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@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Yeah and you guys decided, "you know what, I don't like this extra stroke, I'm just gonna make everything look like cat scratch marks and let people decipher things on their own"

Though to be entirely fair, it's probably because chat font is too . . . smooth? What do font nerds, er, typographers call it

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@RyanM ohhh there is typo! I missed it before.

The OCR gave "מיוחז" however the actual word is "מיוחד".

Those are two different letters lol.

M.A.R.

They look uh, very different

Ryan M

8:15 AM

Yeah, I see how it got that one wrong...

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ד is more straight

M.A.R.

Precisely illustrating my point

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ז is curved

:D

Ryan M

If that's actually "distinguished," then it's quite funny that they're so similar.

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@RyanM no, מיוחז is just typo without any meaning of its own

But Google Translate goes really awkward with typos, something about their neural network, read about it long ago.

M.A.R.

8:17 AM

Sickle and hatchet. Commie letters

Ryan M

Yeah, it's occasionally useful when it just ...does the right thing.

But you can also get really strange results.

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@M.A.R. think it's using the browser/OS default font, no?

M.A.R.

Machine translation is funny enough itself. Doesn't need curved and carved letters

#KeepMachineTranslationPure

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lol

It's more funny when you know the meaning of the letter in slang. :P

Ryan M

One of my favorite Google Translate results: hit the "Translate" button at the bottom of these song lyrics that consist in large part of 3-4 letter initialisms. Note that some of the initialisms get translated, sometimes to other initialisms.

M.A.R.

8:20 AM

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=6

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Apr 19 '17 at 13:58, by Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. remember this? ^

:D

Ryan M

@RyanM e.g., "FCKW" (Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff) gets translated to "CFC" (chlorofluorocarbon)

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 not really, I mean, when it comes to the Arabic script, Google translate is racist or something. It gets REALLY bizarre

The weirdest, most nonsensical translations (besides Chinese translations of course)

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lol

This and dark skinned people?

M.A.R.

Oh, and occasionally Japanese too: Advanced Mission

(From the LL link above)

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8:26 AM

hehe

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. sans serif is not an island in the Caribbean

Tinkeringbell

9:00 AM

@magisch I see the catcus is back, nice!

Rob

9:34 AM

@Sha, no forgetting:

18 hours ago, by Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Now, your OCR tools:

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@Rob is this yours?

@Rob I didn't quite get it so wasn't sure how to respond.

Rob

Shadow ... don't avoid the question ...

Luuklag

o/

Tinkeringbell

\o

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@Rob there's no question. Or is there?

Rob

9:41 AM

Click on "18 hours ago", image below

🚀⚗️

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@Rob I mean I don't know who that woman is, Google reverse image search doesn't help either...

Rob

Use your OCR!

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I don't have :P

Luuklag

how are things with your new house @Tink?

Rob

Hint: নিকিতা গান্ধী

Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3

9:45 AM

Also OCR means reading text displayed as image, didn't even know it can be used for pure images.

Rob

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oh. stealing OCR from @M.A.R. then

Luuklag

@Rob The google translate app has that capability as well, it works pretty decent, unless people start writing really fancy letters with lots of curls etc.

Rob

It's not Persian either.

Tinkeringbell

Living room and bedroom are all wallpapered, so only the hallway left to go. Mom will hopefully get a big chunk of that done this Wednesday. I managed to put ~1/2 of the clothes closet together before dad started meddling and things slowed down significantly.

Tonight I'm planning to go over and clean the ... "plinten" ... and the floor, so the furniture and bed can go in tomorrow.

Luuklag

9:48 AM

@Rob Nikhita Gandhi

Tinkeringbell

Otherwise, a lot of chaos and arguments about cleaning. Mom seems to think everything needs to be cleaned entirely before the furniture moves in, and I'm of the opinion that things like doors, windows and the inside of the kitchen cabinets can wait.

