Brendan Halpin

Sociologist in Limerick

Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes

Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python

Linux on the desktop since about 1997

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Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

Dublin is obvs v vulnerable to damage from rising sea levels. Limerick and Galway too. Cork not so much, if they invest properly (not quay walls on Morrison's Island, rather a tidal barrier btw Glanmire/Mahon in the short run and at Roche's Pt in the long run). https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2025/10/01/almost-5-of-coastal-property-now-vulnerable-to-extreme-weather-events/

October 01, 2025
Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social

Oh FFS! #Brightspace is fucking up my #Julialang teaching materials for tomorrow by being too clever.

It can interpret latex code and show formula. Brilliant.

It just can't not do it, so my regular expression example of

r"\([0-9]+\)") is showing up as below, and I can't turn it off. Anything bracketed by \( and \) gets interpreted, even if it's in <pre></pre> tags, if it's HTML that's created outside BS.

September 30, 2025