Yeah definitely never put a stripped screw back in. Replace it or just leave it empty

Latex gloves also work alright in a pinch

Love the nasi goreng reference!

I feel you. I spent 48 hours this week streaming shows, waiting for a possible call to some in. I’m sure that’s some people’s dream job, but it drives me nuts that I have to be on site for no reason. I like the feeling I get from actually working and the sense of accomplishment it gives you

The manufacturing would still have probably been moved to China at this point, but it’s frustrating that we didn’t even try to support it.

I work nights with 2 other guys. One of them is cool and seems to be a bit introverted, but we’re both into sports so we’ll watch games the first few hours and chat intermittently. The other guy openly hates sports, but loves “shooting the shit”, which he understands to mean him going on a fringe political rant or into way too much detail over some random shit he saw on YouTube… Luckily work gave us headsets with ANC, so me and the cool guy just headset up once the games are over and live in silence on the slow nights

I think he may have just woken up in a good mood today. Took a peek at his profile and it looks like a person

It’s just not something you can do in your garage these days (or for the past few decades), even if the designs were open sourced. I like your idea and wish there was less concentrated power in chip manufacturing, I just don’t think it’s very feasible.

I feel like there’s very few people who could design and build their own brain implant chip. Even in the far future

How can you tell?

Yo ho ho

How do you feel about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

I was responding to your description of how free markets work

I agree with you. The only issue I have is that some “important” things have much less extra money to dedicate to raising wages than less important things. The amount of profit isn’t always in line with the importance of a thing I guess. But if it’s that important then I guess government subsidies would be able to fix that gap

Doing that at my new company. They’re paying for my master’s :)

Me too. Trying to get to R&D or Integration and Testing but it’s gonna be a while

The one day he forgets…

Especially when the procedure are garbage written by people hired overseas at the bottom dollar that have never seen the machines. And on top of that there’s a lot of tribal knowledge. But I’m at the bottom of the chain looking up. I’m sure the bean counters have thought this all through already

One less year is not a compelling reason to stay either. 2 weeks << 9 years

I think that’s the point where I’d start considering trying to find something else in the same company. If I can make lateral moves for pay raises, I’d prefer that to toeing the company line and hoping they’re nice enough/like me enough to promote me