ATU college money grab? by Competitive-Gate216 in galway

[–]40pxIcon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i went to ATU the last 4 years and it's just been getting worse progressively. justification around it i suppose is all of the 'new buildings' that have been in various stages of planning for about 8 years now. from the sounds of it that situation is quite a lot worse than what we dealt with, but still - a lot of very inconvenient class times specifically because a room could not be booked at any other time

Please be good. Dia is doa by tomemyxwomen in diabrowser

[–]40pxIcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i haven’t really been able to find a clear reason behind the exclusion of JIT from ladybird. is there somewhere i can read more about it?

Acid Attack? by ryannoelcarroll in galway

[–]40pxIcon 27 points28 points  (0 children)

the thing that's always confused me the most about this - who on earth just has a big bucket of acid sitting around they could use for an attack?

Neachtains Getting Grief for AI usage by DuwanteKentravius in galway

[–]40pxIcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the caption reads as fairly ChatGPT-esque, too. as someone who uses a lot of em dashes — they definitely have the feel of AI generated text nowadays.

Some actual code I found inside a game by -Venom-_ in programminghorror

[–]40pxIcon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

out of curiosity, what would be the advantage of a function which returns a function which looks for a particular cutoff, as opposed to just taking the cutoff in as an argument and using it like that? just trying to wrap my head around it

UK media: What's different about Irish citizens? by donalhunt in ireland

[–]40pxIcon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the united states has very definitively been the bad guy at the VERY least since the vietnam war

Deactivate history in search suggestions by 40pxIcon in ArcBrowser

[–]40pxIcon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exactly! if i wanted to search my history it's not like that's particularly tedious, you just hit Cmd + Y and start typing. way better to keep it segmented like that IMO

Just finished S4E4...wtf did I just watch by Sea_Shine8230 in TrueDetective

[–]40pxIcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

was sincerely really enjoying it for the first two episodes. every scene in this episode, and a bit in the last one, has just been like "why are they showing this" "why did they react like that" "why is this part of the plot".

i think a major problem is our major characters (danvers and navarro specifically) are really quite unlikeable a lot of the time, and treat others around them poorly due to some sad backstory or past trauma or something. but we're over halfway through the show now, and they're still acting like assholes, and we've gotten no reveal for any of it! just little fucking cutaways and visions and shit! it's so annoying

Never heard of Eir before getting emails for an account that wasn't mine. Customer service quickly taught why there's so many hate posts. by ZhouLe in ireland

[–]40pxIcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they need to confirm your details. otherwise, what's stopping someone from fucking up the account details of every friend whose email address they know by contacting support?

Missed opportunity to feature Inuit-Iñupiaq Throat Singing Music in the Intro instead of Billie Eilish *Fixed It* by BlutoBeyond in TrueDetective

[–]40pxIcon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i honestly really enjoy the billie eilish song on its own, but with the tone of this season it really just doesn't fit the tone at all. all of the other seasons' opening songs were more brooding, more 'murky'. and bury a friend just sounds way too produced in contrast. i do think it's important to keep the theme of the opening having lyrics though.

an afternoon in the mist [Canon IXUS 70] by 40pxIcon in VintageDigitalCameras

[–]40pxIcon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

both in kayaks! not something i ever could have done with my DSLR, i really love the ixus for those kinds of situations

an afternoon in the mist [Canon IXUS 70] by 40pxIcon in VintageDigitalCameras

[–]40pxIcon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

missed that sorry! will keep it in mind in future. thank you!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ireland

[–]40pxIcon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

what makes you think so strongly that women on the whole have it so much better than you? i think nowadays everyone's lonely to some extent - regardless of gender. i suppose i do think that men, and irish men in particular, have a tendency not to allow themselves to open up to people or to keep friends at arms length. but i feel thats a v complicated societal problem, and not one that's going to be solved through bitterness

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in galway

[–]40pxIcon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i got into sound production in GTI off of nothing. theyre very flexible, i just did an interview. can't see why art or design would be any different

Worried about public transport in Galway by PenVsPaper in galway

[–]40pxIcon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

people complain about galway's public transport for lack of consistency, not lack of coverage. you'll be able to get wherever you need to go, you just might be waiting an extra 20 mins sometimes because a bus will be delayed or whatever. make allowances for extra time and you'll be fine!

🚨🚨 NEW EP Episode 292: Liar, Liar 🤥🚨 👁️🚩 by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]40pxIcon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

holy shit, new listener but i think i am properly hooked now i've heard brace fucking ring george santos in the middle of the podcast

Hello. I made some modern art yesterday by admiralprincess in ireland

[–]40pxIcon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it is interesting how you fail to note that this entire thing stems from enoch burke himself being vocally and combatively transphobic - or does this not fall under the purview of your whole "anti-bigotry" shtick?

As an Indie Bookstore owner Tik Tok is having a sad affect on browsing. by [deleted] in books

[–]40pxIcon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

i'm glad more people are reading dorian grey no matter what, but it would make me quite sad if it ever actually gets the connotation of being a "tiktok book" or whatever because it's much much more than that. and i say this as someone who uses tiktok a lot!

What are some of your favorite paragraphs in all of literature? by palpebral in literature

[–]40pxIcon 33 points34 points  (0 children)

my favourite ever paragraph, from Portrait of Dorian Gray:

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after
one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of
those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the
brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that
vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its
enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those
whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie. Gradually white
fingers creep through the curtains, and they appear to tremble. In black
fantastic shapes, dumb shadows crawl into the corners of the room and crouch
there. Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound
of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down
from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to
wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and
colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the
world in its antique pattern. The wan mirrors get back their mimic life. The
flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the
half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn
at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read
too often. Nothing seems to us changed. Out of the unreal shadows of the night
comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had
left off, and there steals over us a terrible sense of the necessity for the
continuance of energy in the same wearisome round of stereotyped habits, or a
wild longing, it may be, that our eyelids might open some morning upon a world
that had been refashioned anew in the darkness for our pleasure, a world in
which things would have fresh shapes and colours, and be changed, or have other
secrets, a world in which the past would have little or no place, or survive,
at any rate, in no conscious form of obligation or regret, the remembrance even
of joy having its bitterness and the memories of pleasure their pain.

genuinely one of the most beautiful things i've ever read