MartinMcGirk

6 ms·

1.
by MartinMcGirk 1y ago
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 board to get the political buy-in to send unmanned craft to a
2.
by MartinMcGirk 1y ago
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 me is just a productivity gain with no job satisfaction. So I
3.
by MartinMcGirk 1y ago
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 6 vs 6n vs 7 vs mesh vs not-mesh breakdown. It wa
4.
by MartinMcGirk 2y ago
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. But VPN'ing through the US shows me the whole set.
5.
by MartinMcGirk 3y ago
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 nice to feel like something I was building would last as long
6.
by MartinMcGirk 4y ago
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 is to replace your laptop with a device that
7.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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.
8.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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 the cube. But yeah, it doesn't do anything particula
9.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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 target demographic is here telling you that with the extensi
10.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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 the office, if you don’t want to come to the office then take
11.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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 world, so price competition is fiercer. But if everyone is re
12.
by MartinMcGirk 5y ago
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 needs someone on staff "just in case". I onc
13.
by MartinMcGirk 6y ago
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.
14.
by MartinMcGirk 6y ago
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 could presumably get a lot of the same knowledge from YouTu
15.
by MartinMcGirk 8y ago
Administrate | Edinburgh UK | Full Stack Engineers | Fulltime | 4 day (32 hour) week | On site and remote considered We’re one of the fastest growing tech companies in Scotland, looking for engineers. We provide an EdTech solution that help
16.
by MartinMcGirk 8y ago
In the UK, bank notes are different sizes depending on their value. So that goes a long way towards stopping that kind of thing.
17.
by MartinMcGirk 10y ago
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 on defense spending, then it's not unreasonable that y
18.
by MartinMcGirk 11y ago
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.
19.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
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 look at if you're so inclined is that when I just trie
20.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
Thanks, looks great. I guess I'll sign up and give it a go then
21.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
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'd be getting? If so, it might be a good idea to li
22.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
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 organisations to break into encrypted communications and communication
23.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
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, I know) so they could wire me some money, and I typed &quo
24.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
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 is that it has to render each frame twice from slightl
25.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
I'm a bit late in replying, but hopefully you'll still see this. My current reasoning goes something like this: The Oculus is aimed at high-end PC gamers. I know this because I have a desktop running an i7 3.5GHz quad core process
26.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
You know what this is going to be great for? Travelling. I'm facing a flight from Scotland to Australia in December where I'm going to be sat in economy class on a no-frills Air-China flight for god-only-knows how long, and my opt
27.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
>It's a pretty long, annoying process to become a member, but I'd recommend it if you'd prefer not to die. The thing that always disappoints me whenever I read about cryogenic freezing is that people seem to have to alread
28.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
Well, not to undermine the gist of your point (which I agree with) but instead of voting for a party per se, you actually vote for a local Member of Parliament, who can be a member of a party or not, and is free to switch party whenever the
29.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
I think you might be right on this. If I signed up to a service like this and there was no one in my area, but the app suggested that I might like to chat to these 50 odd people online in London or San Francisco, I might well stick around.
30.
by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
I feel like there is definitely something in this basic idea. Although I'm not sure that a rigid 1 mile boundary really makes a whole lot of sense. I'll explain: I feel like the experience you get with an app like, say, tinder, wh

More ›