Neil Creagh
fuel.ie
Neil Creagh
@fuel.ie
Dublin. Ireland. Design. Web. Tech. Science. Film. News. Fuel.ie
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it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
January 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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need product differentiation?

overhire a #CSS front-end team and ask them to:
- polish whatever
- add delight wherever

and watch as your product becomes smooth and buttery while everyone else's gather dust and crust

UI is a huge space offering differentiation via quality
December 28, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Well this is grim
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Oh my, yes.

If this trailer is anything to go by, this looks like it's going to have a generous slice of Folk Horror on top of the zombie stuff.
December 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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My daughter, who's an ivy leaguer who's well aware of the phenomenon of ivy leaguers spouting BS & who seriously studied computer science made the following observation.
(Basically for ChatGPT hallucinations are a major feature, not a bug:
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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I really think many if not most of the LLM fail cases are people trying to use it as a search engine. It is the opposite of a search engine.
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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I really, really despise whoever thought we should adopt the American ‘elf on the shelf’ in Ireland.
December 3, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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I fucking love the irish electoral process, 2 days glued to stats on social media and RTE, an amazingly transparent process, full of drama. Let's take time to celebrate small victories and reconvene for the battles ahead. Change will come. #ge24.
December 1, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Marie Sherlock (Labour) elected in Dublin Central | Live updates: rte.ie/b/1484023
December 1, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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#GE24 - if you are registered to vote, you don’t need to bring your polling card with you, just bring any valid form of ID. To repeat: YOU DON’T NEED A POLLING CARD TO VOTE.
November 28, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Be aware
November 22, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Simon's post here is a good way to look at Irish voting.

Even if you don't have a preferred #1,2,3 preference, sometimes PR-STV means thinking about who you absolutely don't want to get in and working backwards from there.

#GE24
Campaign Gist: Building a Wall

The six constituencies with the greatest risk of far-right gains and the best candidates in each place to vote for to block them.

https://www.thegist.ie/campaign-gist-building-a-wall/
November 20, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Everyone must make their own decisions, but a vote still in motion is a vote still at work.

Lower preferences are not ringing endorsements but grudging acknowledgements that These Candidates are at least better than Those Candidates.
November 20, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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This shop is a little gem. How upsetting.

But listen, let me show you some cool books people might really want for Christmas:
Our first break in! Didn't want to post about it earlier until I'd confirmed there wasn't a benign reason for the broken sink... and the grate ripped out of the wall... and the money missing from the till...

🙃 but support would be appreciated right now!
littledeercomics.ie/products/sup...
November 19, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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bird sounds
November 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Each year my wonderful pal Rachel arranges gifts for Ireland's unhoused children.

This year already she's raised enough for 380 kids, and you have til Monday to chip in by sending a voucher from below and **making the recipient** merrylilsanta@gmail.com

smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/gift
December 15, 2023 at 11:58 AM
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EXTREMELY GOOD: climate activists intervene in an event honouring ExxonMobil's CEO Darren Woods:

video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video...
December 8, 2023 at 11:05 PM
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If anyone is spending Christmas alone this year, please do reach out & let me know. I need to borrow some chairs
December 9, 2023 at 4:39 PM
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December 6, 2023 at 2:10 AM
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🖥️
December 2, 2023 at 12:08 PM
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+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
December 1, 2023 at 1:40 AM