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Unionisation didn't bring down British Leyland, the management did. There was no upward mobility from the unionised shop floor up to the management and design departments and it le…

I've got a '91 Toyota Carina and can attest that it's very easy to work on, my friend and I pulled the engine and gearbox in under two hours with hand tools, but I can't really spe…

CS 1.5 has been clean room re-implemented GPL Quake engine, just need assets to make a fully free Counter-Strike. https://github.com/eukara/freecs

My car ('91 Toyota Carina) has been on 149,999 miles since 2007.

The framing device for The Legend of Zelda games is that it's a mythological cycle in which Link, Ganon, and Zelda are periodically reborn and the plot begins anew with new charact…

In Ireland, you can't ride a motorcycle above 125cc unless you've held your license for four years. It forces people to get genuine experience before hopping on a litrebike and sen…

When I drive my work van I use a throttle body, when I drive my car I use a carburettor. From my point of view as a user, I'm just driving a vehicle. The point is that users see a …

The ethno-religious conflict in Northern Ireland dates back to the seventeenth century and the question of Irish sovereignty dates all the way back to the twelfth century!

Well, it's probably worth your while to update it then.

In Ireland you need to have held your provisional license for at least six months and done 12 lessons with a certified instructor before they allow you to take the test.

It should always be optional as not everyone using tax prep software will actually be a citizen of the country where they're paying tax or registered with said country's social wel…

In Waterford we call it Dilisk with a normal S.

I had quite a nice introduction to programming when I downloaded ChipmunkBASIC on to the family PowerMac some time in the mid '00s.

I also have physical problems writing by hand, and it led to me handing in a lot of unfinished essays after running out of time in exams. If I hadn't gotten a special dispensation …

Sven Co-op got portals working on their branch of the GoldSrc engine but I think they abandoned development because of FBO issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbniay4bfJU

That's not really consistent across Ireland though, let alone Europe. I was paying €50 a month for two megabit DSL in Kilkenny five years ago as that was all my ISP's backhaul was …

C had a breaking change this year, pre-ANSI C programs need to have all of their function definitions changed for them to be compatible with C23.

I owe my career to friends made online. Online friends are no substitute for in-person interaction but it's perfectly possible to have a meaningful relationship with a person over …

I assume he means a Gaelic football. Gaelic football is governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association along with Hurling and Gaelic Handball.

Ken was represented as being a lot more hot headed and irreverent than he was in reality as well.

I fail to see the connection between a child with an untreatable neurodegenerative disorder who was cared for by the NHS free of charge until treatment was ruled as futile due to "…

It takes Little 3.53 seconds to find the 33rd number in the Fibonacci sequence recursively versus 30.23 seconds for Tcl8.6 on my i5-3320M.