@SaulStaniforth @susannareid100 In a parliamentary democracy the government is collective, not presidential. There is no constitutional requirement for party leaders to debate .
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Nithin
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Nithin
@nitnamby
Technology consultant, Java | Cricket enthusiast
London Katılım Temmuz 2010
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Susanna Reid asks: "How have we got to the situation where Andy Burnham is going to become the PM of the UK & there has been no debate, there has been no big public hustings.. it doesn't feel very democratic"
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I wonder if anyone bet that it would be Kranti Gaud and Yastika Bhatia whose names will go up on the Lord's honour board, and not those of their more storied teammates?
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@TedhiLakeer strategy, they are normally quite cautious in the first half.
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England is no France.
Why is Norway playing so defensive? Possess the ball and penetrate
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Is there an air-conditioning startup in London? I will offer you my full-suite of services in barter for air-conditioning my house.
I am dying. My phone is dying. My computer is dying. My pedestal fan is overheating.
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@brunoborges i’m not sure how much data they can store in the context without impacting the output
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My main question is "how much did they spend on AI tokens" to build this.
Cool solution though!
Tanmai Gopal@tanmaigo
We raised $136M to kill Slack. Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack. Here’s how it works:
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@theanalyst Too often football commentary feels like fan commentary with a microphone. I would rather hear expert analysis of tactics, decision-making and player performance than partisan cheerleading.
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What do you think of the current standard of commentary on the Fifa World Cup? Here are some thoughts and ideas on commentary starting with that 1982 classic clip when Norway beat England 2-1! #cricket #football #fifaworldcup2026 #england📷 #norway📷 #commentary youtu.be/4CPQiasBJAI?si… via @YouTube
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@mattspiro Match timing could be a blessing in disguise for the British public.
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Just need to beat Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and France now, then we’ve done it!! 🏴 🏆
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@vikramchandra It is less an isolated IT issue and more a reflection of the country’s broader bureaucratic culture. The site mirrors the same layers of red tape, inconsistent processes, and administrative complexity that people often encounter elsewhere in the system.
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I have heard this complaint from more than a dozen visitors
to India this year.
The e-visa site is a real challenge - and it’s a bad first impression for tourists coming to India.
Needs to be fixed asap.
The Economist@TheEconomist
Before you read this article, grab a glass of water and a paracetamol. Walk over to your laptop—the supercomputer in your hand is not up to the task—and see if you can figure out how to apply online for an Indian visa. We’ll wait economist.com/asia/2026/06/2…
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With the R32 nearly complete, a 🇫🇷 France vs 🇦🇷 Argentina final is looking likely.
It’s tougher for France: Germany (R16) → 🇳🇱 Netherlands (QF) → 🇧🇷 Brazil (SF).
Argentina: 🇪🇬 Egypt/ 🇪🇬 Australia (R16) → 🇨🇴 Colombia (QF) → 🇪🇸 Spain (SF).
France this time!?👀 #FIFAWorldCup
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@prempanicker @rameshsrivats I think there’s an important distinction between proving your eligibility to obtain a passport and the legal effect of already having one as far as i understand.
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@nitnamby @rameshsrivats AFAIK, to get a passport, I have to produce all the evidence to show I am a citizen in good standing, no criminality involved, etc, no? At what point does this kind of process of vetting result in a mother document, then?
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Okay, passport, whatever.
But what about voter id? Why is that not proof of citizenship? Only citizens can vote, no? Or was my school civics teacher hallucinating?
And don't tell me it's not proof because there are fakes around. By that logics no document can be proof of anything.
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@archer_rs @nmcl NHS waiting lists are falling, net migration is down , inflation under control and the economy has held up reasonably well despite global headwinds. Those r significant achievements in two years. Labour has perhaps not communicated these successes as effectively as it could have.
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Sir Keir Starmer won a massive majority, the British people voted for him and from day one the foreign owned British media together with the BBC did everything possible to overthrow that democratic choice and force him out.
He never lost an election and yet he's gone.
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I am told that the PM has not yet definitively decided that he will announce his departure. “It is looking that way,” says a source, “but it is not 100%.”
