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The roads are already under severe strain, it has been claimed

David Stevenson was found swaddled in colourful clothing in a luxury apartment block in 1960. But only now has he discovered the identity of his birth mother...

Trump is scheduled to headline a Republican National Committee fundraising dinner at a golf club his family owns in the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes on Tuesday.

Jolie, 51, allegedly agreed to produce financial records from the years 2017 to 2021, but has apparently only produced documents for the years 2020 and 2021.

The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range

A major review of research published over the past 35 years has found that people exposed to the chemical substances at work may be more likely to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The infants allegedly collapsed while being treated at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women's Hospital, where the former neo natal nurse once worked.

Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution.

class ConferenceService { /// <summary> /// Checks if conference is active /// </summary> public bool IsCalling() { try { return m_ConnectionService.Core.State.IsWebRTCConnected; } catch { return false; } } }

This is for a web conferencing tool, which uses WebRTC to set up connections between clients in the chat. This function checks if the chat is active by checking a IsWebRTCConnected flag. But as you can see in this code, that flag is on a long chain of objects, some of which may not exist when this function is called. Thus, we wrap the whole thing up in a try/catch. If anything throws an exception, we know we can just return false. It's probably fine.

The obvious and easy fix, which Frederick proposes, is to use the C# coalescing operator: ?. m_ConnectionService?.Core?.State?.IsWebRTCConnected ?? false would solve this problem just fine.

That said, I wouldn't say that's a true fix. We're talking about a state machine here, though admittedly with two states under discussion (connected/disconnected), though there are probably more not being checked here. This information should be managed via a state machine, not via boolean flags stuffed deep in an object chain. The fix isn't a WTF, but it definitely hints at a better way to manage all of this. Now, my solution likely requires a lot more modification and code changes than what we have here, so I'm not suggesting anyone go off and rewrite this from scratch just to have a cleaner way of managing state. But folks definitely should think more carefully about how they manage state.

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Among the cast of Midsummer!, a student production running at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is a young woman whose stellar parental ancestry can be seen in her features, if not her name.

Fire crews were called to help a farmer in Stapleford Abbots, Epping Forest, after six sheep became stuck in a river.

Fire crews were called to help a farmer in Stapleford Abbots, Epping Forest, after six sheep became stuck in a river.

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Some 22 per cent of adults said they had less faith in pensions once they learned that unspent pots will become liable for death duties from spring 2027.

A four-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage left drifting after a 2025 lunar mission is expected to crash into the Moon at about 5,400 mph, likely striking Einstein Crater. The impact should occur at approximately 2:35 a.m. ET (0635GMT). Reuters reports: Such stages typically fall back into Earth's atmosphere and burn up or plunge into the ocean after boosting the rocket's payload to a precise spot in orbit. But because the January lunar lander mission required more thrust than missions closer to Earth, the rocket's second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of. It was not until earlier this year that astronomers determined that the rocket stage, which had dumped its remaining fuel and cannot be controlled, was on an orbital trajectory ending at the moon. "What has happened is essentially a mixture of solar activity and gravity forces have put it on a path toward the moon," Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX director of NASA science and Dragon programs, told reporters on Monday. "This may be of some -- probably minor -- scientific interest, and we may learn some things from it," said Bill Gray, creator of widely used astronomy software who published a report on the stage's impact in April. "It doesn't present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware (space junk) is disposed of." You can try to watch the impact via a livestream on YouTube; however, the area it's expected to hit (Einstein Crater) is on the moon's western limb, "which is often difficult to see from Earth," notes Reuters. It will also likely "kick up a plume of lunar dust that will likely be illuminated by sunlight but difficult to spot with the naked eye from Earth."

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Could a public reunion be an opportunity to heal the rift between father and son, or does Harry's past criticism of the monarchy mean the King should keep his distance?

Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso attended The Odyssey premiere in South Korea on Monday night in Seoul,

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Writing in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, the researchers - from Canada and the UK - say the findings suggest medics may fail to recognise eating disorders other than anorexia.

A man sexually assaulted cabin crew and racially harassed a woman on a flight on New Year’s Eve, a court heard.