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I also don't have kids and I don't necessarily prefer the office... but from over a decade now of experience working in remote and hybrid jobs, I've found that there is no substitute for shoving everyone in a room and telling them to figure out the problems with processes. Tons of things just never get resolved when working remotely because it's hard to communicate actual pain points to others because they'll only talk to you via instant messages or in brief video/voice chats. And it's hard to convey how much time people are losing to issues in projects. The issues don't pop up on a day to day basis, but they do pop up in long-tail projects and even in continuing development projects. And the worst is figuring out requirements remotely. When you're in person, you can pester people without their ability to filter you out until they get you the requirements. Remotely, well, they can simply just ignore you (and often do in my experience).

Yes, I like working remotely most of the time. But I like living close enough to the office that if needed, I can go slap someone upside the head on a whim.

Another big factor is that we lie about capacity when making up the numbers. We assume summer numbers under ideal conditions and not actual daily average capacity or minimum daily capacity. Just going from summer to winter greatly reduces energy production per day not even including weather events.

When assets are frozen as part of a criminal case, they can't be moved or released at all by the institute holding them. At the conclusion of the criminal case, if the defendant is not guilty or the case is dropped, then they're simply unfrozen. If the defendant is found guilty, then any fines and fees will be seized from them and the remaining amount unfrozen. At all times, those assets have not moved at all. Additionally, frozen assets can be authorized to be released to pay for a defense or living expenses by the court during the case and appeals.

When assets are forfeited, they're seized by the government and just tossed somewhere likely to get lost (tons of things get lost, damaged, and stolen when seized). If you even have the money left to hire a lawyer, you might be able to contest the forfeiture. But because the assets and not you are being charged, well they don't have to try very hard to let you know of the case. In almost all cases, the assets are forfeited summarily because people can't afford to get them back or they're notified too late to find an attorney and start the process of contesting the forfeiture. This process is colloquially known as theft.

But if they seize the assets through civil asset forfeiture, then they're not frozen, they're seized. And that's what happened here. When assets are frozen, they can also still be used to pay for reasonable lifestlye expenses such as housing, childcare, food, transportation, etc.

Civil Asset Forfeiture is not freezing assets, it's seizing them with intent to forfeit them. The grand jury never returned a true bill on Nelson and expired before any charges were brought against anyone. This was a shakedown by the FBI of someone who probably didn't commit a crime but as near others who did commit a crime. Honestly, this whole thing should have been a contract dispute in civil court between AWS and Nelson given the information that has been released in court filings. Nelson's contract didn't prohibit moonlighting and as far as Amazon and the feds are concerned, neither have shown any evidence that Nelson took a kickback of any kind.

Nelson wasn't even working at AWS when the Northstar deal got approved and no evidence was actually submitted in any court against him. This article is about someone who probably has clean hands in all of this but got dragnetted by the FBI and Amazon for being part of the approval process before he left the company.

People also moved away from that paradigm because databases are slow. I work in the world of optimizing TLP level communications over PCI-e buses. To me, a database access is already in the world of "why bother?".

> What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?

They quit when the numbers don't match what they feel they are worth. You see the same thing in finance. One bad year can send 20-30% of your workforce walking out the door in a matter of a few months post bonuses.

FAANG was a coping mechanism for Amazon employees. It was always just FANG.

The delivery fee being artificially low was a political decision to subsidize utility prices for the poor. Every single utility has step function of pricing for usage fees that works to capture the cost of providing the infrastructure. This is why net metering never made sense to utilities and why they were trying to reject it despite states and politicians seeking to force it on them. The utilities who did go all-in on net metering willingly did so at the generator rates which pissed off a ton of homeowners but that was actually a fair thing to do as that reflected the real price of the energy being provided.

I'm in HFT and a huge part of our job for the FPGA drivers is managing the NUMA awareness of our software. And we have to constantly educate new devs coming into the low level software teams about this. Luckily, the SW teams are starting to do this training for us but it's always a major headache when there's issues. You can easily lose 50%+ of your performance by just failing to set a core affinity without even considering anything else.

You also get to become one with the road in case of an accident.

As the district court pointed out, if a consumer doesn't agree with Apple's business model, they're free to buy a competing product.

And Microsoft charges 30% of the sale price of any game sold on Xbox plus for physical products another 20% for the right to master it to disc plus. Why isn't EGS complaining about this?

My wife is a teacher in Chicago Public Schools and there are classes in her school that have spent less than half of the school year in the classroom because of quarantine every time a kid gets COVID. Because the kids all eat lunch together, unmasked, and indoors, well they're all considered close contacts. So back to remote lessons they go again and again.

How exactly is this better than a consistent schedule from home?

