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Including the follow up of someone questioning “devout” and getting that quote in response.

I always keep at least a leg outside the covers, no matter how cold it is. I couldn’t bear to be completely covered, I get too hot. Under normal conditions I don’t use covers at all.

If you don’t know the language then you shouldn’t be involved in the translation at all… The current process requires both the translators and the proof-readers to know the language.

As long as you can verify it is an accurate translation

Unless the process has changed in the last decade, article translations are a multi-step process, which includes translators and proof-readers. It’s easier to get volunteer proof-readers than volunteer translators. Adding AI for the translation step, but keeping the proof-reading step should be a great help.

But you could probably also have used Google translate and then just fine tune the output yourself. Anyone could have done that at any point in the last 10 years.

Have you ever used Google translate? Putting an entire Wikipedia article through it and then “fine tuning” it would be more work than translating it from scratch. Absolutely no comparison between Google translate and AI translations.

It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.

You can try the Old Man’s War series, The Three-Body Problem series, Children of Time. Lots of great sci-fi out there.

If you buy and keep your CDs in a cake box, then on the disc is the only place to write things.

I always wondered what other people do with those tiny slivers in corners. I leave them unselected.

There used to be a reason to do that. We did it because there were limits to text length and you didn’t want to get charged for multiple texts. Also writing on keypads was a pain. I don’t understand why anyone still does it today, especially people who were not texting back in those days.

I was smoking in middle school and high-school. Decided to stop around 11th grade, smoked a few times socially in the next few years, then gave it up completely. People I know who started around the time I gave it up are still smokers today. I now live in an area where smoking is frowned-upon, so it’s not something I’ve had to think about in the 14 years since I moved (in my country you couldn’t escape the smoke anywhere).

Tried weed three times in my life and each time the effect was the same: similar to drinking too much but without the feel-good part. Black-outs, confusion, headache. Guess it doesn’t agree with me, so no reason to try it again.

I grew up in a country where having alcohol with your meals is normal. I don’t drink to get drunk, just enjoy a drink with my meal (especially if eating something like a steak or a burger, a cold beer goes great with it). Had to adjust when moving to the US, it’s apparently weird to drink at lunch here.

Why did she squeeze herself up all the way against the wall just to avoid picking up that fallen eraser?

You just hook it up to a perfect efficiency engine.

What version of the Bible did you get that from? Cain killed Abel out of jealousy, nobody asked him to sacrifice anything other than the occasional farm animal.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available

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If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.

I’ve played hundreds of games before Windows 95 came out and I’ve never actually played an ASCII art game. Not even text adventures that I’ve played used ASCII art.

developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

There was never such a time…

Or already unsubscribed (maybe clicked twice and UI did not prevent that?)

I definitely have, but can’t remember which off the top of my head. Looking at other comments, Ori and Stray are likely on the list. But I cry at movies too (off the top of my head Artificial Intelligence, The Bicentennial Man, Cloud Atlas, The Other Sister) and even books (bawled at Gloriously Bright’s story in Xenocide).