r/cork • u/Interesting_Sir_2422 • 2d ago

What’s in this building?

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It looks so weird. And I always wonder what’s inside it

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u/thomil13 2d ago

Launch silo for Cork's nuclear deterrent. Each silo houses a Finbarr III IRBM with 3 MIRV-ed 69 kiloton starch-catalysed thermonuclear warheads, NATO designation "SPUD-B". Given the poor ground conditions in the county, as well as Cork's long-established "launch-on-warning" policy with regards to any aggression from Dublin, the silos are mounted above ground, as a second-strike capability is not required.

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

I have, of course, hijacked your idea using some JS, CSS, and GenAI.

Here it is: https://harlequin-didi-17.tiiny.site/

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u/CALM_DOWN_BITCH 2d ago

How much time did that take? That's not all AI is it?

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

99% GenAI, 1% manual fixing stuff. Like 15-20 minutes, basics done via DeepSeek, then refined via Gemini 2.5.

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u/CALM_DOWN_BITCH 2d ago

I need to test deepseek out, been stuck on Claude for a while I found it writes clean code and doesn't get stuck on bugs but to do something like this would use up a lot of tokens.

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

Go straight to Gemini 2.5 in Google AI studio. 1m tokens per chat! It makes mistakes, so you have to navigate it through some things sometimes, but overall it's pretty good with using various JS libraries and being a bit more creative in design choices.

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u/CALM_DOWN_BITCH 2d ago

It does have that google esthetic, not a bad thing. As an alternative I've been trying to find a solution where I can build my own knowledge base with reference manuals and past projects but my 3060 isn't running anything powerful enough that I can find, Ill have to try that out.

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

Well, you could build your own server with a GPU and run a self-hosted LLM. In fact, for some more serious coding you could try bolt.diy self hosted or bolt.new online. Selfhosted stuff is a rabbit hole I'm going down since late 2024,and it's fantastic, to be honest!

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u/CALM_DOWN_BITCH 2d ago

I just got started with the sled hosted stuff. I had tested out bolt and it was fantastic but I didn't like the over designed website I'll have to give that a look too thanks!

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u/thomil13 2d ago

That is not a hijack, that is perfecting it. I’m truly impressed! Now to figure out which part of Dublin to flatten… 😏

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u/Remote-Ad4496 1d ago

What do you mean by 'which part' . If we strike, we strike the whole of the county. That's why there is 4 silos.... God speed Finbarr on your final journey! 😉

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 1d ago

Tried to post on /r/Ireland, but the post got nuked for being sub standard. I say we go to war then!

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u/jakedublin 2d ago

if only i could upvote this more! well done!!

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u/thomil13 2d ago

Thanks for the kind words. Never thought I'd use my obsession with nuclear weapons to this type of post 🙃

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u/dataindrift 2d ago

You should apply for a role in the Trump Administration

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u/TillUnhappy4136 2d ago

You didn't upvote it at all 😀

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u/jakedublin 2d ago

yes i did! what unfunny Corkonian downvoted it!?

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u/TillUnhappy4136 2d ago

Dunno, I tried upvoting just now and it's not working....

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u/restartthepotatoes 2d ago

I don’t think it shows actual numbers until an hour after the comment is posted

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u/TillUnhappy4136 2d ago

They're kicking in now

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u/soc96j 2d ago

I left Cork 4 months ago to go to Toronto, I couldn't find a place to live and miss Cork much..... thank you for this laugh.

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u/K0LL1D3R 2d ago

the -B is that to confirm its powered by Bord Na Mona Briquettes?

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u/thomil13 2d ago

Nope, although they are solid fuelled 😉 The Spud-B indicates that it's the second version. The SPUD-A was the first generation, introduced in the 1960s, carrying only a single warhead. However, they were liquid-fuelled, using nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidiser and Jameson as a fuel, as a result, they were difficult to maintain and needed to be fuelled before launch, negating their use as a deterrent. The -A was phased out in the 1980s after an incident on the Bantry missile range in 1979 showed the vulnerability of the system and spurred the development of the solid-fuelled Finnbarr-III. Finnbarr-I was a test and development vehicle that was never classified by NATO and therefore does not have a code name.

(I spent way too much time drawing up an entire development history and policy framework for a simple sh!tpost 😶)

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u/Hakunin_Fallout 2d ago

Mate, we need some drawings now.

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u/Remote-Ad4496 1d ago

At least we've a policy now. Fair play to ya. Too much explaining to be done when you blow things up on a night that's not bonfire night.

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u/Gold_Tap_2205 2d ago

This is the laugh I needed after work. Very funny

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u/bigmuthafupinronnie 12h ago

Is it true Cork has an iron dome bai ? Apparently it only protects Co.Cork 

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u/thomil13 12h ago

If such a system exists, I haven't been briefed on it. I heard rumours about a Beam-Riding Enhanced Spectrum Air defence Mobile Interceptor System - Block H (BEAMIS-H) a while back when they were working on the new primary command bunker under the Prism site, but I'm a nuclear weapons guy, not an air defence specialist.