donalhunt

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by donalhunt 11mo ago
blooper reel is gold.
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by donalhunt 11mo ago
Seems the perfect opportunity to create a AI-generated "hackers" short with some prepared screenshots. /s
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by donalhunt 1y ago
Most datacenters are fairly boring to be honest. The most exciting thing likely to happen is some sheet metal ripping your hand open because you didn't wear gloves. Still have my "my other datacenter is made of razorblades and hat
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by donalhunt 1y ago
I've encountered a tangential problem to this with package versioning on Linux distros. Thankfully it was not too hard to write an algorithm to compare versions (thanks AI!).
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by donalhunt 1y ago
Tell that to Ireland where we observe Irish Standard Time during the summer (and GMT during the winter).
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by donalhunt 1y ago
What sort of monster are you by not defaulting to UTC on systems? (⊙＿⊙') /s
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by donalhunt 1y ago
The Irish strategy is to make the pubs too attractive for any attacker to bother with armed conflict. ;) The Irish position should not be underestimated. It tends to be a bellweather for what others will align with in the future. Ireland te
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by donalhunt 1y ago
How many of them have MAGA-style slogans though? /s
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by donalhunt 1y ago
It also disrupts JIT supply chains. Companies make decisions with certain variables not being volatile. You now have a situation where one week the cost of a commodity is X and the following week it could be 2X. The butterfly effect across
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by donalhunt 1y ago
s/some/plenty/ In Ireland, jail time is rare for such offences sadly. In cases where jail time is sentenced, overcrowding in prisons often results in early release.
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by donalhunt 1y ago
From personal experience strength training has been key to recovering from injuries (caused by doing stupid things, not exercise itself). So maybe the correlation between exercise and pain is incorrect? The exercise is the cure to the pain.
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by donalhunt 1y ago
Anything that allows visitors to submit data to the website. Abuse actors will show up sooner or later.
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by donalhunt 1y ago
When Twitter had an open API, some tech teams actually used it as an additional source for detecting incidents that internal monitoring missed (similar to how electricity grid operators watch TV to understand when demand surges are going to
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by donalhunt 1y ago
Ryanair's response (probably): have you tried getting a different passport?
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by donalhunt 1y ago
The issue everyone is skirting around is that many aeroplanes don't actually have the capacity to allow every passenger to bring a carry-on onboard. Ryanair even acknowledge this by limiting the number of people booking their priority
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by donalhunt 1y ago
They have irc services internally (or at least did when I was there 10-ish years ago).
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by donalhunt 1y ago
My stance has always been to lean on the available tools to free up time to work on the more interesting problems that deliver value to the organisation / company. Has been a good strategy to date. Sadly, the current environment does n
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by donalhunt 1y ago
Still happening in 2025. :/ One well-known US show started airing the current season in the UK (on a streaming service) — 7 weeks after it started airing in the US.
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by donalhunt 1y ago
EU exemptions are gone afaik. Previously we had exemptions to avoid VAT / customs (much lower de minimus) but they have been removed in recent years. The shipping / customs industry has not evolved to support the volume of low val
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by donalhunt 1y ago
The number one rule about creating clean source (and IP) is not to look at competing implementations / patents. Was drilled in to me by legal over the years to avoid such issues. Really easy to unconsciously incorporate ideas from othe
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by donalhunt 2y ago
Should also incorporate "mind the gap" some how...
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by donalhunt 2y ago
Would put money it on it using something like '?device_verified=1'.
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by donalhunt 2y ago
This is an important insight. While the "bias towards action" approach works for smaller things, larger efforts may require change management protocols that capture explicit approvals. In regulated industries, you may have no choi
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by donalhunt 2y ago
In Europe, consumers should be getting longer protection than 1 year. May require a fight / small claims court submission to exercise one's rights.
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by donalhunt 2y ago
He actually won $600k because he would have had to accept $50k/year over 20 years to get the $1 million prize money. If invested wisely $600k now (~$430k after tax) is probably the wiser move.
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by donalhunt 2y ago
Having been on the IT side of student registration, it's a major undertaking for the teams involved with thousands of students to be processed in a fairly short window. Downtime of any type during the registration period has a major im
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by donalhunt 2y ago
I am open to correction but my understanding is there is no such law. Food establishments do have to have toilet facilities but operators are permitted to refuse entry to the premises to anyone as long as it's not discriminatory. As a
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by donalhunt 2y ago
Reminds me of an old hwops story where one machine just constantly failed despite replacing every part on the tray multiple times. The conclusion was that the tray was bad. Google's definition of a server was (and still is afaik) based
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by donalhunt 2y ago
First class sleeper cabins would count. Definitely not equivalent to a hotel room but better than a couchette. The definitely ran between Germany and the Netherlands in the 00s because I took at least one trip that way.
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by donalhunt 2y ago
Did this 10+ years ago for a circa-2000 band website (was a few html pages). Was fairly straightforward to achieve. Some content (embedded from 3rd party websites) was not recoverable.

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