donalhunt (u/donalhunt)

donalhunt commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

throwaway0123_5 · 2 days ago

Doubtless some would ignore it, but you can go to jail for driving on a suspended license. I suspect there are a lot more people willing to risk a traffic ticket and a few $100 in fines for speeding, bad lane changes, etc. than there are people willing to risk jail for driving on a suspended license.

donalhunt · 2 days ago

s/some/plenty/

In Ireland, jail time is rare for such offences sadly. In cases where jail time is sentenced, overcrowding in prisons often results in early release.

donalhunt commented on The ROI of Exercise herman.bearblog.dev/exerc... · Posted by u/ingve

donatj · 2 days ago

> Less pain

Is there anything to back this up? The people I know who work out are always complaining about their muscles and joints.

donalhunt · 2 days ago

From personal experience strength training has been key to recovering from injuries (caused by doing stupid things, not exercise itself). So maybe the correlation between exercise and pain is incorrect? The exercise is the cure to the pain...

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5753318/v1 (pre-print) seems to provide a strong argument for strength training being beneficial. My search was not thorough so likely more studies out there.

donalhunt commented on How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/OuterVale

donalhunt · a month ago

Anything that allows visitors to submit data to the website. Abuse actors will show up sooner or later.

donalhunt commented on Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning research.google/blog/andr... · Posted by u/michaefe

nemomarx · a month ago

I swear Twitter or Google was working on this?

https://scistarter.org/the-twitter-earthquake-detection-prog...

I did find this and some papers that seem related

donalhunt · a month ago

When Twitter had an open API, some tech teams actually used it as an additional source for detecting incidents that internal monitoring missed (similar to how electricity grid operators watch TV to understand when demand surges are going to occur due to half time in sports games, etc).

donalhunt commented on Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/... · Posted by u/austinallegro

throwaway287391 · a month ago

"99.9% of our passengers don't break the rules, they don't get penalised. The 0.1% of the guys who delay the boarding process, the guys who are there delaying the departure of the aircraft because their bag doesn't fit in the overhead (cabin), they are going to pay and we're going to eliminate them."

Somehow I doubt the compliance rate is anywhere near 99.9% -- that's roughly 1 passenger breaking the rules every 5 flights? Would they really be investing so much (including having the CEO spend time on air to rant) in catching the delinquents if that's the scale of the problem?

As someone who mostly follows the rules, the thing that really bothers me about Ryanair and the like are, I'll get to the airport at least 2 hours early as I'm supposed to, and then there'll be a massive hour+ long check-in queue (which I have to wait in just to show my passport, even if I'm not checking bags, since online check in never seems to work when I need to enter passport info), and all the while they'll have staff shouting "Anyone going to <destination of flight that closes boarding in 20-30 minutes>?" and shepherding those passengers to the front of the queue. It irritates me to no end -- why the hell should I bother arriving early if I'm just going to be punished with a longer wait for it?

donalhunt · a month ago

Ryanair's response (probably): have you tried getting a different passport?

donalhunt commented on Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/... · Posted by u/austinallegro

jmclnx · a month ago

This I fully agree with, plus limit the size and weight of carry-ons. No exceptions!

donalhunt · a month ago

The issue everyone is skirting around is that many aeroplanes don't actually have the capacity to allow every passenger to bring a carry-on onboard. Ryanair even acknowledge this by limiting the number of people booking their priority add-on.

donalhunt commented on GCP Outage status.cloud.google.com/... · Posted by u/thanhhaimai

leoh · 2 months ago

If Google Chat is down per https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/, the ability for Google engineers to communicate among themselves impaired, despite SREs having IRC as a backup.

donalhunt · 2 months ago

They have irc services internally (or at least did when I was there 10-ish years ago).

donalhunt commented on It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine) honeycomb.io/blog/its-the... · Posted by u/gpi

rienbdj · 2 months ago

Companies prefer growing revenue to cutting costs typically.

Don’t will depend if there are many projects with a good outlook sitting around.

donalhunt · 2 months ago

My stance has always been to lean on the available tools to free up time to work on the more interesting problems that deliver value to the organisation / company. Has been a good strategy to date.

Sadly, the current environment does not reflect that in my experience. There is a vicious focus on keeping profit margins at a steady rate at all costs while slashing spend on tooling which requires re-work on solved problems. :/

At some point the music is going to stop and it's not going to be pretty I suspect. :(

donalhunt commented on VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV torrentfreak.com/major-vp... · Posted by u/gasull

ta1243 · 3 months ago

In the 90s I used to download star trek episodes in the UK the night after US broadcast. They simply weren't available. It's not a cost problem - when they were eventually released in the UK I spent the modern equivalent of $20 per episode to buy on VHS.

If you're unwilling to sell it, then someone else will.

donalhunt · 3 months ago

Still happening in 2025. :/

One well-known US show started airing the current season in the UK (on a streaming service) — 7 weeks after it started airing in the US.

donalhunt commented on De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/colinprince

aziaziazi · 4 months ago

> After a series of rises to the threshold, it allowed retailers to ship packages worth less than $800 to US customers without having to pay duties or taxes.

> The European Union has also proposed plans to scrap duty-free exemptions for parcels worth less than €150 (£127.50; $169.35).

Does the threshold apply the package entering the border (a container) or the package for the foreseen destination (the cardboard in your mailbox)?

donalhunt · 4 months ago

EU exemptions are gone afaik. Previously we had exemptions to avoid VAT / customs (much lower de minimus) but they have been removed in recent years. The shipping / customs industry has not evolved to support the volume of low value goods.