TRiG_Ireland

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by TRiG_Ireland 7d ago
X for cross has very old pedigree, dating back at least to Victorian railway stations, such as King's X.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7d ago
I found a Firefox plugin which does an automatic redirect to XCancel.
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by TRiG_Ireland 25d ago
His dad is the king's brother, isn't he?
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by TRiG_Ireland 25d ago
> We cannot attribute any moral judgment to Bieber as a human being; we can only answer the moral question as posed in the song. As a semi-off-topic little rant, why do we always assume that pop singers are singing about themselves and t
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by TRiG_Ireland 26d ago
The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.
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by TRiG_Ireland 29d ago
"It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process." No. Very much no.
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by TRiG_Ireland 1mo ago
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
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by TRiG_Ireland 1mo ago
Pick-up artists are not going to behave like decent human beings.
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by TRiG_Ireland 1mo ago
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) hav
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by TRiG_Ireland 1mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
So you've not heard of Gaelic football?
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
Hawkeye in GAA games is sponsored by Specsavers.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
Here to give you the occasional reminder that Irish people (sauf a few weirdos in Dublin) also call the sport soccer.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
That makes sense, then. It is actually a useful feature (especially when you're not sure on the spelling of someone's name, etc.).
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
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
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
It seems to be a new crackdown within the terms of the existing law.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
The worst is when a friend in the group chat uses ChatGPT to write his comments for him. That's really icky.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
Really? Interacting with an LLM feels like stepping on a slug. It's just gross.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
I take such a joy in putting words together that I cannot imagine even thinking about doing something like this.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
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. The conversation here is depressingly juvenile.
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by TRiG_Ireland 2mo ago
All attempts to reimagine transport are train but worse, except for the occasional bike but worse. Every now and then, an especially inventive inventor manages to do both at once. And that's how you get the Shweeb. https://y
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
If you're relying on HTML forms being filled in to generate queries, the browser will always generate standard query parameters with a question mark and ampersands. But if you're making your own links, you can generate them howeve
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
I'm certain I've seen websites which used semi-colons rather than question marks and ampersands for query parameters. The Jehovah's Witnesses website used to, many years ago. I believe that one of the reasons behind this desi
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
That perhaps explains why I vaguely recall reading it before.
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
The linguistic, historical, and cultural information is so fascinating, and really well explained.
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
On seeing just the title, before reading the article, I assumed it was about the Wingdings J.
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
My primary use for Typst is pretty agendas for my Toastmasters club. https://typst.app/project/rmyyeU17y51rl6ISSqGji9 Typesetting isn't just for science. I like that it looks good; I enjoy the creative step of exp
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by TRiG_Ireland 3mo ago
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. Lucki

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