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And switching to Google achieves the aim of getting away from American tech giants?

I don't think it's a wise thing to do at this point in time. There is more risk by not depending on America.

If that really is the case, why not stay on Windows?

You clearly have no understanding of the principle of consent.

If you don't want to destroy Wikipedia, why are you acting like this?


I'm suspect that many of his responses here are written by AI.

The UK is not an outlier here. Much of the world has the same voltage.

I have historically used asterisks for emphasis and slashes for the use/mention distinction.

Very fun to play with. As a small issue, the European microstates don't appear on the map.


Yeah, I find it interesting how it has Northern Cyprus and "French Southern and Antarctic Lands" but not Malta.


The War on Drugs is more relevant to your day-to-day life, perhaps, but people in the Middle-east are also people, in case you forget that.


You have to be careful with this. Building sites (translate that into American as "houses under construction") may want to order stuff, but won't yet have eircodes. Indeed, I believe that they're issued only twice a year, so new-built houses may not have them either. So you cannot make it a required field.


yes, once the 'footings' are in you need to order an eircode straight away, no fibre-to-the-home without any eircode :)


I'm trying to work out what SA means.


Situational Awareness


I'm a developer who was made redundant, and I'm now casting around for an entirely new job because, likewise, I have no interest in working with AI. It sounds boring, and the concept squicks me out, to be honest.


Out of interest what kind of fields are you looking at?

I expect there are going to be a bunch of people in similar situations to you over the next few years, I'm interested to know where they end up.


I'm reminded of the "MongoDB is WebScale" video:

    as of this moment I
    officially resigned from my job as
    software engineer and will take up work
    on the farm shoveling pig shit and
    administering anal suppositories to sick
    horses because that will be a thousand
    times more tolerable than being in the
    same industry as dipshits like you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs


Amazing to re-watch

> "I cannot wait to castrate a 3000 pound bull as it kicks my head in"

How I feel about merging an AI-generated PR these days and waiting for the issues


> "You turn it on and it scales right up"

is my favorite quote from the video.


Currently computer networking or perhaps security. Or something else. In an ideal world, I go back to college and retrain as a sign language interpreter. But I can't afford that.


I've never seen an ATM which took money in envelopes. Does it just take on trust the amount until it's verified by an employee counting it later?


Remember that we're talking many years ago, in the previous century.

The only way to "automatically" deposit cash was to put it into an envelope and then drop it in the machine. IIRC, you used to write the total amount on the outside of the envelope, together with your bank account information.

The machine was emptied at regular intervals, the envelopes were transferred to the bank, and an employee was manually opening them, verifying the amount, and credit your account.


Ah, I've seen that, but there was no ATM. You could just drop the envelope into a box in the bank (to skip the queue at the counters). No way to deposit out of hours, though. The ATM system would have been better.


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