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The Festival of the Unexceptional descended on Grimsthorpe Castle on Saturday, inviting drivers to showcase their mundane family cars from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Part of Langford Road in Maldon has been closed

Attenborough's team captured the wonderful moment a gorilla mother clutches her sleeping newborn to her chest, as he twitches fitfully in his slumber.

People woke up in Japan to learn that a warning of a tsunami up to three metres high along the pacific coast from Hokkaido to Wakayama, with officials calling on those near the coast to evacuate.

The ex-Premier League referee, 50, says Mikel burst into his dressing room at Stamford Bridge after a heated match between Chelsea and Manchester United in October 2012.

A timelapse of the 2011 Japan earthquake has provided a shocking glimpse into how fast it takes a tsunami to reach the rest of the world.

Police have charged the boy with assault and shop theft

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers

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Victims handed their 'hard-earned savings' over to holiday lodge schemes marketed by two estate agents in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland.

A baby was found abandoned in a front yard during dangerous heat in rural Tennessee, then hours later, four people turned up dead. Authorities believe the cases are connected.

The video, reportedly filmed inside a hotel in West Sussex that is housing hundreds of asylum seekers, also showed piles of empty lager cans and evidence of drug consumption.

Promising Phase 3 trial results from Apnimed suggest a potential game-changing oral pill for sleep apnea could offer a simpler, more tolerable alternative for keeping airways open during sleep. The New York Times reports: For decades, the primary treatment for sleep apnea has been continuous positive airway pressure (or CPAP). Before bed, those with the condition put on a face mask that is connected to a CPAP machine, which keeps the airway open by forcing air into it. The machines are effective, but many find them so noisy, cumbersome or uncomfortable that they end up abandoning them. Now, a more appealing option may be on the way, according to a news release from Apnimed, a pharmaceutical company focused on treating sleep apnea. On Wednesday, the company announced a second round of positive Phase 3 clinical trial results for a first-of-its-kind oral pill that can be taken just before bedtime to help keep a person's airway open. The full results have not yet been released, or published in a peer-reviewed journal. But the findings build on past, similarly positive conclusions from trials and studies. Sleep experts say that what they're seeing in reports so far makes them think the pill could be a game changer. Dr. Phyllis Zee, a sleep doctor and researcher at Northwestern Medicine who was not involved with the trial, said that if approved, the drug could transform the lives of many. That includes not only those who can't tolerate CPAP machines, but also those who can't -- or prefer not to -- use other interventions, such as other types of oral devices or weight loss medications. (Excess weight is a risk factor for sleep apnea.)

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

British mother Char Chandler, took to her TikTok to showcase her 'Christmas cupboard' where she has been storing her children's wrapped gifts and festive goodies until December.

Myleene Klass has recalled the horrifying moment Harvey Weinstein offered her a sex contract in a bid to make her famous.

The heated confrontation unfurled in the middle of a quiet residential road in the seaside town of Worthing, West Sussex, on Friday.

Katie French, who worked as a window dresser at the fashion firm, felt let down by staff after suffering a prolapsed disc through lifting heavy items at work, her family claims.

The youngster first complained about a wobbly tooth and swollen jaw, before later being diagnosed with cancer

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Freddie Kreyling's parents James and Charlotte have urged others to 'listen to your child'

Carlos G found some C++ that caused him psychic harm, and wanted to know how it ended up that way. So he combed through the history. Let's retrace the path with him.

Here was the original code:

void parseExpiryDate (const char* expiryDate) { // expiryDate is in "YYMM" format int year, month; sscanf(expiryDate, "%2d%2d", &year, &month); //... }

This code takes a string containing an expiry date, and parses it out. The sscanf function is given a format string describing two, two digit integers, and it stores those values into the year and month variables.

But oops! The expiry date is actually in a MMYY format. How on earth could we possibly fix this? It can't be as simple as just swapping the year and month variables in the sscanf call, can it? (It is.) No, it couldn't be that easy. (It is.) I can't imagine how we would solve this problem. (Just swap them!)

void parseExpiryDate(const char* expiryDate) { // expiryDate is in "YYMM" format but, in some part of the code, it is formatted to "MMYY" int year, month; char correctFormat[5]; correctFormat[0] = expiryDate[2]; correctFormat[1] = expiryDate[3]; correctFormat[2] = expiryDate[0]; correctFormat[3] = expiryDate[1]; correctFormat[4] = '\0'; sscanf(correctFormat, "%2d%2d", &year, &month); //... }

There we go! That was easy! We just go, character by character, and shift the order around and copy it to a new string, so that we format it in YYMM.

The comment here is a wonderful attempt at CYA. By the time this function is called, the input is in MMYY, so that's the relevant piece of information to have in the comment. But the developer really truly believed that YYMM was the original input, and thus shifts blame for the original version of this function to "some part of the code" which is shifting the format around on them, thus justifying… this trainwreck.

Carlos replaced it with:

void parseExpiryDate (const char* expiryDate) { // expiryDate is in "MMYY" format int month, year; sscanf(expiryDate, "%2d%2d", &month, &year); //... } .comment { border: none; } [Advertisement] Keep all your packages and Docker containers in one place, scan for vulnerabilities, and control who can access different feeds. ProGet installs in minutes and has a powerful free version with a lot of great features that you can upgrade when ready.Learn more.