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I’ll take the other side of that argument. Without human space flight inspiring the public by pushing the boundaries of what humans can achieve, you would never get the public on b…

What I have found is that using LLM’s to do the same stuff I already knew how to do is not super enjoyable. I know web application development, and having some agent build it for m…

I'm seeing a lot of negativity here so I'll take the positive view. I regularly use ChatGPT for product advice. The other day I was replacing a wireless router, and I needed a WiFi…

Actually it seems like region-specific copyright deals are still very much in play. If I visit that playlist from Australia then 14 of the full movies are unavailable and hidden. B…

I feel like this is heavily connected with the idea of legacy. I grew up in Scotland, and lots of the buildings, culture, etc, have been around for hundreds of years. It would be n…

I'll take the other, more optimistic side of this. The reason they're spending so much time on reinventing meetings is because they see that the killer use case for VR/AR headsets …

Not that I'm sticking up for Russia here, but I think that assumes that there is a universal canonical "right" and a canonical "wrong", which I am not convinced about.

There's an arrow button at the bottom right of the page, that if you click it reveals a navbar with some links to a careers page and so on. You can also click and drag to rotate th…

Not to flog a dead horse here, but your argument is that without the extension people will try it a couple of times and then forget about you.com, and go back to default. But your …

Yeah my comment is kind of tangential to the post and aimed more at the general idea of location-dependent salaries. I don’t argue with the concept of saying “we want you back in t…

I can see why you’d pay a remote staff member differently from an on-prem staff member. As others have said if you’re hiring remote then your talent pool is effectively the whole w…

I can think of two possible routes that would fulfil this criteria in different ways. The first is to get an IT job at a government organisation that isn't heavily IT focussed, but…

Thanks for replying! Sounds like I should try it out. My maths could use a refresher and I could use an engaging way to learn it. Much appreciated.

Tangential to the topic of this post, but how have you found brilliant? I’ve been considering it but don’t know if it’s worth adding another subscription to my monthly spend when I…

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In the UK, bank notes are different sizes depending on their value. So that goes a long way towards stopping that kind of thing.

If that socialist candidate that you mentioned was big on, say, defense spending, and what you cared about most was defense spending, and the other candidate held the opposite view…

This is great. I keep telling myself that I'll learn Spanish. Something rapid fire like this but for Spanish would be so damned useful.

That was quick work! And I guess that homepage scrolled all along, so now I feel like a right chump for not noticing there was more info below. Anyway, another fun thing for you to…

Thanks, looks great. I guess I'll sign up and give it a go then

I really like the idea of an online resume, but I'm hesitant to sign up without knowing what the end product might look like. Are there example resumes I can look at to see what I'…

It was my understanding that his plan does not involve banning encryption, but rather it involves the creation of a legal framework which would make it OK for government organisati…

I occasionally get uncomfortable with this. I had an eerie experience with SwiftKey on Android a few months ago where I was sending someone my bank account details over SMS (I know…

As I understand it (by reading up on the subject over the last few months - I'm no games professional), the DK2 uses one 1080p screen split across both eyes, but the sticking point…