hi! i live in SF. at trader joe's, these items would be priced at - $5 (bread loaf) + $5 (eggs) + $3 (yogurt) + $2 (onions) + $2 (tomatoes) + $1 (jalapeno) + $3 (parsley) = $21. i'm rounding up on eggs and bread since…
my company (mid-size, publicly traded) is mandating [x] hours spent on AI per week. i have no idea how they're planning on measuring this, and as far as i can tell, neither does management. suppose it's better than…
I'm not in translation, but a number of close friends are in the industry. Two trends I've noticed in the industry, which I think we're seeing mirrored in tech: 1. No one cares about quality. Even in fields you'd expect…
it feels good because we've turned coding into a gacha machine. you chase the high from when it works, and if it doesn't, you just throw more tokens at the problem.
i've seen this fairly often with internal libraries as well - a recent AI-assisted PR i reviewed included a complete reimplementation of our metrics collector interface. suspect this happened because the…
language-based professions like translation have been dying for years and no one has cared; they're not about to start now that the final nail's been put in the coffin.
generally speaking for han chinese folks, surnames are one character and given names are one or two characters (with two being more common, usually). so if you see a name that's 1-2 or 2-1 (i.e. liu yifei) and it's not…
chinese names can absolutely be gendered - for example, if i met a 璐, there's a 99% chance that name belongs to a woman because of its meaning (beautiful jade) and its character composition (王 radicals tend to be…
my understanding is that there's a bit of a catch-22 with data removal - if you request that a data broker remove ALL of your information, it's impossible for them to keep you from reappearing in their sources later on…
i'm bilingual and have absolutely not experienced this. that being said, i think being bilingual - rather than a learner - does make it a lot easier to code-switch instinctively between different languages.
from my experience doing animanga-adjacent translations - readers also prioritize speed first, quality second. there are a lot of people who will happily read machine-translated work (and often awkward, typo-ridden MTL…
it's pretty likely that storebought stock is made with 'unattractive' produce that wouldn't otherwise sell, like how tomato sauce is made with ugly or bruised tomatoes.
you can't really have a 'nonsense' name - there's a list of around 3000 characters you're allowed to use in names, but in theory, you can put together whatever you want. you'll just get side-eyed for having a weird…
like the author, i burned out on the extracurricular grind necessary to get into an elite college and as a result, spent most of my university years severely depressed. for me, it was debate club. i liked debate, but…
i'm always a bit wary of parents treating childhood language acquisition as a project - language fluency requires practice and interest to keep up, and pushing a kid to learn a language when they don't care can be…
you might enjoy this write-up of someone's yuru camp pilgrimage, then: https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/86c4rg/i_went_to_the... i actually visited sendai for haikyuu! i enjoyed my time there a lot - there's a lot…
> If you can't communicate with pinyin you can't communicate with the language, since it almost perfectly models the sounds. hm, i'd say it's a bit more complicated than that. written and literary chinese has a…
genuinely, the fact that you're even considering this question as a signal for hirability is depressing. even if it's a useful signal, it sends a bad message. my first exposure to programming was college and it was…
yep, exactly. the issue isn't that there will no longer be a need for human translators - machine translation makes subtle mistakes that legal/technical fields will need a human to double-check. the issue is that many…
My high school English teacher adamantly refused to read any essay over the length of one page, double-spaced. I learned more from that class than any other writing class I took.
This is essentially the premise of Neal Stephenson's Fall or Dodge in Hell.