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@Tinkeringbell what's a "plinten"? Kind of lantern? ;)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell baseboard / skirting

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 No... Luuklag translated it for you :P

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@Luuk is on a translation roll today. :D

Rob

9:50 AM

:)

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hiring @Luuk as Chief Translator

Rob

cheap

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Didn't say how much he gets

Rob

cheap translator, not chief

The answer to @Sha's OCR Challenge is: bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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:D

Luuklag

9:58 AM

Argh our IT provider started using Jira, and now I get a shitload of mails from Jira

The only option is to unsubscribe per issue

Tinkeringbell

Ugh, that doesn't sound good!

Luuklag

I made an email rule to just mark as read and move to trash

problem solved :)

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Nice!

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10:22 AM

@Luuklag LOL

@Rob you've successfully passed the Beginner's OCR challenge. Now for Expert challenge. Identify the app:

;)

Rob

10:57 AM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Like I said the online tools don't work well for obscure subject matter.

Rob

11:07 AM

@Sha, has anyone ever told you that if you invert the text it's easier to look at (guess letters), as an English only reader?:

See: it's "LliL ClIte" !

Luuklag

@Rob this shounds pretty NSFW ;)

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@Rob you're the first to tell me that. :D

@Rob NSFW?

Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 It's approximately 25% easier to read, I don't understand it either way; but it's easier to remember when comparing the letters on two pages - just read the word upsidedown and compare for equality.

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Maybe he's a Rapper.

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@Rob he has one item in Amazon for sale.

Rob

Is it wrapped?

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11:19 AM

hmm let me see

@Rob nope.

Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 99¢ seems a lot to charge for an unknown singer.

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@Rob think it's the minimum

It's also one song, 1 minute.

Can't post the song name, I'll get kicked. :P

But it goes well with the singer stage name.

M.A.R.

11:42 AM

@JourneymanGeek NO U

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. You callin me fat?

M.A.R.

No, I'm calling you cholesterol

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 well you can't have mine!

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. Good or bad though?

Luuklag

12:00 PM

@JNat spammer for your gentle care: stackexchange.com/users/21417450/roadly?tab=accounts

Rob

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 It's a huge ripoff, the shortest top 100 song (also 99¢) comes in at just under 2 minutes; but it's a well known song from an established artist. Most songs are longer than 2 minutes, source: billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8514407/…

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 He has 11 items on Amazon: amazon.com/David-Broza/e/B000APXKBQ why do you say only 1, blocked?

Jitendra Singh

12:31 PM

Hello guys

I wanted to ask if I have once flagged a question as needs improvement then after that can i vote to close it also if I have 3k rep

Tinkeringbell

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A: Should flagging a question for closure prevent close-voting?

After some discussion, a change is being pushed out to allow users that previously flagged for recommend closure to then cast a full close vote, after they've attained the appropriate privilege. The main justification being that this new privilege supersedes the old and you should be able to exe...

Spevacus

Morning/afternoon folks!

Tinkeringbell

o/

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12:48 PM

@M.A.R. :(

@Rob we're talking about two different things, which isn't uncommon.

I'm talking about the new name you found when putting it upside down.

2 hours ago, by Rob

See: it's "LliL ClIte" !

Give or take couple of letters, it's actually a singer (?) name.

!!/coffee g3r

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 brews a cup of Mocha for @g3r

g3rv4

o/

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g3rv4

\ô/

Spevacus

/o/ \o\

Rob

1:07 PM

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Ah, doh.

That means they are better known, more popular, than what's his name; from Israel.

Jitendra Singh

1:33 PM

Pls someone reply this

Luuklag

58 mins ago, by Tinkeringbell

7

A: Should flagging a question for closure prevent close-voting?

After some discussion, a change is being pushed out to allow users that previously flagged for recommend closure to then cast a full close vote, after they've attained the appropriate privilege. The main justification being that this new privilege supersedes the old and you should be able to exe...

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@Rob indeed.