nurspouse

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by nurspouse 4mo ago
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. That means each year you're spending $75K just to sa
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by nurspouse 3y ago
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 likely to know someone impacted by those attacks than
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 better. The one thing I don't do is make it my offic
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by nurspouse 4y ago
Psst... xonsh! Relatively terse, and quite readable scripts (they are mostly Python!)
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by nurspouse 4y ago
PTD is almost entirely PhDs.
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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. Now some of them do take the initiative and learn SW
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by nurspouse 4y ago
> 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 corporate politics. I used to work at Intel. Some data poin
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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. Moreover, the alternatives (TSMC, Samsung, etc) suck as much
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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: Uncertainty over economic conditions.
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 folks for a bunch of years).
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 my day). It's a lot more focused on
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 mechanics!" Trust me, I've tried to talk them
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 when I went to grad school: Semiconductors seemed to be
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by nurspouse 4y ago
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 salaries - no engineering does. But if you&#x27
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by nurspouse 5y ago
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 status in a HW company.
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by nurspouse 5y ago
> 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-life balance. Heh. I once interviewed for an interna
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by nurspouse 5y ago
Good in terms of process engineers, poor compared to FAANG SW Engineers.
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by nurspouse 5y ago
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 requirements, so work hours vary, according to the principa
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by nurspouse 5y ago
> 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 :-) Yes, this is actually normal "human" beha
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by nurspouse 5y ago
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 have encountered what skynetv2 is describing. My two cents:
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by nurspouse 5y ago
I was involved in the self-driving efforts at Intel. Can confirm the incompetence.
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by nurspouse 5y ago
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 to improving compensation. Most of it involves negotiat
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by nurspouse 5y ago
> 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 HW/fab), but while what you say is correct, note
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by nurspouse 5y ago
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, what will give me the most bang for my time? I tr
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by nurspouse 5y ago
> 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 anything about. My loc
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by nurspouse 6y ago
Disclaimer: I worked at Intel. Calling them useless may be a bit of a stretch. If you said "mediocre", I'd believe it. Also, in my experience there, the ratio is not uniform - you could go to a department with lots of top not
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by nurspouse 6y ago
> I have to disagree with this as an Iranian working in Germany who moved with an offer on a Blue Card. Reading up on it, I assume you got this offer while not in the EU? That is impressive. Over here (and often in Canada as well), few c
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by nurspouse 6y ago
I am an immigrant who got a GC via the H1B route, so I'll give some perspective. I work at one big company, and have heard from those at FAANG. It depends on how you define H1B abuse. Most of the H1-B abuse I'm aware of are either
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by nurspouse 6y ago
I was careless with my wording. By workstation, I was emphasizing the station portion. As an example, my current cube at Intel has walls all around (albeit short, but some buildings have walls taller than most people), 2 file storage cabi
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by nurspouse 6y ago
Using cubicles a symptom of a sickness would mean that Google and FB are sicker. Intel has better workstations.

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