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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Please add a disclaimer to the documents stating it was machine translated. Machine translation can get it wrong or take liberties, make up stuff. Please inform your readers so they can be on the lookout.

    Keep in mind the translated stuff by machine translation won’t be 100% what you say in your native language to other students. Be careful not to spread wrong information or knowledge.


  • Translator here. They do make up stuff or omit stuff they don’t like. Machine translation is fine for tourists or to translate a ikea manual in the wrong language. If there are stakes, risky. They got good enough to make sentences that look right so it can be tricky to spot the errors if you don’t pay attention.

    Numbers are typical errors. Sometimes it’s there but the number has changed. Sometimes it’s not there at all. Oh and if you have currencies a translators knows a document from the UK in pounds that is adapted for France will have to be converted in euros. Machines don’t.

    Generally speaking when a client wants to use machine translation, it costs them more money in the end because of the extra time needed to correct everything to a high human grade standard.



  • Here to ask questions too. Is it necessary to add stuff to etc/hosts for this to work man only? Do I have to do portforwarding on my routeur and to what?

    I’ve been trying to achieve exactly that for a week now and none of my attempts load at all.

    Is there a resource or YouTube guide explaining all this so I actually know what I’'m doing?



  • It was an internship and I didn’t plan on staying but once I got called in the manager’s office. He asked me if I were doing some industrial spying . At that point in life all I wanted was to go home and play some games for the rest of summer until university starts over.

    He threatened me he could see everything I did on my computer and asked me if he should look it up. To which I said go ahead you’ll find my job.

    Couple days later I arriver exactly 3 minutes lates because of public transportation issue. I used to arrive 15 minutes early everyday because my transport schedule was that way. I got summoned again to tell me to leave earlier.

    I told all that to my university and they decided to blacklist the company. Being that my university was part of a .bigger network, their behaviour led them to be cut off from the biggest local intern pool.

    No idea why they were so annoying, I wasn’t even browsing Reddit on their computer back then and used my phone for that kind of stuff. No idea what lead them to think I’d steal data. I don’t even know if they have competitors haha