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22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by akovaski »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #42
xvedejas wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment seems unnecessarily antagonistic. Given whatever size of garage I have, being somewhere I can live without a car gives me more garage space, regardless of whether it's a suburb. If I want to maximize garage space given my choice of a car-free lifestyle, I would probably move to a suburb with a good train station, not one where "only 20 minutes' drive to downtown" is seen as the selling point. Those are s…

Nah, I'm joking, hopefully not antagonizing. My point was that since you're not downtown, you can park in the street. Minutes to downtown isn't a selling point I'm making. I don't typically go downtown. I've put 10k miles on my car in 3 years. This was in response to someone saying they can't get exercise in a suburb, which I find absurd.

> when you too are ready to grow up

The antagonism is from effectively calling them immature (and thus implying that their opinion is coming from a place of naivety) and placing yourself above them. This is a pretty standard insult that people use to try to be persuasive.

I suppose you could say that posting that insult itself is so immature that readers should recognize it as a joke, but I suggest that you should try to stay away from sarcasm when posting in online forums. It can be quite difficult to detect the sarcasm of a bunch of people you don't know.

I could end my post by sarcastically saying "don't worry, you'll learn what a joke is when you grow up", but hopefully you can imagine how some people would take that as a genuine insult rather than a joke. Though it would be punchier ending.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

dleslie wrote: post #24
ccorcos wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m constantly surprised how tech folks seem to undervalue the suburbs.

Most American suburbs are awful if you enjoy any sort of regular physical activity, and simply prefer to walk to the market instead of drive. They're amazing if you love sitting in traffic.

I think the key is to have everything delivered to you. Once you figure that out, suburbs are great.

Of course, it's not equivalent to being able to walk to places, but I feel the pros outweigh the cons in terms of what you do get from the suburbs.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

111111101101 wrote: post #39
ekianjo wrote: post #32

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Leave Australia :-)

This is the answer. Young people especially need to realise that this country doesn't want them.

Interestingly, as a young Australian, I've thought about this a lot and I genuinely struggle to find a better country to live in.

We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but feel they're significantly less.

A large part of it being how isolated we are from the rest of the world and all the benefits that provides. Not to mention the low population density of the country as a whole.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by saulpw »

xvedejas wrote: post #35
trimethylpurine wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a suburb. Not an expensive one. Downtown is a 20 minute drive in light traffic. Within a 10 minute walk there are office buildings, grocery stores, shopping mall, gyms, parks, hiking and biking trails, etc. There are many cities to choose from; some are better planned than others. Based on your comment I would guess that you've opted to live in one of the "cool" cities in America.

That you need to drive to downtown suggests you might not have much garage space after all?

No one parks in the garage in the suburbs :) They either park in the driveway or on the street, both of which have ample room to store vehicles.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by reactordev »

dottjt wrote: post #62
dleslie wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most American suburbs are awful if you enjoy any sort of regular physical activity, and simply prefer to walk to the market instead of drive. They're amazing if you love sitting in traffic.

I think the key is to have everything delivered to you. Once you figure that out, suburbs are great. Of course, it's not equivalent to being able to walk to places, but I feel the pros outweigh the cons in terms of what you do get from the suburbs.

>”I think the key is to have everything delivered to you.“

This is why we can’t have nice things. We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs. The amount of waste just so you can get your instacart. The reality is near 8% mortgages have put suburbs with garages out of reach for almost everyone without a trust fund or selling their startup.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by reactordev »

ChainOfFools wrote: post #59
OccamsMirror wrote: post #30

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Not in Australia. Even rural is expensive.

Recently moved into a four-bedroom home in a moderately desirable suburb of Los Angeles. I myself work in tech field and my spouse is university faculty. Our subdiv is a large tract of homes built 15-25 years ago, all in the mid six figures to just a hair over seven. At least three of the neighbors within sight of my own house are some sort of residential construction or property trade contractor. Two are public scho…

Most tradespeople I know can’t afford “hair over seven” figures for a home. Everyone in your neighborhood is house poor. They are banking on equity. They had a sizable upfront down payment.

Like I said, all the tradespeople I know are struggling with lower 6, much less hair over 7.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dvh »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #4

It really is wild what you can do in your garage these days. Since the early 2010’s there has been a true revolution in this space that has only accelerated over the last few years. I have an injection molding machine that I built in my garage for less than $1500 USD that has a 3 cubic inch injection volume, able to make a large variety of plastic components at small production scale using a mold I printed from my $5…

How do you get fully assembled PCBs at JLCPCB for $5. I just ordered one and it was $4.10 for bare PCB, assembly would cost additional $8 so minimum for assembled pcb is $12.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by helsinkiandrew »

blobbers wrote: post #49

I mean this is a great story, and I'm happy for this guy, but isn't this a super dirty process? Is he going to have cancer in 8 years but will have built a chip from 1971? Seems like a bad trade-off.

Assuming you have decent ventilation and even basic PPE is this any worse than an average auto or paint shop though?

Or even firefighting station!: https://apnews.com/article/firefighters-cancer-pfas-turnout-...

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