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I’m an omnivore, and delight in eating meat, animal products.

I’m lucky that I live midway between the city and agricultural areas , and can, and have gone, to the farms where the animals are raised. The cows where my butcher gets the meat are free in pastures, the chickens in a fenced area, but with fairly ample space, fed grain.

It’s not a vegan thing, it’s decency.

You have sunk to new lows

Gaaah! Daaaad!

What do you mean? It looks like it finally got back pinkies right.

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Not really our case. We do English->Spanish, where we try to achieve the most neutral Spanish, as there are many local variations. Think truck/lorry, for example. It’s more translating expressions or phrases that don’t convey the same concept. For example, “by the way” could be translated to “por el camino” which doesn’t usually have the same usage.

LibreOffice also includes Base, while it’s now missing in some 365 editions.

What the hell does the house oversight comitee have to do with a private endeavor?

Even if there was such bias, doesn’t the 1st amendment cover it, as it does Fox, for example?

What most people managing translations don’t get is that they are essentially using the tools that translators use, but skipping the value adding step.

I’ve been doing translation as a side gig for years. Lately I’ve been doing some translations for an NGO that deals with addiction management, of which I’m part.

The materials have a lot of nuances, and need the translator to understand them, to properly convey the concepts.

The usual process for translation is to feed the original to a machine language translation software, and then work with both versions side by side, in a translation management software, tools that make editing and proofing faster and easier by a human, to achieve the best result.

Last time, someone in the organization, mono lingual, decided to do a handbook translation with ChatGPT, or something like that. They then gave the result to a colleague and me.

The resulting translation was exactly what we expected.

A problem was that some bilingual people were shown the results, and reported that the results were amazing, without realizing that they were commenting on the wow factor, not on the accuracy of the result, especially because they had not done a critical side by side comparison.

My colleague and I did the editing work, were paid less, but the end result was the usual translation quality.

The commissioning person at the org boasted that AI translation was great, obviating our work, to get their brownie points.

TLDR: translation has used machine translation as a first step for a long time, with results edited and polished by humans. Ignorant decision makers are skipping that crucial step, getting sub-par results, oblivious to the fact.

Ex university prof here (instructor actually. Lowest monkey up the tree). Duuuh! No shit Sherlock!

Don’t be evil

Sanctions should be expanded, but I think boots on the ground should be started, not as a NATO action, but as individual countries, with autonomous command.

I think there is. Letting the actual professionals guide, instead of the money people is a big step.

Something like McDonnell, and later Boeing, basing all decisions on economic short gains, instead of engineering criteria.

Bean counters shouldn’t make decisions.

Creativity, intuition, “big picture” thinking, global context thinking, empathy and subtle understanding, like teachers understanding a child’s context and adapting the pedagogical approach, or translators grasping concepts, nuances, feeling, will not be replaced soon.

Remember, these are statistical models, nowhere near intelligence. A huge part of intelligence is understanding and decision making with very little data. That inference processing is very far away.

While I’m 110% in favor of unions, they should concentrate on retraining. Those jobs won’t come back, and forcing companies to keep using labor will make many companies less competitive, and will kill many of them, being counter productive in the long run.

We need different strategies.

Poised? It’s already happening. It’s true that many businesses are rushing, and and many of these precipitated decisions are coming back to bite them in the ass. But it will pregressively happen.

Something similar happened when computers appeared, in the span of a few years a number of jobs almost disappeared, like typists.

Companies had floors of people, mainly women, typing out documents, accounting departments, document distribution Airplane crews (first the radio/navigators, then then engineers, 50% of flight crews) etc.

When CAD appeared, most of the draftsmen lost their jobs,

When internet appeared, many others went out the windows, like travel agencies, many retail jobs, banking, and many more.

Robotics killed millions of jobs in manufacturing, and so on.

The switch to cleaner or more efficient modes of energy production killed millions of jobs in the coal industry, mechanization in agriculture…

Disruptive technologies do that.

The large picture is generally good for society, but for individuals it’s devastating.

Not an easy problem to solve.

That would probably be the best strategy, gerrymander the fuck out of a bunch of blue states, and have SCOTUS declare gerrymandering illegal

That’s got to be the Goat of the “Will you take our pic, please?”

Spain does

I own a 26 year old skoda 1.9 TDI 110 HP Without touching any hardware it can be remmaped to 140 hp, which is a setting used in an Audi A4 from that era. Replacing a couple of things, like injectors turbo and intercooler, it can go to 180-190, which was also offered for the same engine. I’m happy with the 110hp, the car drives fine, and the engine is relaxed, wich has helped its longevity