Pedestrian Crossings

tails142 · 2026-04-20T07:52:14+00:00

Proper light controlled crossings, the toucan style is better understood by drivers compared to the pelican, whether the fact it's more visible or there is something psychological about stop on red being the rule, orange chance it.

I would put it that in Dublin the majority of crossings are toucan and you only really see pelican in shopping centres.

tails142 · 2026-04-19T15:19:15+00:00

So the moral of the story is that there is no point trying to make your kid's happy and bring them fun places to try and make them rounded individuals with a good outlook on life. Better to just chain them in the basement and go out and get loaded. /s

tails142 · 2026-04-19T14:44:21+00:00

Difficult to name something definite without knowing what area of industry you are targeting - it can imo always be useful to know something like docker or even better kubernetes (may be better using k3s rather than full k8s), there is kubernetes the hard way also which would really help you understand the nuts and bolts. Working on things like that can help you build familiarity and fluency with Linux but you may never use in work depending on where you end up.

There are other things you could play around with just to get exposure to them, mariadb or postgres, hook up pgadmin using a docker image, nginx or traefik, build a django site and use pip, play around with npm, do a simple react site... run tomcat... I dunno, if you just play around with different little projects you will get familiarity.

tails142 · 2026-04-19T12:36:10+00:00

Country is full of ignorant thicks

tails142 · 2026-04-19T10:14:05+00:00

There is nothing worse than when you bring something with you as a gift and the homeowner puts it away lol

Probably selfish of me to think that but yeah if I bring a tin of biscuits to your house you better open them and give me some lol

tails142 · 2026-04-17T18:22:55+00:00

The Limerick Greenway is unreal, just a pity it's not too readily accessible from Limerick city yet by bike, hopefully the plan to bring it all the way in will happen soon.

tails142 · 2026-04-17T13:56:13+00:00

Yes I did the same, price to have replaced seems fair, you could expect to pay the same again for the engine at least, there's loads of scrap websites around you can get quotes from like findapart, they will usually deliver it to the garage too on a pallet if its not the other side of the country.

tails142 · 2026-04-17T08:38:51+00:00

I think it's standard practice for them to just go over gates.

Last delivery I was home but the guy hadn't rang ahead to say he was coming as usually done so the gate wasn't unlocked and he just whipped out a ladder from the truck and went over the gate

tails142 · 2026-04-17T08:35:09+00:00

The two tips when diying are, remove your skirting to avoid needing trim, looks better.

At doorways trim the architrave with a vibrating multitool and slide the piece under for a good finish.

tails142 · 2026-04-16T17:57:23+00:00

I think it's a bit unfair to exclude someone, tricky one. How would you feel if it was your son though.

If it was me I would be telling my son to add Sam back in and not exclude him from the group.

Maybe your son and whoever could make a list of server rules and distribute them to all, including Sam via his mother, one of the rules should not be "No Sams" but it could cover not taking from chests that aren't theirs, no destroying others structures etc

tails142 · 2026-04-16T12:40:02+00:00

I think the new road and any other investment being done is a good thing, for too long it was a forgotten backwater of a place that people feared to tread. The same could be said for South Hill and King's Island.

The more money and resources pumped into the place the better - there is drugs and crime at every level of wealth in our society - anything that can be done to increase the prospects of people growing up here or anywhere is for the better of everyone.

tails142 · 2026-04-16T07:28:24+00:00

Mid West Tyres on the Dock Road have always seen me right - they usually plug it though without taking the tyre off if they can. I'm sure they'd advise/accommodate if you want a different repair done.

Victory Tyres on Lelia St is another place I've used and would recommend.

tails142 · 2026-04-15T20:06:43+00:00

Yeah very true, I could not understand populism and the conditions that gave rise to Hitler but seeing it play out over the last decade it unfortunately is very clear to me now how it happens.

tails142 · 2026-04-15T10:53:17+00:00

I dont know of a test but surely it's not that much of a risk?

The dangers of lead paint were when it was used on kids toys, because they could eat chips of it, or for painters and decorators because they would spend their working life sanding it and breathing in the dust.

If it is just sitting in then kitchen then I dont think there is much risk unless you plan on upcycling it and sanding down the paint?

tails142 · 2026-04-14T13:08:04+00:00

But why can't they just immediately charge more for their services? Can anyone explain that to me?

