Matthew Tanous

Software engineer. Aspiring Writer.

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@The__Comedian__ @kangminlee Man, how could Wes Huff not… *checks notes* time travel from the future so he knew about a scandal that hadn’t been made public yet?

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@Gordon_CRE No one should pay taxes on income, taxes should be only charged on things we don’t want people to do… if we must have them at all, instead of user fees.

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@MarieleRedclaw They said ruin, not improve.

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Given the number of “pivots to China” that have failed to adjust US policy whatsoever, are we really opposing China?

Also not strictly clear that we need to be, other than rebuffing corporate and political espionage. What the deep state seems to be concerned about with China doesn’t seem to be the strategically concerning issues.

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@coldhealing Demoware has always been a thing.

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Atheist, maybe. The Protestant view of the early church is that of Acts, which clearly has the apostles as leaders setting up churches that have leaders of their own, as well as a diaconate in charge of particular care of the saints.

There is a caveat that some of these leaders were not necessarily doing a great job. Paul had to write many letters to correct a number of churches he set up directly.

Paul’s letters also do display a governance picture that isn’t entirely centered in the leader of the local church, as well. He discusses church discipline as a collective affair, for instance — which makes sense, as it’s as much a social stance by the whole body of believers to correct an unrepentant sinner as it is the pastor or priest declaring the correctional need to the person.

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My favorite is that the reason the strategic planning of the government never changes, even though it clearly hasn’t worked for at least half a century, is simple institutional bias. You don’t get promotions in a bureaucracy by pointing out that your superiors are bad at their jobs.

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@Xanastower @JosephPolitano Yes, I am “bigoted” against ideological self-delusion. So what?

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@ratsinpajamas @JosephPolitano None of the many weird gender things Loki does in Norse mythology map to the modern fiction of “non-binary” individuals.

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Women should not be cops.

[Mila ✧ @aip551]

Bro is gonna regret this day for the rest of his life

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@WhiteHouse “Iran started this 47 years ago”

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@StateDept

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Calling clone() and collect() and similar cases is normally fine, so there’s no reason for agents to bother with anything more performant unless you tell them to.

If you have a hot loop that you want optimized, set some benchmark targets to enforce what you’re shooting for, have the agents work to make that target be met, and don’t worry about it.

You can’t really get angry at the agents for not optimizing performance on code you didn’t tell them to optimize for performance.

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@owenbroadcast @alkharidie Gotta get them off those logical fallacies.

Man is born irrational, and all that.

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You don’t even need a translator’s note. Just leave the idiom and let the audience infer it from context.

A child can do that. Has to, in fact, because he is confronted with new idioms all the time.

The only real question here is that “rain” is not a verb in Japanese, so you have to work around that in the grammar. That

But there’s really no reason to ditch the idiom. It carries a cultural value from the original, and in nearly every case is intentionally chosen over a more straightforward description (e.g. “it’s raining cats and dogs” could be “it’s raining heavily” but the original author chose to use the idiom instead).

The translator’s job is not to rewrite the work as if it was originally in the target language. It is to make it understandable to someone who only knows the target language.

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The Japanese for “torrential downpour” is 土砂降りです (doshaburi desu) which conceptually translates to English as “earth and sand are falling.” (More literally, “earth-sand-falling is”.) This is to say, the Japanese phrase is already an idiom, and Japanese are familiar with the idea that description of rain doesn’t have to be literal.

Context also does way more than it is given credit for here. If a character looks at a heavy rain and says something like 猫と犬が降っています (neko to inu ga futte imasu - literally: “cats and dogs are falling”), the context can make it quite clear that the person is talking about the rain.

But lastly, how do these people think idioms are learned? The first time you see or hear a new idiom, you have to learn it from context. You have to maybe see it a few times to get a full understanding of it. Eventually it becomes part of your own vocabulary, possibly, through repetition. This is literally how toddlers learn to speak!

Which is to say, the defenses of these “translation choices” frequently just treat the audience as dumber than literal children.

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Alright let's do a little localization exercise shall we?
The prose thread and the comments on it got me thinking about this so let's pretend that we are English to Japanese translators, and we have to translate:
"Its raining cats and dogs"
What do we need to look out for?

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@NwrdScissrhands @ValidScience @Devon_Eriksen_ Not strictly true. We just have to tell the women that disparate impact isn’t real.

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As regards local costs, the contention of every libertarian theory variant I know of would require that externalities be compensated for by the data center operator.

If this is not being done, it’s because of a Progressive Era preference for “industry” over property rights, rooted in the same principles as eminent domain and other issues that libertarians complain about regularly.

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Do you think the protagonist being lectured about pronouns is something that a 12 year old boy wants to read?

Do you think that pointing to a book that came out 20 years ago — or 72 years ago — at all addresses concerns that current publishing houses skew far too much towards female audiences, and thereby leave little new material for young boys to read?

I think you just pretend not to understand this so you feel like a good person and get plaudits from other people who pretend not to understand.

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@Critical_Scribe Knights? Like the Teutonic Knights? Whose insignia was developed into the Iron Cross? Which the Nazis used?!