NeatNit
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Watched Avatar: The Last Airbender with Hebrew subtitles, there were loads of mistranslations. Sometimes stating the exact opposite of what the English original said, other times the transistor just completely doesn’t understand what they’re translating and results in random nonsense statements. Sorry I don’t have any specific examples, but really it’s too common.
Lest you think it’s because it’s a kids show: more recently I’ve been watching Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators with my mom (a British cosy mystery comedy-drama television series, thanks Wikipedia), and mistranslations in the subtitles are just as common.
It really makes me worry about how common similar mistakes could be in e.g. Japanese content (anime, video games) subbed to English. I don’t know any Japanese, so my ONLY source of information is the English sub, and if it’s as flaky as the Hebrew subs for English sources, I really could be missing out :(
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
When the vehicle weight increases while tire PSI stays the same, the contact patch (area squished flat against the pavement) increases in size.
If the vehicle gets heavier, doesn’t the tire pressure increase?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I know this! youtu.be/ztHq1NLEbio?t=9m4s (note the timestamp, 9:04)
Short version: surprisingly, yes!
- Comment on courier transform 1 week ago:
Not only that, it’s its own inverse (besides some constants), so you just need to apply the same transform again to get back the original.
I don’t remember which one it is though, so it could be either. Odds are 50/50, right? So all you have to do is mail yourself the very expensive item that got superficially damaged in transit, and there’s a 50% chance you’ll get it back good as new!
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 2 weeks ago:
… what?
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, to say the least. A year or so before the October 7th that sparked our country’s intentional relations nosedive, there were massive country-wide protests, which I also participated in. You can probably find articles about it. It was protesting against certain anti-democratic things the government was doing (I don’t want to get into the weeds here), but it was also fueled by unprecedented distrust of just about everyone in the government, and most of all Netanyahu. This distrust has only gotten worse.
That bastard should be in jail, but as “luck” would have it, he is always so preoccupied with all the wars he started that he can’t attend his court trial where he faces serious criminal charges. What’s that? Conflict of interest? He gains personal benefit from neverending war, so he has no incentive to actually end it (be it through diplomacy or through military victory)? Nah, I’m sure he has the country’s best interests at heart.
That people keep voting for him astounds me. But we’re seeing similar patterns worldwide, most obvious example being USA, so I guess this democracy thing is just failing all over the place this decade.
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 weeks ago:
Noooooo stop educating me against my will!!!
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 3 weeks ago:
Speaking as an Israeli, I don’t have an answer for you. But you’re not alone. Most of the people I know are in the same boat to various extents. That tends to happen with today’s social-media-fueled political polarization.
What I try to say online (if it comes up and becomes a problem) is this is just where I was born. But to be honest, I find that most people worth talking to don’t give a shit where you live. As one of them once told me in reply, you don’t control your spawn point.
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 3 weeks ago:
I highly recommend Unexpected Keyboard for things like that. I still wouldn’t want to do more though, it’s just not comfortable.
github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard (F-Droid / Play Store)
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 weeks ago:
You might be onto something.
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 weeks ago:
I like it!
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 weeks ago:
Air quotes almost never mean literally quoting someone else. I’d say it signifies that the speaker doesn’t agree with the words they are saying. Per Wikipedia: “Air quotes are often used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism and are analogous to scare quotes in print.”
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- Comment on $1$ 5 weeks ago:
There have been some claims that the numberphile video is very misrepresentative of the underlying math. But I never dug deep enough into it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In many languages the days are numbered, e.g. “First day”, “Second day”, …, “Seventh day”. Speakers of those languages have no question about when the week starts.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#…
Notably, the older languages start the week on Sunday. Some of the languages that start the week on Monday can be attributed to mistranslation from the former group. So starting the week on Sunday is historically more correct.
Disclosure: I speak a language that starts the week on Sunday, so I’m biased.
- Comment on Handy tip 1 month ago:
Literal superpower. You hold us all at your mercy.
- Comment on Handy tip 1 month ago:
Is it worth it? That depends. What percentage of the boys does it bring to the yard?
- Comment on Handy tip 1 month ago:
Yes. In a frictionless vacuum.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 1 month ago:
2038 is going to be a fun year with all the 32bit clocks overflowing to 1970
Actually 13 December 1901, since it overflows to negative, not zero.
Other than that, good answer, full marks
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 1 month ago:
“For the most part” does not mean “entirely”.
I’m not taking a side here: maybe you’re right, maybe OP’s right. But I won’t stand for such cheap arguments!
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 1 month ago:
Relevant SMBC: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bot-3
It’s not insightful or anything, but I think it’s an interesting coincidence that you’re asking this question so soon after it was published.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Where I am, you get a message when it’s been used, but obviously not any identifying information.
Also I have absolutely no way of knowing if the message is legit or they just tell you that a random time after your donation regardless just to make it feel good and donate again.
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 18 comments
- Comment on Dumb critique 1 month ago:
potato, tomato…
- Comment on Dumb critique 1 month ago:
It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.
- Comment on Dumb critique 1 month ago:
Daniel Stenberg isn’t a random person, he is the lead developer of
curlwhich is the backbone of quite literally every networked device on the planet and outside of it. The curl project supports a very large number of protocols. His opinion does mean something here.That said, this does need to be clarified in the Wikipedia page, and it’s still possible that his criticism isn’t actually relevant in the end. I’m still reading about this.
- Comment on Fingies 1 month ago:
I find it very worrying that both fingers in the photo have the exact same fingerprint.
- Comment on Where is your God now? 2 months ago:
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s a coffee machine with the coffee blasphemously being poured into a bowl instead of a mug.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
And here I am, stuck living in the one country in the world that’s only getting closer to the US: Israel. I pray that by the end of the next decade or three, when the dust settles, we’ll be closer to Europe instead, as we’ve been in the past. But that seems practically impossible.
Sigh maybe I’ll move to Europe. I’d probably fit in better culturally.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 2 months ago:
I don’t think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven’t heard of it before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
