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When I was at uni my number theory lecturer said that if Fermat had a solution, it was only valid for regular primes.

Computer science isn't concerned with the uncountable infinite though, which is what measure theory is mostly concerned with as countable sets all have measure zero.

Yes but the last time a monarch vetoed a law was in 1707, and that was only because parliament asked Queen Anne to veto the law. In reality, if King Charles started vetoing then af…

Is it the noise that makes it exhilarating though? If you had to use an electric motorcycle would your enjoyment be decreased that much? I'm sure you're right that it's a small amo…

Northern Ireland has its own football team, although players from both sides of the border can play for either team.

I live in the UK and I've never come across any company that does shitty stuff like this. Is there some EU law we've still got that explicitly prevents this?

Yes but if the number of people on the bus dropped to zero do you think their employers would keep running the route?

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* You can't run your distro of choice unless you build it yourself * Lots of programs don't work properly (citation needed, can't remember specifics) * You can only run command lin…

I agree. I also can't imagine that World Rugby would consider removing one of the two elements of the game that differentiate it from Rugby League (the other one being contested ru…

I'm not confident that any rule changes will have a meaningful impact. It's thought that it isn't just collisions to the head that cause a problem, but all tackles. This is because…

I can't imagine that sovereign nations like being blackmailed by tech companies, so whilst in the short term this could work it seems like the exact move that would cause the count…

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/how-l... Really interesting conversation about the nature of happiness. For a lot of my life I was convinced that if I achiev…

I think my favourite thing about Vue 3 and the composition API is that VueX is essentially obsolete - you can manage your global state by calling real life functions. This means in…

Amazom were contributing changes back to Elasticsearch before the license change - the license change basically explicitly says "you can't run this as a service and sell it to peop…

I'm not usually the most idealistic when it comes to FOSS, but it's stories like this and Apple's stance of "trust us, we promise we know what we're doing and that nothing is going…

It will be far worse than europeans having to buy a winter jacket. From [0]: > Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains th…

Could you explain why it's a bad trend? I've had crap laptops in the past that have struggled to run the desktop apps I need, and something like this would have really helped me ou…

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For anyone who finds themselves getting bored scrolling through the film options on Netflix, or utterly disinterested in watching Marvel film #593 then I'd recommend Mubi [0]. It m…

Anyone else getting 500s trying to access this?

I disagree with this. There are certain things that the Israeli government have done that are worthy of being criticised - the same can be said for every government in the world. B…

This sounds like LinkedIn without all the fake positivity

I think this is akin to children wishing everyday was their birthday. Watching Juventus vs Man City for the 6th time in one year would get boring very quickly. The reasons the late…