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I sent the following prompt to ChatGPT:
"Write me a short paragraph introducing a survey of the perceptions held by the users of a website. The website is intended as community of profess
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Unless my eyes deceive me, there appears to be a boo-boo at the top of the home page. It's in the "promo-item-title" class in the html code. I did c
[quote]Andrew Morris wrote:
And yet you purport to be emailing her to dish the dirt on me from something that apparently happened 6 years ago? [/quote]
Tanya first said she "didn't
[quote]Tanya Quintieri wrote:
How is that wrong? .... And yes, it is off-topic. [/quote]
I genuinely think you must be surely unaware of an earlier backstory here that some of us know
[quote]Tanya Quintieri wrote:
Now what I don't know is what TM has to do with the ProZ survey. It clearly says: "Your thoughtful answers will help the ProZ.com team improve aspects of t
... in January
https://www.proz.com/forum/site_forums/365302-i_ am_so_sick_of_all_these_bugs_staff_apology_and_upd ate_on_the_software_upgrade_process-page2.html#302 7590
In my ca
[quote]finnword1 wrote:
LEGALESE:
Insofar as manifestations of functional deficiencies are agreed by any and all concerned parties to be imperceptible, and are so stipulated, it is
I'm more inclined to think this is all doubling down on incompetence rather than malice (there is no conceivable reason for needing driving licence details, but there again, what exactly c
[quote]Lamine Boukabour wrote:
The client, ...expressing a preference for engaging with a corporate entity rather than an individual. Unfortunately, I am not aware of the specific r
[quote]Barbara Carrara wrote:
Am I the only one having these issues?
[/quote]
No.
Yesterday (23rd), the home page was resolutely stuck on last week.
When I attempted to visit more
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
Didn't we used to have some volatile Greek chap on the forum before?[/quote]
There was once an Eleftherios Kritikakis who would expound dogmatically on matt
[quote]Peter Motte wrote:
Mini's are actually good cars. I don't get that comparisson.
[/quote]
Exactly. They are good for some things. They serve a purpose.
I could have said bi
[quote]Inge Schumacher wrote:
Is there still a need for "good" translators who want to work in accordance with the rules of the art or not?
[/quote]
Sure. But not every client requ
[quote]Frank van Overveld wrote:
If you calculate it like this, any time not working is a waste of time. [/quote]
Maybe not entirely - if you get the money with minor effort well, OK,<
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
Although quite how you’d spend more than 2.5 hours firing off a few stern emails I don’t know… [/quote]
Frank has also spent a fair while
[quote]Frank van Overveld wrote:
I'm still giving them the benefit of the doubt as I really think it's more incompetence than bad intentions, but this is their last chance. [/quote]
[quote]Frank van Overveld wrote:
this is giving me an opportunity to assess their integrity.
[/quote]
I appreciate you would rather keep working with these people under a decent set
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
There is a Clone function on the Resource console, but it doesn't clone the contents. I'm not aware that you'd lose anything by exporting and importing. [/
Would have thought this question had arisen before but can't find anything.
MemoQ 9.6 - I want to make a copy of a TM, for use in memoQ.
Is there a way to do this within memoQ, without
... when I was a programmer for an insurance company.
One of world's least interesting jobs to outsiders, I suspect, in a sector no-one finds interesting (and it wasn't even a type of
I use memoQ statistics to gauge how much work I have left to do.
Thinking, as seems reasonable, that with luck, a 70% match won't need as much work as a no-match segment.
But in recent
[quote]Anca Demeter wrote:
Every time I ask, they simply copy paste their terms "Projects of 100$ or more will be paid upon AGENCY receipt of payment from the client." I mean, they did,
[quote]Peter Motte wrote:
That's why I think that AI won't have a big impact, because the development of CAT and MT already entails AI. [/quote]
That is all true. I think the dif
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
Avoidance is minimising one's tax liabilities using legal methods. They might not always be ethical or desirable . [/q
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
1. Deliberate tax avoidance is illegal. [/quote]
Avoidance is minimising one's tax liabilities using legal methods. They might not always be ethical or
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
it's more or less the same people (who declare ChatGPT as the evil incarnate) that heap praises on DeepL,
[/quote]
I've had a little time to play with
[quote]Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD wrote:
!...We are undergoing management changes and it is not up to me."
[/quote]
I think you need to persist and find out who it is up to, and<
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
What if a PM favours a certain translator.... [etc.] [/quote]
That has always happened, AFAIK.
On the assumption I'm more of a person B than person A (I don
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
I understand that everybody wants to know how things are going on a more global level, but the personal situation of 10 or even 20 translators on these foru
Been like it all year, really, if not a little longer.
I know of several Fr-Eng translators with 20 years of experience who have jacked it in this year (and last), because the work simpl
[quote]Heather Howey wrote:
1) I could have stopped paying my dues or been "disbarred" or something - so being listed on the association's website proves to the client that I'm certifie
[quote]Jennifer Levey wrote:
I'm tempted to suggest that ChatGPT should hang its empty head in shame.
[/quote]
....You resisted that temptation, because that would be making a
[quote]Björn Vrooman wrote:
[quote]Philip Lees wrote:
I don't share your vision of users flooding Kudoz with MT suggestions. I've seen no evidence of this in my language pair and in
[quote]ibz wrote:
It's supposed to be a website for professional translators and I honestly can't see any use of ChatGPT in KudoZ. Can you? [/quote]
To basically copy/paste my own rema
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
It seems that many consider ChatGPT in Kudoz to be worse than a bug.
[/quote]
Not to disagree with you, but I think it's worth considering that if the site
Went to update the Software section.
Maybe should have smelt a rat when it was greyed out, but I clicked and got it active.
Used to have memoQ & Wordfast
Wanted to add Trados.
Clicked
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
Dale Carnegie's ... hints about how to ingratiate yourself with people (by calling them by their first name at every available opportunity)[/quote]
I have
Yup, it's happened to me as well. (Probably happened to most x->Eng folks I imagine.)
I don't particularly object to the principle, as such. I've had a few great suggestions for imp
[quote]Jared Tabor wrote:
In terms of usage, as of today, around 16,300 users have switched to the new version of KudoZ and not switched back. 3,063 users have switched to the new versi
I'm a Hanlon's razor kind of person.
So, I'm more inclined to think this is down to ignorance than malice.
On that basis, I'd view any naming as only naming, not naming and shaming :
.... assuming you do not intend to work with them, have you raised your points with them?
I mean, I agree entirely. Certainly in UK, one of the criteria for determining self-employment
[quote]Francisco Javier Crespo wrote:
as long as the source file remains unchanged.
[/quote]
So it's not free updates/changes or anything; the source is the same, & they want to
[quote]RobinB wrote:
Please don't presume you can tell our members what they want. [/quote]
Has anyone in this thread told anyone else what they (the latter) want?
There might have
[quote]Joe France wrote:
....there's something as important as the future of human life on Earth at stake (and nobody here is seriously arguing to the contrary, are they?) [/quote]
R
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
If with the petrol crisis in 1972,
[/quote]
I remember covering renewables back in junior school just after this, including devices you don't hear about the
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
now, please stop... [/quote]
.... of how readily some will seize the opportunity to divert a conversation away from subjects that make them
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
I get annoyed when people bang on about how they’ve given up flying and try to shame others<
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
I get annoyed when people bang on about how they’ve given up flying and try to shame others for not doing so.
[/quote]
Can I ask why?
It seems to me th
[quote]texjax DDS PhD wrote:
Will you give up the Internet?
[/quote]
Does no-one do nuance any more?
Is it always a matter of all or nothing?
Can I maybe fly a bit, but remember
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