Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[Solksjaer!]

Showing the Palestine flags deffo wasnt gay

[DeadParrot]

Fucking paddy's paying top 4. I thought it was top 5 fml

[DeadParrot]

Showing the Palestine flags deffo wasnt gay

It was the delivery though.
No one will ever care or remember that performance

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[ArmaniJeans]

Game 1 seems to be CHDad by a nose from GAB, RD3 and bohsman.
RD3 had the golden UK ticket but his Dansh wingman let him down.

[Guest]

Showing the Palestine flags deffo wasnt gay

Depends on how you define gay people!


And people think other peoples is better at internets than me

[ArmaniJeans]

Game 2 seems to be Solks in a photo from Dimoxinil and Dice who both got scores which would have won the other game.
UK again let down by their partner.

[limpwhacker]

Trip report : jbravado
Good news the lad is fine. We met up on Friday in the Gin Palace and had a good chat for an hour and a half . He's going to bink the wsop in Vegas before heading down to the Buddhist centre in west cork in August to chill his head out. It's set up and there's a gig down there whenever he wants it. I know some of you were concerned and just wanted to reassure you with some good news for a change.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Its probably a bit insensitive of me to make any comment at all but IMO if you climb Everest and don't survive the descent that is well within the scope of things that can be expected to happen when you climb Everest.

I know many people pay the entire cost of their trip and tack on a fundraising effort on top and that is great but there is a striking contrast between the gofundme page his family have opened to recover his body and the one set up to fund the trip and raise money for Barretstown

I saw that post and had similar thoughts. I actually thought that not only is it really stupid, but it's pretty offensive to send Sherpas off on a wild goose chase to find someone's frozen body. The guy would have known the risks before he went. 10% of people who attempt to get to the summit die in the attempt.

Think I remember posting that stat, not being believed and it was even worse than I said at the time. Why do it with a family, feel for them. Four people dead in the last few days. Now they'll risk lives to go get him.

[Solksjaer!]

Game 2 seems to be Solks in a photo from Dimoxinil and Dice who both got scores which would have won the other game.
UK again let down by their partner.

thanks for organising AJ , best competition ever, no work involved . Ive found my niche,
being a jammy bastard

[balfejohn]

Game 1 seems to be CHDad by a nose from GAB, RD3 and bohsman.
RD3 had the golden UK ticket but his Dansh wingman let him down.

Well done CH
Another good nights viewing
Please send on bank details and I will send the winnings
Thanks for organizing AJ

[DeadParrot]

Would have been epic if they had won

[Raoul Duke III]

Game 1 seems to be CHDad by a nose from GAB, RD3 and bohsman.
RD3 had the golden UK ticket but his Dansh wingman let him down.

Goddamn Danes. The best mid-table points snafflers in the world. Probably.

WP Chad, send through deets for shippage plz

[coillcam]

Have a few hours to kill on Friday evening in Dublin and was thinking of playing cash. I assume the Fitz would have a couple of tables going. If not the Fitz any other recommendations? Parking nearby would be handy.

[mdoug]

If anyone comes across 2 tickets for Ireland vs Japan in the RWC please keep me in mind!

Friends are going to Japan for the RWC and their honeymoon, and those are the only tickets they are missing so would be a perfect wedding gift.

Cheers

[Strewelpeter]

Poor Sweden though

Sweden need 253 points'
'They need 253 points'
'A reminder Sweden need 253 points'
*pause*
'Who will win Eurovision, Netherlands or Sweden who need 253 points'
'253 points remember'
'And now the number of votes for Sweden, who need 253 points'
*pause*
'And the votes for Sweden - who need 253 are....
...
...
...
90-something'

This and the way the market was swinging during the last few votes got me looking again at the voting system.

With two left there was a significant amount traded between 1.8 and 1.2 until after North Macedonia's vote was called and then it took nearly a minute for all the money to get sucked up before they were freely available at 1.08 right until the final whistle blew.

If my calculations are correct NL needed 235 of the remaining 412 votes (which they were probably 1.05 to get but that's a totally different matter ), when they got 261 they could not have been caught even if one of the other two got all the remaining 151 !