It took me two months in Chicago to see a general practitioner and I'm still waiting (4 months later) for an in-network physical therapist to start taking non-critical, new patients for a back issue. Everything is completely understaffed and overwhelmed, even the services that aren't even associated with emergency care are swamped. Heck, getting just a dentist appointment now is a multi-month out scheduling nightmare with a side of random cancellations because the staff got COVID followed by being rescheduled several more months out and hoping to be bumped again.

When NASA switched from internal IT to a third-party contractor, their laptops and desktops got replaced with worse hardware that somehow cost more. This is the Republican way.

I've been doing this ever since I almost got clipped by a car when getting out of my vehicle. It's honestly just a lot safer and everyone should be doing it.

Pittsburgh itself has actually knocked down quite a few bridges over the last 30 years. The suburbs have not as they just run out of money.

Okay, but that's just ignoring that ASML's largest design center is in NY just a few tens of miles from NYC and White Plains. Why is it there? Global Foundries (former IBM and AMD) is nearby and that was where the research was happening. Their second largest design center is in Norway, so not even in the EU. But sure, they're a Dutch company that does most of its design work outside of the Netherlands.

In terms of research, well the USA is still leading in total number of dollars, researchers, labs, and light sources dedicated to semiconductor research. Heck, we have three of the world's most advanced accelerators (Fermi Lab, Argonne National Labs, and SLAC) that are critical to semiconductor device research and were where most of the EUV breakthroughs were made.

In terms of total effort for EUV, yeah most probably wasn't in the USA. But if I had to hazard a guess, probably 50-60% of the research and development of EUV was done in the USA, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. So essentially countries firmly within our sphere of influence with the rest occurring in Europe (not the EU, the continent), the People's Republic of China, India, etc. And as we're moving forward, TSMC's stated reason for putting their most advanced fabs in the USA going forward is because they want faster and easier access to where the research is occurring at the bleeding edge of the research without the problem of the time gap that delays and impedes communication due to sleep schedules.

Yeah, the commercial ventures are all trying to do autonomous driving on a budget. The military systems work a whole lot better but that's because they pack way more sensors and way more compute power and can essentially power through issues like rain, snow, sandstorms, etc.

Yeah. They still pollute like crazy. Not as bad as the old days, but they're still extremely bad for the local environment.

You're not going to learn electrical and computer engineering by reading stuff on Sci-Hub. You might get some knowledge, but so much is just simply never published that it's essentially tribal knowledge. Heck, even with professors walking you through every step of learning the topics, it's hard.

As for computer architecture, OSU is not heavily into computer architecture. It's much more focused on custom accelerators and ASICs as well as semiconductor research. And it is recognized as one of the best ECE programs in the world with one of the main problems with it being that the CS department is comparatively weak.

My graduating class, in a December, was still over 1,000 engineers. Spring graduation typically had 2.5-3.5K/yr.

These are mostly blue-collar/striped-blue-and-white-collar jobs. So no, not really. Fabs are also giant ecological disasters. I wouldn't be surprised if Columbus was chosen over Cleveland because the different rules the Ohio EPA has based on localized pollution.

You don't need skilled talent to operate fabs. You need people who can go through a 2 year degree program.

My undergraduate degree in ECE at OSU went far more in-depth on topics and set me up far better than the graduate programs at Purdue or UIUC do in their first year of graduate school. A huge part of that is that OSU's ECE department does not have senior-level courses. They only have senior/graduate courses. So the seniors are taking graduate level courses (when I went there, at least 4 were required to graduate). Also, you list Indiana U? Really? I'm sorry, but it's second-tier compared to Purdue.

I mean, you can take the Amtrak from Cleveland to Chicago... but it leaves at like 3:30 AM which is why I never take Amtrak to Cleveland to visit my family from Chicago.

Chicago, IL is a hotbed. Boston, MA also is doing great these days. Texas and Ohio seem to be in a race to the bottom in terms of the types of work they're trying to attract.

My Power Systems course in college back in 2014 used Germany as an example of how not to handle energy policy due to the brain-dead decision to get rid of perfectly fine and functional nuclear plants. The professor also had us produce high quality white papers and present them to the class, and receive mock peer reviews on our work showing how terrible renewables are as a "solution" compared. That wasn't his stated goal, but it was the conclusion that 107 out of 107 people in the class independently came to after a review of the relevant academic research. The only sustainable long-term solution for baseload is nuclear fission for at least the next 50-60 years barring any massive breakthroughs in nuclear fusion. Every single other option is a massive disaster ecologically and economically.

It was never a good plan from the start. They wanted to get rid of nuclear because of irrational fear. The path towards energy independence was always nuclear for every nation. But that got rejected thanks to fearmongering. Now we're basically fucked.