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Baffled Celebrity Big Brother viewers were all asking the same question about Patsy Palmer as she made her first appearance in the Diary Room on Tuesday night's episode.

The former MP, who is bisexual, made his show debut as the fourth housemate to enter the Big Brother house.

IAN LADYMAN AT THE EMIRATES STADIUM: Jude Bellingham stood with his hands on his hips, looked up at the big screen and puffed out his cheeks.

Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027

A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap ‘em with lasers.…

In a clip caught on CCTV the woman can be seen making her way home in with a man following close behind her. The thug then wrestles the phone out of her hand, shoving her to the ground.

Giuffre's US agent gave Daily Mail Australia an update on Giuffre's health on Wednesday after a domestic violence charge she is facing was mentioned in a Western Australian court.

Officers want to hear from anyone who might have information about where he is

The resort promises immersive attractions, rides and thrilling rollercoasters

The seafront funfair will take over a neighbouring funfair that recently closed down after a fire

TOWIE couple SPLIT after seven years together as 'heartbroken' star's famous friends gather around her during 'painful' and 'lonely' time.

Around 1.5 million Brits 'swing' - wife swap, 'hot-wife', have threesomes, group sex or visit swinger's clubs. That's a fifty per cent increase over the past decade.

It was noted that her actions could have had 'fatal' consequences

Former British Olympic runner Mara Yamauchi has been branded a 'bigoted bully' and told to 'f*** off' by a Parkrun director in a furious row about trans women competing in the event's female category.

Pegg insisted nothing untoward happened, saying she liked to be 'hands on' with the prisoners, with whom she had an 'open door' policy.

It's part of an ongoing police operation at the airport to crackdown on crime

Rudie Heru Komandono said it was not his fault that he had crashed through the construction site while following a map to his friend's house in East Java, Indonesia

Michael Tanzi, branded a 'fledgling serial killer,' was put to death just after 6pm on Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford after his lawyers tried to stave off his morbid end.

Police are appealing for video footage, such as dashcams or CTTV around th time of the incident

Singletons is arguably the easiest to understand design pattern, and thus, one of the most frequently implemented design patterns, even- especially- when it isn't necessary. Its simplicity is its weakness.

Bartłomiej inherited some code which implemented this pattern many, many times. None of them worked quite correctly, and all of them tried to create a singleton a different way.

For example, this one:

public class SystemMemorySettings { private static SystemMemorySettings _instance; public SystemMemorySettings() { if (_instance == null) { _instance = this; } } public static SystemMemorySettings GetInstance() { return _instance; } public void DoSomething() { ... // (this must only be done for singleton instance - not for working copy) if (this != _instance) { return; } ... } }

The only thing they got correct was the static method which returns an instance, but everything else is wrong. They construct the instance in the constructor, meaning this isn't actually a singleton, since you can construct it multiple times. You just can't use it.

And you can't use it because of the real "magic" here: DoSomething, which checks if the currently active instance is also the originally constructed instance. If it isn't, this function just fails silently and does nothing.

A common critique of singletons is that they're simply "global variables with extra steps," but this doesn't even succeed at that- it's just a failure, top to bottom.

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The world used clean power sources to meet more than 40% of its electricity demand last year for the first time since the 1940s, figures show. The Guardian: A report by the energy thinktank Ember said the milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years. The report found that solar farms had been the world's fastest-growing source of energy for the last 20 consecutive years. Phil MacDonald, Ember's managing director, said: "Solar power has become the engine of the global energy transition. Paired with battery storage, solar is set to be an unstoppable force. As the fastest-growing and largest source of new electricity, it is critical in meeting the world's ever-increasing demand for electricity." Overall, solar power remains a relatively small part of the global energy system. It made up almost 7% of the world's electricity last year, according to Ember, while wind power made up just over 8% of the global power system. The fast-growing technologies remain dwarfed by hydro power, which has remained relatively steady in recent years, and made up 14% of the worldâ(TM)s electricity in 2024.

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