iandioch

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by iandioch 1y ago
FWIW, Scottish and Irish (and their sister Manx) are not Brythonic, they are in the other branch of extant Celtic languages, Goidelic/Gaelic.
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by iandioch 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound gives some details about that. I knew that some Irish English speakers inhale when saying "yes", but it seems fairly widespread across Europe...
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by iandioch 6y ago
This is true. A related post about discovering this, and some links to more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18681745
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by iandioch 7y ago
I don't understand this logic. It's better to have everyone see it and to guarantee it is seen by a malicious actor, instead of only a small few seeing it and there being some small potential for it to be seen by a malicious actor
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by iandioch 7y ago
In Ireland, we literally called our reference book for exams "the log tables", despite there not having been any table of logs in any edition of it for quite a long time.
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by iandioch 7y ago
A lot of the replies suggest a language barrier being the reason, but we don't really get them here in Ireland, despite English being a national language.
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by iandioch 8y ago
I would think Sandymount routes would have few students on them, considering the price of living in that part of the city. What's more, blaming the problem on students/young people (ie. me and my peers) seems short sighted. I have
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by iandioch 8y ago
Without any doubt, I'd recommend the following books: - 'Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon' by Kim Zetter. - 'The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Comp
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Helping a computer translate yes and no in a language without words for yes/no(mycode.doesnot.run)
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by iandioch 8y ago
A good example of this going wrong is described here, with the "spunk" debacle: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/05/time-coca-co...
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by iandioch 8y ago
I believe here they're talking about Georgia in the United States.
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by iandioch 8y ago
This is great news. However, I saw the most ads on Youtube; it would be great if Google followed suit and released similar data. I hope this sets a precedent for publishing ad spending in future referenda too.
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by iandioch 8y ago
It's maybe worth keeping in mind that Ireland was neutral in WWII. I guess that the belligerents still lost many ships in Irish waters (and indeed Irish ships were often attacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris
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by iandioch 8y ago
I did a similar visualisation a few months ago, but less polished, for my own curiosity: https://twitter.com/iandioch/status/968938231550107649
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by iandioch 8y ago
Speakers of my Irish-border dialect do sometimes use "childer" instead of "children", you're correct. I suppose many remnants of old English (and equally other languages) are preserved in random local dialects.
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by iandioch 9y ago
It looks like you need to scan in on the way into the shop. If your phone runs out of the battery, is it impossible to eat?
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by iandioch 9y ago
I used to do the same. I'm sure that's what thousands of others do too :)
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by iandioch 9y ago
There are lots of interesting competitive programming problems (and their related algorithms) that involve it. For example, it was important in the solution to a problem in the UKIEPC (UK & Irish programming contest to gear up for the A
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by iandioch 9y ago
Or better yet, forgo a hub at all :)
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by iandioch 9y ago
A point worth making is that this is not Google, it is Sidewalk Labs. I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest.
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by iandioch 9y ago
In Ireland you can get unlimited data for 20eur/month.
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by iandioch 9y ago
My bank only yesterday froze my card because it is being used in a different country and they suspect fraud.
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by iandioch 9y ago
This is somewhat true, but many of the accents are not as strong anymore. The Irish language itself is interesting. Before standardisation, I'm told the Irish of the north of the island was more similar to Scots Gaelic than that of the
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by iandioch 9y ago
I am quite sure! Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, but all the bread was too sweet for me.
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by iandioch 9y ago
When I was living in Switzerland, my biggest woe was that all of the bread seemed to be white, or sweet. I could find no good simple grainy brown bread, like at home in Ireland. But the beer was better, so I was happy.
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by iandioch 10y ago
What might be fun to try is to use a Euro 5c coin in a machine that expects 20p sterling coins. Living on the border with Northern Ireland, we figured out when I was young that the sweet machines in Northern shopping centres could be conned
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by iandioch 10y ago
My father opted to write his maths textbook with MS equation editor. There's always a strong need for tools that aren't just for the technically minded (or HN-reading) audience.
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by iandioch 10y ago
We can celebrate pi day too, just to less accuracy. The third of January?
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by iandioch 10y ago
I am just on the final few pages of The Cuckoo's Egg, and was planning on finishing it tonight. I too would say that it is a fantastically written page-turner, and it has taught me a lot about the old-school networking scene. How do th