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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Well, it's true that most my my colleagues can read English well enough to get the gist of docs and Stack Overflow, but when it comes to speaking, they don't know how to pronounce a lot of the words, to the point of being very d
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
At least in IT, it's not even necessary to emigrate- foreign owned companies offer significantly better salaries and working conditions. The sticking point is English ability. It's genuinely a very difficult thing to learn a secon
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Apart from the paperwork that you need to pass on to your next employer, salaries can be structured in a way that makes the base pay rather low, but the yearly income is boosted up to a reasonable level by bonuses, overtime allowance (fixed
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
As someone living in Japan (and working for a mostly reasonable Japanese-owned and operated company), I'm often a bit annoyed by the people confidently spouting second-hand Reddit knowledge that all Japanese workers are in situations
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
They can and do, but struggle with the following problems: - Assessing English proficiency. It's hard to do if you can't speak English yourself, and so they tend to fall back on numeric measures like test scores (which someone who
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Apart from the logistical issues with tracking and verifying everyone's identity, I think cutting teenagers off from an (admittedly very manipulated and dysfunctional) source of community is not a straightforwardly good idea. To give s
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I think it would be similar in Australia, where I'm from, but different in any country where "nationality" and "linguistic/cultural/ethnic background" are synonymous for most people. Most of us wouldn&#x27
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I don't really get why people always say "no matter how long you live in Japan, Japanese people will never truly see you as Japanese." Yeah, okay, but also no matter how long I live in Japan, telling other people from my home
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
> There's (imo) plenty of evidence that smartphones are hurting kids, and therefore it's a parent's job to crack down on it even if it costs them in their social life. From personal experience, being isolated as a kid can
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Mental health was not the primary purpose, but I think the organization of online communities probably benefited a lot of people with niche interests or identities and introduced them to lifelong friends. Some of my IRL friends are people f
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Mundane childhood incident that somehow became a core memory: Trying to tell my 2nd grade teacher I wanted to bring a Richard Scarry book to show and tell and she was convinced I was talking about "witches scary" and therefore it
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Is this possible to do smoothly with languages that have an extremely different grammar to English? If you need to wait until the end of the sentence to get the verb, for instance, then that could take more than five seconds, particularly i
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Intellectually a 14 year old should certainly be able to understand the difference between a chatbot and a human, but there's a subset of emotionally unstable people (mostly teenagers) who become extremely attached to characters that a
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Sorry, it seems I was carrying over knowledge from another article with additional transcripts. The bot had previously discouraged him when he explicitly talked about suicide (here's an article that mentions that: https://ww
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
> Reading through it, that's the opposite of what happened. Sorry, I may have been carrying knowledge over from other articles on the same incident that showed additional transcripts. It seems that when he explicitly referred to dea
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I am mildly to moderately critical of generative AI and how it's being marketed, but the root issue here seems to be existing suicidal ideation. The bot didn't initiate talk of suicide and told him not to do it when he brought it
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
The commenter who says that ChatGPT is his "girlfriend" seems to have a fairly open-eyed view of the potential pitfalls, but I find it difficult to understand how he can have such a positive emotional reaction to the "sweet&q
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I do this when I write, to the point where I have to go back and edit myself after using a slightly unusual word several times in quick succession. I think words I've used recently are easier to access, as if there's a cache for i
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
In my experience, the words that carry the most information in a sentence are the less common ones. Here's what understanding 80% of a sentence is like: "I went to the sdjfkdsh and got a new ghjsakgfh." The missing words coul
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Calling this "database consumption" seems to imply a disdain for fans who are less concerned with a grand narrative than characters or elements of the setting, as if it's a mental downgrade, but many of the examples given inv
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I don't think foreign names are 'bad writing' but I do experience more difficulty keeping track of names that are in a language I'm completely unfamiliar with. English names already have an allocated space in my brain. F
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
In order to develop the kinds of mental skills you need to tackle complex problems, you need to practice them on simpler problems first (particularly if you happen to be a child). If you decide at a young age it's worthless to attempt
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Not just that, but the person said they did ask the interviewer what kind of car it was and what it was used for, at which point any reasonable person would explain it was a toy! That interview question is basically, "We lied about an
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Once someone has come to believe something that is presented with the trappings of science, and packaged with the message that it's forbidden information that the rest of society and its structures can't cope with, only sufficient
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I swear to god I regularly have to change passwords I just set a few days ago, and/or saved to an external password manager. Yes, some incidents are probably me messing up somehow, but it seems to happen way too frequently even assumin
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Japan also has this issue.
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I've heard the phrase "cis by default" used to describe this experience (which I mostly share). Essentially, the intensity of feelings regarding gender can vary widely from person into person and so a lot of people are fine w
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
As someone who can understand both languages, it's less that the translators are obsessed and more that the gamergate-adjacent crowd has decided to drag their culture war into anime translations. There are a handful of examples where t
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Yeah, the "explaining the difference between 'butt dial' and 'booty call'" problem. Another thing I notice is that, if a translator is not familiar with how people in a certain culture interact, and what words
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I made a career switch from translation (JP > EN) into tech in 2022, and since ChatGPT was released very shortly after I made that decision I feel I got lucky with the timing. Many, many jobs are now "machine translation post-editin

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