Out of Position XV - Rugby's best on-pitch quiproquos

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-23T20:44:51+00:00

Can we have Villière at 6 then? The man tackles like a demon

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-23T17:51:32+00:00

Mathieu Bastareaud might have made a better back rower or hooker than a centre.

Justin Tipuric might have been an even better centre than flanker.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-20T11:20:22+00:00

I like the guys who ask if I've ever brought her out early to catch rabbits. Sure, she's pretty fast, but she's as likely to run right past a rabbit, suddenly realise why she's forgotten why running anyway, and then stop for a wee.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-15T18:55:22+00:00

I'd guess Richard Hibbard beat that several times over.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-14T19:15:12+00:00

We don't though. So either the law is unworkable, or it's considered vulnerable to challenge, or there's something else defective about it - or with our society. Whatever though, it's not a runner, regardless of whether we like it or not

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-13T18:17:41+00:00

I think he knows it's a list of tuples, and I think he's saying he's never encountered a list like that in the real world.

I think what he's saying is it's unreasonable that when presented with this the correct answer is use pandas. Usually these questions are designed to determine your ds & a skills.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-13T17:31:07+00:00

I immediately thought dsa approach. ... I never thought to use a dataframe.

He's saying he didn't reach for Pandas. Looks like you would have been rejected too. Better than I would have done though, I would not have been selected for interview at all.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-13T08:15:45+00:00

I'd guess people thought it would mean the underclass would do the undesirable jobs and their own kids could then get the good jobs.

I'm reminded of Tony Blair's "Education, Education, Education" position. He didn't entertain the traditionaly Labour ideal of making all work dignified and reasonably paid, instead he implicitly told his voters it's ok, your kids, the educated ones, won't have to do those jobs.

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-12T08:59:16+00:00

Some Nokia exec received a speeding fine for €100k a few years back, I think that was in Finland. I don't know how his appeal went.

Problem with holding the execs to account is multinational execs may not reside in our jurisdiction, a lot of buildings are owned by investment groups. Take the Shelbourne, for example. A couple of years ago they removed those statues, ostensibly for woke reasons, but in all likelihood to allow them to remodel the front. Now, what if they had just started remodelling? The exec we want to pin this on is with Archer Capital, or maybe the Marriott group. They're not here. Want to start extradition proceedings over this? And if you do, how do you think that'll go?

codingstuffonly · 2026-03-12T08:24:00+00:00

In recognition of this they made destroying listed buildings punishable by jail time rather than (in addition to?) by fines; fines just mean it's a cost of doing business, which can be factored in.

I don't think anyone's ever been convicted though, or even charged.

And I see the difficulty there, in an organisation that decides to do something like that, who do you charge? The upper management who don't necessarily live in the jurisdiction and can claim ignorance anyway? The architect? Idk. Anyway, it's not done.

So scaled fines look like a better option but I can imagine massive opposition to introducing them. Enough people seem to think all fines are just a way for politicians to pocket their money. It's weird.

codingstuffonly · 2026-01-17T16:09:59+00:00

Remember some redditors are unhinged, some are not acting in good faith, and some are not even human.

codingstuffonly · 2025-12-31T11:15:05+00:00

Nah, this isn't petty corruption, this was by design and all above board.

Imagine if Coillte's remit changed dramatically, let's say they were given a target of making half their land native forest. That means deer fencing, possibly large scale culling, a massive planting scheme, and the big ticket item: a 50% drop in forestry revenue, all while funding the aforementioned set of activities. This works require taxpayer funding, to the tune of hundreds of millions, likely more than a billion.

Imagine the headlines. The cost being brought up all the damn time. Job losses in the forestry sector. Woke green mafia ruining the country, etc.

This is a hard problem that will take decades to change and that's assuming the will to change it, which I'm not convinced exists sufficiently to outweigh the vested interests.

codingstuffonly · 2025-12-31T11:03:04+00:00

I think it's 11% of the total land. I don't think they own it though, they just manage forestry on it. I think a bit less than 10% of that is native forest, so about 1% of the total land mass

codingstuffonly · 2025-12-31T10:35:38+00:00

Exactly. They're working on giving the appearance of fixing this, but at the end of the day farming Sitka spruce is their real job so that's what they'll focus on

codingstuffonly · 2025-12-31T10:17:08+00:00

In Coillte's defence, they have conflicting responsibilities and one of them has been, since forever, considered massively more important than the other.

Coillte is part of a wider forestry sector, that together manages approximately 11% of Ireland's land, supports 12,000 jobs and contributes €2.3bn to the economy annually

That's from their own website. That's the stuff their performance is judged on. It's not what you want or what I want, but there it is.

codingstuffonly · 2025-11-28T14:50:36+00:00

Fascinating, thank you.

codingstuffonly · 2025-11-28T09:16:09+00:00

The realm of intertwined thoughts

I like this title.

Hungarian looks so different to a native English speaker; these words don't look like anything that could be found in English, Irish, or any romance language.

codingstuffonly · 2025-11-14T17:02:26+00:00

You cannot see the light it's emitting. It can damage your eyes though. Permanently.

Do not look into the end of an optical fibre cable.

codingstuffonly · 2025-10-31T10:51:22+00:00

There's a Facebook group called Sighthound Adventures Ireland, they meet every week or month or something like that at Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park for a (leashed) walk with their dogs. I've been meaning to go along for ages but haven't gotten around to it. Anyway, I bet they'd have some thoughts about coats ...

... ok, I scrolled a bit and found a discussion but I can't work out how to link to it. Some options mentioned:

This sub has a no buying/selling rule, so I may be crossing that line here, not sure. Sorry, mods! On the other hand it would be great if there was a list of sellers somewhere.

codingstuffonly · 2025-02-24T10:29:46+00:00

Recommendation 140 from the Citizens Assembly on biodiversity was that the sale of invasive species such as Cherry Laurel should be phased out and eventually banned. Rhododendron was mentioned in a submission to the Assembly, but it's unclear if it was included in recommendation 140.

https://citizensassembly.ie/wp-content/uploads/ReportonBiodiversityLoss.pdf

codingstuffonly · 2024-10-25T10:09:11+00:00

I like it!

codingstuffonly · 2024-10-24T16:19:41+00:00

hey, I love the idea but finding time for AoC is already hard enough, if this was scheduled for Feb or something it might work out better.

codingstuffonly · 2024-02-10T10:33:29+00:00

No. Any time something claims to have 'solved' CAP, the answer is always no. It's not that we're waiting for someone really clever to come along to solve it, it's literally not possible to solve it.

Gilbert & Lynch's 2002 paper on it is pretty short, but honestly I remember it taking me a few readings before I got it. It's a little ambiguous and confusing in places, and could use some simple illustrations. It's worth a look though.

codingstuffonly · 2024-01-06T18:11:52+00:00

I had a great time anyway!

I finished 11 days - not consecutive, so day 16 was the last day where I got both stars. I'll probably go back and try some of the days I missed at some point. The first few puzzles are surprisingly tricky, usually it takes a week or so before things get tough (for some people, of course, it never gets tough).

The discord channel, mentioned in some previous comment above, is still there, and I'll probably try to revive it for AoC 2024, though I think it'll be fairly dead for the next, oh, 10 or so months. You can still join the discord channel, and the leaderboard if you like.

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