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darraghenright commented on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size jonathancreamer.com/how-w... · Posted by u/kwantaz

killingtime74 · 10 months ago

Shrank

darraghenright · 10 months ago

I've spoken English as my native language for almost five decades and I've never seen/heard the word "shranked" before.

This surely cannot be correct. Even the title of the linked article doesn't use "shranked". What?

darraghenright commented on U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks. See what it looks like npr.org/2024/06/20/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/harambae

CalRobert · a year ago

How could it not? Until we no longer have a shortage of housing won't all surplus income/cash go in to outbidding our peers for the existing stock?

If a town has 11 billionaires and 10 houses then the houses will presumably be a billion dollars. (That's obviously an oversimplification but you get the drift)

Similarly, Ireland makes it damn near impossible to build anything and started a program to give first time buyers €20,000. New home prices went up by... around €20,000.

darraghenright · a year ago

Yeah, this sounds like a classic Irish solution. It's hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel here between the shortfall, cost and availability of labour and materials, and so on. To paraphrase what someone once said on this site — housing as an investment or a human right, choose one.

I bought a house in Cork city six years ago, paid more than I hoped because it's quite the fixer upper — we've done almost nothing and "the market" suggests that its value has increased about 50% since. Which is meaningless to me but means a lot to many people I know who can no longer afford a buy a home.

darraghenright commented on The Irish Logarithm blog.plover.com/math/iris... · Posted by u/082349872349872

dang · 2 years ago

Recent and related:

Percy Ludgate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533487 - Sept 2023 (17 comments)

darraghenright · 2 years ago

As an Irish person from Cork, I'm a bit embarrassed I've never heard of him until now.

That said we're probably not great at acknowledging historical figures in the field. George Boole's house is three minutes' walk from my house and it's basically derelict (and was literally falling down at one point). It would be a wonderful building for a museum of his life and achievements.

darraghenright commented on Re: 100k Threads? (2002) lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/lin... · Posted by u/fulafel

yetihehe · 2 years ago

In erlang you have preemptive green threads. They don't block* and having a million on one medium server is not unheard of.

* I managed to block a whole erlang VM one day, spoke with Joe Armstrong on chat, but they won't fix this, as it's pretty niche use case.

darraghenright · 2 years ago

I'm probably not the only one curious to hear more about this :)

darraghenright commented on I Can Eat Glass en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_C... · Posted by u/vector_spaces

hnarn · 2 years ago

For those wondering, single consonant means slow vowel, double consonant means fast vowel, just like “floss”. So:

glass (swe) -> gláss (ice cream)

glas (swe) -> glaas (glass)

To make it even easier these two words also have different A-sounds, the first quick one has the one in english “tan”, the second has the one in “car”.

darraghenright · 2 years ago

Plot twist, in Hiberno English that A-sound is the same in both words :)

Ice cream in French is also "glace" which is of course spelled differently but sounds pretty much the same as glass.

darraghenright commented on A place where no humans will tread for 100k years bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/Vigier

pimlottc · 2 years ago

Came here to post this same comment. It’s a really thought-provoking film and quite striking in the way it was shot, edited, and scored. Highly recommended.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyKe-HxmFk

darraghenright · 2 years ago

Incredible movie.

It makes a fantastic double bill with Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams". I feel his weird epilogue monologue epilogue links them well.

Both movies span and ponder on such a vast period of time, which is awe inspiring, terrifying and fascinating.

darraghenright commented on Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions? dashbit.co/blog/why-the-d... · Posted by u/weatherlight

sodapopcan · 2 years ago

`function()` is stored inside a `Module`, so we call `Module.function()`.

An anonymous function "`()`" is stored inside a `variable`, so we call `variable.()`.

It does make some good sense. It's even kinda elegant!

darraghenright · 2 years ago

I've sometimes wondered if I am the only person who actually likes the syntax :D There's a reason for it, but additionally, I like the fact that it's explicit — I can look at `some_call.()` and specifically know it's an anonymous function.

darraghenright commented on North American English Dialects aschmann.net/AmEng/... · Posted by u/petercooper

shagie · 2 years ago

The bit I find neat is the rhotic 'R'. Most of the US says 'R'... not quite as strong as pirates did (I'll get to that) but the 'r' is there.

