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After fighting for years to work from home full time (and loving it now). I see one big problem I have no fix for, training new grad / junior engineers. Feel free to correct me if …

There's also the same price but more complex issue. Hybrid engines and washing machines are far more efficient but significantly more complex. Prices are roughly the same +inflatio…

I think this is similar to sitting in a coffee shop doing work with a coworker. The game is the work you're primarily focused on. Your coworker is there but only occasionally engag…

I don't think it's that they "prefer their current provider" it's that they prefer not to think about it or go through the hassle of changing. Like if someone got an oil change and…

I wish they'd just pushed for TSMC to open a fab in Europe, with incentives and protections. Micron has one in Italy that is basically shut down. I was once told that to avoid payo…

I've been doing the no car thing for 4 years now after my last car was totaled in the middle of the night while parked. The thing that worked for me was to compute out the total co…

I agree, and argued as much. Going so far as ask what their policy would be if I rent a cheep room, return every few months, and pay local taxes. My argument being that If I remain…

Yeah I get that, the further east you go the worse it is, and my experience working with Indian coworkers sounds like a nightmare for them. I'm from Portugal so I was thinking of b…

Similar observation, on my tiny stretch of street I've seen 7 moving trucks since SIP started, far more than I've ever seen. I get it, If you just moved or been here 1-2yr I'd leav…

You estimate. Look at past 1yr then 5yr. get average per year. Then look at forward growth potential, maybe read the last two quarter prospectus... and kind of guess/ballpark. You …

Yes, I manage a set of tools and libraries written in perl that are pretty large and service the whole company. That said we're re-writing them all to Python so more people can con…

One big one is farming, think harvesting machinery. There's a number of startups trying to get that going. I think most are not at the scale to be successful the way the market the…

> ...salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living. So if the employee where to move to say Hong Kong where cost of living is higher will they also in turn increase…

While still an issue, many of the really bad offenders leaked chemicals for instance doesn't happen much anymore. Mostly because fab materials are expensive to get and purify. Simp…

Re-industrialization of America* *With extreme automation and minimal employees. Modern Fabs have very few assembly line employee's. They use positive pressure rooms, overhead rail…

Qualcomm/Broadcomm/Nvidia/AMD use TSMC AMD does make chips in the US via their spun off Global Foundries, and so does Intel. AMD switched some production to TSMC because they had m…

I personally love this idea and I hope it spreads to other bay area companies, but I also worry we'll see a repeat of IBM https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-t…

I don't get how they plan to compete, do they have chip designers? or deals with SOC manufacturers because AWS/Google/Microsoft are fast because of custom chips that link NVMe dire…

Sometime back Uber added this $0 delivery for a set of rotating restaurants. In my mind what I figured they were doing was clumping orders together to drive down costs... in practi…

I think it depends on your data / query patterns. Self Inner/Left/Right joins are one of my most common queries. I often need to chain joins in various ways to get the desired outp…

I routinely write in no less than 4 languages for work... comfortably in all of them. Each certainly have their own nuances but the skills translate and made learning the others ea…

Among many other issues is connectivity, in the bay area on 280 or 101 there are dead zones and when there's heavy traffic all those cars/people/phones connected to the towers and …

Good review. A related good piece of advice I got early in my career was to do the tasks no one else wants to do. Less risky than "do the hard things". You quickly become invaluabl…

This is so funny I just had a similar bug yesterday and named it our y2k20 bug, just a path name change that someone forgot to map correctly