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[Off-topic] I got curious about the comment chain, checked it in a private window, and... well, I don't remember when I blocked that poster, but by their profile I'm glad I did it — it's a waste of time to chat with assumptive fools, you spend more time brushing off their assumptions (only so they vomit yet another assumption, and another, and another...) than actually saying what you want, or reading something meaningful. You probably won't miss them.

[On-topic] I got the same experience as in your second link, but with translation instead of programming — using machine translation to give me ideas on how to translate specially problematic excerpts; idiomatic expressions, tricky grammatical distinctions lacking in the target language, stuff like this. Just ideas, mind you; I wouldn't copy the machine translation, I'd pick one or two words from it and come up with my own, so it was still human-made.

Then I noticed the "problematic excerpts" were becoming more and more common.

Some might argue "than mite as well not uze calculatorz lol lmao u'll get rusty math"... you know what, it's actually a fair comparison, and one of the reasons I do think people should do maths by hand sometimes. Tools are supposed to allow you to do more, not to cripple you until you're doing less.

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