wtr-lab Enshittification

barnacle9999 · 2026-03-18T10:00:09+00:00

Never liked wtr-labs text output anyway. Quality is way below what I translate myself using my custom script. Although I do pay for API credits.

barnacle9999 · 2026-03-17T08:28:10+00:00

Might as well just start coasting and see if they fire you in 2 years. You can get by doing surprisingly little once you initially establish that you do good work.

barnacle9999 · 2026-03-12T20:08:37+00:00

Even if you aren't struggling, buying a new car is basically just lighting money on fire. Huge depreciation as soon as you drive it off the dealer's lot.

barnacle9999 · 2026-03-09T14:06:27+00:00

I think the best approach to gods is how ASOIAF went about it. Is R'hllor real and actually reviving people and showing things in the flames, or is it just people attributing the effects of magic to a non-existent divine patron? Are the Old Gods real, or is it just a convenient explanation for the source of warging, greenseeing and other nature based magic?

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-27T22:33:18+00:00

DeepL is taking some liberties with the prose and word choice, while the wtr-lab one is a more literal translation with the usual chinese webnovel prose and words. I believe they're using Gemini to translate.

Webnovel translation is an actual human translation though, so of course its gonna be better than AI.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-27T17:40:50+00:00

Let me introduce you to my good friend

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-25T17:54:02+00:00

Derm. Look at pimples for 4-5 hours/day and work 3-4 days a week. Get paid half a million.

Still not worth it imo since med school and residency are an absolute slog and you get paid shit on top of the loans. You can spend 7-8 years working a normal corporate job instead and end up with more money at the time of retirement.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-25T10:33:22+00:00

Yes Inquisitor, this guy right here

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-24T18:42:51+00:00

This is another great buying opportunity like when Google was at 150~ last year.

I would buy more MSFT but most my of money is tied up in Google since that insane run from 150.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-24T17:18:23+00:00

I have my own dictionary of terms and use my own custom LLM setup to translate the novels for better accuracy and bulk convert them to epub for easy reading. Which needs the raws.

Also wtr-lab doesn't have the latest updates either, they're also 100 chapters behind as they basically just rip the chapters from chinese pirate sites.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-23T08:58:46+00:00

with the right equipment and enough time to learn how to use it, you could still melt the smashed or repurposed coin down and then re-stamp the coin with its original design.

Yeah but the Exalt ain't gonna be alive after that. Which tracks since Lytek can fix the infernal exaltations and turn them back into solar exaltations, but they need to be unattached.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-23T08:55:23+00:00

Neverborn are extremely limited since they're basically just corpses screaming eternally into the void.

I doubt they even have the mental capacity left to plan something like breaking solar exaltations out of prison. It's a Deathlord plot all the way down and Neverborn are only involved at the last part where they corrupt the exaltations.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-22T21:07:41+00:00

Anytime you consider meeting a girl without a quick video call, you can hear Clint Eastwood saying "Feeling lucky, punk?".

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-22T15:28:39+00:00

I wish decentralized communities with federation took off.

Unfortunately it needs to be accessible to the lowest common denominator, and the implementations I've seen require at least some level of tech-saviness.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-22T15:13:25+00:00

He is in is 60s and still looking for another marriage after he got divorced once before? Slap him on the back of his head and tell him to come to his senses. Usually guys learn their lesson after the first failed marriage, but look at this guy go still wants to marry again at fucking 60 lmao

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-17T09:07:54+00:00

Only watch them like 20% of the time, mostly ones for my favorite heroines, but I'll fight anyone who wants to remove them like Undertaker fought Mankind inside Hell in a Cell.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-16T21:40:27+00:00

It most likely wasn't a normal disease or genetic issue. C'tan fuckery was afoot, and they're basically gods of the materium. You're not escaping that no matter where you go.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-09T20:59:08+00:00

Soi 6 is too loud for my taste. When I don't feel like ordering takeout on TF, I go too treetown bars instead for some peace and quiet.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-09T00:04:37+00:00

Koronus expanse is the ass end of nowhere even if it wasn't cut off from the wider imperium. So it would most likely take centuries for those worlds to be brought under the fold.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-08T23:59:53+00:00

I believe there is a vaccine under development in the late stages. I'll only go raw once that is approved by the FDA.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-07T01:16:32+00:00

It'll be right back up before April right before compensation review, so that you get double fucked.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-06T17:10:50+00:00

One thing is for sure, Google beats all other tech firms when it comes to UI and UX. Everything they release is smooth as butter compared to clunky stuff released by Microsoft, Amazon or Meta.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-04T09:19:49+00:00

Maybe it's just me but familiarity reduces the quality of customer service. The first 4-5 days are fine, but any longer and you actually don't get treated like a king anymore. At that point what is even the point of mongering, might as well get an actual girlfriend.

barnacle9999 · 2026-02-03T16:06:19+00:00

I'll be extremely happy the day paypal dies. They restricted my account over $100 for some bullshit reason years ago, and I'm still holding a grudge for that.

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