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Plans to close the only school of no religious character in its area and replace it with a Church of England school have been scrapped. The move has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been working with teachers, parents, and the National Education Union (NEU) to stop the proposal

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Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

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A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a dramatic return.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 130 points 6 months ago

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

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‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 89 points 8 months ago

“You will present multiple views on any subject… here is a list of subjects on which you hold fixed views”.

I just don’t understand how the author of this prompt continues to function

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A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a

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Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

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It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.

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submitted 9 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy in May and was bought by Fortress Investment Group.

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submitted 9 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

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X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.

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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 72 points 1 year ago

Because having multiple applications continuously running in the background polling multiple servers for notifications in real time is a good way to run down your battery very quickly

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 150 points 1 year ago

From the article:

If Caitlin did want to try to get the original amount back, she’d have to email and send the death certificate to a specific email address

Did she try - you know - doing that?

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 139 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That sound you just heard, was the rustle as hundreds of financial regulators around the world leant forward just a little.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 66 points 1 year ago

It was cheaper for Cisco to buy the company than a license, presumably

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 126 points 1 year ago

Someone didn’t read the story. This is about a known firmware fault that the company is doing its best not to keep quiet. Don’t help them in that work

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago

It'll be fun when Tuvalu decides to take back .tv

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 102 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to them getting a bunch of people who immediately take it NSFW again

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 110 points 1 year ago

low-effort junk TV like dating, survival, cooking and other shows like it.

... in other words, exactly the shows that don't use actors or writers

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

I’m going to have a guess and suggest that the website is probably integrated with some much older mainframe system and a batch process or several batch processes run daily overnight to shuttle data between the two systems to keep them updated and in sync.

Syncing the two sets of data while the database is live and changing is a pain the the bum, so they freeze it while the data transfers are taking place.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago

There was a post on Lemmy yesterday that said something like “Lemmy will upvote anything this is just a photo of a tin of beans”. .. and the shitposting started. :)

I’m sticking with ‘subscribed’ for a while

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