zubakskees.bsky.social
Data journalist and software engineer https://zubak-skees.dev
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Okay, locking in.
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Starting to look like Noah Wyle but with way less charisma.
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I look forward to the Inquirer's Malört map.
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(Damn, I just checked the Roth quote I was trying to crib loosely from: "The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on." Not even close.)
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It's precisely because I think this quote/image will carry through time that I wonder which way is better.
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But I'd want to hear from a translator on which one they like better and why: bsky.app/profile/audr...
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Assuming this is what happened, it's maybe an example of why good translation requires interpretation: A bad translation can produce a sentence no one who is considering their words would have produced in that language.
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Where others see breaks, I see deep continuities.
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Or Breaker. bsky.app/profile/jasp...
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Strange to find out what CJR has been up to on LinkedIn.
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Also nicked my face shaving, hands covered in surprising amount of blood. I mutter "out damn spot" as I clean it.
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Locked in too hard, misread timezones, missed my flight, now ending the day in a different country than I intended. YOLO.
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(I don't blame Gmail for featuring suggestions or people for using them, they're what I'd say a lot of the time. Makes you realize much business communication can be reduced to a set of specific grunts. But there's a reason authors have warned about this sort of thing, here's Orwell.)
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It's dwindled down to 100 users, which is nice in a way. Deserves its slow fade.
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I started worrying about autocomplete's effect on language when I got many similar replies while keeping job candidates updated during a search process. Pulled up Gmail, there it was. This was my response. Got on LifeHacker and The Verge, Gmail product manager praised it.
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I've been letting it molt since it launched with a bang April Fools' Day 2019. Surprised it still works. If I were to rework it, I'd make suggestions better relate to content, improve the poetry corpus, etc. The most fun thing to do with it is to compose exquisite corpse poems over email.
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Have you tried replacing the suggestions with poetry? chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sugge...
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I stayed up to 1 a.m. watching the Japan season of "Jet Lag: The Game," and it was sooo back.
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I immediately knew where this was and who this song referred to.
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In Hong Kong they call them "dai fei."
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It'll work.
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Some future employer is going to contract with a firm to run my posts through a multi-modal model looking for union support, I bet.
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It'd be unprintable
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Shoutout to the guy on the elevator pushing a baby carriage containing two large watermelons.
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Yeah I think people are getting caught up the logistics of actually doing this, but think Amazon HQ2: a plan doesn't mean it actually happens.
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Some of my favorite reports on how legitimately hard this is are from Viola Zhou in @restofworld.org
restofworld.org/2023/foxconn...
restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ar...
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www.theverge.com/c/21507966/f...
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Bad to find out what former employers are no longer up to in CJR. www.cjr.org/news/center-...