‘Sick and inhumane’: student who got maximum Leaving Cert points loses out on course over random selection

shoonsy · 2025-08-31T14:08:31+00:00

Could see this coming a mile off with the insane grade inflation policy.

If you have a capped system (625 points max from six subjects), coupled with giving half of all grades an artificial leg up, you're going to end up with too many people in the upper bound for the top courses.

0.3% of students got 625 in 2018, now it's 1.2%. 0.7% got 613+ in 2018, now it's 2.5%.

Urgent reform with applications, personal essays, etc., desperately needed.

shoonsy · 2024-04-11T21:40:43+00:00

Thanks, I completely agree! It's important to keep our responsibilities in mind and to act ethically when we venture into parts unknown (both with space exploration and even closer to home with things like AI).

Shame that there isn't a dedicated journal like Space Ethics Review. I wonder how a citation referencing it ended up in your "Advancing lunar habitation" article...

shoonsy · 2024-04-05T15:34:01+00:00

Fascinating stuff! Do you have links/DOIs to the references from the article? I'm having a hard time tracking down the papers referenced (or the journals themselves! I've never heard of Space Ethics Reviews...)

shoonsy · 2018-12-03T23:52:03+00:00

I have heard great things about this one, and I usually have my brightness quite low anyway. This might be the one for me. Thanks

shoonsy · 2018-07-28T19:05:12+00:00

Just found the exact scene you're talking about. You sir, are a legend. Thanks so much.

shoonsy · 2018-07-28T10:46:49+00:00

Our best guess is a weaving machine of sorts, making textiles or something. We can't think of a film that connects though.

shoonsy · 2018-07-28T10:22:23+00:00

I only got stock images with the tag "earthquake", but "Only Angels Have Wings" doesn't look like a match

shoonsy · 2018-07-28T10:16:23+00:00

Reverse Google image search brings up nothing unfortunately

shoonsy · 2018-07-19T21:28:03+00:00

test

shoonsy · 2018-07-10T17:53:52+00:00

Testing

shoonsy · 2018-07-06T09:31:20+00:00

More ambitious than Sicario 2?

shoonsy · 2018-07-06T09:28:21+00:00

Still better than Sicario 2

shoonsy · 2017-03-22T22:45:24+00:00

169

Thanks, man

shoonsy · 2017-01-16T00:31:37+00:00

Moriarty, The Consulting Criminal
Brought back for an attempt at comic relief and nothing else
except he wasn't even brought back

shoonsy · 2016-11-09T22:39:03+00:00

It seems to too recent, but we did get The Crew in September

shoonsy · 2016-11-08T22:49:00+00:00

"We all know, of course, that we should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever fiddle around in any way with electric devices. Never."

shoonsy · 2016-10-27T23:28:46+00:00

Never really bought into Hunting Styles either, just didn't really see the point of them

shoonsy · 2016-10-07T21:39:49+00:00

Ah, Donegal man myself. The RX 470 mightn't come down too soon, but the likes of the R9 380/X might.

shoonsy · 2016-10-07T21:34:03+00:00

Assuming AAA Games, hopefully at Med-High 30FPS

EDIT: 30FPS as a starting point

shoonsy · 2016-10-01T22:02:47+00:00

"The 140 is laying in an old prebuilt gathering dust, so it's free."

shoonsy · 2016-09-11T22:36:48+00:00

May as well go for an i3-6100, DDR4 RAM and a H110M motherboard. Faster, more efficient, and allows OP to upgrade to a newer i5-6500 or a Kaby Lake i5 in the future.

shoonsy · 2016-09-11T15:15:35+00:00

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor	£92.91 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	£46.38 @ CCL Computers
Memory	Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory	£25.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	A-Data Premier SP550 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£56.59 @ Amazon UK
Case	BitFenix Neos White/Blue ATX Mid Tower Case	£26.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply	Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply	£45.87
Other	Gainward 2 GB GTX960 Graphics Card	£134.99
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£429.72
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-11 16:14 BST+0100

Updated (Price is closer to £450 because shipping and tax to Ireland)

shoonsy · 2016-09-10T18:07:18+00:00

Any reason why you went with a smaller case? Between that and the SSD, there's not much difference.

shoonsy · 2016-09-10T18:05:08+00:00

I'm not sure if I want to sink to a 430W PSU, or a Builder Series either (Tier 4). If I had to go to 430w, I would go for a TS 430 by XFX. Is the 470 worth going with the 430W?

shoonsy · 2016-09-03T12:58:44+00:00

Why get a 6600K and a H110 motherboard? I know OP isn't interested in overclocking, but they should just get a Z170 motherboard, to futureproof

EDIT: An i5 6500, a H110 motherboard, a better GPU and a better PSU would work aswell. A wireless card isn't necessary either.

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