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New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

TRiG_Ireland — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:44:19 +0000

The top of the Arc is open space. Standing up there watching the traffic is amusing. I once saw two buses, side-by-side, exit the roundabout, while the motorbike sandwiched between them attempted to continue further around the circle. Luckily, everything happened at fairly slow speeds, so collision was avoided.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:29:18 +0000

There was a lot of outrage over the use of AI-generated images on the Leaving Cert exam in Ireland recently.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

TRiG_Ireland — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:51:19 +0000

On mine, it also creates ~/Downloads/thunderbird.tmp directory.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Why all new flags look the same"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:16:28 +0000

Perry Dane's Flags in Context is a much better article than Good Flag, Bad Flag. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1306168

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:01:07 +0000

It was indeed POLi. Strange that it's using actual bank passwords!

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:05:52 +0000

I'm Irish, but I've built a website for an Australian client and they integrated something which did that. In the checkout, you could choose to pay with a system which would log you into your bank's website, where you could approve a payment, then return to the site on which you'd made your purchase, where it would instantly be marked as paid. I think that it may have taken a few days for the money to actually arrive in their bank account, but the payment was authorised instantly.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "The worst job interview I ever had"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:03:24 +0000

In the UK, a perfectly valid answer to "How are you?" is "How are you?"

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "The worst job interview I ever had"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:46:12 +0000

"I lost both parents. ... I was careless."

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone"

TRiG_Ireland — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:19:58 +0000

Electronic vehicles are, frankly, only marginally better. Cars have far more negative effects than tailpipe emissions.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:22:38 +0000

I'm hostile to cars in general, not just to self-driving. The safer future for pedestrians is not self-driving: it's fewer cars.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "PHP's Oddities"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:04:57 +0000

I've thrown together quick and dirty CLI scripts with PHP, just because it's the language I know best. It works fine.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

TRiG_Ireland — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:14:17 +0000

I think this is the first article I've seen here which captures my practical concerns with AI, my moral concerns, my economic concerns, and also the emotional "true, profound, and guttural loathing". I hate it so much, and I immediately think less of anyone who uses it. It just feels so icky. And the times when I've been fooled into reading AI-generated texts I feel cheated. It's all so cheap and nasty.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:41:37 +0000

It should be a matter of shame, not pride, to the British that they followed a jingoistic US into a needless war in Afghanistan which achieved nothing but much senseless death.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:04:37 +0000

The company I used to work for used AWS for the many CRUD websites they made for many small clients. Route 53, LAMP stack on Ubuntu on EC2, and synchronised the MySQL database to Elasticsearch for the search box on the front page of the site. That was it.

I suspect that they could have achieved that result far cheaper on a different provider.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

TRiG_Ireland — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:13:23 +0000

Nah. There was some genuine confusion. And then there were some Americans incorrectly asserting that their usage was an English language thing.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:40:08 +0000

No. That's what it means in the USA. Judges are not part of the government in the UK, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand either. They're part of the State.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:56:17 +0000

And making the "politically incorrect" statement of hanging out with Nazis wouldn't alienate potential allies?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:43:16 +0000

I remember using one only once, while working on computerising the school library. (I did that as a summer job, between school years.)

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "New Modern Greek"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:36:20 +0000

Are you merging omega and omicron only in the lowercase?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:10:35 +0000

The GPL doesn't actually prohibit selling software. It's just hard to do because anyone you sell it to can redistribute it.