HK65

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  or, if I’m mistaken, replace NATO with any other military alliance Ukraine would want to join

  This is essentially what the Ukraine EU accession talks are about. The EU is the military alliance they want to join, and it is actually even more protective than the NATO.

  So the question isn’t stupid, Ukraine actually wants this, the EU is of two minds about it so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  even then calling it an organization is not really that accurate

  It is an organization, you can go work for the NATO directly. They are headquartered in Brussels.

  That said, military intervention on behalf of NATO works as you described, but there would be an obligation to help Canada in your example if the war would spread to its home soil. That said, the help obligation is literally worded “as they deem necessary”, so they could pretend that no large-scale intervention is necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell Movie Is Officially Dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the Michael Bay Skibidi Toilet adaptation still coming though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So that means that since bacteria and the like outnumber us by orders of magnitude, statistically speaking, multicellular life would be wiped out completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, lol no it isn’t, the whole submarine plot has been forced into it because Clancy can’t not write about submarines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the loved one was actually the author, it’s a children’s book actually, light fiction, think early Harry Potter for example.

  It’s a self-published hobby project, with a few dozen copies sold in the original language since there are relatively few speakers and light novels for kids are unfortunately a very small niche everywhere, and we didn’t really market it either since earning money wasn’t really the goal. The reason I’m mentioning that it was not professional work is that I’m not misrepresenting the amount of work done to someone paying me, and I’m actually interested in preserving the qualities of the original, I really don’t want to make more LLM slop, and I especially don’t want to make LLM slop out of something that has meaning to me personally. I’ve put at least a few hundred hours of manual work into it to make sure it isn’t.

  But the idea is indeed to self-publish it and sell a few copies to people who are interested. It’s not about the income (the author actually has a regular job and is freelancing in 2 others, this is literally just a hobby), it’s more about the feeling of having made something that made other people interested enough to pay five bucks for it.

  Responding to the other topic, one interesting thing about the translation that I’ve found out (and mistranslations from the LLM actually helped spark this idea), is if you can somehow convey the context to the reader, it can make it fresh and interesting and something they haven’t read before, and that’s true not just about idioms, but other cultural patterns as well.

  Think how the world and themes of Witcher was something refreshing and new for most international audiences, while in its home country it was very recognizable where the author got his material from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very good question.

  • Yes, I have.
  • It was not professional work but a private request from a loved one.
  • It was actually their idea.
  • And I was very, very sceptical about it at the idea at first and the output all throughout the process.

  I have made extensive edits to the original LLM translation, as it got a lot of things wrong. To be honest, it got a lot of the stuff that is unique to the book and that made the book special wrong, both in words, or intent, and I had to correct it. My workflow was literally putting it in the prompt, taking the output, then putting the two texts next to each other and deciding, sentence by sentence, word by word:

  • Is the translation any good? (around 95% was generally good, sometimes it trailed off, and I needed to find the point at which it started bullshitting)
  • Does it use terms that are unique in the book consistently the right way (it almost never did, I literally had a dictionary of the most frequent mistakes)
  • Could I have done it better? Do I know a way to better convey the intent? (this happened quite rarely, as it has done a near word-for-word translation, the biggest problems were idioms that made sense in one language but didn’t in another, or misgendered characters)

  All in all, I think the LLM did the heavy lifting in remembering all the odd words and grammar, and it gave me a very flawed first draft. It was 80% of the time, but like 5% of the actual creative work that goes into a translation.

  I spent 90% of my time outside the LLM, in my text editor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So as a counterpoint to all the comments here, I absolutely see this working. I needed to translate a fairly long work of fiction, and an LLM made my work 10x as fast, since quite obviously my active vocabulary between the two languages differed.

