The never type (!) can coerce into any other type, allowing expressions like return or break to serve as values in assignments, conditions, and match arms.
Assignment expressions return unit (()), enabling chained assignments, comparisons, and tuple patterns to work on unit values.
Control flow keywords such as break, continue, and return can be used as expressions inside loops, if conditions, and match statements due to their never type.
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The Supreme Court ruled that federal judges can only block policies for the specific plaintiffs who sue, not for everyone nationwide.
This change may weaken the ability to block President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for all affected people.
The decision, voted 6-3 and written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, said nationwide injunctions exceed courts’ equitable authority.
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GitHub Copilot Chat is a VS Code extension that provides conversational AI assistance alongside inline code suggestions.
It complements the GitHub Copilot extension by offering chat, agent, and edit modes for AI-powered coding sessions.
Features include code completions, next edit suggestions, workspace-aware chat, and inline chat to apply AI edits directly.
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A decade ago, Parker Higgins filed FOIA requests to release over 7,000 USDA pomological watercolor images from the 1880s–1940s by removing their paywall.
The National Agricultural Library then published high-resolution scans for free, enabling public search and download of the collection.
Higgins built Python software and a bot to upload images to Wikimedia Commons, marking his start as a programmer.
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Many developers feel burned out by long hiring processes that demand exact experience and extensive take-home tasks.
Frequent layoffs at big tech companies and pressure to adopt AI generate frustration over job security and executive priorities.
Contributors suggest taking sabbaticals, joining smaller or non-profit organizations, or transitioning to academia for better work-life balance.
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Qwen VLo is a unified multimodal model that both understands image content and generates high-quality images with semantic consistency.
It employs a progressive top-to-bottom, left-to-right generation process for enhanced visual quality and fine-grained control.
Users can provide open-ended natural language instructions for tasks like style transfer, scene reconstruction, complex edits, and traditional perception functions.
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zenta is a terminal-native CLI tool that guides mindful breathing sessions within your shell.
It offers simple commands: breath for one cycle, breathe for three, and reflect for end-of-day review.
It emphasizes pure awareness with no metrics, tracking, or data collection.
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James Harding has been a First Officer on the Airbus A350 with British Airways since 2023.
He flew Airbus A320 family aircraft at London Heathrow and Gatwick from 2016 to 2023.
He entered British Airways through a cadet scheme in 2014 and completed his Integrated ATPL at FTEJerez in Spain.
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Denmark will amend copyright law so individuals own rights to their body, face and voice.
The bill defines deepfakes as realistic digital representations of a person’s appearance and voice.
People can demand removal of non-consensual AI-generated images or imitations.
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Starcloud’s claim of deploying a 40 MW space data center in a single 100-ton Starship launch for $8.2 M is infeasible and underestimates both launch numbers and costs.
Solar array deployment requires at least 4–5 Starship launches based on ISS Z-fold and roll-out array benchmarks.
Thermal radiator systems demand 9–16 launches due to their high mass and low packing efficiency, making them the dominant launch requirement.
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