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Comment Localization is not direct translation (Score 1) 116

The art of the samples is dying. Maybe the author should have used a car metaphor.

Iâ(TM)ve not seen squid game, so I canâ(TM)t speak to the quality of the English subs in general.

However the example given assumes that the English reader has the context that âoeolder brotherâ is a sign of endearment and familiarity between 2 men of differing ages.

However changing from a more formal Mr. Something to a persons name is a sign of familiarity in English. Could it have been better, possibly, maybe just the first name, but without the explanation of what elder brother signifies, that is poor localization.

Comment Re: Nvidia likes to introduce artificial barries (Score 0) 122

The $600 price tag didnâ(TM)t include only the additional costs for better cooling and ecc-ram it included the software engineering costs to develop and maintain the windows server drivers and possibly other drivers and libraries that are enabled for use with those cards, that the average consumer would not need nor usually want.

Similarly quadro cards include additional software and libraries for those market segments as well as some hardware differences.

And yes if Nvidia could figure out how to block crypto-mining without completely crippling consumer cards for their needs as well, they likely would. They did attempt this with the RTX 3060 (I believe that was the one it might have been a different one from this generation) that wasnâ(TM)t to Nicole and dime the market segment that wants to crypto mine, but rather try to discourage them from eating up suck a large supply of the available cards so that mid range consumers could actually find them through retail channels where crypto miners are (as well as scalpers) are snatching up every card they possibly can as quickly as they can.

Comment Re: Admitting you're a stupid twat... (Score 1) 561

Whether that comment was a good one or bad one, the point she was making was China Town is not China. And at the time it was made there were few or no known (We would later find out that was not the case) cases in the US yet.

Despite that when it became apparent that there were cases in the area, they were the first ones to declare it an emergency and have pretty much been a model of how to respond.

Despite being the 2nd most densely populated city in the US they have the lowest (I believe) per capita death rate per 100k people (12 as of Oct. 1st) the next best city is Seattle at 30.

Comment Re: May sound good to us, but it's utter crap (Score 1) 288

Only Slavic language I know is polish, so I can't speak for the others,

But in Polish there is an h sound used quite often, written as ch (as long as it's not at the end of a word. If at the end of the word it's an h sound with a slight gutteral sound at the end). If there is no 'h' sounding letter in Cyrillic you would have the same issue (no clue I don't know the Cyrillic alphabet or any languages that use it.)

As to the additional letters to type or write, it's not a problem in writing and would be an equal problem or worse in typing due to the standard keyboard not accommodating the additional letters anyways (and alternate style keyboards that do are even worse).

The fact that the language is almost purely phonetic is a huge plus.

And this is coming from a native English speaker that has had to learn polish.

Now the declanations on the other hand are a pain in the ass, but that would be the same regardless of the character set used for the alphabet

Comment Re:It's all relative (Score 1) 1080

Yes, I'm in Central Europe (Poland), but that is very much the definition of a Post Soviet economy. One that happens to be doing very well.

I'm also not saying that everything is better than it would be in the US, but there are a lot of positive things and it won't necessarily have the impact that you suggested on visitors. And I can say similar for other surrounding countries that I have visited since I've been over here. There's also places in the US that you wouldn't want to live in (and I've lived in a few of those).

I grew up just outside of Detroit in the 80's and spent 5 years living in Flint before moving to Chicago and then DC.

And definitely a lot of my savings is the cost of living difference between DC and Krakow. As I am comparing one large city of cultural opportunities and significance to another. And not the cost of living in a tiny town to a major metro area.

Could I afford a car if I wanted to? Yes. But it would not be worth it? No, as it's way easier to get around on mass transit than it would be to try and drive and find a place to park. If I need a car for a short period, I can rent it.

On the other hand, when I left DC in 2009, there weren't very many jobs out there, and I had a good opportunity where I went. I didn't plan to stay there long term, but after living there for a while, I decided at least for the time being to stay there, and not "oh, how good did I have it in the US".

As to the people that have pointed out the Midwest being a great place to live in the states, absolutely. I never said there are not good places to live and work in the US, what I responded to was the post where they said if any Americans go to Eastern Europe, they will necessarily come back with an appreciation of how good they have it in the US.

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