A British woman who I worked (from London) didn't have the 'r' sound "car park" sound to my ear like "ca pack".

In England, the rhoticity was found in the poorer and rural parts of the country during the age of discovery. The ship builders, the people who were on ships, the poor people who got sent to the new world... and pirates.

A map of where non-roticity shows up in American English: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-RhoticityUSA.png ... and you've got a map of where the upper class of England lived in the 1700s in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English

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https://www.waywordradio.org is a podcast on the English language and dialectical differences are frequently found as topics.

They also make reference to Dictionary of American Regional English - https://dare.wisc.edu - digital version: https://www.daredictionary.com (yes, its a subscription service)

darraghenright · 2 years ago

Very interesting! Many poor people in Ireland emigrated or were sent to the new world too. The rhotic "r" is prevalent in the Irish language, and it is a distinct characteristic of the sound of Hiberno-English (and other accents with a Celtic influence of course).

There's a cool video on YT called "A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries"[1] — I'm sure it's not meant to be definitive, but it's very interesting to note the presence or absence of the rhotic "r" during different periods.

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Speaking of the New World — this is something of a side topic, but I think it's fascinating that "caulk" is commonly used in the U.S. and Canada; e.g: bathroom tiling. In my experience at least, you wouldn't really hear someone use the word in that context in the U.K. or Ireland. Most people I've asked associate it exclusively with boats.

I have a speculative pet theory on this — originally, caulk specifically referred to the materials used to fill the gaps between boards in a wooden ship.

Since practically everyone who originally came to the New World came on old wooden ships, it's not hard to imagine that "caulk" — once specific to ship building and maintenance — became well known to emigrant populations and took on a broader meaning over time.

In contrast, it's likely very few people who remained in the Old World at that time were ever in a wooden ship, and "caulk" remained less well known and retained its specific meaning.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXv3Tt4x20

darraghenright commented on US approves chicken made from cultivated cells apnews.com/article/cultiv... · Posted by u/tosh

autoexec · 2 years ago

I'd be happy with an increased carbon footprint in exchange for a vast reduction in the amount of suffering we put animals though.

darraghenright · 2 years ago

There's also the huge ecosystem impact of high-intensity farming; e.g: pollution of waterways, deforestation etc.

darraghenright commented on UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

jgrahamc · 3 years ago

I have done my part in this slow down I imagine: ordering anything from the UK for delivery into the EU is a nightmare. Everything takes forever and smaller businesses simply don't deal with the paperwork meaning you're left with a mess at local customs. The result is dealing with local bureaucracy and paying high import duties (or in some cases simply seeing the thing you bought get returned to the UK).

Because it became such a mess I simply gave up.

For example, I used to buy Elemis brand products. They still sell in Euros but here's what it says on their website: "Please note, orders that are shipping outside of the UK will not be charged UK sales tax but maybe subject to customs charges and tax that will need to be paid directly. This affects orders placed both in £ and in Euro. We advise you to please check requirements with the local authority before placing your order." (https://eu.elemis.com/delivery)

Ordering from the UK is the same as ordering from the US or China. Which is ridiculous given the physical proximity. Great job poking yourself in the eye, Britain!

And, worse, there are businesses that have figured out the customs/tax situation and will ship directly to Europe with no problem, but now I'm gun-shy and figure it'll be a mess so I go look elsewhere.

darraghenright · 3 years ago

Absolutely. Apparently, the amount of trade between Ireland and the UK has collapsed since Brexit, and it's not hard to imagine why — given that both countries have long been close trading partners, and now ordering from the UK is going to come with a raft of customs charges and often VAT etc. Doesn't even matter if it's some second hand item from eBay or whatever.

This pretty much rules out buying anything from the UK for me, something I and many others I know would have done without much thought. It's really frustrating because you'll often find UK vendors are better stocked and have (or at least had) better prices.

I can only imagine this has hit UK based sellers pretty hard. And vice versa — perhaps more so. Brexit is a poke in Ireland's eye too, frankly.