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Kinda funny that in an article about translations, the author gets signal-to-noise completely backwards. A high signal to noise (over 9000) is very good. It means you are getting a lot of signal with very little noise. Decreasing signal to noise means getting more noise.


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jfim01/17/2025

The author also used domain specific language when they meant jargon.

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gavindean9001/18/2025

I too got thrown off by what they said. Not that the article was really worse off for it, but it took me a moment to parse the meaning.

flerchin01/17/2025

Yes I had to read that a few times to understand it. Much like the google translations.