  It was much easier and faster to correct the LLM than to write the translation myself. Imagine this replacing workers not like 1 workplace becomes 1 LLM subscription, but more like 10 workplaces become 2 workplaces and an LLM subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I keep hearing that the Democratic Party should've paid more attention to the young white American demographic. Does this mean there was a point to the "All lives matter." movement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just saying that you did a good job of summarizing that:

  • young people in general feel disenfranchised, young white people as well, but the Dem party only focuses on culture war issues, so they are explicitly not fighting for you or even trying to represent you if you are poor and white
  • that does not mean All Lives Matter wasn’t just a cynical attempt to muddy the waters around the police regularly murdering black people
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I keep hearing that the Democratic Party should've paid more attention to the young white American demographic. Does this mean there was a point to the "All lives matter." movement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for typing this up so I didn’t have to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did France just call me?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Europe Squid!

  Rule number one, the French are dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if Nintendo wins, could Google buy the PUBG IP and use it to sue for Fortnite and destroy Epic?

  There can be only one game of every genre made! \s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for the side OSF is on.

  Conservatives fear immigration, liberals largely don’t care. A small amount of people care deeply, providing a good enemy to bash who are sufficiently few to not cause issues but also sufficiently loud to keep the flames going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Open Society Foundations, Center for American Progress, stuff like that, I guess.

  As I see it, they are more active on idpol and immigration than the economy and the issues that were decisive in the US election this time around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How about Juno New Origins (formerly SimpleRockets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should one archive in a fascist regime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We will have to fight for it though. At this rate we will have to vote down chat control yearly for the next century, and Macron and Scholz are not infinitely better than the US dems either.

  At least now, they see that immediate rearmament and asserting ourselves as an economic and geopolitic power is a necessity, even if our industry doesn’t feel like it and never wants to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The ACA, which brought US healthcare from an 18th century level to a 19th century one in 2010, was a half measure under Obama, he got reelected for it, he was president for 7 more years after he signed that.

  First time voters today were 4 years old when it happened. What else has the Democratic Party been doing? How about the housing crisis? How about inflation? Oh, they got that one 1400 USD stimmy check passed after Trump looted the coffers for corpos big and small.

  Look, I’m not saying Harris wasn’t the better, less destructive choice. I’m saying something had had to happen, and people didn’t turn out for a candidate who said the past four years and the way the world is going is good. Not as well as for someone who saw problems and proposed - admittedly monstrous and ineffective - solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what should one archive in a fascist regime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, are we really becoming the last beacon of freedom and liberty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The Dems lost this election more than the Reps won it.

  And no, it’s not just Harris. It’s the fact they haven’t accomplished anything substantially changing the lives of people for dozens of years, and they fought more against people like Sanders than people like Cheney.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically, I think that was the thought process.

  Hard to vote for someone who is telling you all is well and the people that got the country here are competent and mean well, when the country is going through 5 different crises, all preventing you from living a decent life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny but it's not funny.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. People from the US are always surprised they are not a default privileged class all over the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol we have Chinese police taking people away already. I’d also love chat control to go through. No fair that it’s only the US and the Chinese who get to dragnet the world, I want locally sourced fair trade repression. Gotta love this world.

  That said, China has a lot of shit going on, but a credit system is not one of them. For example, they are actively trying to tamp down social (and physical) mobility. It’s a shit place right now, maybe it always was.

  The only country I know that has a credit points system that decides a lot of the opportunities you get in life is the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, maybe we in Europe will get to be the ones making a deal with the devil (Stalin then, Xi now) to get a red flag flying in the fascist capitol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you’re running afoul of the DMCA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a thing for any measure said to enforce copyright under the DMCA.

  So it’s a thing for most proprietary software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.

  And you can’t even check what it’s really doing on your computer because it’s a crime under US law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Save the trees, eat the beavers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically a mishmash of Ancient Ugric, Turkish, German, Slavic and Romani words with grammar that is an eldritch monstrosity, nobody really knows where it came from, and it is seriously weird.

  There are only two real tenses, but nineteen cases and two different ways of doing imperative, which are kind of equivalent but carry cultural and tonal differences in certain contexts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like a toy 'yota.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And made machine looms.