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As an aside, in Islam, people have to pay a 2.5% wealth tax annually for charity.[1] This does make retiring a tad bit complicated. Say you've saved $3M and are ready to retire. Th…

For context: As a percentage of the population, Hamas's attack on Oct 7th killed 6 times as many people as Al Qaeda did on September 11. If you are an Israeli, you are 6 times more…

I've been using xonsh professionally since around 2018 - in both Windows and Linux. Love it. Getting it to run existing bash scripts was a pain earlier on, but has gotten much bett…

Psst... xonsh! Relatively terse, and quite readable scripts (they are mostly Python!)

PTD is almost entirely PhDs.

If he was a test automation engineer, he likely had transferable skills. Many/most of the fab folks have almost no programming skills, and are PhDs in things like chemistry[1], etc…

> Intel isn't a great place to work (despite their corporate value claiming it is), but by most accounts, Amazon is much worse unless you really like a place with cutthroat corpora…

Former Intel employee here. This may be true for their design folks, but the largest portion of the company is related to the fab, and there aren't many jobs for those folks. Moreo…

Intel hired over 20,000 people this year alone (likely a record for them both in terms of absolute and relative percentage). The freeze is similar to that of other companies: Uncer…

While such people may exist at Intel, it's not at all the norm, and to be frank, doesn't improve your chances of getting a job there. (Worked at Intel and along with fab/process fo…

This falls more into the electronics domain, which I know is sometimes put under the "semiconductor" bucket, but in universities usually has its own domain ("microelectronics" in m…

The industry doesn't have a talent shortage, which explains the working conditions. There will always be grad students who think "Cool! I get to do research involving quantum mecha…

Semiconductor theory is more interesting, but don't even consider it unless you love math and can do standard integrals without having to look up tables. Also, the mistake I made w…

I worked at Intel, and with process/fab people for a number of years. Everything you're seeing in the comments is true. Compensation is not that bad. Clearly, it'll not pay SW sala…

I assume that's because of pay. Working conditions for SW folks is fairly decent at most of the company, except possibly for firmware folks. I suppose some people didn't like their…

> There is a preference for hiring people directly out of grad school and inducting them into the cult while they are still naive, so that's just what they come to expect for work-…

Good in terms of process engineers, poor compared to FAANG SW Engineers.

Having worked at Intel, I can tell you that the process side of Intel has similar work hours. This, in particular, rings true for Intel: > Different positions may have different re…

> The unwritten rule is that managers aren't incentivized to police this behavior. Unless it is the manager who has to constantly do the reminding. Then there is swift policing :-)…

Spent years at Intel. Definitely saw what is described here. Must also add that it is a big company with no clear culture, so many people will have been in teams for years and not …

I was involved in the self-driving efforts at Intel. Can confirm the incompetence.

Management doesn't get a say in this. HR does. Gelsinger is the first CEO at Intel to openly admit Intel pays below market rate and when he joined he promised an 18 month timeline …

> ML engineers make more than general software engineers everywhere. At least they did for a while between roughly 2015 and 2020. It's not clear if SavantIdiot is a SW person (vs H…

I know some Lisp/Scheme, but never really did any projects in it. What did you use to learn Racket (both the language and the ecosystem)? If I had to read a single book/tutorial, w…

> I don't want my kids to be taught that there's this amorphous but pervasive "systemic racism" and "white supremacy" out to get people who look like them, but which they can't do …