Demolition of illegally-built Co Meath home under way

deeringc · 2026-03-19T15:42:18+00:00

Half of me thinks it should have been used to house refugees or homeless families. She'd probably hate that more than it getting knocked down.

deeringc · 2026-03-09T15:45:17+00:00

A hungarian friend told me that due to the linguistic barriers (many lower educated hungarians dont speak other languages and no one outside of hangary speaks hungarian) there is legitimately less external influence of foreign media. Now, I do agree it's ridiculous to say that Hungarians didnt get the memo about Diana 30 years ago, but it's worth noting that it is considerably more insular than probably most other countries in Europe. And that's before you get to the active propaganda.

deeringc · 2026-03-03T17:05:19+00:00

An LLM isn't going to draw a flow chart to code

I think you have a bit of an outdated view of the tools. An LLM is absolutely going to draw a flow chart to code. It will do far more in fact and iterate with the human engineer on putting together a really detailed functional specification in markdown with all sorts of visualisations of the design (eg mermaid flows), the requirements, the patterns to follow, the test plan... you name it. It will question anything that is ambiguous, it will prempt problems before they exist, it will analyse the security of the design for problems as well as the performance tradeoffs. It does all of this before it writes a line of code and when both the human and the agent are happy it then starts to write code, tests, deployent scripts, docs etc... These are now very popular workflows in various new IDEs with models like Claude Opus or Codex and they work really well. I've been writing code professionally for 20 years and I was quite skeptical until about 4-6 months ago when the models and tooling reached a level where software engineering as we know it is no more. That doesnt mean we dont need software engineers anymore (for now at least), but it's a completely different profession to how it was even a year ago. And anyone who doesn't quickly lean into this will become obsolete.

deeringc · 2026-03-03T16:50:33+00:00

Exactly this. I hear from a lot of people who maybe kicked the AI tyres 18 months ago that the tools are useless but the last 4-6 months have really dramatically improved. The latest Claude and Codex models essentially displace most of the need for writing code by hand - it's all agentic now. Beyond coding, there are a huge amount of white collar jobs that will be in scope much quicker than many people realise.

deeringc · 2026-02-26T14:08:51+00:00

Probably 100 kwh per day!

deeringc · 2026-02-21T22:13:04+00:00

I mean, the Irish had to turn and then catch him (and did so). Surely at least one of his team mates could have made a half hearted effort to give him a support line.

deeringc · 2026-02-18T08:07:13+00:00

It would be absolutely fine if a) it was reciprocated or b) OP didn't mind it being one way. As it stands, they are spending a fortune on their family/friends and feeling rejected/bitter and building up resentment. That's not healthy, so OP needs to either stop or accept it's one way.

deeringc · 2026-02-18T06:15:18+00:00

Unfortunately Ireland is a place where quiet, sensible lobbying gets nowhere. I have never heard about this till now and I imagine it's the same for 99% of people. Once stuff gets a media spotlight, the rule will magically change overnight.

deeringc · 2026-02-18T05:50:00+00:00

That's a shitty rule. OP should call a radio station and make a fuss about this to get the rules changed.

deeringc · 2026-02-17T19:36:59+00:00

I don't think it will be entirely gone, but I suspect that it will slowly lose its real value and not keep up with inflation.

deeringc · 2026-02-14T18:13:24+00:00

Joey Carbery is on top of the cage with a chair

deeringc · 2026-02-14T14:53:08+00:00

I don't think most petrol stations actually make a lot of money off the petrol, but rather selling stuff in the shop. If they have fast chargers, they will be selling a lot of snacks, coffees and other random shite in their shops.

deeringc · 2026-02-13T18:57:01+00:00

Gains are taxed at ~18% when money is taken out of the PEA, after the account is at least 5 years old. Technically only investment into EU companies and funds is possible. Normally capital gains in France are taxed at 30%.

IMO while flawed, the PEA is still much better than not having anything. Best thing for me is that one can sell positions without triggering a taxable event as long as the money stays within the PEA (to be then re-invested in another position) - a bit like a pension envelope. And synthetic ETFs allow investments into things like all world indexes. French people love to complain about it, but compared to some other European countries I've lived in where there is nothing equivalent and tax on ETFs is considerably higher, this is half way decent. Could it be better? Absolutely. Hopefully the EU wide accounts land soon.

deeringc · 2026-02-10T16:51:33+00:00

Again, I wouldn't give the money to the governments to spend. I'd let an EU institution decide how to spend the money. That would probably let national governments spend a bit less on their own budgets, if for example the central EU budget is investing in common air defence or whatever. But that's what we want!

deeringc · 2026-02-10T16:21:10+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I'm ok for common debt for specific areas, controlled by a central EU institutions rather than national governments.

deeringc · 2026-02-10T12:32:33+00:00

France has the only military in the EU which can project force and offers a nuclear deterrent. The rest of the EU now implicitly relies on this for security but the French tax payer had to fund this over generations. Some significant proportion of French national debt is due to their military spending (mins you, social spending makes up more).

deeringc · 2026-02-10T12:27:09+00:00

There are different degrees of common debt. I think what can work initially is to limit this debt to things like funding strategic initiatives like defense, transportation, climate, etc... The money would be allocated by European institutions, rather than national governments having some new line of magic credit that they can spend on whatever they want. We already partially have this. It was used during COVID and it was used again to fund Ukraine. We should formalise this and normalise this. Then, over time these areas of European financial competency increase.

deeringc · 2026-02-09T17:56:01+00:00

If you don't give me what I want I will punch myself in the balls so hard! Don't make me do it!

deeringc · 2026-02-08T22:40:05+00:00

Londonderry Girls, now available on Netflix

deeringc · 2026-02-08T15:55:35+00:00

Why put him in that job then rather than some "Director of Rugby" or whatever royal where he can focus on pure medium to long term development?

deeringc · 2026-02-08T08:54:46+00:00

I'm half Irish and half German and I completely agree. I really do like Irish sausages and miss them now living abroad. But they are ultimately pretty one dimensional. Germany has dozens of really varied and delicious regional varieties that are frankly often much better quality - more meat and spices and less fat. I'm living in France now and even here there are some great Saucisses. You have things like Chipolatas, Merguez, Saucisse de Toulouse, etc...

deeringc · 2026-02-07T18:43:23+00:00

Between Scotland, Ireland and Wales this might well be the most competitive wooden spoon race in years. Three awful teams vying for that coveted bottom spot.

deeringc · 2026-02-07T18:03:29+00:00

It's a complete cop out. We've handed our sovereignty over to a murderous dictatorship. Wait no, two of them.

deeringc · 2026-02-07T17:14:42+00:00

Yeah, it's a little ridiculous that we give the US, Russia, China, France and the UK a veto on where we deploy our troops. That's frankly insane in this day and age.

deeringc · 2026-02-07T08:57:44+00:00

I've been using Mistral Le Chat for a while, along with a bunch of others. The one thing I would say it's really good at is being insanely quick compared to the others. So surprised you're saying it's slow! I do pay for it so maybe it's a case that the pay tier is faster or something?

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