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When I was a boy the picture on my bedroom wall was not of Bobby Moore in his England football shirt or Ursula Andress in her bikini. It was a print of British battleships.

Among the usual brilliant basics at M&S, the new spring offering which launches today is overflowing with set-to-sell-out hits.

London Underground drivers are to stage a series of 24-hour strikes in the next few months in a dispute over hours, the RMT union announced.

As a Labour minister said the Al Quds 'hate' march had no place in British society, 100 MPs and peers told Mahmood that it would provide a platform for intimidation and extremism.

The cash splashing came ahead of what's referred to as 'Amazon Prime Day' for government agencies, as they must spend the remainder of their yearly budgets or lose the funds by September 30.

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has proposed an annual 0.5 per cent tax on assets worth more than £2.9million in a bid to be re-elected.

Speaking as president of the Women of the World group at St James's Palace in London today to mark International Women's Day, Queen Camilla told guests: 'We stand with you.'

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A group of Britain's most popular tourist attractions has hit out at weather apps after complaining they are costing them millions by putting off visitors.

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Potentially explosive materials were found at an address

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The arts and crafts style mansion house was built in 1888 and is located in the village of Howwood, ten miles from Glasgow Airport.

Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound (600 kg) NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth's radiation belts, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this week. While most of it is expected to burn up during descent, "some components may survive," reports the BBC. "The space agency said there is a one in 4,200 chance of being harmed by a piece of the probe, which it characterized as 'low' risk." From the report: The spacecraft is projected to re-enter around 19:45 EST (00:45 GMT) on Tuesday the U.S. Space Force predicted, according to Nasa, though there is a 24-hour margin of "uncertainty" in the timing. [...] The spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, were on a mission to gather unprecedented data on Earth's two permanent radiation belts. It was not immediately clear where in Earth's atmosphere the satellite is projected to re-enter. NASA and the U.S. Space Force has said it will monitor the re-entry and update any predictions. [...] Van Allen Probe B is not expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere before 2030.

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The carrier Charles de Gaulle and an allied armada of ships have allowed French president Emmanuel Macron to rub British noses in the dirt.

Aankhen has a peer who loves writing Python scripts to automate repetitive tasks. We'll call this person Ernest.

Ernest was pretty proud of some helpers he wrote to help him manage his Docker containers. For example, when he wanted to stop and remove all his running Docker containers, he wrote this script:

#!/usr/bin/env python import subprocess subprocess.run("docker kill $(docker ps -q)", shell=True) subprocess.run("docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)", shell=True)

He aliased this script to docker-stop, so that with one command he could… run two.

"Ernest," Aankhen asked, "couldn't this just be a bash script?"

"I don't really know bash," Ernest replied. "If I just do it in bash, if the first command fails, the second command doesn't run."

Aankhen pointed out that you could make bash not do that, but Ernest replied: "Yeah, but I always forget to. This way, it handles errors!"

"It explicitly doesn't handle errors," Aankhen said.

"Exactly! I don't need to know when there are no containers to kill or remove."

"Okay, but why not use the Docker library for Python?"

"What, and make the software more complicated? This has no dependencies!"

Aankhen was left with a sinking feeling: Ernest was either the worst developer he was working with, or one of the best.

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