Will look at it more closely for next year and maybe build a simulator to look at previous years patterns - maybe it was just the way things fell last night but it seems to me there was a lot of free money sloshing around late in the voting.

[Goodluck2me]

Yeah I'm no believer in EMH. But that Tesla forum is a great lesson in human psychology. It's a forum of enthusiasts who are pumping money into it. They like the car so ergo it must be a great investment. Elon is some sort of demigod to them.

A solid year long decline in the stock while everything else is going up doesn't phase them, it's all a conspiracy or the analysts "don't get it". There's no dissenting opinion. It's a good illustration of why you should talk to people who disagree with you.

Yes especially when it comes to investing. There is always something you’ve missed so listening to others is usually productive, even in the case of that forum it might just increase your conviction in your opinion (that Tesla is screwed!)

[ArmaniJeans]

This and the way the market was swinging during the last few votes got me looking again at the voting system.

With two left there was a significant amount traded between 1.8 and 1.2 until after North Macedonia's vote was called and then it took nearly a minute for all the money to get sucked up before they were freely available at 1.08 right until the final whistle blew.

If my calculations are correct NL needed 235 of the remaining 412 votes (which they were probably 1.05 to get but that's a totally different matter ), when they got 261 they could not have been caught even if one of the other two got all the remaining 151 !

Will look at it more closely for next year and maybe build a simulator to look at previous years patterns - maybe it was just the way things fell last night but it seems to me there was a lot of free money sloshing around late in the voting.

It was the first year they had done the votes this way so it took the betting market by surprise, I remember thinking at the time that mathematics would
tell you exactly how many votes Sweden were going to receive.

It was a different method to previous years as follows.
Last year Sweden would have been awarded it's 90 votes at an earlier stage as they sorted by Points Awarded, Ascending. So it would have started with Germany 0, then England 3 etc. Sweden would have been awarded their 90 points and been eliminated from the reckoning quite soon after.

This year they awarded points by reverse position in the table, with currently last place being the next to be awarded.

[ArmaniJeans]

Arguing with Grammarly at the moment. I think I'm right and it's wrong.

I write.
New Zealand are improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil have been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

Grammarly wants me to change to.
New Zealand is improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil has been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

I'm writing the way you'd expect for international sports yeah?

[Goodluck2me]

Arguing with Grammarly at the moment. I think I'm right and it's wrong.

I write.
New Zealand are improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil have been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

Grammarly wants me to change to.
New Zealand is improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil has been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

I'm writing the way you'd expect for international sports yeah?

The team is doing well or the team are doing well? That’s your answer.

[AndyFatBastard]

It was the first year they had done the votes this way so it took the betting market by surprise, I remember thinking at the time that mathematics would
tell you exactly how many votes Sweden were going to receive.

It was a different method to previous years as follows.
Last year Sweden would have been awarded it's 90 votes at an earlier stage as they sorted by Points Awarded, Ascending. So it would have started with Germany 0, then England 3 etc. Sweden would have been awarded their 90 points and been eliminated from the reckoning quite soon after.

This year they awarded points by reverse position in the table, with currently last place being the next to be awarded.

There's a fixed number of votes available right? So anyone with a calculator could have seen NL were a dead cert as soon as they got their public votes?

[AndyFatBastard]

Arguing with Grammarly at the moment. I think I'm right and it's wrong.

I write.
New Zealand are improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil have been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

Grammarly wants me to change to.
New Zealand is improving and will hope to qualify from the group.
Brazil has been the flag-bearer for South America in this event.

I'm writing the way you'd expect for international sports yeah?

Yes. Grammarly is using the American way in this case.

[hotspur]

Btw North or not, as a fan of Alexander the Great he was no bloody Slav and a force should be raised in Sparta for a crusade against North Macedonia imo.

Also, randomly, how cute is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESCIutJ75kk

[Mellor]

The team is doing well or the team are doing well? That’s your answer.

Not really.
"The team" is a singular noun. Regardless of how many people are on the team.
But it's a group of people, so we use plural pronouns.

