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Hundreds watched the 56-metre monument’s consecration, including anti-communist leader Lech Wałęsa

An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, in the presence of the anti-communist leader Lech Wałęsa.

Hundreds of people took part in the consecration of the monument, which towers 55.6 metres (182ft) over Konotopie in central Poland, a village of fewer than 150 people.

Couple die in Salamis, while multinational forces and local farmers tackle Belgium’s biggest fire in a century near Liège

An elderly couple died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis on Sunday and Belgium is battling its largest modern-day wildfire at an inaccessible area near Germany, in the latest wave of European wildfires.

The couple died outside their home in the Peristeria beach area of Salamis, Greece’s coastguard said. More than 500 people were ordered to evacuate.

One seller says second world war memorabilia containing banned Nazi symbols is legal under exemptions to the laws

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Nazi artefacts bearing prohibited symbols are being openly sold in Australia three years after the federal government made it illegal to do so, with vendors saying they are doing so for “educational” reasons.

The government in 2023 outlawed the display and trade of items bearing the Nazi Hakenkreuz (swastika) and double-sig rune that was the logo of the Schutzstaffel (SS), after multiple states passed similar laws that banned the display of Nazi symbols and the performance of the Nazi salute.

, и она потрясающая, но я несколько выбился из сил, поэтому, как говорится, простите за неровный почерк :) Напоминаю контекст: f4 — эксперимент по переписыванию Far на go, чтобы сразу и кроссплатформенно и асинхронно. И красиво.

С красоты и начнём. На днях во фреймворк консольных интерфейсов vtui, который пишется под f4, добавлена поддержка Auto layout. Можно делать диалоги как у Apple! А чтобы это смотрелось красиво, предусмотрены две стратегии хинтинга: байткод, по аналогии с тем, как это сделано для рендеринга шрифтов у TrueType, и эвристики, как у FreeType. Для этого потребовалось портировать на go быструю считалку cassowary (пользуйтесь! там и wasm есть), а потом изобрести дискретный cossowary специально под консоль — задаем стандарты интерфейсов, люблю такое! И заодно — новая, уже полностью своя цветовая тема, не пытающаяся повторять что-то из Far, Turbo Vision или Monokai.

Стейт-менеджеров в JavaScript уже столько, что идея написать ещё один выглядит немного сомнительно. Есть Redux Toolkit, Zustand, MobX, Jotai, XState и десятки менее известных библиотек. Почти для любого способа хранить состояние уже существует готовое решение. Но все же в качестве эксперимента, решил реализовать свою идею.

After securing wage rises for low-paid workers, weathering death threats and working with three PMs – the ACTU secretary is ready for a break

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Sally McManus started her job as the country’s most powerful trade union leader amid howls of criticism.

Shouted down for suggesting union members were right to break “unjust” industrial laws in a live TV interview, McManus quickly adjusted to the high-decibel work of being secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Australia records 3% fall in one-year-olds fully immunised against hepatitis B as downward trend continues, expert says

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Australian medical experts have warned a shift in child vaccination advice in the US is not grounded in science and could undo decades of public health advances.

The US president, Donald Trump, signed an unprecedented executive order calling for American children to be vaccinated against fewer diseases, suggesting a link to autism despite no evidence. The official number of recommended immunisations for children would drop to 11, compared with 18 at the end of 2024.

One seller says second world war memorabilia containing banned Nazi symbols is legal under exemptions to the laws

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Nazi artefacts bearing prohibited symbols are being openly sold in Australia three years after the federal government made it illegal to do so, with vendors saying they are doing so for “educational” reasons.

The government in 2023 outlawed the display and trade of items bearing the Nazi Hakenkreuz (swastika) and double-sig rune that was the logo of the Schutzstaffel (SS), after multiple states passed similar laws that banned the display of Nazi symbols and the performance of the Nazi salute.

Because I’d visited so often to print things, she made me feel that someone had witnessed the journey I was on, all the way through to its difficult conclusion

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Mum’s disease progressed slowly at first, and then in a really big rush. After years of battling early onset Parkinson’s, in 2015 we were suddenly told she only had six months left.

I was living in Brisbane, Australia, and Mum was in a care home 600km away in Taree, so I began flying down every second weekend to visit. At the time, it was still common to print out your boarding pass – or at least, it was for me; I was a bit late to the tech game.

Hundreds watched the 56-metre monument’s consecration, including anti-communist leader Lech Wałęsa

An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, in the presence of the anti-communist leader Lech Wałęsa.

Hundreds of people took part in the consecration of the monument, which towers 55.6 metres (182ft) over Konotopie in central Poland, a village of fewer than 150 people.

She second-guessed herself and was eager to please. She ‘felt frozen’ when she believed she displeased someone

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Ali* initially came to therapy for disordered eating. She was a young and diffident woman. She described recurrent cycles of restricted eating followed by attempts to exercise it away. We used cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders to unpick her “food rules” – the underlying beliefs which can drive eating disorders, such as “the less I eat the better” or “carbs are bad”.

