Non-native English speaker here:

Just use a spell checker and that's it, you don't need LLMs to translate for you if your target is learning the language

Better yet, I prefer to read some unusual word choices from someone who’s clearly put a lot of work into learning English than a robot.

Indeed, this sort of “writing with an accent” can illuminate interesting aspects of both English and the speakers’ native language that I find fascinating.

Yeah, the German speakers I work with often say "Can you do this until [some deadline]?" When they mean "can you complete this by [some deadline]?"

Its common enough that it must be a literal translation difference between German and English.

100%! I will always give the benefit of the doubt when I see odd syntax/grammar (and do my best to provide helpful correction if it's off-base to the extent that it muddies your point), but hit me with a wordy, em-dash battered pile of gobbledygook and you might as well be spitting in my face.

Yep, it’s a 2 way learning street - you can learn new things from non native speakers, and they can learn from you as well. Any kind of auto Translation removed this. (It’s still important to have for non fluent people though!)

Yeah on bandcamp they are collectables first and medium second

It's funny how upset most comments are with the realization that a lot more people are disabled while most of the users in HN are probably on the spectrum

I grew up in a Danish town of 20.000 people and two schools. In my school there were 3 dyslexic children. They went to the "special" class 4 hours a week. I'm not sure what to call it, "special" isn't the right word, but it's not just because my English is not sufficient to come up with the right name. It's because this was the place they put all the children with what we'd call disabilities today. Some of the students in the class were only in that class, others like my dyslexic classmate only went to the class those 4 hours a week. It was also a full age range from 0-9th grades. As you might imagine it didn't exactly work.

Today we know that 10% of the population is dyslexic. So those 3 children should've actually been 80. Some of those 77 children could be in the group of adults who can't read.

What is interesting to me is that you rarely see people rant about the dyslexic the way you see people talking about something like ADHD.

> I'm not sure what to call it, "special" isn't the right word, but it's not just because my English is not sufficient to come up with the right name.

It's the sort of thing that doesn't have a fixed name, because once it's had a name for ~10 years everyone decides the term is offensive and gives it a new name.

It was called special aid, but the reason I can't come up with a defining term is because it was a class with all the trouble kids across age spans from 6 to 14 years old gathered together. Then when the government mandated that schools had to help dyslexic children, they threw them into the mix. I'm not sure how anyone thought that was a good idea. It's no wonder that parents at the time would actively fight any sort of diagnosis because their children would be send into those "special" classes.

Anyway. It used to be that dyslexic children didn't go very far in the education system, and today they do. In part because they can get extra time during tests. I imagine there are similar stories for ADHD and whatever else you have these days.

There's something a little ironic about calling every user on a website disabled on an article about overdiagnosing disability

You see, this is not overdiagnosing and not every person in the spectrum is disabled.

I'm not ironic, you're ironic.

Change in diagnosis criteria, that doesn't mean people before weren't disabled. You need to understand people with ADHD usually overcompensate to meet the academic performance needed and it is not sustainable in the long run. It also doesn't mean they need accommodations, just that they are categorized as disabled in some way or form.

You almost lost me in the first half but yeah, that title alone shows the intentions of the editorial

I should specify also that I am not saying a medical diagnosis is not important, or that there is no such thing as ADHD or Autism.

I believe as a society we need to be more flexible in every area for every human and also to give individual attention to everyone so they can excel. Some people will need more help than others, like those with ADHD, and some will need much, much more help than others, such as those with more extreme sensory issues with Autism who may not even be able to go out in public without accommodations.

I assume they need convincing in the way it proves pets can communicate complex language or it is just the owner interpreting whatever they want

> pets can communicate complex language

Who was even trying to push this narrative in the first place?

the first comment: "complex constructions and grammar"

Cats don't talk in complex ways to owners. Listen to what a male cat vocalizing while trying to woo a female cat. They have something to say and a means to say it. They don't need that kind of communication for reminding the food dispenser what time it is.

That's exactly my thought, it is no different than teaching my dog a trick for treats

I wouldn't measure anticheat success by esports earning

It's clearly one significant measure. What do you think is going to happen to tournament money if every other tournament has a cheater? How many esports fans want to go play League after watching Faker decimate another team if they have cheaters in their match every other day?

What it tells you most of all is popularity and incentive to cheat. Cast a big enough net and you'll inevitably find cheaters. The bigger the net, the more cheaters you'll collect.

"misomechanistic" today I learned a new word and now I want to forget it

Who does?

They can get all the enterprise contracts they want but I don't think it will be enough