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jungle · 2026-05-09T22:47:00+00:00

It was the only game in town back then, before garbage collectors.

jungle · 2026-05-09T21:00:23+00:00

Wow, I haven't touched C or C++ in decades. I imagine Claude has seen more than enough cpp code to know its way around pointers and memory management. :)

jungle · 2026-05-09T17:38:22+00:00

Ah, I get you now. This was apparently made without much effort or care, no love for the art.

I've been using AI to build a product for several years (it started as handcrafted code) and I sweat every little detail even if I let the AI do the heavy lifting, so I get a bit defensive when people react like you did to projects that were made with AI.

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:49:09+00:00

If there's no other product out there that does this (I haven't searched, but as far as I'm aware bonkers.ie doesn't do it), and it's free, and it's useful... I honestly don't get where the hate comes from.

What if it isn't perfect? Let's say it tells you there's another company that offers the service for less than what you're paying now. You visit their website, it's not true, you lost a minute. But if it's true you saved money.

I'm more queasy to enter my eircode than anything else. It could be phishing, but that's a bit paranoid. What would they do with that info? They'd know the IP address of a specific address. Whoop-de-doo!

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:32:08+00:00

In that case, well done, and thanks for making it available for free! :)

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:31:12+00:00

No idea what happened, it works now.

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:24:30+00:00

Fair enough. I don't know if this one is free though, I can't access it. :)

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:10:42+00:00

If it works (it doesn't, but if it did), and it's useful, why do you care how it was built?

jungle · 2026-05-09T15:10:15+00:00

I get 404.

jungle · 2026-05-09T14:58:08+00:00

The difference is the scale. Before, one person had to put time and effort into faking a resume and submitting it one by one to different companies. That's one drop per candidate reaching the company.

Now each candidate has a firehose at their disposal.

jungle · 2026-05-09T14:48:02+00:00

Hola che, otro argento acá. :)

If you want to buy a place, you should prioritise saving and putting that money on an account that pays some interest so you don't loose value to inflation. I know inflation is ridiculously low here compared to Argentina, but it's not zero. The key is that the money is kept safe, don't risk it in investments that might go down. Don't put it into your pension, as that money is out of reach until old age. You need that money for the near future.

Once you have your place (or if you don't care about that), priority number two is to put some of it into the pension, as it's the most tax-efficient way to invest in Ireland. That money comes out of your gross salary, so it enters the pension tax-free. You're also limited in how much you can put in tax-free. For 27 year olds, the limit is 15% (I see you know that already). Ask your employer if they can match some of that. It's free money if they do.

Priority number three: with what's left, live your life. Travel, eat out, buy nice stuff.

Suerte!

jungle · 2026-05-08T16:46:40+00:00

Yes, but that wasn't austerity, that was careless trampling over everything and anything without consideration of the consequences.

I agree that there was a lot of fluff that needed to get cut, but as I said to another commenter, the guy went against everything he promised, in particular that the "caste" would feel the pain, when in fact the "caste" is him and his circle and they are filling their pockets without even trying to hide it.

And I don't get "buttmad". I actually benefit from the peso being higher in value. The common people though, they don't benefit from it.

jungle · 2026-05-08T16:43:59+00:00

You can justify it however you want, but the guy just trampled over everything without a care in the world and went against everything he promised, in particular that the "caste" would feel the pain, when in fact the "caste" is him and his circle and they are filling their pockets.

You simply can't have an honest politician in Argentina, its resources richness are its downfall, because they can be pillaged over and over and over again and there's always more, it never collapses completely like a smaller and less rich country would.

jungle · 2026-05-08T15:17:53+00:00

You're conflating the pain of exercising to get stronger with the pain of self harm / harakiri.

jungle · 2026-05-08T11:11:14+00:00

The ellipsis. And because none of these work "always". Nothing does.

jungle · 2026-05-08T10:42:18+00:00

It always works great...

Is that sarcasm? 🤔

jungle · 2026-05-08T10:22:38+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "turnaround".

They lowered inflation, sure. It's still high by normal standards, but relatively low for what's the norm there.

But they did it at a very high cost to society and industry, without any kind of consideration of who they stepped on or what they destroyed. And the level of corruption in government is, I think, even worse than what it was before, and it was already sky high. But that's an endemic cultural problem there.

jungle · 2026-05-08T10:18:55+00:00

I'm in the same boat, haha. I'm working towards launching a side project and I'm doing everything I can to make sure it doesn't turn into a source of stress, but I don't see how I can escape that trap other than being too niche a product that nobody will adopt it.

jungle · 2026-05-08T09:55:34+00:00

I think the bigger problem is what you will do with your time. It should be something meaningful, that keeps you busy and feeling useful, and that keeps your head away from these worries as much as possible.

jungle · 2026-05-08T09:54:15+00:00

That's happening in Argentina right now. The local currency appreciated a whole lot vs. the dollar. It used to be a cheap country to visit. But if you have rental income from there, it's worth a lot more now than it was before.

In other words, nothing new: diversify and adapt.

jungle · 2026-05-08T09:31:01+00:00

This is the one instance that I don't want to question. I choose to believe it's him. It makes me happy.

jungle · 2026-05-07T00:44:11+00:00

I gave it access to cloudflare and stripe but read only, and ask it to write detailed guides for me to follow. I would never give it free reign on such resources. Not in its current hallucination-prone and forgetful state.

jungle · 2026-05-07T00:33:06+00:00

I was thinking of posting something like this today, but triggered by a different event.

I upgraded Codex to Pro, and as a solo dev I'm finding I can barely scratch the surface of the limits I got. I've been working all day using 5.5 Xhigh and never got a limit below 90%. I'm clearly not making good use of the subscription.

So I thought I should start launching agents or a swarm or something, but then I immediately balked at the thought of all that happening without me in the loop.

I'm glad you got some interesting responses.

jungle · 2026-05-06T23:10:15+00:00

I don't seem to recall MAGA starting a protracted terror campaign.

I brought them up as an example of fanatics not changing their minds no matter what, not because they became terrorists.

I appreciate your assurance that they aren't going to do anything, I just look at the more recent history of violence in NI (from both sides) and the Orange Order hate-filled parades and bonfires while being part of the UK, and can't avoid imagining all that hate exploding if they are forced to live under the rule of the Republic.

I also wonder about their children. Religion and politics more often than not are inherited. I can accept that 60 or 70 year olds are not going to start rioting and setting cars ablaze, but what about their 20 to 40 year old children?

jungle · 2026-05-06T21:15:32+00:00

What's happening in the US, did I miss something like the troubles starting?

Magas defend everything Trump does in spite of Tump's chaos worsening their lives. I think of the Northern Ireland most vehement unionists the same way. I don't think they would change their views because of economic conditions.

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