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by entropyie 5y ago
Robocalls and support scams only really arrived with a vengeance last year in Ireland. Even still I would answer and call back pretty much every call from an Irish caller id today. I reckon at least 19/20 calls are legit... I suppose
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by entropyie 5y ago
Yep, all cow milk in Ireland is grass fed, they don't even bother putting it on the label as it's assumed... Just wish pork and chicken were the same story... (They're not free range as a rule here)
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by entropyie 5y ago
> However the main problem is still consumer knowledge of whats recyclable. Strongly disagree here. Expecting average consumers to know the difference between polypropylene, polyurethane and polystyrene etc..., just by looking at somet
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by entropyie 5y ago
FWIW, this is not even remotely true in Europe. People use debit cards day to day, more likely to use a credit card if they don't have enough in the bank I suspect. At least where I am, there isn't much to be had in terms of point
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by entropyie 5y ago
Just installed Fedora 34 on a new Lenovo AIO for my elderly parents. It took a max 5 minutes of attention from me (maybe 30 minutes elapsed?), including making the USB boot disk. Everything worked on first boot. Everything. Also note that t
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by entropyie 5y ago
Hi Julia @jkurnia, quick question on the credit card integration. I just made two one off payments on your platform, and the second time I was not prompted for any CVV / CVC. Are you storing the CVV and is that safe? Also, there was no
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by entropyie 5y ago
I made more money per month as a 17 yo at the end of the dotcom boom than I did the decade after... But back to the advice: don't sell your house... Get a less demanding job, even 4 days a week, and side hustle the project. Also consid
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by entropyie 5y ago
Also, as a general aside to web devs, if we need captchas, can we at least use something less obnoxious and more privacy friendly, like: https://friendlycaptcha.com/ I put this on my signup form and have had zero spam since
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by entropyie 5y ago
I think the idea that work should always be engaging and meaningful is a harmful fallacy that is setting young people up for failure. Even the greatest rock-star or sports celebrity spends the majority of their time doing hard, repetitive o
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by entropyie 5y ago
I am no cheerleader for Ryanair... But most of your arguments don't really hold. 1. What's wrong with recycled seats? If you live in a city you are drinking recycled water. 2. Comparing a trans-atlantic flight to a short-haul one
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by entropyie 5y ago
Blaming Ryanair for getting hijacked? That is harsh. Personally, besides the dark patterns during booking, I find little functional difference between Ryanair and the likes of Aer lingus when traveling . The difference being air travel is h
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by entropyie 5y ago
My ISP is subject to GDPR, has an office down the road, I know people who work there, and is answerable to the Data Protection Commissioner. They have a customer service department that answers my calls in person within 30 minutes tops. So
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by entropyie 5y ago
My email client / provider leaked only DNS prefetch... nothing else... Before I even opened the message! I reckon it was my provider, as the IP address reported was wrong for me.
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by entropyie 5y ago
Nope, maybe a 2% drop in prices from the peak, rent still crazy expensive and not falling, once the government remove rent freezes, it will go up again. Anecdotally a few non Irish techies are leaving but it won't be enough to affect h
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by entropyie 5y ago
1 is not strictly true. A nation harbouring actors like this has a duty to intervene or they could be deemed responsible. For anyone with time on their hands, the "Talinn Manual" has a lot of detail on this: https://www
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by entropyie 5y ago
No argument here... my comment was more to say that meat-free burgers can be a success even in a country that has a high opinion of beef... This is a positive development IMHO. If you told Irish people 10 years ago that their local chipper
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by entropyie 5y ago
I don't think it's fair to put Ireland in the same category as the USA here: 1. Zero ads for prescription medication anywhere 2. Medical card for everyone on low income covering everything 3. Never pay more than EUR114/month
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by entropyie 5y ago
Irish person here with a couple of random facts: - Ireland is one of the larger per-capita beef producing countries - Beef lobby is quite powerful - Our local Chipper / Take Away / "Fish & Chips" shop sells Beyond Me
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by entropyie 6y ago
As I face into another day of tedious Jira wrangling, this really lifted my spirits! The music really makes the difference. I was also struck by the quote regarding stability and innovation. FWIW, very little CPU overhead on ThinkPad X280 w
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by entropyie 6y ago
I agree with your sentiment for the most part (although I haven't run native windows outlook in 15 years)... however, for what it's worth, you can apply client side mail rules to existing emails on MacOS. I've used this to cl
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by entropyie 6y ago
I take your point 100%. I also love TG4's style of programming, but the problem with your approach is that you will be accused of "elitism" and being "out of touch with ordinary people" . I agree that a lot of the c
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by entropyie 6y ago
As an Irish person, I firmly believe this. While our our public broadcaster, RTE, is far from perfect (and sometimes mediocre), they are financed / run at arms length from government. They often run exposés on government mess ups and c
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by entropyie 6y ago
Irish person here, but I speak French. Found the recording surprisingly understandable. Of course (French) sub-titles help...
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by entropyie 6y ago
Stripe was built by Irish founders.
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by entropyie 12y ago
At least in Dublin, it seems to confuse Biking with Sailing (see north of Dun Laoghaire pier) Otherwise very cool!
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by entropyie 15y ago
Yeah, thought this was some kind of joke question, and I'm only 29 ;) I used 360k 5.25 floppies when I was a kid...