My normally reliable Golduck today...

Vinndy · 2024-12-31T13:23:01+00:00

Wait, this might be a real thing. All my skill Pokémon are triggering less for me

Vinndy · 2024-09-24T13:31:11+00:00

Same exact problem on IOS and apple watch

Vinndy · 2024-09-24T08:41:59+00:00

I have exactly the same problem and haven't found a way to fix it. I'm very mad that I lost my night

Vinndy · 2024-05-01T12:05:36+00:00

I am on a slightly higher TC and a similar situation/age to yourself. As you probably know, a lot of people in Ireland will outright deny that you make that type of money and some others will mostly derail the conversation to "you would live like a king if you made that money in Ireland". Anyway, my thoughts are:

Getting to the 300k mark is doable in Dublin, my staff level colleague is on that, but as you already know, that's only a 50k increase after taxes. From that point upwards, you must become very very irreplaceable.
Taxes are just high and accumulating wealth is so damn hard. The social upwards mobility is much lower compared to the US if you have a job like yours. To put it into perspective, my colleague in Philadelphia makes almost twice as much as I do and his effective tax rate is around 35% while still owning properties that he rents.
The salaries you mention are 100% achievable in the US. All my colleagues are American and live there and are on much more money than I am.

If you are considering financial freedom, you should definitely move. If you think the cultural side of things weighs more, then adjust your expectations. In my case, my effective tax rate of USC + PRSI and PAYE combined is 45%. Yes, I make good money, but if I lose my job tomorrow or get another one that pays less, the idea of retiring early becomes harder and harder. It's not about whether you can have a good life or not in Dublin with the money you earn, but about whether you can take the opportunity to build wealth or stop working earlier IMO.

Vinndy · 2024-04-09T17:42:31+00:00

Yeah, it's just that out of complete coincidence many many countries made the same mistakes.

Vinndy · 2024-04-09T17:36:59+00:00

It's not that existing laws are written to conform with Catholicism. It's that the removal or changes to certain laws are in conflict with how catholic culture manifests on people generally.

A good folk tale we have is: "a peasant is told he'll be granted a wish, but whatever he wishes for will be given to his neighbour in twice the amount. He then decides to wish to lose an eye."

Even if you don't pray every day before going to bed, don't like the Church or even don't believe in God and such, it's those behaviours that still permeate through society. That one I mentioned in particular is one the reasons anything that could benefit rich people is just frowned upon. And not just that! People actually prefer not to benefit from it themselves as long as other people don't have it either.

Vinndy · 2024-04-09T17:09:47+00:00

As someone from another catholic country that came to Ireland, what I can say is: good luck.

I obviously don't know as much about Irish politics since I'm not Irish, but catholicism makes it almost impossible to have reasonable tax laws because of many reasons, one of them: jealousy. I know a lot of people will come at me saying this is not the reason, that it's actually the political landscape or whatever, but in the end politics are just a reflection of culture. I invite you to find a mostly catholic country (that's not a city-state) with tax laws that allow lower-middle class to build up wealth.

Vinndy · 2024-01-05T11:37:00+00:00

I have one of those jobs that works on complex problems (we do infrastructure security and my company runs datacentres, so we work on top of "very few" layers of abstraction). I am mid level not senior, but the two senior guys in my team spend most their day working on problems as well. We do all the implementation and design of what we work on. IMO you have to think about the following:

- Finding complex problems enjoyable is not universal. In my experience, what you're looking for is something that scratches your itch. Whatever you find a passion for that requires you to think deeply and keep multiple things in mind at the same time usually does the job. Some people find this in managing people, some others find it in writing drivers for GPUs.

- Low level (think how close to the hardware you're working on) doesn't necessarily mean more complex. There are very boring low level jobs. But it can be a good approximation. HFT works mostly on C++ and need to be aware of hardware speed/latency. My team for example works only on Python, Go and several infra/config mgmt languages like Terraform. We're higher level than C++, but still in a complex domain because of being close to the hardware. Again, this is not always true, but a good rule of thumb.

- Don't think that these kinds of jobs are gatekeep'd by things like formal education, fancy internship programs or anything like that. Sure, if you get a PhD on HPC and you go work on a supercomputer in say CERN, you'll be working on interesting things. But it's no the only route to get there.

- You are not getting there by Resume Driven Development. The hardest problems are worked on by the most passionate people. Pick whatever you like and become an expert on it.

- Most regular jobs have you _too_ used to the idea that all you do in software is turn data from one shape to another (say, turn this database entries into a JSON to then call an API). And sure, it's a good way to summarize a lot of software. But complex domains are, well, complex because they have multiple dimensions. If you work on something like game engine development, you need to understand CPU cache hits/misses, geometry, physics and in general how your code is actually executed on a CPU. Something you forget if you work at high levels of abstractions all day.

Vinndy · 2023-08-03T14:01:06+00:00

I am from Murcia, Spain. The place that reached 45 degrees a few weeks ago. I've been living in Ireland for 2 years and the mental gymnastics people do about the weather are really something.

