Thanks. I didn’t know about these advanced libraries, and had not heard of C++ modules either. Appreciate the explanation.

I don’t code in C++ (although I’m somewhat familiar with the syntax). My understanding is the header files should only contain prototypes / signatures, not actual implementations. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Have I misunderstood, or is that part of the joke?

A seemingly unpopular opinion, but Christian Bale’s Batman is my favourite live action version of the character.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I enjoyed Heroes for what it was.

I agree that Sonic Battle was one of, if not the best entries for character building. And SB is, in fact, my all-time favourite Sonic game. Breaks me that I may never see a sequel / reboot, and get to relive Emerl’s story.

I’d honestly be happier with no guns. Not sure if that was their greatest move, in their effort to make him ‘edgier’. He was perfect in SA2 and Sonic Heroes.

I am very excited for this. One part of my childhood that I’ve never been able to let go of is my total fanboy-ism of Shadow.

They’re not really blaming capitalism for anything though? They’re just explaining how it works, and they’re right. In a market driven economy, you are paid for having a skill or some knowledge based on the demand of that skill or knowledge and nothing else. In the same way as the quality of your house has little bearing on it’s value when compared to it’s location. Not a criticism of capitalism.

You could implement ‘drive sync’ giving options of NextCloud, GDrive, Dropbox, etc

It doesn’t really matter, but worth knowing, only a small amount of your national insurance goes toward NHS costs. The NHS is primarily funded by general taxation. Your National Insurance contributions largely go to paying for state pensions.

It is fantastic. The most polished and stylish monster tamer I’ve played to date. I strongly recommend it to any fan of the genre.

Fair enough. And I’m sure the people who volunteered were probably thrilled to be involved with the project, it really is a brilliant piece of work.

Absolutely loved this. Never heard of the artist before this (though clearly she is very popular!). She seemed to have a lot of fun making the video.

The only thing that disappointed me was learning that a bunch of people had to volunteer their time to make this. Surely this made lot of money for the artist and video producers, could it really be that the margins were too thin to compensate all the people working on this?

That will deduce the liar and truth-teller, but won’t give you any information about which door leads where.

Let’s number the dudes in your image form left to right: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Dudes 3 and 4 have no useful information. They stay silent.

Dude 1 can see one of each hat colour on the dudes in front, but cannot determine their own colour without knowing the hat colour of dude 4. They stay silent.

Dude 2 can see the hat colour of dude 3. They can determine that either they themself or the dude behind must have a different hat colour. The dude behind - dude 1 - can see both of the hat colours in front, but stays silent. This lets dude 2 know that they and dude 3 must be different colours (otherwise dude 1 would have known their own hat colour).

Therefore, dude 2 knows their own hat colour must be different to the dude in front and announces the colour of their own hat.

Good question. I am now a software developer, but in a previous career I was a logistics manager. In that job I had a lot of repetitive report downloading and creating. It would take hours each day. I used techniques taught in that book to automate downloading reports directly, as well as generating some in SAP by automating mouse and keyboard movements, as well as generating CSVs and Excel spreadsheets. In all cases I either cut the time required or at least the time I had to be physically present. Many jobs could have similar applications of a little Python, I imagine. Certainly not all jobs though, of course.

Four lions is an absolute classic. Roz Ahmed’s career really took off a few years after the film and it always throws me straight back to it when I see him. It actually broke Venom for me, seeing him as the villain, as for me he is only Omar.

I don’t know about outside the UK, but I think it’s quite a well known and loved movie amongst people in their late twenties onward.

Can confirm. Endless rain this summer in the UK. No grass watering required (not that it is ever required…). Didn’t stop my neighbour watering on the few sunny weeks we’ve had…

How often is that bootable Linux drive useful to have on hand though? I can’t imagine it being useful more than once a year or so, but maybe I’m not thinking creatively enough.

I make this all the time. An absolute staple of our weeknights.

It doesn’t need to be an authoritarian government or an evil government as such.

It would just need to be a govermt that doesn’t prioritize fairness and egalitarianism above all.

If the people dishing out the housing have biases and they’re not favourable to you, you’re stuck.

At least in the existing system you have the ability to progress and determine your quality of living to some degree.

I don’t think our current system is good by the way. I just don’t think state owned housing is the right medicine. Not unless we can find a way to instate benevolent dictators.