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Yes this. I worked in restaurants a lot and embarrassed myself back home when I could only remember the term pichet for jug, making me not look like a very talented linguist at all. Now I've been away from the learned language countries it's happening a bit in reverse.

As a complete layman with a curiosity-based interest, I'd have to guess it was (what is now called) Welsh, surely?

Could it have been some lost continental Germanic/Celtic tribe? Seems less likely on balance. Maybe a big discovery still to come that will clear it up. A tomb somewhere under a housing estate in Glasgow or something.

I'd imagine so, yes, before being pushed back to the edges and corners of the islands. Shame the warrior culture took over a less militarily focused one. History rhymes, no?

Not sure where you're from, but the way it seems to have fallen now is Irish Gaelic is called Irish and Gaelic (pronounced "gallic") is usually the Scottish variant.

Unless you know better, or of some reform, in which case I defer!

Really great to see.

These languages, sadly largely killed off in the name of I don't know what, are as the final Tolkien quote in the comment says: the senior languages of Britain.

Fun fact; Cumbria is named in the same way as Cymru, as Welsh was once spoken there too.

I've never seen a video where Welsh/Breton/Cornish speakers have tried to have conversation, but have seen a few Irish/[Scottish] Gaelic conversations.

And at one point way back they all would have been intelligible. Shame it didn't follow the Scandinavian evolution, or they may have had an easier way back from having a "prestige language" take over.

Just get a radio? Not to be glib, they're well built, mature tech that can go many tens of km from elevated positions. Don't get triangulated in a conflict situation, but it's the thing most likely to work and remain durable/portable under extreme conditions.

It worked for me last year, and entertained a few of us for a good while. Been meaning to revisit.

Side note: Elite Dangerous is on offer at the moment and that has been the only thing to give me that unnerving sense of scale you get when travelling between systems.

That's really interesting. Any further cost savings going from Go to Rust?

I like seeing trading tools released. Kudos.

Barriers are falling, fees and such. APIs popping up and interest in markets growing. I'd be bullish on retail trading and its healthy future.

Also of interest are Arabic, Hebrew and other RTL scripts. Not sure if more myth than fact, but their origin was apparently in stone masonry and right handed hammer use. I can't quite believe it though, given the difference of ease in sourcing materials and the curves present in the scripts.

Lefty, but also someone who has a brain that prefers the right for sport (bat/ball games), as disclaimer... Handwriting is clear and can print or use cursive.

When I used to write more on paper, many moons ago, I'd turn the paper 90 degrees to the right. Many lefties curl their hands over. I never got that, I just turn the paper. The body has to compensate a little but much more natural for the wrist when writing for longer spells.

Come to think of it, I don't do it much at all now, have probably got workarounds I'm unaware of at this point. My notebook stays aligned with the desk. Perhaps a slight tilt.

Either way, experiment with moving the paper, not the wrist, and get smooth pens as mentioned elsewhere. Fountain pens from Parker used to be my go to. Gel or roller are fine though.

Good luck!

Edit: I also learned to write under the line, so didn't drag my hand through the ink. Probably due to fountain pen use forcing that. Back when blotting paper was a thing!

He blocked me on Twitter for a very moderate counter point/alternative offering type post. I'm typically a reasonable person and not rude as a rule, I didn't feel like I'd said anything untoward.

From that event I realised that there was an ego at play here.

Good luck. I'd agree with the card company advice.

A little trivia: since the recent 23andMe breach, the desci project genomesdao has launched a new service that allows 23andMe data exports to be imported into their platform. They then attract pharmaceuticals to make specific requests and share the profit from the requests. They'll explain it better on the site! They've been around since at least 2018, have won recognised innovation awards and is run by scientists, so not your typical crypto project.

Disclaimer: 23andMe customer and genomesdao holder.

Goosebumps thinking of how many universes could have played out before this one. Or alongside it.

There are (creepy) reports from the middle ages of figures sitting on sleepers' chests, legs, moving towards them etc.

It's clearly a biological phenomenon of some description. I've never really looked into it, despite experiencing it often. Related my general take on it below.

This has happened often enough to me that I am sometimes now aware of it when it's happening, occasionally, and can ride it out. I've literally "invited" more terror to try to end it quicker before. As in, "yeah yeah , get it over with, bring it on". I haven't questioned the normality of this until now, amusingly.

It normally happens when I sleep on my back. I have been known to make an attempt at a scream during the event. I'm normally being attacked at speed, by people or things that don't really have boundaries. And of course I can't fight back, hence the paralysis.

For the scream, I think I have heard it, but because of the paralysis it ends up like a loud exhale with some high notes in it. I couldn't describe it as a roar. More of a pitiful gurgle.

It is sometimes made worse by my sleeping partner trying to wake me clumsily, which momentarily heightens the terror, especially if my face is being nudged or jabs to the ribs.

So not particularly fun, literally facing my demons, but also probably some of the best VR you're likely to experience.

For background, I'm a generally positive and optimistic person, rational with zero belief in the supernatural, despite being raised with it. Oh god I'm cursed... I kid, but who knows from where these intrusive dreams originate. I do practice martial arts, but this predates that. I have had an interest in light combat since childhood, despite pacifism and fear being more of a reflection of my personality. It was probably more of an 80s thing, expecting violence and quicksand at any moment.

That's about it really, totally normal to me at this point. It's probably nothing.

EDIT: For the record, it feels like the paralysis triggers the dream, not the dream triggering the paralysis. Something to do with approaching a waking state in the brain but not the body. Cue the terror and internal screams for help.

