Ivan Kelly

Dumb and dumber still holds up though

I think he’s going for Scots-Irish. The Irish papists didn’t have much to do with the USA’s origin

Similar to what Grady Booch said recently about how the history of computing is movements to higher levels of abstraction

Sure wouldn’t they be passing through on the way to the big shmoke

Not that it makes any difference but article says he’s from Kilkenny not Kerry

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

And just play the worst set they can muster

I would argue that this is an improper use. I don’t disagree that they are useful. They very much are. But without the verification of the facts, this guy has just received a plausible fairytale.

Ever wonder why compilers use `xor eax, eax` to zero registers? It's smaller AND faster—CPUs optimise it out entirely!

Day 1 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations: xania.org/202512/01-xo...
Video: youtu.be/eLjZ48gqbyg

#AoCO2025

Half-Life 3 Trailer YouTube video by VаIvе

dang some people called this but wow

youtu.be/QRtR2OM3_so

I’m sure it’s hard to spend a penny in front of the architect of austerity

Throwback and Forth

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Throwback and Forth

As I recall, the two bandits weren’t just left to die. They had their legs broken, to speed up their demise. Probably only stabbed Jesus to see if he was still alive, thought he wasnt so didn’t go to the effort of breaking legs. All comes down to laziness. They wanted to knock off and get to pub

They exist. HMD have a updated 3210 available

Really important thread

Excellent game

It’s good. But if he’s having cpr performed on him, and he makes the mudpie, how can it fall out the leg of the trousers? Totally took me out of the moment

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” - Kernighan, back in the 70s.
Now, if you’re not smart enough to have even written it in the first place, you’re up shit creek

Come on now lad. Despite who’s hating on him now, he was quite the gowl. He sent in the black and tans

Team America summed this up nicely

It’s the problem with only working a leftie 9-5 rather than being always grinding

Pheasants in Ireland and UK even. Indian bird, seems part of landscape, but craps all over indigenous ecosystem

Tactical bog trotting gear

For whom the bell tolls

"No money left in this country? There's plenty of money. More than ever. Just not for us."

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Tucking trousers into socks. Gen Z and 60 yo Irish farmers (makes it easier to put on wellies)

The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

a group of cartoon characters are dancing in front of a building ALT: a group of cartoon characters are dancing in front of a building

There is scarcely a day of my life I don’t think about the Planet of the Apes musical from the Simpsons, which was featured for about 15 secs 30 years ago.

Séamas O’Reilly: Ballymena violence is the result of politics based on scapegoating any ‘other’ "The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd."

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.

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They did spin out blaze as bazel. I haven’t seen it used much