gronjo45

joined 1 year ago
[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Well, you also switched to English, but it’s because they hear my thin american accent and assume I cannot speak the language. Currently I’ve been focusing on unlearning “Ami-isms” from my childhood, but I would like to make a post somewhere in German on Lemmy so that I can correct these.

I sit in technical meetings and translate them for my colleagues, so when maybe my first couple of sentences come out “unnatürlich” some people instantly switch. I can only imagine how offensive that may be to other cultures.

I have spoken German for 15+ years, never took a class, and am now translating documents as part of my job. The written language and spoken language are quite different, especially when a mix of Neigschmeckte and Fremder with a variety of accents are in the meetings. Nobody switches to English there, but one on one in restaurants since I have never lived here before I lag a little bit in my responses but understand everything.

Irgendwelche Tipps, um das zu beheben? 😂

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

lol quatsch jedes Mal wenn ich deutsch rede die Leute antworten auf englisch

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Great source! Thank you very much for sharing, I’ll check it out more 😊

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I’m not too sure about this one. No brands stick out. I will do a quick bit of searching, but this is what I’ve found on the surface level.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/the-worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-big-update-deepcomputing-doubled-the-core-count-increased-clocks-to-2-ghz-and-added-ai-capabilities

 

Hi everyone, I've always had a special interest in linguistics and have informally studied a couple of different languages from all around the world. The different writing systems such as radicals in Chinese, Kurdish scripts and reading from right to left, to Inuit glyphs are all fascinating in themselves.

The IPA has been something fascinating, but I've yet to find a good resource that I could make sense of and hold my attention long enough to internalize the concepts.

I'm looking for books and authors that have a unique background. For example, seeing Chomsky's name in an automata formal language theory book was weird to think... But all the NLP stuff had foundation in older linguistic theory and ways people thought about the human brain, right?

Language and Information by Zellig Harris is an interesting read. John Sowa is another author I'd recommend for the whole way of ontology and computer systems. The particular book by him that I'm thinking is Conceptual Structures, I believe...? Would love to hear your thoughts, especially with all the AI hardware being released.

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Amazing dumpster find! How long did it take you to fix?

 

Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish personality, and his IT skills were nonexistent back when I took him.

It's fascinating to see the perspectives on computing and how many of the things I learned in my undergraduate were still being taught way back to the 1950s. It also seems like the computer science degree was more intertwined with its electrical engineering fraternal twin.

Although the title of this post is inherently provocative, I'm curious to hear from those of you who did computer science, electrical engineering, or similar technical degrees in decades past. Are there topics or subjects that have phased out over the years that you think leave younger programmers/engineers ill-equipped in the modern day? What common practices were you happy to see thrown in the dumpster and kicked away forever?

The community also seems like it was significantly smaller back then and more interconnected. Was nepotism as prevalent in the technology industry then as it is today?

This is just the start of a discussion, please feel free to share your thoughts!

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

That's a very poetic way of looking at the way our data on these forms will be processed and ingested by LLMs in the coming years. I have been considering cloning my own voice and experimenting with the multitude of use cases that can provide.

All the developed literature as well as entirely documented human lives... Readily available with numerical recipes for their processing and integration into whatever societal infrastructure comes out of where we're headed right now.

It was strange for me to come to terms with that. The crowd that Lemmy fosters is such a different subset than the general population. Sometimes I wonder what growing up online will do to people down the line from us.

It's heart rending to hear what you're going through, OP. I'm sure your family will sincerely cherish what you write. I also agree with others who have mentioned to add stipulations on how you want your thoughts to be used. Not to speak for you, but I wouldn't want my likelihood desecrated in some manufactured effigy long after my death.

Not to say I didn't spend a fair chunk of my own life online, but with the advancements in materials and manufacturing methods, I wonder what storage devices and technologies will become sarcophagi for our archived lives...

Wishing you wonders in your last moments, OP.

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I think the only one I really thought was good was the Aaron Paul one where they went into space... I might be someone neo-ludditish but that movie shows some true terrors of those who want to eradicate technologies and the individuals associated with them. Cold ending...

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Memes like this make me ever more confused about my own software work flow. I'm in engineering so you can already guess my coding classes were pretty surface level at least at my uni and CC

Conda is what I like to use for data science but I still barely understand how to maintain a package manager. Im lowkey a bot when it comes to using non-GUI programs and tbh that paradigm shift has been hard after 18 years of no CLI usage.

The memes are pretty educational though

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh wow that sounds like an interesting engineering problem to make a reusable coffee filter... I am quite broke myself and my ears always perk up at ways to reduce my already small caffeine budget.

How does it taste out of the metal mesh filter? I like to make mine in an Aeropress and heat it up in an old kettle that's been in my family for ages.

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Are there any good resources to learn more about the vast tribes the North American continent was home to? I've always felt ignorant to the rich history and connection with the Earth that the tribes held and passed down.

Not sure about the accuracy of the top map, but it looks like that format could be a great educational opportunity.

On a lighthearted note, if you're from the bay, give Café Ohlone a visit! I had the pleasure of meeting the two head chefs at an event where they cooked for the audience. They showed how candy cap mushrooms, acorn flour, and a duck egg could be incorporated into a brownie mix. I can't speak for the actual restaurant, but it was delicious what they made :)

 

Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to using my GrapheneOS phone and have been slowly transitioning to a more privacy oriented technology lineup than I previously did.

I searched for clients on Google and found "Total Adblock", "Adblock", and "Adblock Plus" but I'm not quite sure how to audit an adblocker for security flaws or malicious intent. I also would prefer to install apps through the F-Droid store and learn how to compile from source code on mobile (if that's possible on GrapheneOS or if that's even something desirable)

Thanks for any help! Been lurking a lot on Lemmy and have really enjoyed the energy in the community. Definitely has made learning Linux and the countless times I've had to fix my Arch system much more enjoyable. GrapheneOS has been quite stable too other than the phone having interfacing problems with my cellular provider's network...

 

This week I finished setting up Arch Linux (It felt so good to nuke Windows 11 off my laptop!) and GrapheneOS for my new Pixel phone.

I am interested in getting a NAS for multiple purposes such as accessing files, hosting a small website, and to upload security camera footage to name a few.

Is there a particular brand to buy? I'm basically illiterate when it comes to networks aside from what an IP is and what DNS is. Any suggestions for books and reading material is greatly appreciated. It feels liberating to know more than I did before with tech!

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