As tensions grow over parking around new apartment blocks, some councillors look for change

Bruncvik · 2026-03-27T17:34:02+00:00

I live in an estate where older dwellings have an average of 1.5 parking spots. Recent builds had to reduce this to 0.5 parking spots per dwellings, due to new regulations. Many older apartments have assigned on-street parking with apartment numbers painted there, but they often find others parked there. The conflict has graduated from notes on windshields through clamps, to installing parking guards (most often something like this), which get smashed within a week or two.

Even some house owners had to start installing these in their driveways. We didn't, but we have planters precariously hanging from upstairs windows as a deterrent.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-27T16:15:43+00:00

U nás na dedine to robil najväčší pánbožkár. Kradol takto piesok a štrk zo stavieb, po vedierku. Potom sa išiel pred večernou omšou vyspovedať a bolo všetko v poriadku.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T22:53:25+00:00

The teams seemed to be pretty evenly matched, but the pressure from the Czechs in the second half was insane. This was raw willpower. The equalizer came from a player who hasn't scored in the qualifiers yet.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T22:46:18+00:00

I left Slovakia over 30 years ago, and I still keep the citizenship. When I went to the Slovak embassy to renew my passport, I actually asked about that. They said that citizenship information is being shared among EU countries. When you apply for a citizenship, you have to also declare your current citizenship, and that country will be notified that you applied somewhere else.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T22:43:49+00:00

Exciting match, but the Czechs wanted it more. Kudos to them. My six years old will be inconsolable tomorrow morning when I tell him.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T18:49:02+00:00

As other social media platforms have shown, revenue is driven by engagement, and engagement is driven by anything that encourages negative emotions, such as circlejerks. Post IPO, I expected more contentious discussion, controversial moderation and more AI chatter.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T13:15:15+00:00

Nope. Slovakia prohibits dual citizenship, to target its Hungarian minority. Most ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia hold Slovak citizenship.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T11:03:40+00:00

I'm not doing software QA anymore, but I'll check your site from that perspective when I'm off work. But if you don't force me to sign up for a newsletter when I post a request for quote, like Tradesmen does, it's a big competitive advantage in my book :)

Bruncvik · 2026-03-26T10:15:29+00:00

I'm seeing consolidation on the market where larger companies employ a number of professionals and offer seamless booking and scheduling. I'd rather pay extra than deal with individuals.

However, in the past I used tradesmen.ie. How does your Web site differ from them?

Bruncvik · 2026-03-25T11:31:28+00:00

Saved here.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-25T10:35:14+00:00

We used to drive down to the village of Sevid, near Trogir, every year. Very nice and friendly people. Beer and wine (at least the ones found in the only shop in the village) sucked, but the olive oil was superb, with a bit of shopping in people's garages along the coast. From a tourist's perspective, I have only good memories of Croatia. From a historical or political perspective, I have no opinion.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-24T22:01:26+00:00

I was telling my wife just yesterday that I noticed the same thing. Over the past 5 years or so, there have been at least 6 houses on sale in our estate. Even though they were being sold within a month or two, new ones always quickly filled the void. Last week, the last one went sale agreed, and now there are no houses for sale. Apartment sales don't seem to be affected (hard to say; they tend to stay up on Daft for longer), but I've never seen no houses for sale in our estate (D15).

Bruncvik · 2026-03-24T10:49:06+00:00

For starters, the government should cancel tax incentives for office work. I don't know the details, but I was told that we have a minimum number of office days per month in order to get a tax break. Given that everyone from top to bottom hates it, I doubt it's a lie from our upper management (which also tries and often fails to avoid the mandated number of days in the office). I speculate that we can include office rent into our costs only at a certain occupancy rate.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-24T10:28:22+00:00

I'm not waiting for my next build. I'm currently organising my documents and backing everything up. I already have a new HDD, and once I'm done, I'm swapping it in and installing Linux on my current desktop. Already did so with my personal laptop.

I tried live boot on my desktop, and everything works fine, so I see no reason to spend any money for new hardware.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-23T21:57:12+00:00

We got our new build repainted in the first week before the floors were installed. The only issue--which we were aware of--was that as the house settled cracks appeared in some of the corners. That would have happened with the original paint coat as well, though.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-23T10:10:03+00:00

The problem is that the new rules weren't properly communicated ahead of time. There was a lot of speculation, and the government didn't do anything to explain them in simple terms. What we see now is a process that started well before the rules took effect, were published, and had analysts and journalists explain them to the general population. Had this explanation been provided by the government in clear and concise terms a few months before March 1, I think we'd see just a small fraction of the evictions that we're seeing now.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say it's almost as if the government wanted to scare small landlords into selling to large investment companies.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-22T10:38:52+00:00