The prediction, among Keir Starmer’s close colleagues, is that he will decide to stay in post until just before Labour conference in late September. “In those circumstances of a delayed exit, history will probably be kinder to him,” said a colleague. “But of course we understand the instinct just to have done with it and walk away.”
As for the timing of any such announcement, that could still be Tuesday rather than Monday.
On whether there should be a formal leadership contest or an uncontested coronation of Andy Burnham, I am told the mood of MPs is polarised, but the majority would prefer “the men and women in grey suits” to fix it for Burnham, without a potentially fractious completion.
Apart from anything else, even close friends of Burnham say he is not yet ready to govern. “He definitely needs time to work out his team and programme,” says an ally of his.
So Starmer would be doing Burnham a favour by staying in post another three months - though he would do Burnham a favour through gritted teeth that would risk them falling out.
Robert Peston@Peston
Peter Kyle was explicit just now on the BBC that he does not want a coronation of Andy Burnham, that a leadership contest that debates how Labour can best hold Reform at bay would be preferable, but that the transition from Keir Starmer to a new prime minister must be “functional” and orderly. The implication of this - and of conversations I have had with other ministers - is that Starmer will announce a date for his departure tomorrow. Their working assumption is that he will exit Number 10 some time around Labour conference in late September, though no one knows for sure. That said, the question of whether or not there will be a proper leadership contest will be open for a few days. The settled position of Labour MPs and members is that Andy Burnham is likely to be the UK’s next prime minister. But that is absolutely not the same thing as saying that they are overwhelmingly against a contest. What they are considering is the risk of appointing Burnham by acclamation without subjecting him to proper scrutiny in a leadership contest, versus the risk that such a contest will undermine “functional” government for weeks and paint their government as no less chaotic than the previous Tory government. To put it another way, can MPs genuinely trust that Burnham has a credible plan for economic renewal if he is left to formulate it in semi privacy? And what kind of image about today’s Labour Party is projected if the party simply appoints another white middle aged man as leader without any kind of challenge? The uncertainty brought by a contest versus the perception of arrogance and mono-culture that would be the result of a Burnham coronation? It is by no means an easy decision.
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@unclebobmartin You need to stop amplifying hate speech and false information. Be more responsible.
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@javaevolved @brunoborges It should only be used if Parent knows it’s Subtypes in a domain Hierarchy. otherwise prefer open interfaces.
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☕ Sealed classes for type hierarchies
Restrict which classes can extend a type — enabling exhaustive switches.
Open Hierarchy → sealed permits (JDK 17+)
🔗 javaevolved.github.io/language/seale…
#Java #JavaEvolved
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Waiting for phone version.
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: The first tablet version of the blockbuster weight-loss jab Wegovy will be available in the UK within weeks, following approval by the medicines regulator. @SkyNewsThomas reports ⬇️ Read more: trib.al/iv8jSmW 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and Freeview 233
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@RosieDuffield1 UK government lost £10 billion in the PPE scandal, that story didn’t get this much attention!
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" ...not enough attention has been paid to his most extraordinary purchase of all: a £349.99 Dyson hairdryer. A curious choice. Mainly because, as photographs will attest, Mr Murrell’s head is completely bald..."
telegraph.co.uk/gift/86d4fefb0…
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A question for everyone working on business applications:
How much of the spec-driven development content you read actually fits your daily work?
When I look at Spec Kit, Kiro, or BMad Method, the examples are almost always:
- A new app
- A simple domain
- One developer, one repo
- No legacy, no regulations, no business analyst in the room
My daily work for over 30 years looks different. Probably yours too.
We have:
- Existing systems with years of decisions baked in
- Domain experts who hold the real knowledge
- Teams with mixed roles working on the same codebase
This is the gap the AI Unified Process is meant to close. SDD, but for the brownfield enterprise reality.
Curious to hear from others. Does the current SDD content speak to your work, or does it feel like it was written for a different audience?
unifiedprocess.ai
#SpecDrivenDevelopment #AIUP #EnterpriseJava
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