The team won last week. We/They are doing well.

So the answer to AJ's dilemma to is whether New Zealand (in reference to the team) uses single or plural pronouns.

New Zealand won last week. They are improving.
New Zealand won last week. It is improving.

I think clearly shows that "...are improving" is correct in that case. But when referring to the country not the team it's singular.

New Zealand is beautiful. It is nice in spring.

[Guest]

In US grammar its quite common to use 'is' a lot when referring to teams that represent places. eg 'Chicago is playing great basketball at the moment'

[AndyFatBastard]

Yes it's US grammar. I had this when writing for Ars Technica. I said something like "Intel have produced a new Pentium" and got absolutely piled on by Yanks in the comments.

[Lazare]

Yanks are simpletons.

[Strewelpeter]

It was the first year they had done the votes this way so it took the betting market by surprise, I remember thinking at the time that mathematics would
tell you exactly how many votes Sweden were going to receive.

It was a different method to previous years as follows.
Last year Sweden would have been awarded it's 90 votes at an earlier stage as they sorted by Points Awarded, Ascending. So it would have started with Germany 0, then England 3 etc. Sweden would have been awarded their 90 points and been eliminated from the reckoning quite soon after.

This year they awarded points by reverse position in the table, with currently last place being the next to be awarded.

Yeah, the only difference from the last few years is in the presentation of the points and last years format was probably easier to work out therefore the market shut down earlier than it did last night. It would seem that there was no one on betfair with a big enough balance who was awake to the potential for free money.
Unlikely to happen again next year, and also some humans know the result long before it is announced so thats where the real potential for free money lies

[Lazare]

Going through an old playlist, raging I didn't think of this for Music King...

Fucking love French vocals so much...

Chooon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_-dkn7bYw

[BennyHiFi]

Going through an old playlist, raging I didn't think of this for Music King...

Fucking love French vocals so much...

Chooon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_-dkn7bYw

They're playing Vicar Street on June 25.

[CHDad]

Game 1 seems to be CHDad by a nose from GAB, RD3 and bohsman.
RD3 had the golden UK ticket but his Dansh wingman let him down.

Ta ta.

Gona treat myself to a jigsaw.

[Lazare]

They're playing Vicar Street on June 25.

Ah great stuff. Cheers Benny. Won't wear brogues. Promise.

[Dice75]

Why don't Limerick have any sponsor on their jersey?

[dobby]

Why don't Limerick have any sponsor on their jersey?

McManus said he didnt want anything on.

Official reason is here

https://punditarena.com/gaa/kennedymarisa760/limerick-jersey-sponsor/

[oleras]

McManus said he didnt want anything on.

Official reason is here

https://punditarena.com/gaa/kennedym...ersey-sponsor/

Enough of branding on the rest of their kit.

The team were boarding the bus this afternoon at the Woodlands hotel, looked good...pity about their hurling so far.

[Dice75]

McManus said he didnt want anything on.

Official reason is here

https://punditarena.com/gaa/kennedym...ersey-sponsor/

Fair enough. I wouldn't have known he was their sponsor before.

[rounders123]

I bet those hungry savages wanted a sponsor advert on in addition to McManus sponsorship!

[Guest]

Yanks are is simpletons.

FYP

[Raoul Duke III]

Ta ta.

Gona treat myself to a jigsaw.

Shippage done. Was worth it to discover you have such a posh name.

I'll remember that next time you call me a cunt.

[Strewelpeter]

Ta ta.

Gona treat myself to a jigsaw.

Bank deets please

[CHDad]

Shippage done. Was worth it to discover you have such a posh name.

I'll remember that next time you call me a cunt.

My name isn't a secret, unfortunately.

Proper land robbin' proddy name tbf.

[Raoul Duke III]

My name isn't a secret, unfortunately.

Proper land robbin' proddy name tbf.

It really is! I reckon you are probably the Earl of Kilcoole.

[Lazare]

It really is! I reckon you are probably the Earl of Kilcoole.

Have you copped yet that CHD are his initials?

