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The NHS has said the strikes will be 'difficult' but told patients not to be put off from seeking care as they normally would

Tim H inherited some code which has objects that have many, many properties properties on them. Which is bad. That clearly has no cohesion. But it's okay, there's a validator function which confirms that object is properly populated.

The conditions and body of the conditionals have been removed, so we can see what the flow of the code looks like.

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It's important to note that this conditional doesn't validate every property on the object. Just most of them.

Even with autocomplete I feel like this is going to make you wear out your "{" key.

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Chinese car makers are arriving in Europe thick and fast, and dominating. But what are European car makers doing to dominate on China's automotive home turf?

The wildly popular water park on the Essex-London border had become a well-loved destination for families in the late 80s and early 90s — and then a freak incident occurred.

The gang who tried to steal Joanna Lumley's car from outside her £2.5m London home were Eastern European - and targeted at least three more vehicles in the same street.

The cast of Malcolm in the Middle have reunited for an upcoming reunion series - with the exception of one key cast member. 

The former special forces soldier has been taken into custody.

Caitlyn Jenner is seeking to recoup nearly half a million dollars owed to her by her late friend Sophia Hutchins.

The political commentator, 55, credited the medication with fixing a series of health issues she had been grappling with.

A woman in Mexico was left dangling from a carnival ride and was about to plummet to the ground when a man swooped in to catch her on April 2.

A landmark case has found social media platforms to be faulty products as they were designed to be addictive, suing Meta and YouTube for millions of dollars.

A road closure near a major roundabout is causing chaos as traffic and HGVs are cutting through a quiet village.

A landmark case has found social media platforms to be faulty products as they were designed to be addictive, suing Meta and YouTube for millions of dollars.

After leading Braintree Council for 22 years, the Conservative councillor for Great Notley and Black Notley is stepping down from the role next month.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 (PDF) in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform. The ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court has ruled on what has become the central issue in an escalating battle over the ability of state gaming regulators to police the activity of prediction market operators. Kalshi and companies like it allow users to place trades and profit from predictions on events such as sports and elections. States argue that firms like Kalshi are operating without required state licenses, in violation of gaming laws, including bans on wagers by those under 21. Those states include New Jersey, which last year sent Kalshi a cease-and-desist letter stating that its listing of sports-related event contracts on its platform violated state gambling laws that prohibit betting on collegiate sports. Kalshi sued the state, arguing its event contracts qualify as "swaps," a type of derivative contract, that under the Commodity Exchange Act can only be regulated by the CFTC, which had granted the company a license to operate a designated contract market (DCM). A lower-court judge had sided with New York-based Kalshi and issued a preliminary injunction, prompting New Jersey to appeal. But a majority of the judges on the 3rd Circuit panel concluded the Commodity Exchange Act likely preempted state law. "Kalshi's sports-related event contracts are swaps traded on a CFTC-licensed DCM, so the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction," U.S. Circuit Judge David Porter wrote. The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Donald Trump's administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.

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Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

Russia has unveiled a battlefield robot armed with a rapid-fire mortar system capable of 'loading and firing rounds without any human input'.

Residents of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, say they spotted the machinery being driven onto green belt land off Friendless Lane on Thursday before caravans followed suit on Easter Sunday morning.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni declined to end their bitter legal case on Monday about alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us.