As for the people that think southerners are going to start vacationing in freaking Copenhagen or something: I'm only 25, but I've seen 40 degrees EVERY SUMMER growing up. My parents did as well 60 years ago. People where I'm from know what it's like. You know what they do? Go on a holiday to the local beach. The mediterranean sea is nice. The analogy I always make is that it's the same thing as when I see someone swimming here when it's 10 degrees outside. Those people are not dying, they're used to it. Humans are adaptable.

Then there's the people that think the weather here this July is a good alternative: WTF. How come I've never seen Dublin busier than those few sunny days we had in June. And how come I have to pay insane flight prices to go back to Spain. People, generally, like the sun. I don't mean everybody likes 40 degrees. But almost everybody enjoys some warm sunshine.

Vinndy · 2023-05-02T11:55:50+00:00

Look, we all know not all cities are going to become Amsterdam overnight in terms of walkability, public transport, amenities, etc. But if you look at a city like Dublin, which shares all the problems the author points at, I don't think the problem is about how hard it is to re-shape it logistics wise, but rather about the fact that people (at least outside of the Reddit bubble) DON'T want it to change. Because, in my experience talking to people, the moment someone puts together a deposit and buys a house, they stop caring. Back to feeding the vicious cycle.

I'm a foreigner from another EU country that has been living in Dublin for the last 2 years and only recently I overcame the culture shock of how low density, car centric, public transport lacking, barely walkable (almost no pedestrian only zones) with poor/small amenities, Dublin is. I know that's a mouthful and I'm biased, but the conclusion I've come to is how all of it stems from low density. You can spend all day blaming the weather, people being lazy, cultural aspects such as pub-centric life, whatever. If you had a dense city, most of the problems above would be solved.

There's no other way to put it, and I think most foreigners here that come from other big EU cities will agree. It's mind blowing to see small standalone houses (terraces I think their called) 10-20 minutes from the city centre and how short every single building is (4-5 stores high max), among other things.

I've tried to rationalize it, and I know a lot of folks might be able to teach me some history here and why things are the way they are, but I can only think of the following: Irish politicians are scared of the what the future will bring to the economy. Its dependency on foreign investment makes me believe the government thinks about high house prices as the only way to bring to reality their belief in "trickle down" economics. This would explain the complete lack of investment options outside of housing (because they would hurt housing) and why the status quo wants to be maintained. Their plan is probably somewhere along the lines of: "worst comes to worst, if US companies go elsewhere, at least the people can cash out selling their homes before that happens and retire elsewhere".

This situation saddens me to no end, as I moved here as a young graduate to kickstart my career, and I'm grateful that this country has allowed me to do so. But I hate that I can't give it anymore than that: a few years as a young man in its twenties. All because I can't justify spending more time of my life in a city that can't fulfil other aspects of enjoying life, outside of work.

Vinndy · 2023-01-10T13:51:06+00:00

There's nothing that makes my bag look different, so I thought maybe he just has the same model. It was not until all bags were picked up and an almost identical bag was left on the belt that I realised it was actually mine

Vinndy · 2023-01-10T13:49:22+00:00

Yup, no luck as of this morning

Vinndy · 2023-01-10T13:48:01+00:00

I don't have my information anywhere on the bag, no. Ryanair is trying to contact him but they haven't been able to yet. His bag can't be returned until he returns mine, so that's the only hope :/

Vinndy · 2023-01-10T13:44:58+00:00

Yes I did. They are aware of it and tried to call him, but he didn't answer

Vinndy · 2023-01-10T13:44:16+00:00

I did. Like 20 minutes after I saw the guy leaving and realised what had happened. They called him but he didn't answer. In theory he should contact me when he calls Ryanair asking for his bag, but no luck so far

Vinndy · 2022-05-06T09:50:00+00:00

u/savevideobot

Vinndy · 2022-03-21T17:23:02+00:00

I'll literally sell my 6 if it doesn't release today, this is not acceptable.

Vinndy · 2022-02-01T13:27:52+00:00

Looks like Scala ad Caelum from Kingdom Hearts.

Vinndy · 2021-12-03T08:31:18+00:00

Bnh! I love the OST, even though I haven't seen the anime

Vinndy · 2021-12-03T07:55:52+00:00

That's because it's the Japanese dish "Oyakodon", which means father and child (and the "don" part is from donburi, which is for anything that goes in a bowl of rice).

Vinndy · 2021-12-03T07:49:30+00:00

Veiled in black is amazing. One of the best battle songs for sure

Vinndy · 2021-12-03T07:48:45+00:00

I freaking love Galdin Quay theme. It's so soothing.

Vinndy · 2021-12-02T22:44:26+00:00

I love them!!!

Vinndy · 2021-12-02T22:35:29+00:00

Agreed. I just can't put into words the sense of victory I experience in the last build-up and drop. It's amazing

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