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You know you’ve arrived as the prime minister-in-waiting when even Donald Trump has heard of you. Well, sort of. The name rings a vague bell. Call it a start in the new era of the not-so-special relationship.

On Sunday, the US president had the idea of announcing Keir Starmer’s resignation, long before the prime minister had got round to doing it himself. Trump likes to get ahead of the game. No time for losers, so best to dissociate himself from Keir as soon as possible. One day he might get round to dissociating from himself when he finally realises he lost the war with Iran.

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It’s won all the awards and now it’s going out in a blaze of comedy. Everything that could possibly go wrong for the restaurant does … but who cares when the fusion of tragedy and laughter is this good?

It may not be a gastronomic reference many midwestern gourmands would appreciate, but the last episode of the last season of The Bear was Marmite TV. Set in the back yard of the titular Chicago restaurant – transformed over the course of the show from a sandwich shop to a fine dining establishment by its talented and troubled head chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) – the season four finale consisted of the cast shouting over each other about their respective grudges, oscillating between rage and misty-eyed sentimentality. A naturalistic exchange of complex emotional truths? A rare opportunity to flesh out TV characters’ psyches away from the demands of an actual narrative? Maybe. Or a plotless, unpleasantly cacophonous half-hour designed to entertain no one besides those unhealthily invested in the inner lives of Carmy, his protege Syd (Ayo Edebiri) and their ragtag bunch of fictional colleagues? Yeah, I didn’t love it.

Whatever your perspective, it’s hard to deny that The Bear is one of the shows that best encapsulates what was so great and not-so-great about peak streamer-era TV. The brainchild of writer-director Christopher Storer, the series always prioritised thematic richness and indie movie melancholy over focus-grouped crowd-pleasing or hoary screenwriting convention. As a result, it walked the line between uncompromising integrity and tedious self-indulgence – something only possible during a period, now passed, when platforms considered pouring money into auteurish shows a price worth paying for cultural clout.

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Verschillende Rotterdamse clubs zijn eerder dit jaar de dupe geworden van een inbreker met grote interesse in draaitafels. Bij Biergarten, Club Uniek en Club Export werden voor vele duizenden euro's aan spullen gestolen. Het is waarschijnlijk het werk van één verdachte, die mogelijk bij een bende hoort.

ZAANDAM (ANP) - Albert Heijn levert vrijdag vanaf 12.00 uur geen boodschappen meer af. Het KNMI waarschuwt dan met code rood voor extreme hitte en daarom vindt de supermarkt het niet verantwoord medewerkers op pad te sturen. "Hoewel we dit heel vervelend vinden voor onze klanten, staat de veiligheid en gezondheid van onze collega's voorop."

Het is voor het eerst dat het weerinstituut code rood afgeeft voor hitte. De waarschuwing geldt vooralsnog voor acht van de twaalf provincies. Het devies daar is om de koelte op te zoeken, uit de zon te blijven en geen zware lichamelijke activiteiten te doen. In Zeeland, Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe geldt code oranje en op de Waddeneilanden code geel, maar de bezorgstop van Albert Heijn geldt in het hele land.

Vooralsnog is de supermarkt van plan vanaf zaterdagochtend weer te bezorgen, laat een woordvoerder weten. Tot die tijd vraagt Albert Heijn aan klanten om zelf naar de winkel te komen of de bestelling te verplaatsen.

SPIELBERG (ANP) - De overkoepelende autosportorganisatie FIA heeft voor de Grote Prijs van Oostenrijk komend weekeinde het hitteprotocol uitgevaardigd. Het is de eerste keer dit seizoen dat dit gebeurt. Het betekent dat de Formule 1-auto's worden voorzien van een koelsysteem voor de coureurs, bijvoorbeeld een koelvest.

Wedstrijddirecteur Rui Marques liet weten dat de officiële weerdiensten temperaturen van meer dan 31 graden Celsius voorspellen en in dat geval kan de gezondheid van de coureurs in gevaar komen.

Coureurs zijn niet verplicht het koelsysteem te gebruiken, maar hun auto moet dan ter compensatie extra gewicht krijgen.

Het systeem voor koelvesten werd opgezet na de Grote Prijs van Qatar in 2023, toen meerdere coureurs medische hulp nodig hadden door de hitte. Vorig seizoen waren er twee hittewaarschuwingen; voor de GP van Singapore en voor de GP van de Verenigde Staten in Austin.

Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language – but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that. An interesting new proposal on the Discourse forum of the LLVM compiler suite has turned into a new standalone BASIC compiler. The original RFC was Adding BASIC09 frontend tool to LLVM. Author Boisy Petre proposed adding a front-end to enable LLVM to compile BASIC source code, and this has now turned into a standalone compiler called basic09c, which uses LLVM as a library. We are irresistibly reminded of the recent addition of ALGOL-68 to GCC. As we said in 2023, BASIC is anything but dead, and, for BASIC’s 60th birthday, the following year we covered new versions of three modern FOSS dialects. The late Dr Thomas Kurtz would have been proud. It’s not just any old home-computer BASIC, either. Dr Petre is working on a compiler for Microware BASIC09. This was one of the compilers that Microware offered for its multitasking, multiuser Unix-like OS, called OS-9. Way back in 1999, many users of Apple’s then-new MacOS 9 – often just called “OS 9” – confused it with the already 20-year-old Microware OS-9, and they pestered OS-9 newsgroups and communities with Mac questions and chatter. As The Register reported back then, Microware even sued Apple over the trademark. BASIC09 is a structured BASIC: it has named procedures with local variables, supports constructs such as IF…THEN…ELSE, user-defined variable types – and no, it did not need line numbers. The best reference we can find to BASIC09 today is its Wikipedia article, but you can also read the manual [PDF]. Microware is still around and still supports OS-9, which is marketed as an RTOS these days. Home microcomputer users, though, might have known OS-9: it was an optional OS for the British Dragon 32 micro and was on the list for the first British laptop too. For Stateside readers, the Dragon 32 was a relative of the American Tandy Color Computer, which had the same Motorola 6809 CPU and could also run OS-9. Aside from its technical merits, there are other good reasons he chose this particular BASIC: Although Boisy Gene Petre became Dr Petre last year, he has been in the industry for quite a while. He worked at Microware early in his career, and even quarter of a century ago he was writing articles about the Tandy CoCo. This is not the first time that the Reg FOSS desk has been bamboozled by boffin Boisy’s brilliance. That was way back in 2012, when he created one of our favorite ever retrocomputing projects: the astonishing Liber809. This performed a total brain transplant on the original Atari 8-bit machines, installing a 6809 CPU and supporting firmware. As he explained in a post called The Beginning, the goal was to marry the most advanced eight-bit CPU with the most capable eight-bit computer of its time. Retrocomputing blog The Byte Cellar described it well. This would of course render the machine incompatible with all existing Atari software, but the plan was to make it able to run NitrOS-9 – a community distribution of the original 6809 version of the Microware OS. ®

Known for his painstakingly intricate mixed-media sculptures, Canadian artist Chris Millar continues to test the bounds of scale and detail. Two recent works epitomize his ongoing explorations: “A Prize Every Time” and “Loom Beneath the Loam,” the latter of which contains eight tiny paintings, two relief sculptures, and numerous sculptural elements attached to a brass frame. Cartoonish pendants, vignettes with faces, branch-like tendrils and more lend the piece an enigmatic contraption-like quality, as if the pull of a hidden lever will send the entire thing into motion.

In a departure from his multimedia pieces, “A Prize Every Time” is a meticulously rendered acrylic painting containing some 90 portraits of notable figures from Alberta who populate a map of the province, where the artist originally hails from. It has the look of a tourism map merged with a look-and-find book.

“To an American audience, a lot of the Alberta-centric easter eggs will go over their heads, but even if they don’t know about Alberta’s history or geography, it’s a pretty fun painting to look at!” Millar says. You may recognize a few famous individuals, such as Michael J. Fox and Joni Mitchell, both of whom were born there.

See more on Millar’s Instagram.

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Die gore wolf in Epe heeft de hond van de schaapsherder al opgevreten (daar lopen nu twee kuddebeschermingshonden bij dus nu durft die miet niet meer) en nu is hij toe aan het toetje. PANNEKOEKEN. Nu zit er in de bossen bij Epe een uitstekend pannekoekenrestaurant en kennelijk zijn daar mensen die wolven pannekoekjes voeren. En zo gaat die wolf mensen associëren met vreten en is het geen wolf meer, maar gewoon een valse teirnghond die alleen maar meer vreten komt halen bij de mensen. De gemeente heeft bordjes opgehangen dat het beest niet gevoerd mag worden, ook geen pannekoeken. Maurice la Haye van de Zoogdiervereniging: "Als er signalen zijn dat een wolf gevoerd is, schiet het dier dan dood." Het is niet bekend of de wolf een voorkeur heeft voor stroop, poedersuiker, kaas+spek of alleen kaas.