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[Raoul Duke III]

Have you copped yet that CHD are his initials?

No

[Raoul Duke III]

Wonder if its cultural, and we use 'have' because we recognise the team effort involved, while US is more individualistic and assigns it to singular.

The Americans got it from us.

Irish <> team players.

[Guest]

Would love to see brooks just give the finger with both hands to the crowd after tapping in and just walking off the green.

[bohsman]

Ta ta.

Gona treat myself to a jigsaw.

Revolut, bank, PayPal, whatever details please.

[ComradeCollie]

Nah what CC is saying the science fiction definition of AI is what he uses to define any AI.

This. I had no idea that all machine learning is called AI. Makes sense that it is when you think about it at all.

AI generated voice? Everything you hear in the clip is the result of a deep learning algorithm developed called RealTalk from a company called Dessa, which converts any text typed into the model to his voice.

Opr

I'm not going to believe they have that working, based on one clip and a few other samples. I'd suspect that they used a human listener to filter out the less believable sentences from what they've made public.

[Mellor]

I'm not going to believe they have that working, based on one clip and a few other samples. I'd suspect that they used a human listener to filter out the less believable sentences from what they've made public.

But the Hunan only has to filter it once and the machine learns to not say the ridiculous sounding bullshit again.

[DeadParrot]

The Night is dark and full of spoilers...

SPOILER

I havent watched it yet

[ArmaniJeans]

Wow, they were in purgatory on the island all along.

[Flushdraw]

I remember Joey Ingram saying he wouldn't appear on anyone else's podcast, but he gave it and signed up for the Chip Race. Great episode with Jungleman making a second appearance in 2 episodes, and KevMath rounding it off. Guests are just going from strength to strength!

https://soundcloud.com/thechiprace/the-chip-race-season-9-episode-4-joe-ingram-josh-abady-jungleman-kevin-mathers

[Tar.Aldarion]

I see everybody is joining in my Huawei misery at having to give up my p20, since they are effectively banned outside china now for everybody. Such good phones too, best I've had. Mine will now be a camera.
I just learned to pronounce it too, what a waste.

[DeadParrot]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-suspends-some-business-with-huawei-after-trump-blacklist-source-idUSKCN1SP0NB

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware and software products except those covered by open source licenses, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will immediately lose access to updates to the Android operating system, and the next version of its smartphones outside of China will also lose access to popular applications and services including the Google Play Store and Gmail app.

Details of the specific services were still being discussed internally at Google, according to the source. Huawei attorneys are also studying the impact of the U.S. Commerce Department’s actions, a Huawei spokesman said on Friday. Huawei was not immediately reachable for further comment.

Representatives of the U.S. Commerce Department did not immediately have comment.

Huawei will continue to have access to the version of the Android operating system available through the open source license that is freely open to anyone who wishes to use it.

But Google will stop providing any technical support and collaboration for Android and Google services to Huawei going forward, the source said.

On Thursday the Trump administration officially added Huawei to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the technology giant to do business with U.S. companies.

Bit in bold is the main point. Hopefully it gets sorted but maybe not the go to BBV phone recommendation anymore

[Silver-Tiger]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKCN1SP0NB



Bit in bold is the main point. Hopefully it gets sorted but maybe not the go to BBV phone recommendation anymore

Just got a fcuking P30 Pro last week.

Surely Huawei get this sorted.

Admire the play from Google.

Will OnePlus and others get the same treatment soon?

[SatNav]

It's doesn't effect current users . Won't be able to update software though. But apps will work as normal. As far as I've read

[DeadParrot]

It's doesn't effect current users . Won't be able to update software though. But apps will work as normal. As far as I've read

you'll lose access to play store and google services
meaning OS, gmail, maps etc etc wont be updated and if a vulnerability is found, wont be patched.
It's a huge blow

[Solksjaer!]

you'll lose access to play store and google services
meaning OS, gmail, maps etc etc wont be updated and if a vulnerability is found, wont be patched.
It's a huge blow

So you can't phone someone who cares ?

[shrapnel]

So you can't phone someone who cares ?

you can if you speak chinese