As a paying customer for the last five years, I can’t wait for an alternative that also allows inline adaptations of the translations, like DeepL does. The quality of the translations is worse now than in the beginning and the customer service is abysmal, should you have a problem
I’m a fluent speaker in the language I am translating to, but have trouble with grammar. I write texts (email, jira tickets etc) in English or my native language and let DeepL translate. I then adapt the translation to sound less machine-y
It gets weird hate because it has (had?) an insanely steep learning curve and no setup looked like the other. With wordpress at least, it's pretty consistent across plugins and implementations and very easy to pick up
Must be "had" — I've used it since D8 first came out and while there's weirdness, it's never been anything beyond what WordPress threw at me.
In terms of setup, it's just like — enter database credentials and start making pages. There's plenty of themes out here and HN users aren't stupid — everyone knows how to compile their own CSS and use composer if they want to.
We had the same experience with the Xplora watches: we moved 6km away and took the internet contract with us. Whenever the watch was inside the house, it would show it as being at the old address. Outside of he house and away from wifi, it showed the location correctly. I imagine this is an edge case
I recommend you sit this one out, as recording people, even if only audio and sending the sound over the internet is very much against the law in germany
The music fingerprinting on my Android phone works in airplane mode, so it would be possible with modifications. Also, it's likely that Shazam is sending a "hash" of the audio rather than an audio stream in most cases.
Ctrl-F in that document for 'hashing'. That step reduces the audio information to a sparse collection of key points, one for each of four frequency ranges per time segment. I would assume that everything up to that step is done on the phone and only the key points are sent to the server.
Well it's you a person who is recording the music. So it's the user's responsibility to make sure you are not breaking any laws. So the app cannot be held at fault for this. No one cares if you do a Shazam in public so it all just works out.
But if you set up an autonomous recording device, no matter what you say you are doing, you will have problems.
Shazam is not illegal in Germany unless I missremember what the app does and instead of being to identify songs based on samples, it's being used to record people
Thinking this through more deeply, I agree and see your position. It is creepy to surveil audio and possibly send in full to Shazam. [edit: And post the original audio recordings online.] The ethical way to do this would be to use your own code to decimate the audio signal to extremely low dimensionality.
The legality of it only matters if you get caught. So don't use hardware or software that's traceable back to you, and be sufficiently careful to remain undetected when you install it. People often weigh the likelihood of being caught much, much higher than it actually is, and therefore conclude "I mustn't do anything illegal", which is irrational.
I had to get an eSIM for my watch - it's also from O2, but in Germany. It's basically a copy of the physical SIM I have in my phone and it worked perfectly. My only bother is that they charge me 15 euros activation fee everytime I reset my watch. I can't set it on the watch without activating it, even if it's activated
yes but with the observation that it also interprets your query beforehand and searches based on the interpreted string. It has increased my google/fu ten-fold
hmm, yeah, well I sorted by salary, proximity and my skills and uhm, yeah, your company came up. Oh, sorry, I mean I really believe in your product and my grandma and I have been using it for 15 years and I want to make a change in the world and Forketyfork Inc. works on exactly that.
Matching skills is nice, but do you really have no inclinations or preferences at all regarding the domain? You're just as (un)happy to program literally anything for money?
I personally don't do ecommerce and everything vice-related, including gambling. But I can't go to the interview and say: well I've picked you because you're not doing ecommerce and gambling.
Our company recently received 4k of resumes for single position.
90% wasn't even worth reading (literally zero experience, sometimes plainly saying they're eg salesman right now) - at this point you start to wonder if people did even read the job listing or some just told them IT is easy money.
watching the german law subreddit, they have started taking people to court now, as too many have caught on to the scheme. In court, like you said, the odds really are as good as tossing a coin.
