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by suchire 3mo ago
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 heavil
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by suchire 1y ago
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.
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by suchire 1y ago
Is their WER graph just completely made up? It’s comically bad
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by suchire 2y ago
Given how little the US invests in public education, probably never
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by suchire 2y ago
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
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by suchire 2y ago
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 “
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by suchire 2y ago
This is a paper describing the pharmacokinetics (the rates of various phases of entering the blood and clearing out of the body) for various formulations of the drug, and their hypotheses for why this might be the case: https://p
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by suchire 2y ago
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 w
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by suchire 2y ago
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.
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by suchire 2y ago
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”
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by suchire 3y ago
Jenkins was a fork of Hudson. No one talks about Hudson anymore
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by suchire 3y ago
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 eco
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by suchire 3y ago
> 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
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by suchire 3y ago
Maybe they should just RTFA
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by suchire 3y ago
It’s still a habit OF dying, just not a habit that IS dying </pun>
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by suchire 3y ago
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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by suchire 3y ago
Hilariously, you can set multiple timers on the Apple Watch, where screen real estate and battery are even more constrained.
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by suchire 3y ago
Because most questions are not bad questions. In isolation, if you have good teammates, ideas and questions are good. It’s just that you have to say “No” in the broader context, because you always have a limited budget of time and money
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by suchire 3y ago
From second-hand knowledge, the Stanford GSE is really bad at understanding equity and minorities, and routinely, minorities in STEP (the teacher training program) get less support and empathy
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by suchire 3y ago
Honestly, it doesn’t really work without the parents. The issue is that the biggest problems with schooling discrepancies are poverty. Kids can’t eat, need to take care of siblings or their own kids or go work two jobs, have no homes, don’t
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by suchire 4y ago
Except phylogeny generally was used to categorize how hereditarily related things were. Whether sequence alignment or physical taxonomy are better determinants is perhaps an open question in some cases, although I’m firmly on the side of se
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by suchire 4y ago
At least for Kaiser Permanente in the SF Bay Area, which is one of the biggest healthcare providers, they are notoriously bad at covering and providing mental health services
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by suchire 4y ago
In SF, a similar problem in the public school district (the majority of the budget goes to administration, not teachers or schools) is in part due to tort-happy parents and a huge amount of regulation and compliance needs. Unfortunately, it
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by suchire 4y ago
> we shouldn’t be the ones making that call So you believe that your company shouldn’t be constrained by morality? This is why I look skeptically at hiring any engineering and product leaders from Cloudflare at any company in which I wor
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by suchire 4y ago
Neither OT/CRDT nor Paxos/Raft are meant to resist rogue actors. They are not Byzantine fault tolerant.
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by suchire 4y ago
Because you need people to fill a wide variety of jobs and roles, like teaching, transportation, retail, food service, sanitation, etc. that can’t be done remotely. Unless you are planning for those jobs to be equally lucrative as CEO of Me
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by suchire 4y ago
Another wrinkle to the problem with that gatekeeping structure is that it is so prone to bias against women and people of color, who are much more likely to be undiagnosed and ignored or dismissed.
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by suchire 4y ago
Clicking the side button five times will do the same
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by suchire 5y ago
Teachers’ unions often have skewed incentives that don’t match the desires of working teachers, because the primary goal of the union is to perpetuate itself, over and above any benefits to teachers themselves.
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by suchire 5y ago
Temporal is a great system for jobs, workflows, etc. (we use it at my current job), but it isn’t really a replacement for PubSub per se, as there is only one consumer per task

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