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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'…

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 wh…

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 ma…

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 t…

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 g…

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 abo…

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 th…

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-…

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 co…

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…

my impression is that you can't replace competent programmers with chatGPT, but that hasn't stopped companies from trying (or simply accepting incompetency).

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 be…

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 wo…

'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 t…

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 se…

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 jus…

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 …

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 sal…

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 o…

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 lan…

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 enjo…

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…