<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: TRiG_Ireland</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TRiG_Ireland</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:12:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TRiG_Ireland" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His dad is the king's brother, isn't he?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404418</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We cannot attribute any moral judgment to Bieber as a human being; we can only answer the moral question as posed in the song.<p>As a semi-off-topic little rant, why do we always assume that pop singers are singing about themselves and their own experiences? Can a song, as a work of art, not have an independent existence, much as a novel may? Pop, rap, and maybe country songs are all now assumed to be about the artist themselves.</p>
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<p>The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.</p>
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<p>"It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process."<p>No. Very much no.</p>
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<p>Certainly every older house now has one. (It can take a few months, and there's currently a delay, so some newbuilds may not yet have one. I believe the advice is to apply well before the house is finished.) How much they're used varies. One house near me has a plate on the gate giving the name and eircode. I think that most people use them most of the time. I don't know whether there are any stats available on that.<p>Of course, if you've been subscribed to a monthly magazine for fifty years, you perhaps haven't bothered to update your address on file to add the eircode.</p>
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<p>Pick-up artists are not going to behave like decent human beings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247866</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Why Addresses Have Numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Ireland, it isn't only rural addresses which have no house numbers. Plenty of houses even in towns had non-unique addresses before the introduction of eircodes. On my road, all the original houses (each standing on an acre plot) have numbers, but all the infill ones don't. You'd think the house built on the corner of 502's land might get 502A, but no. When my parents bought this house, the address was the same as many many others on the same road. They gave the house a name, so it would have a unique address, though the previous residents had managed fine for twenty years without one.<p>I had friends who rented around the corner. They had to give their address as "care of" the landlord's name, though the landlord didn't live there. That's because An Post knew his name, but wouldn't know the names of tenants.</p>
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<p>I got made redundant shortly before the release of LLM code generators, so I've never used one, but I did occasionally do this for short snippets from tutorials and suchlike.</p>
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<p>I think that it's often true that Americans don't get British sarcasm. And it's similarly often true that British people don't get American sarcasm.</p>
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<p>So you've not heard of Gaelic football?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134668</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hawkeye in GAA games is sponsored by Specsavers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115784</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here to give you the occasional reminder that Irish people (sauf a few weirdos in Dublin) also call the sport soccer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115756</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That makes sense, then. It is actually a useful feature (especially when you're not sure on the spelling of someone's name, etc.).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:36:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076374</link><dc:creator>TRiG_Ireland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bank (BOFIIE2D) now gives me the option of instant or standard payments. Both cost the same. And in both cases the money leaves my account instantly. I can just choose whether it arrives at the recipient instantly or after a few days. I have no idea why standard is still an option. Why would I want that?</p>
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<p>If Iran had the capability to drop a bomb on Mar a Lago, I imagine they'd have done it by now. And the world might be a better place for it.</p>
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<p>It seems to be a new crackdown within the terms of the existing law.</p>
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<p>The worst is when a friend in the group chat uses ChatGPT to write his comments for him. That's really icky.</p>
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<p>Really? Interacting with an LLM feels like stepping on a slug. It's just gross.</p>
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<p>I take such a joy in putting words together that I cannot imagine even thinking about doing something like this.</p>
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<p>I can see this being a useful feature for some people in some situations. It's a pity it doesn't detect an angled one, which is the variant the Nazis mostly used.<p>The conversation here is depressingly juvenile.</p>
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