Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev.
I’m on board for people being required to learn some second language, but to take a way a people’s language is basically cultural genocide. There are so many things buried in the nuance of usage, the grammar, and other things that are lost if the target language doesn’t have those features. As a second language, this doesn’t so much matter, but as a forced primary language (such as in the schools many aboriginal peoples were forced into), it is devastating.
I don’t suppose there’s any legal way for constituents to immediately recall/fire their elected official?
Leapfrog? Execution.
There was a meme picture of a Finnish bus stop with people queueing leaving about 1-2m between each person. When it was still current, I asked some friends of mine about it and they said “yeah, we definitely like our personal space”, especially out in the countryside.
I’ve spoken to some Fins and it’s being that close to another human being causing that.
/S but only slightly
Maybe he’ll wake up with a conscience one day and start an epic redemption arc and… Eh, who am I kidding
I found LLMs to be useful for generating examples of specific functions/APIs in poorly-documented and niche libraries. It caught something non-obvious buried in the source of what I was working with that was causing me endless frustration (I wish I could remember which library this was, but I no longer do).
Maybe I’m old and proud, definitely I’m concerned about the security implications, but I will not allow any LLM to write code for me. Anyone who does that (or, for that matter, pastes code form the internet they don’t fully understand) is just begging for trouble.
Even the diehard Trump fans would probably not be okay
Given the number of diehard trump fans who wish harm to other members of the US and agitate for an internal war, I doubt this is true for the majority of them.
It’s… Beautiful.
That makes sense. I never really read much Murakami (I started but don’t recall finishing one of his books). Given all the Japanese tourists in Hawaii (and probably Guam as well), that would make sense, too.
I think there is a European bias and maybe a (perceived?) prestige bias to Castilian as well.
My knowledge may be dated and it may vary by state, but the “I want to go to uni” track had a two-year requirement of a foreign language. When I was in school, French and Spanish were the only choices and most people wanted to study Spanish. My school system had German as well at some point, but it was cut before I got into highschool in the mid '90s. Some schools have Latin, Japanese, and others as well.
A lot more than two. Even within Latin America, there are some fairly interesting differences in grammar, vocab, and pronunciation.
I just got tired of always middle-clicking because I would inevitably forget to, close the tab I was using, and get annoyed. I actually ended up needing to post on that site eventually, so the account has purpose now, at least.
American workers also want American wages. The problem is wages have been a race to the bottom. So, even if the US could magically get the labor, materials, capital, locations, etc. to produce things, they would be waaaaay more expensive than now. Not that reducing mindless consumption is a bad thing in my mind, but this would still be true of essential goods. This still remains true even with his attempts to undo all kinds of environmental regulations.
I wonder if widescale immunity reset could lead to a resurgence of something like polio which we’ve almost eradicated.
Well, my username is because I got tired of a website only allowing you to set opening all links in new tabs if you had an account, so it might be hard to die by internet tab. I also religiously close tabs as soon as I’m done, so I never have that many open. If we can loosen the rules: drowns by bad genie wish in tab cola.
step 1: unsafe fn()…
As an android user (Pixel), I’ve only ever opened AI by accident. My work PC is a mac and it force-reenables apple intelligence after every update. I dutifully go into settings and disable that shit. While summarizing things is something AI can be good at, I generally want to actually read the detail of work communications since, as a software engineer, detail is a teeeny bit important.
I think someone can be culturally X, legally X, ethnically X, etc. for any country X. I have met people from European backgrounds who grew up solely in Japan and would consider themselves Japanese, though some often wrestle with issues, both internal and external, around that since they eyes of someone seeing them almost always see only “other” first. They hold Japanese nationality, are culturally Japanese, but not ethnically Japanese. Then again, ethnicity is its own thing as well.
It’s a complicated topic and I’m certainly no expert on it. I’m a white guy of mixed western european ancestry who grew up in a town where that was the majority (and had no shortage of anti-Semites and racists, as I would find out as I got older). I’ve just been trying to learn along the way. I’ve been living in Japan for the past decade and see some of the small things that cause extra hurdles for those of foreign backgrounds (ignoring outright racism in that; just little things that only work for people whose names are <= 8 characters, require documentation only Japanese people can ever get, etc.) People who don’t know me will often just use one of the words for foreigner or outsider and clarify with white person if that’s ever necessary.
I guess I have a question: If you found a child with “darker skin shades” who was lost and you needed to create the most accurate description possible to the police over the phone to help them, what would you use to describe them (until the police would arrive and obviously see with their own eyes)? I think I would personally pick the closest colors for everything I could and not care about any sense of political correctness.
There have been attempts in the US (and probably elsewhere) to replace “black” with “African American” or other similar things. Ask an American Indian what they want to be called. Some would say “Native American” though others reject that because they are older than any conception of America and are not native to that nation. Others will be OK with “first peoples/nations” (often used in Canada, I think), “aboriginal”, or just “Indian” since that is the term they grew up with.
A bit of humor to close off with: sometimes people from the US will travel to the UK or elsewhere and, rather than using black to describe just the skintone of the person, will say “African American”… to people who often have never set foot there and certainly aren’t citizens.