I like the idea, but he likes the ants more :)

Thanks for Checksub, another happy user here.

We take multilingual, AI-cloned audio from you guys (split from background noise, of course), after we've processed the subs professionally at our end, then we align everything in your tool and send off to a third service for lip sync. The result has blown away a few clients now. The CEO speaking 5 languages with perfect lip sync in their own tone of voice is quite convincing.

Hopefully we can get it all in one tool soon.

As an aside, I don't think the use of the term word-salad implies mental instability in any way.

As someone who's edited millions of words in recent years, in a few languages, I'd put what you wrote (and other parts) on the harder to parse end of the spectrum. Understandable, with time, sure, but not written for clarity. A bit like code golf. Logical, operational, but not conducive to a flowing exchange of ideas.

I enjoy your writing, fwiw, it's likely better than most, and you've every reason to be proud of it, but you're not making it easy to follow along for an international audience.

I think you're also missing the point, again fwiw. If a soft snowflake brain (quote unquote) shows being shouted at or barked at by a dog as trauma under fmri, because they haven't been conditioned to tolerate any more, then that might well be classed as trauma. This doesn't undermine anyone else's experience.

It's also potentially indicative of less traumatic lives being lived in general, of the threshold lowering. Which should be a good thing. Or that, if you reject the trauma, the bone you have to pick is not in fact with the definition of trauma, perhaps, but unrecognised privilege.

Whatever it is, I think the benefit of accepting self definitions, despite the fact that they will be abused by hypochondriacs and attention seekers (human condition?), is that someone who needs to be heard will now be heard. Having grown up before all this stuff, can confirm that hasn't always been the case. This can save lives. Despite it being abused. That's the upside I can see. Perhaps it could be done more intelligently. I'm sure it will evolve. But yes, I can see the merit. More talking is a good thing, in general.

I think a lot of these identity issues have roots in modern lifestyles, consumerism etc but as set out above, it's about taking the rough with the smooth, to use an old phrase. Improved quality of life vs first world problems.

Finally, more generally, I'm sure everyone wants less trauma. We should perhaps be training resiliency alongside talking therapy. But resiliency only gets you so far in some cases.

I hope I'm not too guilty of talking too much about too little. Hopefully my 2c contributes something of value.

Peace to all.

I may be misremembering, but my recollection is that he talks about the stresses of the parents being passed on from birth. My other vague recollection is that studies exist which prove this phenomenon to be true. A third vague recollection is that his own mother was persecuted due to religion, giving his theories and his reason to pursue them some level of credibility.

My memory is not machine-like in its efficiency. I am open to correction. But I believe GP may not be fully stating the facts for their own reasons.

"Only recording lines"? There may be more to it than you think.

Pi. The insanity but absolute need to push on with the mission.

Interesting, thanks. Just heard of t2.social and looked at bluesky yesterday. Glad competition continuing.

It's fine, people can disagree robustly sometimes. I'd still buy him a beer, or whatever he wanted to drink, if we were in person. It's good to talk openly, right?

That is a truly exceptional use case, and I'm impressed too.

I should have specified above that I'm referring to the practicalities of professional translation workflows as they currently exist for things like high volume flows in dozens of formats, and translation memory leveraging etc.

Your reply is not passing my sniff test. Your hype and bias are showing.

It may present more fluent text, but if it doesn't know it's strayed from the source text and you can't tell either (because you don't understand source language) then you'll end up with error-laden pseudo translations. At least with NMT you know the errors are consistent.

I don't know who you know who thinks GPT is ahead, but nobody in the very well funded translation industry has a GPT powered translation engine for the key reason that it's not ready for production. For a human to post edit MT, we're mainly talking fixing broken vocab. You'd never present raw MT to a client. It needs editing. Heavily. To think LLM translation doesn't need editing is either coming from someone not in the industry, or blinded by hype. And the kind of editing issues are more insidious, like those found in voice dictated texts. Homophones aren't flagged by QA software because they are real words. Just like LLMs make real sentences, except when they don't, but good luck detecting that, and editing out the additional meaning it has decided to inject.

Have you tried to run the GPT-4 API on a segmented xliff at all? If the segmentation is bad, and full of tags, GPT4 breaks completely. It tries to close sentences that run across segments, it can't handle tags in-line (the chatgpt interface can, but you can't use that at scale).

It can do some impressive work, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure how hands-on you've really been if you think it's a solved problem.

Production translation is a non-trivial output. The entire industry hasn't released an LLM solution yet for translation (excepting the rewording mini features). What makes you think you know more than those on the ground? Or have you developed something that's still in stealth?

EDIT: Oh wow, all of your 107 submissions to HN from the 6 months your account has existed, have been about AI and LLMs. I guess I got the hype part right. As for industry knowledge the jury is still out, but this could well be the classic HN "I understand tech so obviously I understand everything" play. Keep us posted!

It's not under the radar because that's sadly not the case, although it looks like it should work better on the surface. Neural machine translation is just more consistent, doesn't hallucinate and can be easily and cheaply trained over time.

They have some benefits, but as a lot of LLM research has found, they are not production ready. Yet.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Just a thanks for this. Wanted something like this from that list but didn't have time.

Loaded it into Feeder from fdroid (cheers to dev if here) and although it took a while, the result is much better than Twitter et al's output.

Might add my own blog to the list one of these days if people keep coming back to this as the reference.

Your comments are consistently dark on this topic.

Is that why you're using a throwaway, or new account, because you know defending adtech is dubious?

It's this kind of lack of integrity people are unhappy with.