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New comment by larsonian in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

larsonian — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:21:50 +0000

Ireland? Where'd you get that from? They have a perfectly typical European system where you are expected to apply from inside the country for renewals [1]. You can still do it from abroad, but then you're not eligible for the simpler online procedure:

> You must currently be present in Ireland to be eligible to renew your permission to remain online. Applications submitted from outside Ireland will not be accepted.

Nigeria I'm less sure about. From what I can quickly google, they have a few classes of temporary work visas that aren't extendable (which isn't particularly unusual), although they do list at least some as "renewable upon regularization", and I'm unfortunately not well-versed enough in Nigerian immigration law to know what that means. For actual long-term immigration they have a document called a CERPAC, and the respective website [2] doesn't seem to mention whether you have to leave Nigeria to renew it, only that it's done online. Common sense suggests, however, that if you did have to leave, it would be mentioned somewhere on there, likely in big bold letters.

[1] https://www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration...

[2] https://cerpac.immigration.gov.ng/

New comment by larsonian in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

larsonian — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:27 +0000

Name one country, then. None that I'm aware of require you to leave the country to renew an immigration visa. Switching from a visitor visa to an immigration visa, sure. But if you're already on an immigration visa or residence permit, it's normally expected that you are, well, an immigrant. That your home, domicile, center of vital interests, whatever you want to call it, is in the country. I know of immigration systems that require you to apply from inland instead of from abroad in this case: most European systems work that way, for example, and I believe Canada and Australia too? But why would you require an immigrant to leave the country to extend their residence in that same country, other than to fuck with them?

New comment by larsonian in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

larsonian — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:49:54 +0000

Are you kidding? It's a very obvious case of quote injection. Not some subtle race condition or anything.

New comment by larsonian in "Incident with Github.com"

larsonian — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:30:17 +0000

Whatever it is, it seems to be getting worse: started with pull requests and Actions being down, now I can't even list my repos. Might be the worst one yet.

New comment by larsonian in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

larsonian — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:06:45 +0000

Normal humans don't pass this benchmark either, as evidenced by the existence of religion, among other things.

New comment by larsonian in "AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was"

larsonian — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:23:05 +0000

NYT is more of a tech company than you might think [1] and they've been one for longer than you might think: the de-facto standard profiler for Perl [2], of all things, comes from them.

[1] https://open.nytimes.com/

[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf

New comment by larsonian in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

larsonian — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:21:04 +0000

Cloudflare is absolutely a false comparison. Punishing Nazis is a good thing. Punishing all Russians for the actions of a government they have no say in based solely on their nationality is being a Nazi (which is not a good thing).

New comment by larsonian in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

larsonian — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:14:33 +0000

Maybe, just maybe, the two things you might think are only superficially alike, bear a much deeper resemblance.

See how two can play at this absolutely pointless game of offering pithy remarks without any argument behind them?