. Professor of public health at the University of Otago, Michael Baker, told Stuff there had been 184 hospitalisations and 19 deaths in the last week. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360946…

@Star_Knight12 They've been useless since the advent of the internet.

these books are useless in this AI era

A massive study of 40,537 people in @ScienceDirect just redefined C0VID as "a condition of long-lasting immune compromise." 20 months post-infection, T-cells & NK cells (our primary viral & cancer defense) had NOT recovered. So much for "It's mild." sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵1

@WRCPAST FWIW G-BOAF is now on public display at Filton. The McLaren F1 is interesting too as it's a prototype judging by the lights.

Fred Finn British businessman Fred Finn holds the Guinness World Record for most Concorde flights with 718 trips between 1976 and 2003, accumulating over 22 million kilometers (about 15 million miles) and famously present for the first and last flights.  He always booked seat 9A, a window seat in the front section, where he'd often find a complimentary bottle of Dom Pérignon. At his peak, he'd take two or three round trips a week between London and New York, sometimes completing three returns in just 12 hours. He was on both the first and final Concorde flights, making him a true aviation legend. His frequent flights were for business, allowing him to get significant work done in the US and still be back in the UK quickly, a huge advantage over standard flights.  The average flight time between London and New York was just over three hours, compared to more than eight hours on a normal jumbo jet. It is estimated that Mr. Finn’s flights on Concorde cost in the region of £2 million, with a return trip to New York costing about £5,000 in the months before the aircraft was taken out of service. Seated back in 9A on Concorde 216, which hasn’t moved from Filton since its final flight on November 26, 2003, Mr. Finn said: “It’s a great shame that she’s not still in the air, but the plane looks almost brand new – she’s being well looked after. “I first flew on her on May 26, 1976 – the first flight from Washington to London and was on the last flight from New York to London on October 24, 2003. His favorite Concorde is 216 G-BOAF, which is currently grounded at Filton and not on display to the public. Fred is on X if you want to give him a follow @flyfinn1 📷 Heritage Concorde 👏🏻 @British_Airways @McLarenAuto @flyfinn1 @Lamborghini @rollsroycecars

Researchers from Griffith University have found that COVID-19 can cause long-term brain alterations in those who had been infected. #covid #brain #reasearch #griffithuniversity #queensland

Surely it’s getting a bit embarrassing for the NHS infection control folks that everyone is (finally) cottoning on to the fact that surgical masks do not protect against airborne transmission… …and yet, surgical masks are STILL all they’re recommending for use in hospitals!

The Skripal Novichok Hoax - I did not anticipate that an open public meeting in Salisbury itself would be 95% sceptical of the official Novichok hoax - but it was. Thanks to UK Column for putting this on. I hope you find it enlightening - there craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/…

I used to be an advisor at the Berlaymont. Now I’m spilling the beans on how the EU is deliberately designed so citizens can never hold it accountable or force real change from below. Thread 👇

@Jenny_1884 You had a hill to climb to get your first house. Today people face a mountain with a vertical cliff face as the first obstacle. Have some sympathy for today's youngsters.

It’s amazing the amount of people on here that appear to think pensioners had it easy. When I got married we scraped enough money to put a deposit on a 1 bedroom flat. Everything we had was second hand & clothes were a luxury & waited for Xmas & birthdays. No holidays. Never went out to restaurants as couldn’t afford it so cooked meals from scratch. We lived pay packet to pay packet. So no we didn’t have it easier we just had different priorities, saved up until we could afford to buy something & got on with life with no free handouts.

Belgian MEP Mark Demesmaeker ripped the mask off: “I skip meals so my children can eat in winter.” “I am dying from cold, from lack of heating and medicine.” These aren’t wartime metaphors. These are real letters he receives, from real people, and reflect an EU devouring its poor to feed the military-industrial beast. The two Europes are no longer theoretical. One half shivers in silence. The other half cashes in. Rheinmetall, the German arms giant, is booming. Meanwhile, Europe’s working class is starving, stripped of heat, medicine, and dignity. Let’s call this what it is, a continental betrayal. They said this was about defending democracy. But Europe is no longer governed. It’s collateralized. Your suffering is someone else’s stock dividend. Your pension? Gone to fund a failed counteroffensive. Your hospital budget? Redirected to buy American-made missiles. And for what? To fight Russia, a “gas station with nukes”, that the collective might of nato still can’t beat after 19 rounds of sanctions and de facto all out war. While Russia’s economy grows, Europe shrinks. While Russia secures energy flows, Europe imports inflation. And while Russia builds trade with the Global South, Brussels builds walls around its own people. This isn’t the EU of De Gaulle’s dream. It’s a military annex of Davos. Run by technocrats, not patriots. Legitimized by fear, not votes. Demesmaeker’s words cut through the fog: “We must get out of the Brussels bubble.” But Brussels isn’t a bubble anymore. It’s a fortress. Guarded by lobbyists. Airlocked from reality. Impervious to the howl of hungry citizens. They’ll send your sons to the front. They’ll send your daughters to the war factory. They’ll send your savings to Raytheon. And when it’s over, they’ll send you the bill, with interest, paid by the blood of your future generations. What they call “resistance” is just redistribution, from the poor to the war profiteers. Europe doesn’t need more tanks. It needs justice. It needs heat, food, medicine, it needs its future back. But there’s no money in peace. So they will drain you dry. Russia didn’t do this to Europe. Europe did this to itself. With Davos doctrine. With imperial hubris. With the iron delusion that its own people were expendable in a war no one voted for. The next time they say “support Ukraine,” ask them: At what cost? And to whom? Because the people already know. They feel it in their bones. And winter is coming