lowatt · HackerTrans

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

These may be dimwitted questions but still want to ask: 1. Did Google, Amazon, Meta, etc benefit by over hiring during the pandemic? 2. Did the benefit of over hiring outweigh the cost of job cuts? 3. If both 1 and 2 are yes, then did they know about the possible layoffs and still intentionally over hired to max benefits?

lowatt

il y a 4 ansdiscuss

Authors may be "language pros" but the content can use more proof reading. One (trivial) example:

> Kanji are ideograms imported lock, stock, and barrel from __mainland Asia__ into Japan over hundreds of years, starting around the 5th century, followed by Buddhism in the 6th century.

"mainland Asia"? This makes me laugh. Technically not totally wrong, but, do people really say that? Won't people from India get offended? If someone (e.g, a child) googles "mainland Asia", the first result is Indochina. Did Japan import Chinese characters from Indochina in the 5th century? I believe a textbook should be clear, straightforward, and shouldn't obscure/blur facts.

lowatt

il y a 4 ansdiscuss

Nice app. Keep every word queried in a list and revisit them to enhance memory. This is exactly the same way I expanded my English vocabulary 10 years ago.

My simplistic solution was a command-line script which googles "define {word}" and extracts the definition into the console. The query history is appended to a text file (partitioned by date) saved in Dropbox.

Someone tried to use it in an Alfred workflow. Don't know if they made it or not. It seems it's hard to query google in a script now.

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