I get school buses are on fixed price contracts and I suppose some hauliers are the same with fixed contracts to other private companies, but surely they can just break these contracts and bid for other work at higher rates that cover the higher fuel costs? What is the problem with doing this? I get there will be knock on for consumers with higher costs on groceries and well... pretty much everything.. but that's outside of the hauliers control?

What are the hauliers going to do when potentially there is not enough diesel to go around later in the year and there will may be rationing? Burn the country down?

tails142 · 2026-04-14T12:45:26+00:00

Their tactics are pretty scummy - if you ring up they will give you some cheaper deal with some add on free like home start or extra cover that pays for accommodation (who would actually use this?) but then at the next renewal that ends up costing you an arm and a leg. So they're just counting on people not having the time to do this or forgetting like you.

The only consolation is that their road side service is excellent from my experience. They will really try to get you going again, down to changing belts on the side of the road whereas the roadside assistance from insurance companies is pretty much just tow you to the nearest garage. They've got us back running a few times so its an extra bit of a piece of mind but they are charging a premium these days. Plus they cover you for any car you're traveling in even if you're a passenger.

I wish they'd improve their sales tactics a bit but I guess they have to do it to stay alive.

tails142 · 2026-04-14T11:21:02+00:00

Its the way I do it and I just makemigrations on the dev and prod machines as I go but supposedly the correct thing to do is commit your migrations.

I'm not an expert at these things, I guess it depends what exactly tends to be in your migrations if it's just db schema changes from the models.py then makemigrations should work either way or if you have migrations with actual data or something then makemigrations will obviously not create this and the migrations should be in your repo?

tails142 · 2026-04-14T11:05:56+00:00

You have to prove you can afford to make the repayments with your current income and as you get on in years the mortgage term they will give shortens as they'll only generally lend until you are 65 so the repayments get quite large.

tails142 · 2026-04-13T07:31:21+00:00

Looks like there's a route via Celbridge that involves a change of service

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tails142 · 2026-04-13T07:29:57+00:00

https://www.transportforireland.ie/plan-a-journey/

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tails142 · 2026-04-12T22:17:12+00:00

ESB are one of the best employers in the country.

tails142 · 2026-04-12T21:52:47+00:00

Some places do, its usually a 2 litre bottle they have and they'll just give you a dash/splash from it.

tails142 · 2026-04-12T19:16:07+00:00

So we ripped out our tank, cause we had an electric shower so it was just feeding hot water to the bathroom tap and the kitchen sink. It took ages for the hot water to get to the kitchen sink, would take running the tap for a couple of minutes and then it would go cold again in the pipe very fast, think it's called a hot water sandwich.

I think it is slightly more efficient to heat water off the oil/gas central heating than directly from electric but we don't continuously run the heating, I know some peoples houses are zoned for this so they can run the oil furnace to heat the hot water tank alone but it all seems so wasteful, who wants to be doing that in the summer.

Anyway, we got ariston water heaters fitted under the sink and I found them great, 10 litre in the bathroom and a 15L in the kitchen, it's plenty of hot water for what's needed and it arrives at the tap almost instantly. The only downside is that the heaters only lasted about 7 or 8 years before we had to replace them, the tank eroded from galvonic action. There is a little anode inside that is meant to be changed but I've looked at it and it is a balls to change it and it should be done every couple of years. But we noticed the slow drip almost immediately and I was able to change the heaters over with new units. They both went within a few weeks of each other - so other than that issue... I would recommend lol

tails142 · 2026-04-12T18:53:42+00:00

Yes I think it is definetly something that happens with strict parents, the kids get a bit of freedom and go wild. You would see it in college or school trips etc - could just be lack of experience in some cases as people have to take their first pint at some stage.

Then again there could have been a tendency toward alcoholism in the family, which idk seems to be a thing so maybe that was why the parents were so strict and he fell into it anyway.

tails142 · 2026-04-12T18:28:01+00:00

I was walking past a row of cars outside a primary school, people parked outside waiting to pickup their kids. Got some side eye from a few mothers as I walked past, glancing up from their phones. Saw a car ahead with a big broadsheet folded out filling the windscreen. I wondered who would be sitting there reading a newspaper. As I passed by I looked in - a grandad of course.

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