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"To be fair", there is ASCII in the name
"To be fair..." (chorus of Letterkenny voices) I appreciate the ASCII-only excuse, but I've corrected the omission anyway. Non-ASCII characters in randomascii - what will they think of next?
> 278 °K to 283 °K,
There's no ° symbol before the kelvin unit, just a regular non-breaking space if you want to be SI-compliant.
A bit related, but I hate how many errors I get because I want my system language to be English instead of my native language (Norwegian) on my laptop, phone etc. Because I don't want a badly translated experience. However, I still want units in meters, Celsius, dates written sensibly, time in 24h format etc. But not all apps understand this, which is quite annoying. It's like they only look at the language and make…
It really is incredible how many translated apps/websites talk like a drunken finn, when i set language to finnish. Only the things made by native finns seem to have good Finnish on them.
GPT-4 correctly converts the difference to 36F. GPT-3.5 on the other hand gets crazy and decides that the difference is 154.4F. Same prompt. At this point I'm starting to believe GPT3.5 is dangerously stupid.
Hard? So is using the degree symbol apparently: not a single one in the whole article. (68F is not a temperature — it’s a seat number.) https://degreeswhat.com/?68
No, 68 farads is a capacitance. Pretty massive one, too. It's another question how they obtain that from coulombs...
[1] https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html (number 15).
It's not hard at all, the localization team just made a mistake. The solution is to not localize for Americans.
Yes just ignore the vast majority of native English speakers. I wonder why an English-language newspaper (which heavily markets itself outside the UK) didn’t think of that.
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"To be fair", there is ASCII in the name
"To be fair..." (chorus of Letterkenny voices) I appreciate the ASCII-only excuse, but I've corrected the omission anyway. Non-ASCII characters in randomascii - what will they think of next?
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Yes just ignore the vast majority of native English speakers. I wonder why an English-language newspaper (which heavily markets itself outside the UK) didn’t think of that.
Or we can just use a calculator. I'm sure most people's phones can even translate it by a voice command "What's 20 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit?"
A bit related, but I hate how many errors I get because I want my system language to be English instead of my native language (Norwegian) on my laptop, phone etc. Because I don't want a badly translated experience. However, I still want units in meters, Celsius, dates written sensibly, time in 24h format etc. But not all apps understand this, which is quite annoying. It's like they only look at the language and make…
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This used to work back in the old days, but more and more sites decides to ignore this a few years ago. The reasoning is that the percentage of users with misconfigured browsers (who don't know how to fix this and also don't know how to click a "change language" button on the website) is bigger than the percentage of users who intentionally use a language that's different from their geolocated one. So the ad-revenue…
That’s why I like travelling: I’ll get all my web content in English (the language I do know) and the ads in a language I don’t know (perfect).
A bit related, but I hate how many errors I get because I want my system language to be English instead of my native language (Norwegian) on my laptop, phone etc. Because I don't want a badly translated experience. However, I still want units in meters, Celsius, dates written sensibly, time in 24h format etc. But not all apps understand this, which is quite annoying. It's like they only look at the language and make…
I'm Italian and I have the same problem. You just have to set the system to English (UK) and all your problems will be fixed :)
When I travel to the US/UK I _do_ actually want to start seeing distances in miles (I'm "bilingual" with m/km, it's useful to think in distances that locals understand and that match signage). So "just use my home locale's units all the time" wouldn't work (especially for speeds!). So yeah I guess localization is indeed hard!
Honestly I've now just started trying to learn Farenheit! 90 is hot, 70 is nice, 50 is cold, 30 is ice.