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A study by researchers at the University of Columbia has revealed the earliest warning signs of the debilitating condition multiple sclerosis (MS).

Locals occupied Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, in south east London , on Saturday night and unfurled a black banner on a roundabout with 'end art washing' written in green letters.

The much-trumpeted deal with Emmanuel Macron 's government will lapse at the end of June next year - just 47 weeks away - unless it is renewed.

London diners have been left fuming over 'stupid' new charge being added to restaurant bills. Taking to Reddit one customer from The Pig and Butcher in Islington, highlighting a £1.23 'Carbon Free' fee

Lauren Sanchez was determined not to let the terrain dictate her style choices as she appeared to struggle to keep her footing on the rocky shore of Ibiza on Sunday night. 

Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut’s voice and issued instructions to camera drone

Japanese space agency JAXA and Germany’s DLR have conducted what they say is the first collaboration between independently developed robots on the International Space Station.…

The story of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is, like Prince Andrew, marked by ambition and financial recklessness.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ended prematurely after losing contact with the satellite just one day post-launch, the agency announced today. Engadget reports: The NASA satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines, which took off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on February 26 at 7:16PM ET. The Lunar Trailblazer successfully separated from the rocket as planned about 48 minutes after launch. Operators in Pasadena, CA established communication with the satellite at 8:13PM ET, but two-way communication was lost the next day and the team was unable to recover the connection. From the limited data ground teams received before the satellite went dark, the craft's solar arrays were not correctly positioned toward the sun, which caused its batteries to drain. "While it was not the outcome we had hoped for, mission experiences like Lunar Trailblazer help us to learn and reduce the risk for future, low-cost small satellites to do innovative science as we prepare for a sustained human presence on the Moon," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator at NASA Headquarters' Science Mission Directorate. "Thank you to the Lunar Trailblazer team for their dedication in working on and learning from this mission through to the end."

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Jessie J faced online abuse after she told of her horror at footage of an Israeli hostage captured by Hamas.

This year's Love Island put itself on the reality TV map for being one of the steamiest seasons in recent memory. The islanders were so frisky that the producers had to order more condoms.

The actor and comedian's upcoming two-part Channel 4 show sees him create a piece of art for his hometown, St. Helens, in Merseyside.

Incredible footage captured the moment tractors are let loose on a farm in Hautes-Vosges to drive around in circles spraying a brown sludgy-looking liquid in their wake.

Police said in a statement on Monday night that the 55-year-old father-of-three would appear at magistrates' court next Wednesday.

She's not single, but it appears Amy Shark is definitely ready to mingle.

Stefanie Erin Kellenberger, 40, has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing one of her former students, beginning when the girl was just 13 years old.

Michael has the "fun" task of converting old, mainframe-driven reports into something more modern. This means reading through reams of Intelligent Query code.

Like most of these projects, no one has a precise functional definition of what it's supposed to do. The goal is to replace the system with one that behaves exactly the same, but is more "modern". This means their test cases are "run the two systems in parallel and compare the outputs; if they match, the upgrade is good."

After converting one report, the results did not match. Michael dug in, tracing through the code. The name of the report contained the word "Annual". One of the key variables which drove original the report was named TODAYS-365 (yes, you can put dashes in variables in IQ). Michael verified that the upgraded report was pulling exactly one year's worth of data. Tracing through the original report, Michael found this:

# DIVIDE ISBLCS BY ISB-COST-UOM GIVING ISB-COST-EACH. MULTIPLY ISB-STK-QOH TIMES ISB-COST-EACH GIVING ISB-ON-HAND-COST. # SUBTRACT TODAYS-DATE MINUS 426 GIVING TODAYS-365. # SEARCH FOR ITMMAN = 'USA' AND ITMNMB <> '112-*'

This snippet comes from a report which contains many hundreds of lines of code. So it's very easy to understand how someone could miss the important part of the code. Specifically, it's this line: SUBTRACT TODAYS-DATE MINUS 426 GIVING TODAYS-365..

Subtract 426 from today's date, and store the result in a variable called TODAYS-365. This report isn't for the past year, but for the past year and about two months.

It's impossible to know exactly why, but at a guess, originally the report needed to grab a year. Then, at some point, the requirement changed, probably based on some nonsense around fiscal years or something similar. The least invasive way to make that change was to just change the calculation, leaving the variable name (and the report name) incorrect and misleading. And there it say, working perfectly fine, until poor Michael came along, trying to understand the code.

The fix was easy, but the repeated pattern of oddly name, unclear variables was not. Remember, the hard part about working on old mainframes isn't learning COBOL or IQ or JCL or whatever antique languages they use; I'd argue those languages are in many cases easier to learn (if harder to use) than modern languages. The hard part is the generations of legacy kruft that's accumulated in them. It's grandma's attic, and granny was a pack rat.

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They got engaged over the Christmas holidays after first meeting on the 2016 set of Spider-Man.

Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China

Rideshare challenger Lyft and China’s Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year.…

Princess Eugenie is continuing her style transformation while enjoying a getaway in Portugal with friends Robbie Williams and Ayda Field.

Fans of the Baywatch bombshell, 58, were left incensed when the former working Royal, 44, debuted her latest TV venture - which bore eerie similarities to Pamela's Cooking With Love.