roskoe

> not employed by publishers

Full time professional, 20 years of experience.

Keep in mind that 99% of translators are freelance. Translating something takes only a fraction of the time it takes to write the original, so publishers only have full time project managers and editors and hire translators per job as needed.

Engines like Deepl do give very good results on some single sentences. After all, they are huge databases of previous human translations, they are bound to nail it here and there. Where it falls apart is in keeping a good average and a consistent voice, so either you leave it all as messy AI sludge or you rewrite it substantially (at which point it's a glorified dictionary)

The basic Sony Walkman is 74.99 $

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...

At least people will stop countering any criticism of the US with "Well, it's the only country that put a man on the moon too!" For the rest... is there anything humans can do up there robots can't do better and cheaper?

In all fairness, the conditions that saw the demo scene rising are so remote to be almost incomprehensible to the new generation.

"You see, when a cracking crew beat the protection of a new game, they would upload their hacked version to an elite BBS and repackaged it with a little intro and a trainer. They had to be very creative and skilled, often working directly in assembler, in order to achieve impressive imagery and chip music while still fitting on the same 1.4MB floppy."

blank stare