i'm not familiar with the temeraire novels, but based on your description the naming system makes total sense to me - and definitely sounds more natural to native ears. it looks like they're using personal name…
regardless of how i might feel about stallman's actions, the dishonest reporting and twitter mob-baiting leading up to his removal leaves a bad taste in my mouth. while there are those who believe 'stallman did nothing…
don't need either of those. shipping isn't even a problem now with taobao direct - taobao themselves will cover shipping to one of their warehouses, and then you can batch those to ship internationally. once you get…
am one of those people! depends a lot on the commentary, though - i probably don't care about your feelings (sorry) or descriptive prose. on the other hand, when i'm looking up a recipe from another culture, i really…
hi! i live in SF. at trader joe's, these items would be priced at - $5 (bread loaf) + $5 (eggs) + $3 (yogurt) + $2 (onions) + $2 (tomatoes) + $1 (jalapeno) + $3 (parsley) = $21. i'm rounding up on eggs and bread since…
my company (mid-size, publicly traded) is mandating [x] hours spent on AI per week. i have no idea how they're planning on measuring this, and as far as i can tell, neither does management. suppose it's better than…
I'm not in translation, but a number of close friends are in the industry. Two trends I've noticed in the industry, which I think we're seeing mirrored in tech: 1. No one cares about quality. Even in fields you'd expect…
it feels good because we've turned coding into a gacha machine. you chase the high from when it works, and if it doesn't, you just throw more tokens at the problem.
i've seen this fairly often with internal libraries as well - a recent AI-assisted PR i reviewed included a complete reimplementation of our metrics collector interface. suspect this happened because the…
language-based professions like translation have been dying for years and no one has cared; they're not about to start now that the final nail's been put in the coffin.
generally speaking for han chinese folks, surnames are one character and given names are one or two characters (with two being more common, usually). so if you see a name that's 1-2 or 2-1 (i.e. liu yifei) and it's not…
chinese names can absolutely be gendered - for example, if i met a 璐, there's a 99% chance that name belongs to a woman because of its meaning (beautiful jade) and its character composition (王 radicals tend to be…
my understanding is that there's a bit of a catch-22 with data removal - if you request that a data broker remove ALL of your information, it's impossible for them to keep you from reappearing in their sources later on…
i'm bilingual and have absolutely not experienced this. that being said, i think being bilingual - rather than a learner - does make it a lot easier to code-switch instinctively between different languages.
from my experience doing animanga-adjacent translations - readers also prioritize speed first, quality second. there are a lot of people who will happily read machine-translated work (and often awkward, typo-ridden MTL…
it's pretty likely that storebought stock is made with 'unattractive' produce that wouldn't otherwise sell, like how tomato sauce is made with ugly or bruised tomatoes.
you can't really have a 'nonsense' name - there's a list of around 3000 characters you're allowed to use in names, but in theory, you can put together whatever you want. you'll just get side-eyed for having a weird…
like the author, i burned out on the extracurricular grind necessary to get into an elite college and as a result, spent most of my university years severely depressed. for me, it was debate club. i liked debate, but…
i'm always a bit wary of parents treating childhood language acquisition as a project - language fluency requires practice and interest to keep up, and pushing a kid to learn a language when they don't care can be…
you might enjoy this write-up of someone's yuru camp pilgrimage, then: https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/86c4rg/i_went_to_the... i actually visited sendai for haikyuu! i enjoyed my time there a lot - there's a lot…
> If you can't communicate with pinyin you can't communicate with the language, since it almost perfectly models the sounds. hm, i'd say it's a bit more complicated than that. written and literary chinese has a…
genuinely, the fact that you're even considering this question as a signal for hirability is depressing. even if it's a useful signal, it sends a bad message. my first exposure to programming was college and it was…
yep, exactly. the issue isn't that there will no longer be a need for human translators - machine translation makes subtle mistakes that legal/technical fields will need a human to double-check. the issue is that many…
My high school English teacher adamantly refused to read any essay over the length of one page, double-spaced. I learned more from that class than any other writing class I took.
This is essentially the premise of Neal Stephenson's Fall or Dodge in Hell.
i'm not familiar with the temeraire novels, but based on your description the naming system makes total sense to me - and definitely sounds more natural to native ears. it looks like they're using personal name…
regardless of how i might feel about stallman's actions, the dishonest reporting and twitter mob-baiting leading up to his removal leaves a bad taste in my mouth. while there are those who believe 'stallman did nothing…
don't need either of those. shipping isn't even a problem now with taobao direct - taobao themselves will cover shipping to one of their warehouses, and then you can batch those to ship internationally. once you get…
am one of those people! depends a lot on the commentary, though - i probably don't care about your feelings (sorry) or descriptive prose. on the other hand, when i'm looking up a recipe from another culture, i really…