Nice job dodging the awkwardness of whether to include Ireland, Northern Ireland, etc (IE and NI operate as a single, all-island wholesale electricity market). :)
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Yeah, the only way this is funnier is when the AI does something weird
blooper reel is gold.
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Seems the perfect opportunity to create a AI-generated "hackers" short with some prepared screenshots. /s
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I assume they needed their own air supply because the automatic poison gas system was activating. Then they had to dodge lazers to get to the one button that would stop the nuclear missle launch.
add a bunch of other poinless scifi and evil villan lair tropes in as well...
Most datacenters are fairly boring to be honest. The most exciting thing likely to happen is some sheet metal ripping your hand open because you didn't wear gloves.
Still have my "my other datacenter is made of razorblades and hate" sticker. \o/
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I've encountered a tangential problem to this with package versioning on Linux distros. Thankfully it was not too hard to write an algorithm to compare versions (thanks AI!).
donalhunt commented on Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/move-on-by
> In summer, London is not UTC+0. They mean "UTC+0 ignoring DST", but that is not useful
This is how 99% of people interpret it
It's not ambiguous as you imply.
Summer time is not the default time
I don't know enough about the India case to know how/why it's wrong though
Tell that to Ireland where we observe Irish Standard Time during the summer (and GMT during the winter).
donalhunt commented on Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/move-on-by
What sort of monster are you by not defaulting to UTC on systems? (⊙＿⊙') /s
donalhunt commented on Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part rte.ie/entertainment/2025... · Posted by u/a_paddy
Politicians will always politick, but they do not tend to be the ones who make policy in a parliamentary system like Germany of Ireland.
Ireland basically has no army, and is entirely dependent on the UK for it's defense. As such, their politicans are free to say whatever (as long as it is not against the UK) because it's not going to come back and bite them in the behind. That said, that's now changing as the UK is trying to renegotiate the deal [0][1]
[0] - https://www.thejournal.ie/british-ireland-defence-agreement-...
[1] - https://www.irishpost.com/news/britain-and-ireland-to-renew-...
The Irish strategy is to make the pubs too attractive for any attacker to bother with armed conflict. ;)
The Irish position should not be underestimated. It tends to be a bellweather for what others will align with in the future. Ireland tends to use it's soft power very effectively at the global table.
That's how you become a poor country. Every country that closed itself off to the rest of the world becomes poor.
How many of them have MAGA-style slogans though? /s