absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
FYI:
multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism
@MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform.
multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the language of your choosing.
on plurilingual platforms, you can write in whatever language you choose and regardless of localization.
that’s Mastodon today.
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FYI:
multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism
@MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform.
multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the language of your choosing.
on plurilingual platforms, you can write in whatever language you choose and regardless of localization.
that’s Mastodon today.
it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115849251057488746
absofuckinlutely DETEST autotranslation & localization. this is why i use VPNs: to search the web beyond gringolandia; to read the web in other languages & not gringlish.
if you want to know how pigheaded a business "culture" is, look at how they force localization ―and this includes search engines.
then there’s the damage done to plurilinguism by Microsoft Office.
i hate the illiterate techbro, one language at a time, model of reading & writing.
develop for plurilinguism or GTFO
@blogdiva Please, from now on use #MacroslopOffice beiing the correct name.
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
btw: when Bush & Cheney were getting ready to invade #Iraq, i started translating news from EU & Latin America that were not being reprinted or followed up by USA media.
BBC, El Pais, they would block americans from their sites. L’Express never did; neither news sites from Canada, México, Brasil. so i was a one-woman RSS feed, circumventing geoblocks, quote posting (yes, they existed before twitter) what caught my eye or blogging full translations.
USA media has never been trustworthy.
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FYI:
multilinguism ≠ plurilinguism
@MastodonEngineering should be really proud of themselves because we have here the closest thing to a plurilingual platform.
multilingual platforms allow you to write in the language of your choice, usually with the app completely translated into the language of your choosing.
on plurilingual platforms, you can write in whatever language you choose and regardless of localization.
that’s Mastodon today.
@blogdiva @MastodonEngineering Oh my god you're right! I routinely auto-translate posts into English and then confidently respond in English knowing they can auto-translate back to their own language. I know the translation will be choppy, but it's literally *good enough* for chatting on the internet.
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
@blogdiva I never understood why language anchors weren’t just a thing in Unicode from the start! It would have actually made Han unification make some sense.
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@blogdiva @MastodonEngineering Oh my god you're right! I routinely auto-translate posts into English and then confidently respond in English knowing they can auto-translate back to their own language. I know the translation will be choppy, but it's literally *good enough* for chatting on the internet.
@blogdiva @MastodonEngineering Thank you so much for the concept of the "pluralinguistic"! That's going to be very useful.
Because I've experienced what you're talking about: a system that detects when I'm writing English vs. writing (poorly in my case) in French. It drove me up the wall that either the English or the French were always both underlined in red *and* that the spellcheck didn't apply (ie, it would be great if it added accent marks for me).
We need pluralinguistic applications.
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
@blogdiva Libre Office does much better for plurilingual text
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
@blogdiva I've never been happier then the day I realised thunderbird would spell check multiple languages at once for emails. But apart from that lovely exception, silicon valley dominance in tech means all apps assume people only use one language. It's such a limited small minded way of thinking...
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
@blogdiva I sort of see that - some aspects of typesetting depend on the language, but this should have been a problem of the journal, no? I did not have to quote many non-English texts in papers, it usually worked. Turning off all auto correct stuff could have helped with that (if I had used Word...)
But I totally agree: our lives are so much richer when we use more languages. My best experience was four person around a table speaking four languages (because we had no single common language)
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it was absolute hell when i was writing academic papers, 30 years ago, quoting sources in 2-3 different languages.
in proper academic writing, if you translate the text, you include the original in a footnote or vice-versa.
Microsoft Office, with their insistence that autocorrect can only happen one language at a time, has kneecapped plurilingual literacy.
we could be using language anchors to deal with dictionary switching, but nooo because illiterate techbros rule the world.
@blogdiva see also google surveilling everything i do but comletely failing to realize, on my phone with german as the system language, that i'm usually looking for the english wikipedia page
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@mike "OpenAI's new 'dedicated experience' that taps into your medical records..." What could go wrong 😀
On the other hand, as a woman™ I'm actually kind of excited for the advanced pattern recognition that AI could bring. It might help with better identifying women's health issues.
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@eriol @informapirata Il problema di personaggi famosi e politici è proprio questo: influenzano, e hanno i soldi per farlo.
Poi nel caso specifico delle persone trans, la stessa scienza ha conoscenze relativamente recenti e neanche tutte. Le persone in questione sono poche, e allora ci si sente in diritto di sminuirle. O peggio.
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@eniko so, disclaimer, I don't know if this is useful advice to your situation, but I found these to be handy on a project I worked on a while back:
https://lxjk.github.io/2018/03/25/Improve-Tile-based-Light-Culling-with-Spherical-sliced-Cone.html
https://wickedengine.net/2018/01/optimizing-tile-based-light-culling/
iirc we used a modified version of the spherical-sliced cone test combined with the tile depth bitmask strat for dealing with depth discontinuity. this was for culling reflection probes though, not objects.
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Ooof. This sounds like the worst idea I've heard of for a while. I don't feel like this should need to be said, but don't trust an LLM for medical advice. Seriously.
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@eniko
So the obvious performance hack is to set your game in the 1870's and the player character is a horse wearing blinders.
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@eniko is there a reason why you're not using the typical hierarchical z buffer approach?
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@evan a simple but effective way to avoid pile-ons is to not display the number of likes/dislikes. Whether I like something or not shouldn’t depend on others views so showing that stat seems unnecessary.
Of course, that’s predicated on the assumption that using the like button actually means I like it. I use it for a variety of reasons ranging from “I agree” to “I saw this response but have nothing to add.”
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@elettrona @informapirata però i due esempi sono del tutto disparati: da un lato una battuta, dall'altro una persona che sistematicamente usa i suoi soldi e la sua notorietà per volere morte delle persone.
Perché rimuovere diritti questo significa.
Anche io consiglio, se proprio uno ci tiene, di prenderli in biblioteca in modo da non darle altri soldi.
