adelie

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by adelie 21d ago
it's a popular area for tourists and mountaineers, but also i think it's a lot easier to estimate missing/dead tourists since most of them will be there with tours/companies that have to keep track of exactly where they
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by adelie 1mo ago
adding easylist - annoyances (specifically the 'ai widgets' section) to your ublock filter lists should get rid of it! it doesn't catch it 100% of the time (the AI summary escapes when there's links above it in search re
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by adelie 2mo ago
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 you might be
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by adelie 5mo ago
logs suggest it's been 'critically failing' and 'blocked for 68 days' on farmhand introduction, although the logs don't go back far enough (and cut off too early) to really tell what's going on. https:&#x
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by adelie 6mo ago
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 counting lines
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by adelie 6mo ago
i'm a senior engineer at a mid-size, publicly traded company. my team has largely avoided AI; our sister team has been quite gungho on it. i recently handed off a project to them that i'd scoped at about one sprint of work. they r
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by adelie 6mo ago
because my company is mandating that we use motorboats instead of rowboats. i can continue to row as a hobby, but i've been very lucky in that my work has always been something i genuinely enjoyed. now that it's become something t
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by adelie 7mo ago
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
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by adelie 7mo ago
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.
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by adelie 1y ago
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 reimplementation contained a nu
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by adelie 1y ago
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.
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by adelie 2y ago
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 one of the
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by adelie 2y ago
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 feminine). i feel like
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by adelie 2y ago
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 because tha
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by adelie 2y ago
my impression is that you can't replace competent programmers with chatGPT, but that hasn't stopped companies from trying (or simply accepting incompetency).
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by adelie 2y ago
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.
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by adelie 2y ago
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 at that) rather than
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by adelie 2y ago
'translationese' is a pretty common term for it. when you translate, it's really easy to mirror the source structure/syntax even when there's more idiomatic ways to say it in the target language.
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by adelie 2y ago
i believe one of the issues with controlled burns is that there are specific conditions necessary for them to be controllable - and with the current state of the california fire season, it's actually really difficult to set them up. he
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by adelie 3y ago
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.
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by adelie 3y ago
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 w
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by adelie 3y ago
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 the form of it i partic
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by adelie 3y ago
there's also an instagram user who specializes in rescuing morphed axolotls: https://www.instagram.com/salamanderwithasign i think some of the recent posts are about a batch of salamander/axolotl hybrids, but if y
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by adelie 3y ago
these results are absolutely hilarious for chinese, where names are almost entirely freeform, gender is determined by character choice (not sound), and there's only a limited set of suffixes to choose from in the first place. i think t
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by adelie 3y ago
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 counterproductiv
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by adelie 3y ago
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
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by adelie 3y ago
doesn't 'nomad' imply you're moving from place to place? remote workers can settle down and integrate into an area, but the digital nomads i know usually only stay as long as their tourist visa lasts - which isn't l
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by adelie 3y ago
> 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 differ
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by adelie 3y ago
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 incredibly disc
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by adelie 3y ago
my main issue is the people making hiring and budget decisions aren't 3D artists, they're managers. my work might be objectively better than GPT's, but is that going to matter when my boss compares the cost difference and dec

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