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#1
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 26, 2024, 10:37:17 AM
Quote from: JimStynes on March 26, 2024, 10:19:04 AM
Quote from: thebigfella on March 26, 2024, 10:12:12 AM
Quote from: JimStynes on March 26, 2024, 09:46:51 AMAirport park in Dublin over £200 for a week. Ridiculous

Getting the bus for £36 return for 2 people.

That is the short term I presume?

I always park in the short term and have done before they offered as a prebook option, especially when I was expensing for work. You not being extorted, you are paying for a premium parking spot right at the door of the terminals and it's always been that expensive (you get a discount for pre-booking now). The problems are since quick park shut there is a shortage of long term spots (the blue is a pain in the bollox) and more cost effective options.

The bus is great value and drops you right at the terminals. If you have close by, not sure why you'd drive to the airport tbh.

The other options were a 15min transfer from the blue long term car park for £130 and another shorter one for £108. Parked in the red car park a few years ago and it's more than doubled in price. I'm only 10/15 min from the bus route so you're right, it's a better option to just get the bus.

Red has alway been a pain and nearly always sold out. Quick park being shut has made it worse but it's always been the one I thought was a rip off compared to the other options. The short term is ironically the best value, I'm a fan of the short term option and won't have a word said against it :)

I taxi it mostly now since Quick Park shut as it's 40 euro one way and door to door.
#2
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 26, 2024, 10:12:12 AM
Quote from: JimStynes on March 26, 2024, 09:46:51 AMAirport park in Dublin over £200 for a week. Ridiculous

Getting the bus for £36 return for 2 people.

That is the short term I presume?

I always park in the short term and have done before they offered as a prebook option, especially when I was expensing for work. You not being extorted, you are paying for a premium parking spot right at the door of the terminals and it's always been that expensive (you get a discount for pre-booking now). The problems are since quick park shut there is a shortage of long term spots (the blue is a pain in the bollox) and more cost effective options.

The bus is great value and drops you right at the terminals. If you have close by, not sure why you'd drive to the airport tbh.
#3
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 25, 2024, 01:56:19 PM
Quote from: imtommygunn on March 25, 2024, 11:06:33 AMYes there's plenty of madness in the private sector too tbh. Every time you think you can't see worse you do... cronyism etc rampant in private or public.

Most of it is down to the fact it's difficult to estimate and/or lack of any real data to drive initial estimates. Once people get stuck into it and start uncovering the detail it always ends up costing more unless you can kill scope.
#4
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 25, 2024, 10:59:41 AM
Quote from: LC on March 23, 2024, 10:36:37 AM
Quote from: illdecide on March 23, 2024, 10:20:58 AMCasement Park goes from £77.5m 12 years ago to £300m now (apparently). How can that be...Materials and salaries have not went up x4. It's just people and Companies jumping on the bandwagon and knowing they can get away with it.

Yes happens all the time and they get away with it because it is public sector, such over runs would not happen in a private sector contract as the Client would not tolerate it.  I see £150m was allocated to Strule the other day, wait to you see where that job ends up at.

Happens all the time in the private sector, you just are not aware. I know of 4 huge IT programmes running in the financial sector that are 100's millions over initial estimates. 3 of which were estimated less than 50 million.
#5
There are PCI DSS 4.0 requirements which much be adopted before 1st April, otherwise you would lose your PCI Compliance and in turn creates a lots of headaches plus potential financial penalties.

Taking a complete stab in the dark I'd guess the offending updates (which caused the outages) could be related to the usual last minute "PCI compliance change", despite having 2 years, being rushed out the door. Can't see it being a Payment Gateway provider issue as they all would have significant redundancy.
#6
Quote from: Link on March 19, 2024, 10:51:18 PMVVD cleared the ball as it was going through to rashford. Just put the flag up.

As we have seen from the doku/macallister VAR footage tonight these lads are incompetent and have no accountability for their biased lies therefore i don't have much faith in a linesman making the correct call. We see he ignored two of united's offsides.

What goal did you see? VVD never touched it.
#7
Quote from: Link on March 19, 2024, 07:13:25 PMYes the Anthony goal, rashford is offside in the build up when ball is attempted to be passed to him and is influencing the play. put the flag up. seconds later, ball is in the net.

Big chance at full time, rashford is offside. put the flag up.

"In the age of VAR" means absolutely nothing, VAR, ref, linesmen are still making subjective decisions and can ignore things if they see fit. Both the examples above were incorrectly not flagged.

Clutching big time. Garnacho was trying to shoot rather than pass  ;D
#9
Quote from: Link on March 19, 2024, 11:32:29 AM
Quote from: snoopdog on March 18, 2024, 01:57:07 PM
Quote from: Armamike on March 18, 2024, 11:28:29 AMBlew that one.  Man u were so poor that second half it seemed to lull Liverpool into a false sense of security.Age old lesson of football, when you have a team on the ropes, finish them.  Hopefully it will sharpen minds for the league game.

They both had 11 shots on target. United missed prob better chances than Liverpool. 2 from McTominay and 2 from Rashford also hojlund should've got on the end of a bruno cross. 2 deflected goals for Liverpool.

Since when did we all start counting clear offsides as chances?

Bruno should been shown a second yellow for the lunge on szoboszlai. Game over if the ref had any balls.

