While not nearly as bad as what is in the article. Predictive text in Messages on iOS now suggests "cancer" when I type "can" and "chemotheteropy" when I type "ch". And to really rub it in "ma" brings up "magnesium". The magnesium one being the worst because if I type it that means they are doing a magnesium infusion and that means I am going to feel like I have been hit by a truck for the next two days.
A lot of the times it is actually picking the right word but somethings you don't want to be constantly reminded of.
So much anger. My sisters boy just turned 21. His dad is a electrician and always stressed that he should do jobs that can't be outsourced. Corey just got a union job for 30 a hour as a carpenter.
I was a Junior in high school in Springfield, Oregon and we had classes like these. One was Principles of Technology were we played with wiring houses and oscilloscopes. We also had a robust machine shop with CNC machines. In Principles of tech we had a injection molder. I also took four years of drafting and auto-tech.
So we had the tools in the tenth grade to design a part in autocad in drafting class, take it over to the machine shop and have a CNC machine mill a mold that could then be pushed over to have parts injection molded.
All that is gone now due to cuts in funding.
And for fun we actually had a class to teach people how to be a logger.
I was born in 1977. In the 7th grade I had a old 128K Mac. I wrote an application to catalog my baseball cards. I used the Microsoft version of basic since it was that or Pascal.
This was before the Internet was easily accessible. Software shipped with manuals that made the bible look tiny.
Then I discovered girls and skateboarding and booze and didn't touch a computer for a long time.
Around 22 I started with HTML to make a site for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cheat codes. It kinda snowballed from there. That was still when Clinton was President.
Now I focus on PHP and scaling servers. I have a Bachelors in Economics but enjoy nerdy stuff more.
A lot of the times it is actually picking the right word but somethings you don't want to be constantly reminded of.