As we worked on understanding and shifting her beliefs and behaviours around food, we noticed that most of her assumptions around eating, shape and weight coincided with the start of her relationship with her ex-partner. She told me he was a “gym junkie” and spent hours working out and encouraged her to do the same. “He got angry if I ate carbs,” she said, “and created a couples meal plan for us so I could shred and look hot when we were out together.”

Pokémon outlived the moral panic of its early days in Australia and its staying power has proved that simple joy can cross borders

There’s a generation of Australians for whom Cheez TV was a religion. Every morning before school, I’d sit in my little white plastic chair about three feet from our big wooden television and watch 90 minutes of cartoons “curated” by the show’s teenage hosts, Jade and Ryan.

Premiering in 1995, Cheez TV dominated the children’s breakfast market by 1998, stealing the crown from Channel Seven’s bogan-muppet icon Agro. A daily dose of Cheez TV was such an important ritual to me that I remember feeling active resentment towards Princess Diana’s death because the news coverage bumped Earthworm Jim.

Дисклеймер: не читайте эту статью, если вы фанат традиционных ценностей и от заголовка уже хотите написать в комментах, что мне стоит изучить базу и отучиться в меде. Читайте эту статью только если вы прогрессивный, веселый и любите необычные проекты ♥ Статья носит исключительно научпоп-инженерно-юмористический характер. Не используйте самодельные скрипты для постановки диагнозов (хотя сходить на ПЦР-тест или к врачу после них никто не запрещает)!

Скажите, вы же тоже ожидали большего от интерпретаций коммерческих ДНК-тестов типа Genotek, 23andMe, Atlas? Ну вот и я не была в восторге от того, что я на 4.2% скандинавка, мне вреден арахис, и скорее всего я люблю кинзу.

В этой статье я расскажу, как я на диком азарте построила свой пайплайн анализа генома. Мы пройдем от пересборки координат и импутации 40 миллионов маркеров на суперкомпьютере TOPMed до укрощения памяти Node.js, чтобы скрипт не умер от 43 ГБ данных, а я покажу, как все устроено под капотом. Осторожно, много блоков кода и дисклеймеров!

The O2, London
On her last live dates before she steps back from the public eye, Grande holds her own – but it’s also impossible to avoid feeling concerned for her wellbeing

There’s a thrum of excitement in the air as an eight-minute countdown starts and Ariana Grande’s unmistakable silhouette appears on a giant backlit curtain on the stage of the O2. Is it actually her? Posing there for eight minutes before the show starts? It can’t be. But is it? It’s the first time we question what is and isn’t real at this Eternal Sunshine tour stop, a 10-night residency and a robust arena show that ultimately wants us to see one thing and experience another.

Collectively, we’ve been scolded for talking about it – the “endless, ongoing public scrutiny” of Ariana Grande’s body has pushed her to “[take] a step back from visibility” when this tour ends. It can’t be nice or fun to have your body examined and discussed for any reason but it is impossible to witness the 33-year-old’s frame on stage and not be gripped by genuine concern for her. Two songs in, a lump forms in my throat, which is not the intended effect of Positions, the zippy title track of her 2020 album. As the set around her is engulfed in digital flames, Grande sings about her infinite flexibility vis a vis relationship boundaries and sexual olympics and all I can think is: she looks like a little kid.

Force has seen busiest month in its history, with heatwaves putting added strain on criminal justice system

On England’s hottest day of the year so far, Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester was thronging with pedestrians, many clutching ice-creams or cold drinks as they passed through the town centre.

Officers from Greater Manchester police were also out in force, some in plainclothes, some stationed by a facial-recognition van, apprehending wanted suspects and stopping persons of interest. In total, officers made 54 arrests across the borough of Tameside as part of Operation Avro, GMP’s blitz on local crime which runs in a different district each month.

Australia’s corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote phony investment opportunities

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There has been a steep rise in scammers luring victims into phony investment opportunities using deepfakes of celebrities and politicians, Australia’s corporate watchdog has warned.

And Anthony Albanese is the figure most commonly co-opted.

Neill takes award for performance in legal thriller The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer, at a ceremony dominated by wins for the ABC

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Sam Neill has won a posthumous best actor award at Australia’s biggest television awards, the Logies, with comedian Sam Pang taking home the night’s top honour, the Gold Logie award for most popular personality.

Neill, who died in July, won his posthumous Logie for best lead actor in a drama for his performance in legal thriller The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer. His close friend, the actor Heather Mitchell, accepted the award on his behalf.

Girl called police after she was shot four times in shooting spree that left six dead, including gunman

A 13-year-old girl in Michigan survived being shot four times in a shooting spree that left six people dead – including the suspected attacker – and called emergency help herself shortly before investigators identified the gunman, according to a state police official and her family.

Those actions made the teen a “hero”, said a relative of hers as well as two of the dead victims.

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The colour scheme. Burnley are in claret and blue, naturally. West Ham are in their third strip, which is pale, swirly and makes each player look like a box of washing powder.

The players are out there and a lot of fists are being bumped.