helvetpuli
@helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I want these walls back 4 days ago:
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 3 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you’re serious about this.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
Fatal motor vehicle accidents are just over 865000 times more common than commercial air travel accidents, but until dash cams we never got to see them, so people think it can’t happen to them, when it’s slightly worse than even odds.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 weeks ago:
If we limited drivers permits to the 8% or so of drivers who are actually competent we’d solve a lot of problems in several domains.
I self-selected as ineligible to drive years ago, and I’ve never regretted it. Of course I had to move away from my home country and learn a new language, but those are the shakes.
- Comment on GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly 1 month ago:
You can run it on your laptop. I do.
“Server” in this case refers to client-server architecture.
That said this community is about hosting things on a computer you own which can very much be online. But this one works offline too.
- Comment on How does Netflix, HBO and other services get their subtitles? Are they now using AI to help translate? 1 month ago:
Most of us can’t read as quickly as we can absorb spoken language.
I learned this directly when I decided to create English subtitles for French films and TV as an exercise when I was trying to get from B2 to C1 in French. It was a good exercise, but the result was unusable because the text often goes by too quickly to read.
That’s when I understood that it really is an art.
The subtitle artist must make descriptions work, punch lines land, and reproduce dialog with the correct gravitas. And they have to do it while cutting 50 percent or more of a meaningful, culturally-grounded translation.
It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing an id-less ml model could ever do.
- Comment on Rest in peace 1 month ago:
It means the same thing as sticking your chopsticks in the rice so they stand up, or as pouring a couple of drops of your alcohol on the ground.
It’s universal. You just have to find the local way of expressing it.
- Comment on Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status Over Alleged 'Propaganda' 2 months ago:
We’ve been able to contain the crazy for now, using proportional elections and a broad coalition executive.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 2 months ago:
Her parents are so disappointed.
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 2 months ago:
Learn languages. Don’t do it to impress people, but to really learn. Hey native language tutors. Go out and embarrass yourself trying to speak with real people.
This plus maths and music is probably the best exercise for your brain.
Then follow the advice others have posted to keep reading.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
It’s more reliable than SMB or CIFS and considerably harder to attack.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
The Mastodon project put a lot of energy into a high quality plushy.