TRiG_Ireland

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by TRiG_Ireland 4mo ago
There was a lot of outrage over the use of AI-generated images on the Leaving Cert exam in Ireland recently.
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by TRiG_Ireland 4mo ago
On mine, it also creates ~/Downloads/thunderbird.tmp directory.
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by TRiG_Ireland 4mo ago
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
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by TRiG_Ireland 4mo ago
It was indeed POLi. Strange that it's using actual bank passwords!
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by TRiG_Ireland 4mo ago
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 a
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
In the UK, a perfectly valid answer to "How are you?" is "How are you?"
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
"I lost both parents. ... I was careless."
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
Electronic vehicles are, frankly, only marginally better. Cars have far more negative effects than tailpipe emissions.
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
I've thrown together quick and dirty CLI scripts with PHP, just because it's the language I know best. It works fine.
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
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
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 5mo ago
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 sit
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
Nah. There was some genuine confusion. And then there were some Americans incorrectly asserting that their usage was an English language thing.
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
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.
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
And making the "politically incorrect" statement of hanging out with Nazis wouldn't alienate potential allies?
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
I remember using one only once, while working on computerising the school library. (I did that as a summer job, between school years.)
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
Are you merging omega and omicron only in the lowercase?
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
The GPL doesn't actually prohibit selling software. It's just hard to do because anyone you sell it to can redistribute it.
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
And switching to Google achieves the aim of getting away from American tech giants?
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
You clearly have no understanding of the principle of consent. If you don't want to destroy Wikipedia, why are you acting like this?
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
The UK is not an outlier here. Much of the world has the same voltage.
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by TRiG_Ireland 6mo ago
I have historically used asterisks for emphasis and slashes for the use/mention distinction.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
Very fun to play with. As a small issue, the European microstates don't appear on the map.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
The War on Drugs is more relevant to your day-to-day life, perhaps, but people in the Middle-east are also people, in case you forget that.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
You have to be careful with this. Building sites (translate that into American as "houses under construction") may want to order stuff, but won't yet have eircodes. Indeed, I believe that they're issued only twice a year
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
I'm trying to work out what SA means.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
Currently computer networking or perhaps security. Or something else. In an ideal world, I go back to college and retrain as a sign language interpreter. But I can't afford that.
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by TRiG_Ireland 7mo ago
I'm a developer who was made redundant, and I'm now casting around for an entirely new job because, likewise, I have no interest in working with AI. It sounds boring, and the concept squicks me out, to be honest.
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
Ah, I've seen that, but there was no ATM. You could just drop the envelope into a box in the bank (to skip the queue at the counters). No way to deposit out of hours, though. The ATM system would have been better.

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