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But "Duckpond" was right there!

To me the real question is why a new grad would have lower unemployment to begin with compared to the average worker. Presumably the average worker has more on-the-job experience, so it seems like maybe people are weighting that more heavily now compared to before.

Reminds me of a quiz tournament that I participated in once, where the answer was “Apollo 11” (eleven), but the host thought the answer read “Apollo Two” and told us we were incorrect.

Is their WER graph just completely made up? It’s comically bad

Given how little the US invests in public education, probably never

At one point, apparently it was fashionable amongst teens to type characters by using pinyin and always selecting the first character in the list of options, regardless of the intended actual character. That was essentially phonetic writing, but as a result, texts were incomprehensible to parents (the desired outcome).

I once rode a bus from Boston to NYC in the middle of a winter storm at night. The bus got lost and the trip ended up taking close to 7 hours. These buses had TVs for showing video tapes, and so partway through, the driver decided to show “The Ring”. Let me tell you, an involuntary horror movie screening in the middle of a blizzard is quite a memorable experience.

This workflow is exactly what Descript does. Transcript-based editing, filler word removal, noise reduction, volume normalization, Overdub spoken word correction using the speaker’s voice, eye gaze correction for video, etc.

Disclaimer: I work at Descript

San Francisco has Golden Gate Park, Mt Sutro, Lands End, and the Presidio as forests. I think park maintenance in those places is less to ensure trees thrive and more to keep up trails, remove hazards, etc.

Vermeer made only low dozens of paintings as opposed to, say, Monet, who made thousands, so likely they just mean something like “including one of Vermeer’s paintings, which are rare”

Jenkins was a fork of Hudson. No one talks about Hudson anymore

My expectations for people to take ethical responsibility generally scales with rank/level. It’s hard to fault a junior engineer for doing what they’re told; they might not even know about any harms they are doing, or maybe they’re economically vulnerable and can’t speak up for fear of losing their job.

On the other hand, a Director or Staff Engineer has my full blame for anything unethical that happens under their purview.

> But if we don’t do our job right, people don’t get paid right, and while that may not have the same immediate impact as a doctor mistake, it’s... very much a real human impact.

As someone whose spouse is a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District (where they had a disastrous rollout of new payroll and HR software), the effects are very, very real and concrete to me. Luckily, I work in tech and our could handle the problems, but many teachers live paycheck-to-paycheck. We know of teachers who have donated blood to get rent money because they weren’t paid, and one teacher died from cancer while being denied healthcare as a result of the HR software being borked. Total disaster with real, negative human consequences, unfortunately.

Maybe they should just RTFA