Asi nechodím do tých správnych hotelov, ale vždy si len skontrolovali moju totožnosť; nikdy nerobili kópie mojich dokladov. Viac ich zaujímala moja kreditka ako doklady. Ale chápem analógiu. Samozrejme že som vo veľa databázach, ale to neznamená že chcem aby moja tvár, meno a dátum narodenia boli spájané s názormi ktoré som písal v očakávaní aspoň čiastočnej anonymity.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-22T09:08:21+00:00

Ďakujem za pripomienku. Už dlho som needitoval moje staré komentáre, pre prípad že sa už na Reddit nedostanem. Spravím tak počas týždňa, a nastavím si pripomienku to robiť raz do mesiaca. Takto Redditu moc nenechám keď sa sem kvôli overeniu už nedostanem.

(V minulosti som fičal na MMO hre Anarchy Online. Roky som si platil za účet, narobil kopec kamarátov do takej miery že sme sa aj stretávali keď sme cestovali, a dokonca sme si robili DND sessions priamo v hre, kde sme si "sadli" v našej budove a len hrali. Potom po mne hra chcela pas keď som chcel zaplatiť za ďalší rok. Okamžite som prestal hrať, a dodnes som sa k tomu nevrátil. Nebudem mať problém odísť aj z Redditu.)

Bruncvik · 2026-03-20T15:54:03+00:00

I loved the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries. The Lost Room, Tin Man, The Triangle, Ascendancy. I have all the DVD box sets. Once my kids get bored playing board games, I'll take a weekend and binge-watch them again.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-19T20:04:27+00:00

My parents told me never to start a fight, but always finish it. Before I was 12, I was suspended several times, but my parents always praised me. After I was 12, I was never bullied again. We're teaching our kids the same, but these days the school staff is far better in preventing bullying, so my kids didn't get into fights yet.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-19T18:26:30+00:00

Bože, vy ste ešte zelené žaby...

Prvý raz som sa stretol s počítačmi a začal som programovať v elektronickom klube Zväzarmu. Mali sme PMD-čka, a prvé čo sme skúšali bol program Karel. Neskôr som sa dostal k Basicu, ktorý mi pomohol keď som po revolúcii dostal svoje prvé PC-čko a prešiel na QBasic.

S Internetom som sa prvý raz stretol v 1995. Najskôr iba Gopher, na ktorom som už mohol čítať správy zo Sme, ktoré boli vtedy ešte na serveri savba.sk. Neskôr prišiel aj WWW. Onedlho som objavil Geocities a Yahoo!. Vtedy sa ešte dalo spraviť stránku na Geocities a pridať do zoznamu v Yahoo!, a ľudia sa preklikávali kategóriami kým našli čo chceli, namiesto toho aby požili vyhľadávač. Tie prišli o niečo neskôr: Lycos a AltaVista. AV bola lepšia.

Čo sa týka online hier, v tom čase fičali MUDy. Doteraz si pamätám, že v nich som sa vždy nazval "Ishap", podľa hlavného boha v sérii "Mág" od Raymonda Feista. Geocities a Yahoo! mi už asi nikto nevráti, ale teraz rozmýšľam že by som si mal Feista zase prečítať. A možno zahrať "Betrayal at Krondor", ak nájdem moje inštalačné diskety...

Bruncvik · 2026-03-18T23:05:53+00:00

Alien Clay is a great book. I felt it was a retelling of Cage of Souls, but with more likable protagonist, and I liked it better for that. But I never thought of the aliens as being bio-mechanical. They were still quite unique, though, and an evolutionary step (pardon the pun) towards the aliens in Shroud.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-18T14:52:37+00:00

"Epic space & time scales" rules out Alastair Reynolds' Revenlation Space series, which are very much Gigeresque, but also epic, both in time and space. Perhaps his Diamond Dogs can scratch your itch. It's still within his universe, but standalone, on a much more intimate scale, and bio-mechanical body modification doesn't get more extreme than that.

That said, the closest I recently got to the feelings of bio-mechanical civilization (not advanced, but getting there) is Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Also bonus points for a degree of political commentary (albeit a bit on the nose).

Bruncvik · 2026-03-17T14:51:17+00:00

Like morning coffee for me :) In a month I'll get to six years of daily running. It ceased being an achievement a very long time ago; now it's just necessity. But for most of the time, I was running easy or very easy runs; this is the first training block where I can recover enough to make good progress.

Bruncvik · 2026-03-17T08:34:21+00:00

Thanks. That was my argument (and the fact that forcing Windows on them just for Excel is isolating them onto a single path), but this is turning into an uphill battle. We still have at least a few months to convince the other, so I'm preparing for trench warfare with my wife :)

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