Clear offside for united's second not flagged by linesman.

Liverpool did throw it away but united rode their luck big time.

ehhhh  ::)
#10
General discussion / Re: Student Finance
February 27, 2024, 12:29:09 PM
Quote from: Emmett Greene on February 27, 2024, 11:50:13 AMAre university Computer Science degrees  cutting edge these days? If they are things have changed a lot.

If you can convert to an IT course in one year you can learn everything you need to know for industry in one year. Your previous undergraduate course is largely irrelevant.

Why don't you read what I posted "some computer science topics". In fact a lots of the concepts haven't changed over the last 20/30 years but that doesn't mean people don't need to have that fundamental understanding.

You're telling me a person with a undergrad maths degree doesn't have a significant skills advantage to someone with a history degree even though they've both done a 1 year conversion? Especially for junior development or data science roles?
#11
General discussion / Re: Student Finance
February 27, 2024, 12:16:25 PM
Quote from: clonian on February 27, 2024, 11:26:55 AMApprenticeships are getting more common with construction type degrees too, surveyors and engineers. From the outside looking in, it seems a good way of doing things for some of those roles, you get paid while doing your degree over a few extra years.
I thought a mix of the 2 would be a good idea, 1st year in uni to get the life experience and get a background in what you'll be doing and then enter into a apprenticeship for the remaining modules.


Don't disagree with the mix. Sandwich courses and sponsorships were common when I done my undergrad. I think 70% of us on my undergrad course had sponsorship's but it was very competitive to get them.

It's about getting the mix right, some topics just don't lend themselves to an apprenticeship approach to teaching. Understanding common algorithms and evaluating efficiency is something needs to be taught; in reality in industry there is probably already a library I will use and never develop these things from scratch. That doesn't mean I shouldn't understand the problem the library solves or how to evaluate.
#12
General discussion / Re: Student Finance
February 27, 2024, 10:58:04 AM
Quote from: Emmett Greene on February 27, 2024, 09:43:20 AMI think the whole University thing is getting too expensive nowadays. And it's not really necessary for a lot of careers/vocations.

I get the need for it for some intense subjects like Medicine/Pharmacy where the student is also partnering  with hospitals and so on for training as they go along.

But for subjects like IT, industry is copping on and offering apprenticeships along with semi employment for a few years. 3/4 years at Uni for IT is not needed. That's why employers happily take people with any degree who did a 1yr conversion course for IT.

I get the arguments for Uni, life experience, fun, making new friends, keeping employment options open with degrees like Maths but it's a lot of debt for a young person to be burdened with for the first few decades of their working life.

This could not be farther from the truth. IT is such a broad definition and technology is constantly evolving; a degree shows some ability to learn independently and some computer science topics just are too much on the cutting edge for an apprenticeship. Plus some of these apprenticeships are taught by people that should have been roaded by the industry years ago. Also, IT conversion courses require an undergraduate degree and most people I've met that took that route come from STEM subjects.

The vast majority of apprenticeships are set up to produce cheap low skilled coders rather than quality resources with an understanding of the nuances of building modern platforms.
#13
General discussion / Re: iphone
February 20, 2024, 04:17:54 PM
Quote from: AustinPowers on February 20, 2024, 04:05:03 PM
Quote from: thebigfella on February 19, 2024, 09:40:31 AM
Quote from: AustinPowers on February 18, 2024, 09:52:16 PMDo you need to  backup your photos before doing an iPhone update?

Will photos , podcasts or apps be lost  after updating?

It's been so long  since I did an update, I can't remember

Depends how long since your last update? If you're jumping up major releases of iOS then I would say yes.

Is it not all backed up to iCloud account anyway? If not, pay for any additional non-free space required, backup and update. You can remove the iCloud storage after but unless you've a massive photo/video library it's so cheap why bother.

People really need to keep devices up to date. The amount of security patches you are potentially missing would be a concern.


I don't use iCloud.  The iPhone says I've used 3 GB on the cloud , but I e no idea how that happened , as I just use the phone memory  to store  photos/videos.

I remember  once moving photos  to my laptop a via windows explorer . So was hoping to do that again , but the windows explorer won't  recognise the iPhone when connected.

Any  way to sort this?

What's be sorted? You can upgrade iOS without deleting the data but it's wise to have a backup in case something goes wrong.

Otherwise just pay for enough additional iCloud storage for a month to cover the backup. Do your upgrade and if successful, cancel the iCloud storage. I wouldn't bother trying to fcuk around manually backing up, you'll waste the 3 quid worth of time which cloud pay for the iCloud storage.
#14
Quote from: lurganblue on February 20, 2024, 09:10:54 AM
Quote from: Never beat the deeler on February 20, 2024, 08:05:44 AM
Quote from: thebigfella on February 20, 2024, 12:05:56 AMJessie Marsch on Monday night football

what about him?

Just saw a clip with him and Carragher doing a bit of tactical talk. It didnt seem any worse than having Neville on tbh.

Christ it was nonsense. Neville does analysis on other managers tactics and you don't have to agree with him.

March was analysing himself and espousing his football philosophy, it was delusional grifting at its highest. Not helped either by his over animated leaping around.
#15
Jessie Marsch on Monday night football