Oofda. Preserving an American accent when rendering in other languages seems ... an unfortunate choice.

I also noticed a goof in the Japanese audio, where the final clause became "yuujou no kizu o iwaimashou" — "let's celebrate the wounds / scars of friendship", instead of kizuna, "connections / bonds / ties". The text spells it out correctly, but the audio is missing that na on the end of kizuna. That's not an issue of accent, that's just a plain old vocabulary goof. Interesting.

"AI powered chabots are flawed by design because they don't know that they don't know. How can one be stupid enough to use a chatbot without knowing that?"

It's the Kunning-Druger effect. :D

"Natural morons installing an artificial moron."

I often find myself thinking that "AI" anymore stands for "Artificial Ignorance".

"... an English speaker's voice was translated into Spanish, Mandarin, German, French and Japanese while preserving the speaker's native accent."

What?

So the English speaker's original UK Received Pronunciation accent is preserved after translation into Japanese? How the flippety fuck does that work?

I even went the extra step and read the linked article itself. Same text, for this piece, with no additional information.

I rather suspect that they are misusing the word "accent" here.

(Written from the perspective of a professional translator and occasional interpreter for English and Japanese.)

Even assuming that the study's results are valid, that applies to those situations where breakthroughs would be happening anyway. Seldom do we have team-wide "aha!" moments from us all individually plowing through our separate workloads -- instead, we have those moments when we have occasion to meet (in whatever format) and discuss something in a group.

Where I work, upper management has taken the approach that each team should set its own minimum on-site hours, based on the needs of that team. For my own team, we are on-site only a day or two a week, and we coordinate to do our meetings on those days as much as possible. This seems to hit the sweet spot for us -- we are out of each other's hair and can focus on our respective workloads for most of the week, and we are all together in the office for part of the week to talk and catch up, share ideas, and do anything else that benefits from a group setting.

Subjectively, I agree with the premise that direct collaboration and brainstorming work better in person. That said, such activities are not the bulk of our day-to-day work, and I see little broad-based justification for the "everyone must be in the office, all day, every day, because we say so" data-lacking approach taken by companies like Amazon. On the contrary, such groundless diktats seem to do more to piss off employees than to engender team spirit.

"Football"- goal is to carry ball in HANDS across a goal without being tackled, often throwing ball with HANDS to another player. To me, it is just a silly name. :)

It's not even much of a ball, either -- the damn thing is all funny-shaped, more like an egg than a ball.

It might have been my niece who I first heard calling it "handegg" instead of "football". I think that makes more sense, frankly.

"I feel fine!"

"I think I'll go for a walk."

"I feel happy! I feel happy!"

THUMP!

Holy fsck, 30 watt UVC emitters, those are used for sterilising entire rooms...

Perhaps the Yuga Labs people viewed the event attendees as something in need of sterilising?

Now that's a dark thought...

Wow, who pissed in your Wheaties?

Personally, FPS isn't anything I care about for gaming, unless it's so bad as to be distracting. I've been playing TOTK for a couple months now and haven't encountered any serious issues, FPS or otherwise.

Maybe something's wrong with your specific hardware, bad chip or bad connection or something?

Yes, the homescreen of them are full of ads.
Its a console. The store front is GameStop and WalMart.

Huh? Have you ever used a Switch?

There's no ads.

I'm honestly confused by your claims.

Though, one thong that does annoy me is how many irrelevant results appear in search results, due to sponsored items.

You make some interesting wardrobe choices.

Fraud is often excluded from free-speech protections.

That said, it can be challenging to ascertain what exactly is "fraud" on a legal level.

From "False Speech and the First Amendment: Constitutional Limits on Regulating Misinformation" (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12180):

Fraud and False Commercial Speech

The common law of fraud imposes liability on a person who makes a fraudulent misrepresentation for the purpose of inducing someone else to act, detrimentally and justifiably, in reliance on that material misrepresentation. Federal and state governments have also enacted various statutes punishing specific types of fraud. For example, in 1948 the Supreme Court easily rejected a First Amendment challenge to federal laws prohibiting mail fraud. Donaldson v. Read Magazine, Inc., 333 U.S. 178 (1948). The Court has cautioned, however, that the government may not avoid First Amendment scrutiny by “simply labeling an action one for ‘fraud.’” Illinois ex rel. Madigan v. Telemarketing Associates, 538 U.S. 600 (2003).