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FWIW, Scottish and Irish (and their sister Manx) are not Brythonic, they are in the other branch of extant Celtic languages, Goidelic/Gaelic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound gives some details about that. I knew that some Irish English speakers inhale when saying "yes", but it seems fairly widespread acros…

This is true. A related post about discovering this, and some links to more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18681745

I don't understand this logic. It's better to have everyone see it and to guarantee it is seen by a malicious actor, instead of only a small few seeing it and there being some smal…

In Ireland, we literally called our reference book for exams "the log tables", despite there not having been any table of logs in any edition of it for quite a long time.

A lot of the replies suggest a language barrier being the reason, but we don't really get them here in Ireland, despite English being a national language.

I would think Sandymount routes would have few students on them, considering the price of living in that part of the city. What's more, blaming the problem on students/young people…

Without any doubt, I'd recommend the following books: - 'Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon' by Kim Zetter. - 'The Cuckoo’s Egg: Trac…

A good example of this going wrong is described here, with the "spunk" debacle: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/05/time-coca-co...

I believe here they're talking about Georgia in the United States.

This is great news. However, I saw the most ads on Youtube; it would be great if Google followed suit and released similar data. I hope this sets a precedent for publishing ad spen…

It's maybe worth keeping in mind that Ireland was neutral in WWII. I guess that the belligerents still lost many ships in Irish waters (and indeed Irish ships were often attacked: …

I did a similar visualisation a few months ago, but less polished, for my own curiosity: https://twitter.com/iandioch/status/968938231550107649

Speakers of my Irish-border dialect do sometimes use "childer" instead of "children", you're correct. I suppose many remnants of old English (and equally other languages) are prese…

It looks like you need to scan in on the way into the shop. If your phone runs out of the battery, is it impossible to eat?

I used to do the same. I'm sure that's what thousands of others do too :)

There are lots of interesting competitive programming problems (and their related algorithms) that involve it. For example, it was important in the solution to a problem in the UKI…

Or better yet, forgo a hub at all :)

A point worth making is that this is not Google, it is Sidewalk Labs. I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these co…

In Ireland you can get unlimited data for 20eur/month.

My bank only yesterday froze my card because it is being used in a different country and they suspect fraud.

This is somewhat true, but many of the accents are not as strong anymore. The Irish language itself is interesting. Before standardisation, I'm told the Irish of the north of the i…

I am quite sure! Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, but all the bread was too sweet for me.

When I was living in Switzerland, my biggest woe was that all of the bread seemed to be white, or sweet. I could find no good simple grainy brown bread, like at home in Ireland. Bu…